Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

eeriepadave
eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,373
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Anyone experience this when they were younger? When i was about 7-8 I remember experiencing this. I would be laying in bed trying to fall asleep when the walls would look further and further away. I would shut my eyes and it would still seem like they were further away. It was kinda scary (not as scary as sleep paralysis, which I've had) especially when i was younger. Kinda went till maybe around high school. then eventually went away. Seems to affect mostly young people.







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  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    I have never heard of this. It sounds pretty freaky/scary to experience.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,673
    I've never heard of this before nor had it happen.  But I did see a blank wall one time suddenly become covered in iridescent purple Micky Mouse wall paper.  And the brownies were delicious.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Never heard of this.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,673
    I was thinking maybe this would be about...



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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    haha love me some Jefferson Airplane
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,673
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    haha love me some Jefferson Airplane
    :plus_one:

    Just don't stare at that image too long, haha!
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    hard to, it messes with my head.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,498
    I experienced some symptoms when I was younger but mine were the type where parts of my body would feel bigger than they were. And no I'm not talking about boners :lol: It was like I suddenly had Popeye's forearms or Uatu's head.  I was never really frightened by it, but it was certainly a strange feeling.
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,373
    SD48277 said:
    I have never heard of this. It sounds pretty freaky/scary to experience.
    when i was younger it kinda was

    HesCalledDyer said:
    I experienced some symptoms when I was younger but mine were the type where parts of my body would feel bigger than they were. And no I'm not talking about boners :lol: It was like I suddenly had Popeye's forearms or Uatu's head.  I was never really frightened by it, but it was certainly a strange feeling.
    :lol: at the boner part
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Never heard of this, but I have my own unique brain-spaz at the edge of sleep.  Out of nowhere I would suddenly hear my name being said by seemingly every voice that I could recognise saying my name out loud.  Not simultaneous, more like a cascade or a wave that would last a second and a half or so.  I could usually induce it to happen another time or two by thinking about it in the seconds after the initial spontaneous eruption.  When in highschool, with a large social circle, it was a pretty neat thing to hear, dozens of people saying your name with various inflections...some soft and/or friendly, others loud or rebuking.  
    It doesn't happen anymore, my guess is that it's because I don't have a social circle wherein people say my name out loud.
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    I have Exploding Head Syndrome.

    Not literally, luckily. And not often anymore, which is a relief because it is very briefly awful when it happens. It's a weird, almost-painful, extremely loud crashing noise. Yay me :lol:

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,673
    oftenreading said:
    I have Exploding Head Syndrome.

    Not literally, luckily. And not often anymore, which is a relief because it is very briefly awful when it happens. It's a weird, almost-painful, extremely loud crashing noise. Yay me :lol:

    https://www.tuck.com/exploding-head-syndrome/
    The article describes Exploding Head Syndrome as a sudden and alarming loud noise while falling asleep.  I have had that from time to time.  It's weird though because even though I have a bit of PTSD due to a sudden explosion years ago and am highly sensitive to sudden and loud noises, this only bothered me the first few times.  I guess it's because it's a perceived sound, not a real sound, and it doesn't really hurt my ears too badly, and because it is kind of trippy when it happens, I not only don't mind it, sometimes I'm kind of fascinated by it.

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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    brianlux said:
    oftenreading said:
    I have Exploding Head Syndrome.

    Not literally, luckily. And not often anymore, which is a relief because it is very briefly awful when it happens. It's a weird, almost-painful, extremely loud crashing noise. Yay me :lol:

    https://www.tuck.com/exploding-head-syndrome/
    The article describes Exploding Head Syndrome as a sudden and alarming loud noise while falling asleep.  I have had that from time to time.  It's weird though because even though I have a bit of PTSD due to a sudden explosion years ago and am highly sensitive to sudden and loud noises, this only bothered me the first few times.  I guess it's because it's a perceived sound, not a real sound, and it doesn't really hurt my ears too badly, and because it is kind of trippy when it happens, I not only don't mind it, sometimes I'm kind of fascinated by it.


    Well then, yay you, brian ;)

    I hate it when it happens, so I'm glad it isn't frequent. It really startles me awake and it's hard to relax again. Plus it feels like it did hurt, which is odd - it's so brief that by the time you recognize it, it's over, and it seems like it hurt but you're not really sure. 
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    I wonder how they identified EHS as a separate thing, rather than just a subset of a regular hypnic jerk?
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  • ConorKavanagh
    ConorKavanagh Ireland Posts: 1,148
    What are the odds I start to diagnose myself with both of these conditions now for a few weeks after reading about both of them this morning. Aaaah!
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    rgambs said:
    I wonder how they identified EHS as a separate thing, rather than just a subset of a regular hypnic jerk?
    Who are you calling a hypnic jerk?!?! ;) 

    I think they just liked the name. 
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    Parasomnias - always a blast. 
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