Alice in Wonderland Syndrome 🤯 #shorts

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome turns your reality into a fantasy world.

It’s a rare neurological disorder that affects the perception of limbs and in extreme cases even changes the appearance of faces and makes people move in slow motion.

It’s so rare that scientists unfortunately do not yet understand the underlying causes but as we slowly begin to understand the brain we can only hope to uncover the secrets of this condition.

#shorts #brain #neurological #aliceinwonderland #raredisease

[ThatUnknownDude_]

As a person with this syndrome, this only happens to me when i'm sick and for some reason only at the last day of "sickness" (which after that night the sickness goes away).

[theylove_franny]

As someone with this, it only happens when i have a fever. It’s really scary. It’s like you’re asleep but also awake at the same time. I see my hands grow and peoples heads will grow bigger. Ofc it’s not actually happening it’s just the hallucinations. Things will also appear farther away and will look like they drift away. It causes lots of panic attacks. I had it bad when i was younger and it’s dying down.

[Hierophant_Bean]

Sometimes when I read everything looks smaller and sounds get distorted to sound more far away; whispers sound like yelling and yelling sounds like whispering.
It's been happening ever since I can remember

[blaze_here]

when i get anxiety attacks I feel like I become tiny and everything around me becomes giant. and time slows down greatly. i only found out about this syndrome today but have been having anxiety attacks like this since a child. I even remember the first time it ever happend to me I was about 7 or 8 eayting at the dinner table and suddenly i shrunk. the only thing i could think about in that moment was the aurther episode where buster shrunk (at least thats how i remember that episode lol)

[Queenofafricatown]

Alice in wonderland had skitzophrenia lol

[ValiBorel]

What? 180 cases? That can't be right..? I have that and they never told me it's this rare. At first they thought I had another type of dissociation, then schizophrenia (that was disproven very quickly) but after 10 years they gave me this diagnosis. But i don't grow new limbs for example, mine get just to big and heavy (sometimes just heavy), a small room is as big as a gymnasium (but I'm normal), then I'm too small (very rarely), etc. I've never experienced people having weird faces though. I can handle the other stuff, it's not at terrifying as it sounds. For me at least. But if people had different faces... Omg! That'd be way too much 😣

[Anonymous-]

I have this and it’s very scary. What I’ve seen is things in slow motion me floating and also be growing and shrinking…

[Medlair]

sometimes when I'm in bed... I feel like I'm both a needle and a giant baloon, I feel both shrinking and growing at the same time, while everything around me both doesn't exist and I can't touch it, it gives me a panic attack, but after it passes, I hardly can achive that feeling again because it goes beyond my comprehension. I recently am starting to feel less scared of this feeling, I can live with it, but it still makes me feel like I somehow risk to not make it alive, or worse, be trapped in this state forever.

These ar kind of semplification tho... what I visualize is not so simple, I do it when I close my eyes and I visualize what I feel my body and things look like, my body is not just a baloon or a needle, it's a lot of things, really large things and really small things, and everything else is falling into an infinite and empthy sky.

I think I got this from a recurring nightmare I had as a child in which the world was falling piece by piece into an infinite sky, I didn't know what was down there, probably they would fall forever. I found myself on the last piece, and then I fell too, I found myself tied to a string, then the dream turned into a small baloon trying to escape from a giant needle, nothing else expect for the sky. I always hoped the baloon would've made it, but it popped.

That sensation is all of the things I felt in that dream but all at once. It's like my time is about to come, and I feel like a popping baloon, but I am also what it's going to take it away, the needle, and I feel both big and powerful but small and powerless, it's still not enough information of what I really feel, because not even I fully comprehend it

[slimofbonar]

Many more than that number, I had this when I was young, and my son has also suffered

[acidusk]

i had this when i was a child, i eventually grew out of it though. It’s a terrifying experience and it’s not anything you ever wanna wish for. It used to happen to me when i had a fever, i would see an object warp to an impossibly big size while still staying the same size at the same time. I would get overwhelmed by this sense of dread and terror and usually start crying and calling for my parents. its honestly nearly impossible to explain correctly.

[Sweets_Commander]

I kid you not things to me sometimes randomly look different sizes than they actually are, I could be looking at someone and nothing could change then when I blink they look either smaller or bigger

[ebsebs]

Its a type of migraine, more common in children. I was prescribed sleeping pills when I was little because of this. I could see it with my eyes closed. I still get it when stressed or anxious, such as during a job interview but sometimes randomly. It lasts about 10mins then passes. It used to disturb me when I was young because I didnt understand it and also couldn't explain it so I felt very alienated by it

[WaxMeister]

I find it hard to believe there are only 180 documented cases because I was one of them between 1961 and 1963, experiencing the syndrome when I was 10 to 12 years old. It’s known that the onset of puberty often marks the point where AIWS either disappears or becomes extremely rare throughout the rest of one's life. For me, the episodes went from happening weekly to none at all, except for two instances in my 20s.

When I did have episodes, they never scared me—I was more curious and would experiment with the sensations. For example, when everything seemed far away, I could stretch out my arm and feel as though it was incredibly long, or when I stood up, I felt 20 feet tall. I actually enjoyed these episodes. I could feel them coming on; it always started with a vibrating sensation in my head, like my brain was oscillating. Then, my vision would start to distort—things would either stretch out in front of me or become extremely close, allowing me to see fine details that were otherwise not visible. Sound was usually normal, though occasionally it seemed distant. I could usually snap out of it by closing my eyes and relaxing, but I often let the episodes run their course.

There were some episodes where my hearing had a strange, indescribable quality—not sharp or dull, not loud or quiet, just different, almost like how a small bug might hear. It was a bizarre experience, but I’ve met one other person who had AIWS, and we shared remarkably similar experiences.

[DoctorLazertron]

I have a version of this which only comes up when I'm trying to sleep. Less of a hallucination, just the part of my brain that perceives sizes of objects gets clouded. Often specifically an image of playing guitar where my hands are giant and the strings infinitesimally small, or my fingers thin as spider webs trying to push down a string the size of a bridge. Pretty unnerving really.

[ChristopherSajonia-wqlq]

I have this Syndrome . Cuz whenever my mom punish me, my vision and the things around me gets smaller.
But I don't have that symptom where I get hallucinations. I just wanted to share my experience that's all 🤣

[Raccoon-ob]

I have that! And it is terrifying, i always think that i am too big for my room, but it is very rare right now, like once in a month. I never knew what the name for that is, and thougt that this is normal.

[Ashdrop_]

I believe I have this. I’ve been having this phenomenon sporadically when I’m trying to go to sleep or relaxing or it feels like things are shrinking or growing or different sizes related to my hands my face my mouth my first memory of this happening was when I was around four or five

[kikic.]

I had this all the time as a child. I grew out of it thank god. I think it had to do with the mental exhaustion that was my emotionally and physically abusive childhood that my mind simply couldn’t take it. I wasn’t allowed to cry or make noise or be loud. My mind took too much and was overstimulated and started having this syndrome. As I got older my abusers slowly started turning nice and it was like my horrible childhood never happened and that I made it up. That I was just a “bad kid” and lying about what had happened. So because the abuse stopped, the syndrome went away. At least that’s what I think. If I get sick and have a fever higher than 101, the syndrome comes back. Especially if taking some hard medicine to combat the fever.

[courtneydotson]

How do you get diagnosed with this? Do you simply just asked your doctor or just self diagnose? Anyways, ever since I could remember, everything around me would grow or shrink while my body did the opposite and they would do this to extreme measures. It would usually happen in my sleep (dreams) or in deep thought or when I’m having a panic attack. Things would get distorted and start swirling while everything was shrinking or growing. What should I do about it? Should I leave it alone?

[DistractedArachnid]

Does this also feature sound seeming really magnified to an extreme degree and a sensation of being really heavy? Like you're made of lead? Do objects around you take on a sense of real significance? I used to get this weird temporary perceptual warping thing when I was a kid that stopped happening when I got older. I still have no clue what that was. This sounds kinda similar. Although as I recall it wasn't so much the size of stuff that seemed out of whack for me but the distances between things. Like I'd look at something in the room and it would seem like it was a mile away, or something.