Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

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Your head feels too big and things just keep getting curiouser and curiouser. Did you step through the looking glass or is it a super rare neurological condition?
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@SciShowPsych 4 жыл бұрын

SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org

@venci005 4 жыл бұрын

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@songfreak1745 4 жыл бұрын

Already listening- loved the Halloween episodes!

@aaminahasan6270 4 жыл бұрын

SciShow Psych didn’t know there was a podcast in the first place

@negos.8450 4 жыл бұрын

There are not enough episodes D': already listen to all of them and looking forward for the next!

@greta8849 4 жыл бұрын

this sounds like the visuals of a Dextromethorphan trip

@DMSteeley 4 жыл бұрын

I get these feelings sometimes when I'm trying to fall asleep, happened way more often when I was a kid.

@moggers7903 4 жыл бұрын

DMSteeley yeah same I used to feel like my limbs were changing size, and I’d get it several times per week as a kid. Last time I got it was last year, the first time in several years

@thanhvinhnguyento7069 4 жыл бұрын

Me too. Plus once I felt like my parents stand meters away when they were really right beside me in bed

@lasphynge8001 4 жыл бұрын

Me to ! It happened more frequently when I was a kid but still happens fairly regularly, especially when I'm very tired or about to fall asleep.

@nicherme4775 4 жыл бұрын

@@lasphynge8001 im exactly the same, 90% of the time it's when im tired or in bed. Hands, feet feel massive and body small then it may change to the opposite but it's more of a dull feeling Unless you have had it it's very hard to explain and I feel most of these videos don't do it justice to what is actually happening

@fdhgklhvuds 4 жыл бұрын

@@nicherme4775 Exactly the same for me. In every way.

@KaliTakumi 4 жыл бұрын

I have this. Sometimes I think there's policemen at my door yelling at me about being wanted for "tax evasion". But it usually goes away after I skip town and change my name.

@clockwinder2924 4 жыл бұрын

@ Kali Takumi 🤣

@kagney13 4 жыл бұрын

This. Was. Awesome.

@greta8849 4 жыл бұрын

thats not alice in wonderland syndrome. that's TAX EVASION

@itsjustlukeRevive 4 жыл бұрын

A rare case. Kali Avoiding Taxes Syndrome... Very severe.

@teknofreak2387 4 жыл бұрын

*theft evasion

@fableagain 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, alright. Turns out I had this as a kid, then. Sometimes when I laid in bed it would seem like the room was super big and I was super tiny, and the walls were very far away. It was super scary and I always hated it. It helped to lay flush with the wall, to remind myself that I could still reach a wall to begin with, but it didn't make it any less frightening. It happened most often when I had a fever, but also sometimes when I didn't have a fever at all.

@jash2151 3 жыл бұрын

I have it too

@sabinaalic5948 3 жыл бұрын

I had the exact same experience

@horimiya7149 3 жыл бұрын

You're not alone bro.

@nicole-ob9pl 3 жыл бұрын

👍 me too

@myfirstvideotothegachacomm5880 3 жыл бұрын

every child literally had high imagination and watched cartoons, that's why this happened to you and almost all the children , don't disagree that's the truth, your not special in any type of way, be happy that you were born a healthy human.

@grooingforgwsn 4 жыл бұрын

Thank god this showed on my rec feed. This is a forgotten childhood memory and im kinda just glad that it's not just me who experienced this. Never thought it had a name.

@purplealice 4 жыл бұрын

"When I was a child, I had a fever - my hands felt just like two balloons; Now I've got that feeling once again... I have become comfortably numb."

@be7th 4 жыл бұрын

Aaah you caught it before I did ^^"

@purplealice 4 жыл бұрын

@@be7th I'm one of those annoying people to whom all of life is a song cue.I used to work in radio, and my brain is full of thousands of songs, some of which are older than I am.

@NickRoman 4 жыл бұрын

@@purplealice , my mom used to be like that.

@elcaspo6782 4 жыл бұрын

You just blew my fuckin mind man

@PatRiot- 4 жыл бұрын

I read “when I was a child” And then I hoped it was what I thought it was 😂

@dracopiia 4 жыл бұрын

Yo this used to scare me so much when i was really young I'd feel like my hands were huge and that my bed would rise and fall Stuff on the walls would grow and shrink And it was like someone in my head was whispering and screaming at the same time Im so glad that I eventually grew up and out of that

@reecemc6214 4 жыл бұрын

But It Was Me, Dio Christ man this is the exact same thing that used to happen to me! Hit the nail on the head, a loud man screaming abuse but couldn’t make out what the words are

@dracopiia 4 жыл бұрын

@@reecemc6214 Holy crap! It's really comforting to know that someone else's been through almost the exact same.

@isacarrion9340 3 жыл бұрын

The whispering and screaming used to happen to me too, and has happened in my twenties. It's really unsettling.

@averageitguy 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly the same happened Even a small sound sounda so loud... I was scared that i was having a brain tumor

@hellofriend7416 3 жыл бұрын

@@averageitguy Your brain being able to do something different, always doesn't mean you have a serious bad problem. It's just that your brain acts differently and has kinda a small problem but chances of something serious is less

@Smellisd Жыл бұрын

This just blew my mind and actually made me quite emotional. I had this as a kid and it was horrifying, so nice to see I’m not alone

@wolky8176 4 жыл бұрын

I'm mindblown. I experienced this as a child, quite commonly. Horrible feeling. So glad it wore off. I will send this to my mother so she finally knows what was up with that. Thank you!

@6fingerfist325 4 жыл бұрын

I like that everyone in the comments has this rare condition.

@wilton999 4 жыл бұрын

Há

@sollima4528 4 жыл бұрын

People who have the condition would be more interested in watching it. You don't have a random sample group here.

@PatRiot- 4 жыл бұрын

I dated a girl who was diagnosed with this condition because she was seeing objects on the wall distort in size and distance (of course no illegal drugs invoved) My mom secretly made fun of her for it because there is little external explanation for it except she claimed her vision would go crazy for a time and things would distort....(not the best explanation but that’s what I got from it) not much to go off of when you appear completely healthy though I’m sure what she was experiencing was quite real The doctors pretty much sent her home- I don’t remember hearing about any medication or anything....was just kinda like the end of Napoleon dynamite.....now what? 12 years later this is kind of some closure as there was little info on the topic then and very vague at that

@Jordan-cd3ce 4 жыл бұрын

Rare could mean anything. If rare is 1% of people, then that means 77 million people would have experienced it.

@bailey-maywalker4344 4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@kawaiiLittleDango 4 жыл бұрын

I frequently had this as a child. Always happened while lying on bed and usually lasted for 5-15 mins

@erichughes3987 4 жыл бұрын

As a child when lying in bed, sometimes it would seem like all my senses were enhanced or something. The ceiling and walls seemed farther away, everything sounded louder and my blanket/anything I touched felt twice as thick is it normally is.

@MartinodePueblo 4 жыл бұрын

@@erichughes3987 Yea, i experienced the same thing, it was only while I was laying in bed with my eyes closed. My tongue feels thick, my head felt really really really small. Everything felt really weird and out of proportion.

@erichughes3987 4 жыл бұрын

@@MartinodePueblo if I moved too much or got up, it would go away, but I could have my eyes open.

@Jokerface00j 4 жыл бұрын

Me too it was really scary, when i opened my eyes everything seemed really far away and small when i held my hand before my eyes it seemed 20 meters away

@AveryMilieu 4 жыл бұрын

I would inflate and fill the room, wondered why I never hit the walls or anything. It would go awasy. Moving helped. I never, ever mentioned it to my mother.

@osrea8924 4 жыл бұрын

I think I might have felt these “feelings” before but it’s so close but also so far.. it’s a weird illusion.

@thatrandomcat3479 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it feels so real. Its like you just teleported into a new world for a few sec or minutes.

@babsllamas3579 3 жыл бұрын

YES ITS JUST A FEELING

@babsllamas3579 3 жыл бұрын

LIKE i could never explain it

@davidaIano 4 жыл бұрын

I'm seeing a lot of epstein recently.

@avakining 4 жыл бұрын

*looks at **2:00*

@custos3249 4 жыл бұрын

Dude......you're looking into a mirror.....

@randomdude9135 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@Lyle-xc9pg 4 жыл бұрын

@Deborah Meltrozo lol, idiots still think he killed himself

@puddingninja 4 жыл бұрын

@@Lyle-xc9pg Barr investigated him

@RonWorthyTheChannel 4 жыл бұрын

It happened to me when I was younger. From the age of 3 to 10 . I called it “Fear”. I didn’t know what it was but I was really scared. It lasted like 5-20 minutes. I still remember crying so hard from that. Because everything was going bigger and smaller than what it actually was. Even when you close your eyes, it went on. I saw that thing a lot before going to sleep or before catching cold. Like 13 times in general. I knew that I couldn’t do anything about it but I’m thankful for my parents who were there with me and supported me. Now I’m 20 but I haven’t experienced anything of that since 10 years old. Looks like I grew out of it.

@JKahu-ue9mm 4 жыл бұрын

Did you ever imagine noises and they'd get louder inside your head? I had this along with what you explained. I'm actually the same age as you too, trippy we experienced these episodes around the same times

@RonWorthyTheChannel 4 жыл бұрын

J. Kahu true and we all are from different countries and cultures. I’m from Kazakhstan. So that’s interesting

@myfirstvideotothegachacomm5880 3 жыл бұрын

No it didn't, you were dizzy.

@myfirstvideotothegachacomm5880 3 жыл бұрын

Or just had a high imagination, or your eyes were creating imaginary things from the heat of the sun (if you were outside mornjng) your not special.

@abbyward7958 3 жыл бұрын

@@JKahu-ue9mm yes!! I’ve been tryna find someone who felt that too. To me it was this feeling of intensity getting stronger and louder like that old movie sound that used to scare kids because it would get so loud, it was like that but not exactly. It was just pure intense emotion pounding louder and louder and it scared the living hell outta me

@funniful 4 жыл бұрын

I had this as a child...symptoms persisted periodically into 30s....mostly when coming down with a cold. This leads me to think it’s got viral roots.

@CapriUni 4 жыл бұрын

I also had these as a kid -- from what I remember, mostly between the ages of 4 and (around) 12 (??). I'm in my 50's now, so it's been a while. I don't think it was associated with colds, but they always happened just as I was falling asleep at night, or waking up in the morning. … So maybe I was half-smothering myself with my blankets or pillow? I also started getting migraines as a teenager. So maybe it has multiple causes (which wouldn't surprise me, given how complex our wetware is)

@AveryMilieu 4 жыл бұрын

@Benghazi gaming I had something like as a kid. Never mentioned it. You enjoy trolling people, publicly dismissing them makes you feel good, doesn't it?

@shorb2289 4 жыл бұрын

felt stuff like this when I was sick my hands felt huge or off and also my blankets felt super heavy everything was off

@funniful 4 жыл бұрын

Benghazi gaming It was not a self diagnosis. I was nine years old. My parents took me to doctors. Coincidentally, about 14 years later, my nephew was also diagnosed with AIWS.

@ItsShatter 4 жыл бұрын

Nah man that’s just cause your brain was cooking with a fever lol

@purplefire2834 4 жыл бұрын

I've noticed that sometimes when I'm in that state where you're really relaxed and almost asleep I get something like this. I can feel like I'm floating, and sometimes I get the sensations of my whole body or parts of my body are growing/shrinking quickly.

@yesididthis1420 4 жыл бұрын

We had the same experience. I would also hide in a nail hole and from there could see everyone in 120 · and at few times could tell whose coming to visit that very same time.

@yesididthis1420 4 жыл бұрын

@Christopher White Have you watched ms. nanci in ted talk, she describe almost the same experienced with us. Do you think you have had one experienced, sir Christopher White.

@uhhjulian 4 жыл бұрын

For me, it was when I was going to bed. I would be on the brink of falling asleep, and then I would always feel like my mind would shrink and the room/area around me would become so unimaginably large that I would float around in it. I never experienced any pain during these events, however.

@emmakaisa27 2 жыл бұрын

No that's just you falling asleep.

@nasdan5000 4 жыл бұрын

This used to happen to me all the time when I was a kid. My hands would feel huge and heads on the TV looked really small. I never understood what was going on at the time.

@whoopsydaizy 4 жыл бұрын

I've got chronic migraines and experience this. Things will either seem too big, too small or too far away.

@DoctorElliottCarthy 4 жыл бұрын

Yas, it's really common with migrainous aura

@PatRiot- 4 жыл бұрын

Not the Aura /:

@whatever9097 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve had migraines since I was 9 or 10 and during attacks (especially when I was younger) this happens

@duckplushie8421 4 жыл бұрын

Me too, it usually is things like feeling my legs as really short or my arms as way bigger that they are and then as skinny as a pencil, or just feeling that I am shrinking and everything else is too big... Also feeling like time goes too fast but not as losing track of time, more as why we going so FASST (it happens with songs)

@rafiy7150 2 жыл бұрын

not as bad as the zigzag flashy blind spit tho

@CamzeeHD 4 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid I used to lie in my bed and my room was dimly lit by a nightlight. Sometimes my room would seem to start to shrink and the walls and windows would begin to come towards me and I'd start to get slight anxiety. Only lasted a few seconds.

@mattxzilla3938 4 жыл бұрын

I do have a history of migraines, and I used to experience some stuff like this, especially in my adolescence. Walls/floors/ceilings might look like they were “breathing”, furniture and things with obvious 90° corners seemed very crooked, the color of everything appeared very washed out, I would feel way extra tall sometimes, and things near me would seem really far away. I also had a history of auditory hallucinations. These things usually came alongside feelings of elevated anxiety. But, I do feel like I’ve mostly grown out of this. I always attributed it to anxiety or side effects of certain medications.

@sdfkjgh 4 жыл бұрын

Stucco ceilings still crawl before my eyes. Wow, does that sentence sound like something out of Lovecraft.

@KK-gg9hx 4 жыл бұрын

Same. It wasn't drug related, either.

@brandonp1038 3 жыл бұрын

No way, I get the breathing objects feeling aswell. I absolutely pooped myself when then walls looked like they were breathing.

@mooselove 4 жыл бұрын

When I was a child I had some pretty bad trauma. After that when ever I was feeling highly stressed the room would distort and stretch, my fussing father would grow a giant head and hands, i would panic and his anger would grow. It happens rarely now, but still happens. It’s terrifying. I also have dissociative/derealization along with my anxiety and panic.

@yogosapphire 4 жыл бұрын

Since I was a kid, I sometimes get the feeling that I’m shrinking small enough to fit in my own mouth as I fall asleep. It’s a weird feeling that I’ve learned to embrace and enjoy.

@finntrew9184 2 жыл бұрын

I feel exactly this when I’m falling asleep! It’s become oddly comforting but occasionally jolts me awake if the shrinking happens too quickly

@Lalala1.2 2 жыл бұрын

@@finntrew9184 same!!!!

@gunungmerapiapi1933 4 жыл бұрын

Most of the time, I hate seeing people talking on my infomercial video, but this is educating and you have amazing way of captivating your audience, ma'am 👍

@andreas40588 2 жыл бұрын

I woke up with this today for the first time since I was around 10. Now I'm 30. When I experienced this as a kid, I felt very isolated and scared, so It's always lingered in my mind that I hope it doesn't happen again. I've never shared this, but today I found an article and it relieved me I'm not alone. I'll try to explain it in detail since I just experienced it: 1. I feel a tingeling in my body, my mind races fast and I'm very confused of what is going on. 2. I stare into the void, but I'm not processing what I see, instead I get scared and fascinated at the same time. I feel my fingers with my hand, they feel very big or very small, but I'm not sure which. I feel all my fingers again and again, they feel thin as chopsticks, but at the same time 1 finger alone fills my entire palm. It's like they alternate in size. There is some additional emotion in play, one I can't explain. 3. My tounge is heavy and moves very slow. As it touches my teeth, I realize they have grown and I't feels like I spend all my processing power trying to understand it. I feel the teeth in great detail, and travelling from far left tooth to far right tooth with my tounge seems to take a long time. I do it again, again, again, trying to increase the speed, and get a little more frustrated and puzzeled/scared every time. 4. I'm starting to explore ways to make it stop. I try to sit up, and realize I was in a trance or paralysis. I get my normal thought process back, as if my brain was busy or stuck, and I feel like like I've had a fever, I'm cold, and my arms are numb, stomach hurts a little. Slowly recovering, and after around half an hour, I'm now starting to feel normal.

@flbartlett Ай бұрын

I called my episodes "The Dream". I experienced the impossibly distant, then close visual illusions, accompanied by a high pitch squeal that would follow the visual illusions, impossibly faint and high pitched to overwhelmingly loud. There was also a sense of body weight and size oscillating from tiny to huge. My "fix" was to watch TV close to the screen. Often without a broadcast signal since it was usually after the broadcast day was done. Last full episode was when I was fifteen in 1975. Had a few less intense episodes through my twenties, and the last time at around thirty five. My sister had them too, and her grandson has them.

@andreas40588 Ай бұрын

@@flbartlett Truly facinating, I hope I can experience it again some day even if it's weird and a bit scary, I feel like we are lucky to tap into something unknown. thanks for sharing!

@pe6ce703 4 жыл бұрын

Ive had ive had this before, when i was around 10 or 11 ive felt my fingers like fat sausages and seconds later they would become as thin as a toothpick and 1 time my dad had the tv on with a guy playing a guitar and his voice sounded weird, it would alternate volume, i just assumed i felt sick or that i was too tired, that was i think when It was really strong but it kept happening over the course of 4 years ,yesterday is when i had my most recent “episode” and thats when i realized this probably isnt normal and its not just happening to me so i went online and researched for hours and encountered other people that had it, i researched if it was dangerous but I still havent gotten a straight answer

@bloodsunsubs 3 жыл бұрын

I’m really glad these people are helping others understand AWS and the symptoms I was diagnosed with this when I was 4 or 5 and mostly I Experience everything going fast, and things look small, my hands also fell numb and heavy I had a different type of this last night, and it scared me SO bad that I ran into my mom’s room crying :(

@JJHurst 4 жыл бұрын

Had this since childhood , most common on falling asleep but on very rare occasion happens waking, it’s always a distortion of scale and distance of surroundings, things look bigger but further away ... It’s odd but I’ve become so used to it I do think about it anymore , incidents have become rarer I have gotten older , approaching my 50’s the last time it happened was a couple of years ago.

@Eunseo-og4ud 2 жыл бұрын

I had this syndrome since I was 3 and somehow I still have it even now. It used to scare me so much but over the years, I began to learn to cope with it. But to be completely honest, I was so traumatized when this first happened to me that I still remember it 12 years later.

@SGTRandyB 4 жыл бұрын

As a kid and even teen, I experienced things ‘seeming very far away” on rare occasions, as if looking through a telescope backwards exactly as she described. Particularly if sick, and even more so if feverish. AS exactly as described, it seems I grew out of it. It has never occurred as a an adult.

@trevinbeattie4888 4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of some strange sensations I had when I was a kid, I think typically when I was feeling a little under the weather. I've never been able to reproduce those feelings after growing up, and I don't remember it well enough to describe any more.

@wilkinsbrito5168 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent pod cast!

@wompstopm123 4 жыл бұрын

i had this mildly when i was a kid and had a severe fever, it felt like my fingers where long wooden logs and i could touch anywhere in the room from my bed

@mr.personhumanson6871 4 жыл бұрын

1:10 yep I've experienced that as a child

@PlatypusGB 4 жыл бұрын

This happened to me a lot more when I was a kid, it would actually distort my perception of sound, time and feeling which was horrific to experience. Time would often be slightly too fast, the ground would crease up so anywhere I walked felt like a pile of clothes and sounds were too loud and fast, often I would sit down and I would hear things coming towards me, for example one night I experienced it and remember hearing running coming towards the door next to me. I also experienced the walls grow and shrink like many others.

@xicodread 4 жыл бұрын

Same with me bro. Time distortion. First time i had 10yrs old with an infection, and now at 30s i feel it with stressfull moments while working. I am with you.... Its so hard to explain to people how time looks to be faster, everything you hear or moving its to damn fast. Just searching about this right now cuz never felt was an issue, but is being quit annoying.

@Jess-qk6vc 2 жыл бұрын

My mind has been blown. I stumbled across this by accident after a very severe episode of a headache. I’ve had about 4 similar headaches as a kid, all with visions when I’ve closed my eyes, rocking and one which left me with awful derealisation/ depersonalisation. I genuinely thought it was my ptsd that caused it but now looking at everything relating to vestibular migraines I believe that is what I experienced

@EfficientEngine 4 жыл бұрын

I have this, occasionally my hearing will get super sensitive and things get smaller and far away. I rarely experience it these days.

@bsd103 4 жыл бұрын

I used to get this frequently as a child, sometimes the auditory affects were so dramatic I'd experience a bit of a panic attack. I still occasionally get the "things getting small and far away even though they're close" thing. Sometimes correlated with stress, sometimes not. Do you also experience ASMR?

@ozaram1764 4 жыл бұрын

Try looking at your fangers for a while. Actually focus and im sure itll happen again. That how it happens with me, sometime randomly.

@AdamSandlerOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes when I get super stressed or tired I get a mix of second long migraines and start feeling like I have super powers with everything passing by faster, feeling more sensitive, and everything getting louder.

@toosexy4399 4 жыл бұрын

Me too and it feels like I'm having panic attacks. It's really scary

@holden6525 4 жыл бұрын

I had this as a child. Glad some ones talking about this bizarre condition.

@hop-skip-ouch8798 4 жыл бұрын

I never had this. Since everyone is explaining their side.

@officiallolnick 3 жыл бұрын

You’re lucky. It’s terrifying as a kid to experience it

@samuelluisdelespiritusanto7343 3 жыл бұрын

@@officiallolnick My experience was I'm small and next day I'm big, the open space in the room is suddenly wider than normal, and all of it was more curious than creepy. That is, until I experienced depersonalization (not disorder [I hope] ) and it was someone else on the mirror. Really creepy

@wantsomecandies73 3 жыл бұрын

Yes that's very scary and horrifying especially when you get that things at night.

@Magnymbus 4 жыл бұрын

I get stuff like this when I go to sleep. I start to feel both as big as a house and small as a mouse. Like I could reach out from my bed and close the door without getting up, but at the same time, I was so small that I was smaller than my pillow. Or that my bed was a mile wide and my arm was just as long. Almost all of them are the "big and small at the same time" type. Honestly, it kinda helps me sleep by putting me in an imaginative mood.

@Nugetz333 4 жыл бұрын

That's hypnagogic hallucination

@Alpine_Joe Жыл бұрын

Incredible the number of people (including me) who have had (and often still have) this and never knew it. I knew I had something going on but I was hard put to describe it and since it wasn’t a huge problem, I never mentioned it to anyone.

@PatRiot- 4 жыл бұрын

I dated a girl who was “diagnosed” with this when I was about 16 She was overall a very normal girl But occasionally would see things get larger and smaller suddenly like objects on the wall Very odd as she would have them in random spouts without much explanation or connection And not often at all But the doctor called it Alice in Wonderland syndrome Which I hardly took seriously until today when I saw this video

@kakarot5219 4 жыл бұрын

You just described me😶

@mjp3990 3 жыл бұрын

I used to get this so much as a kid. Not all the same on the video. It would sometimes happen when I’m just sat around and instantly everything was 2x as far away. It was like someone edited my FOV. Also, while this was happening people’s voices and noises sounded sarcastic and aggressive to me (this is very hard to explain). This used to last a while and I would always rub my eyes to make it go away but it was like I was trapped until it went away naturally. This hasn’t happened to me for a very long time but I used to be able to activate it, all I had to do was stare at somebody’s face for a very long time and not blink but once I activated it I couldn’t really get out (this was at the worst times)

@oslidd 10 ай бұрын

ohh cool i also hear everything super aggresively when it happens

@aner_bda 4 жыл бұрын

I used to have symptoms like this as a kid, usually when sick with a fever. The one that really sticks with me was feeling of lifting invisible boulders that were both heavy and light as a feather at the same time. It's a really odd sensation that's hard to put into words. Some of these hallucinations were so vivid that I can still recall what they felt like now at 36 years old.

@a.bookmonkey6790 4 жыл бұрын

I love your new hair!

@homosexualamphibian359 4 жыл бұрын

I never knew there was a name for what I went through as a child

@mwmacklin 4 жыл бұрын

I had this pretty often as a kid, but eventually grew out of it. Always wondered if it was a thing, and know I know! Thanks SciShow!

@didles123 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the lesson, Boromir. Very cool.

@quinntessential._ 3 жыл бұрын

I remember experiencing something like this once when I was small, I woke up at night and was heading to the toilet, but suddenly my wardrobe looked like it stretched and was as tall as a skyscraper... What's interesting is, I was diagnosed with Epilepsy when I was 14 so that may be the reason? idk

@InfansDeAter 4 жыл бұрын

Oh! This really explains those weird times I had as a child when it would seem that my bed was small enough to pick up with just to fingers.

@3nimac 4 жыл бұрын

I had this as a kid, it would usually feel like the room I'm in is the size of a stadium. It was always pretty scary. But it went away without any treatment.

@andeverytimewekiss 2 жыл бұрын

I had this for about a year as a kid. I would basically just lose all my depth perception/ it would become irregular. And Knowing where my body was in space was just- idk how to explain it. It felt like I was floating in a void. It really freaked me out but it only happened while I was trying to fall asleep. I also got migraines for years before,after and during it ( I used to get them every day, now it’s about a few times a month.) so that’s fun

@demon4511 4 жыл бұрын

I experienced this very often as a kid, and still occasionally do. The type of visual hallucination I got was like the "looking through a telescope" example, and was often paired with a zoned out/spaced out feeling and a low, pulsating hum. Was often triggered by focusing intently on something, like listening and looking at a teacher in class, or when trying to fall asleep. I actually enjoyed it and wish I experienced it more often, I always knew when it happened that if I switched my attention to something else it would go away, so I would sit or lay there and just relax. Hoping that the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon takes effect now :^)

@Keiral92 4 жыл бұрын

You know, I just tried explaining what I felt like in a comment. This is exactly what I've experienced as well. You just explained it so much better. Feels weird not being alone with this specific kind of trigger.

@demon4511 4 жыл бұрын

Take comfort in it :D

@bsd103 4 жыл бұрын

If by the "looking through a telescope" example you mean in the opposite direction so things would seem small and farther away than they actually are, then I had the same exact thing, with the same triggers. It was sometimes accompanied by auditory hallucinations though, and those were pretty miserable.

@demon4511 4 жыл бұрын

@@bsd103 No I mean things look close and large. But yes, otherwise the same! What made it miserable? I always loved it.

@bsd103 4 жыл бұрын

@@demon4511 Ah mine was the opposite then, small and far away, sometimes "pulsing" between that and normal. The auditory effects were generally like time slowing down, echoing, loud, very anxiety inducing. Those pretty much went away entirely over time but I still see the visual stuff on the really rare occasion.

@Merto6 4 жыл бұрын

When I was little I had these periods where I could hear what others will say a second before they say it.

@zoloswaqqer 4 жыл бұрын

Merto6 me too I have this coincidences too and auditory hallucinations I’m hyper sensitive/vigilant and I have vivid imagination to the point where my dreams are realistic and when I wake up I forget that it was a dream

@AnimeShinigami13 4 жыл бұрын

thanks sci show, now I've randomly burst out into choruses of "one pill makes you larger aaaaand one pill makes you small, and the ones that mother gives you don't dooooo anything at all." thanks for that.

@built4skateboarding 4 жыл бұрын

You guys HAVE to create 150 more episodes of scishow tangents for the greater good of the world . Please

@jonbrodie1442 4 жыл бұрын

When you're on drugs you can still usually tell what is an illusion and what's not, so it does seem similar to hallucinations induced by drugs.

@malenyluna5275 4 жыл бұрын

I agree

@JonahPleatherbooth 4 жыл бұрын

Aye. I've had some pretty intense psychedelic induced hallucinations but am always aware of their true nature. Even as I engage in a conversation with the beings in front of me I know they're not real.

@TheGreatMunky 4 жыл бұрын

"My head feels like a frisbee. Twice its normal size."

@sigiluvsu 4 жыл бұрын

I used to get this when I was a child; whenever I had a fever, I would experience myself getting too big, or everything being too close or too far away. My hands and head would be the wrong size and my wallpaper would move. It's how I knew I was really sick, but I never told my mum. I now realise they were probably febrile hallucinations resulting in Alice in wonderland syndrome, as they resolved within hours. It was absolutely terrifying! And I'm so glad I no longer have them!

@raspbrrypie9335 4 жыл бұрын

You are one of the best presenters I have ever watched. Just thought you should know :)

@raeraebadfingers 4 жыл бұрын

This is interesting. I've had instances where when I am looking at someone they suddenly seem so so far away. Like ten feet suddenly looks as if it is fifty feet. Happened before I ever contracted mono. How interesting.

@fortheloveofLDS 4 жыл бұрын

Brit you are so talented! I'm taking a science communication course right now and you have everything down so well. I hope I can be as skilled as you one day.

@Toadsomniac 3 жыл бұрын

I got the version where it feels like things are soo far away, very rarely happens but used to happen a lot when I was a child. Strange experience but one of the weird thing that doesn’t trigger my anxiety.

@megaeliminator3260 3 жыл бұрын

for me this has existed ever since I was born 1st stage : my field of view increases making me see everything is really far or I am really big 2nd stage : i have a kind of ringing in my ears and cant hear anything with distorted voices 3rd stage : time slows and the pain lasts more long 4th stage : spikes come out of my body and it feels like my bones are breaking and coming out of my throat

@AlexandraBryngelsson 4 жыл бұрын

I definitely had this or something similar when I was a kid, sometimes I would feel like I was much bigger than I was, and sometimes I would feel like my hands were made of stone. My hands weren't heavy or hard to move they just felt like they had a hard surface. Sporadically, I got the feelings later in life too

@elfymcelferton2187 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if similar parietal lobe dysfunction plays a role in the distorted body images of those with eating disorders.

@spannycat2 2 жыл бұрын

Can confirm. At 16, experienced AIWS, but since I was also anorexic and malnourished, they attributed it to poor diet and psychiatric induced body dysmorphia. But I just had another episode today at 28, and I'm defs not malnourished or anorexic or body dysmorphic.

@tear728 4 ай бұрын

This is very hard to describe. It's more a feeling than a perception - everything feels far away

@Vladdyboy Жыл бұрын

I had these hallucinations a lot when I was a kid (ages 4-7) and always as I was trying to fall asleep, I only found out years later what was going on with me... and only after browsing Wikipedia in my early adult years. It turns out that the growing brain of a child can sometimes cause these things to occur, at least that's my reasoning. I would see wood patterns start warping into human figures, I would see objects becoming larger and trying to attack me, and one night, I saw paper white fat pot bellied children running around naked behind the living room's foggy window. I screamed at the top of my lung for my parents.

@kenziefallen5200 3 жыл бұрын

When I was younger I would feel really tall or really short so when I found out my real height I was always confused

@truedani261 4 жыл бұрын

It sounds like something I've experienced as a child a few times, it started by me feeling that my head is like 2-3 times bigger than normal, the weight being to big for me to lift my head from the pillow, like feeling every cell of my skull pressing on me, at the same time every little noise in the room would provoke me pain, or rather discomfort, that was worse than any kind of pain I've experienced till now. I think that rather then being a rare syndrome, it's something that is rarely reported, I never told somebody because while in that state I only wished for it to end and also I was unable to speak properly, after that I would rather not remind myself about the experience and never told my parents or something, nonetheless it was a very rare experience and after a while it never happened again.

@malenyluna5275 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe there is more to it.

@bacon8353 4 жыл бұрын

I think that's a stroke

@s.o.terick4269 3 жыл бұрын

I've had this syndrome almost 30 years, ever since I was 7 with a high fever. For the longest time I believe that the fever must have melted my brain or something when I had these episodes which would last a few mins to an hour a few times a year but thanks to KZfaq and channels like this, I know what it is and im not the only person experiencing this. Thanks

@M0rbidCuriositea 4 жыл бұрын

Holy cow, this may explain the wacky hallucinations I had with an infection I had in my early teen years. It felt like the TV was playing in fast forward mode, my hands felt very large, and any cloth I touched felt like that really dry, uncomfortable wool. I also found out much later that I had had EBV at some point in my life. I wonder if the "rarity" of this condition is more associated with either dismissal of the symptoms as generalized hallucinations caused by dehydration and infection + dismissal of children's imaginations.

@jamesdaly83 4 жыл бұрын

I had this a lot myself when I was a kid (everything looks really small like in a doll's House, increased awareness of my peripheral vision and preceded by my vision rapidly seeming to zoom in and out and feeling like I'm spinning around), about the same time as my chronic 24/7, 365 depersonalisation started. Still have the same DP episode like 30 years later with no sign of it ever going away, but the Alice in Wonderland syndrome has subsided a bit, but sometimes comes back mostly when I'm overtired.

@bsd103 4 жыл бұрын

This sounds exactly like what I would experience, but sometimes with auditory hallucinations as well

@be7th 4 жыл бұрын

When I was a child I had a fever, my hands felt just like two balloons. Now I've got that feeling once again, I can't explain you would not understand, this is not how I am. I have become comfortably numb.

@ColeyDuncan 4 жыл бұрын

I think this would be scarier than drugs. With drugs, you know you took them and that can help keep you from freaking out. But when there's no known reason for you to be hallucinating, that sounds truly scary.

@allisonbilbey1948 4 жыл бұрын

I’m someone who has this. I’ve never had a doctor say yeah you’ve got this but I’ve literally had all the symptoms (mostly when I was younger) like my perception being out of whack. After telling my mom about this when I was little she actually did go to a doctor about it and he just kinda shrugged at her. Like what always happened to me is my hands would become extremely small and people’s head would become super small. People would appear to speak very slow but my thoughts would feel extremely fast and as if someone, not myself, was yelling my own thoughts to me. Also time, despite the room feeling slow, time would appear extremely like I’d be at one end of the room to the next in a second. It’s really hard to describe sometimes of what it’s like but hoooo boy it’s trippy. And it doesn’t help the fact that it typically happened, for me anyways, after a headache and/or after or during being sick.

@oslidd 10 ай бұрын

oooh yeah it´s trippy but scary but cool

@samuthius 4 жыл бұрын

I used to get this all the time as a kid especially when I was ill. Hands felt huge and room looked tiny. What's strange is that it happens even now as an adult mostly when I'm in a dark room thinking about something profound but can also happen when I'm in a intensely focused conversation. It used to scare me but now I kinda enjoy it because it's so interesting. Moving and looking around the room normally snaps me back to reality!

@corninyourpoop 4 жыл бұрын

I've always felt this and never realized it was a real thing and I enjoyed reading everyone's experiences! Mine have happened since childhood and I'm in my 30s now and while it doesnt happen as often, I can make it happen if I'm in a quiet and dark room. And I have a 'visual' in my head that I also carried from childhood, to go with the weird feelings! If I think about that visual/scenario long enough, I can make the AIW feeling come.

@danielleanderson8286 Жыл бұрын

I have a visual in my head as well to go along with tactile feelings! So strange…

@corninyourpoop Жыл бұрын

@@danielleanderson8286 that's so cool to meet someone who does this too! I kinda wanna try it tonight. Another sleeping thing I sometimes get is called "exploding head syndrome". If AIWS piques your interest, you should look into it. I always figured I was hearing stuff outside in my dreams but it was loud audible bangs in my head! It rarely happens now but when I was really depressed and not sleeping, it seemed to happen a lot along with brain zaps. I think it's from not sleeping and stress. Have you had the AIW sensation since childhood as well?

@jaynedavis3388 Жыл бұрын

I had a fox & a goose wearing a bonnet in my head 24/7. It was like a movie screen strip above my visual field. This is the first time I’ve seen someone talking about seeing things in your head as well as outside yourself

@oceanman7868 2 жыл бұрын

curently having this, remember this from when i was a kid. probrably the aura you can get before getting a migraine ( tingling hands and feet as well) the part i hate is the auditory parts. everything is loud, i hear my appearent tinitis (didnt have that as a kid, thanks nightclubs for having music always way too loud) and the most annoying thing is my thoughts will sound super loud and sometimes like my thought is screaming (not hearing random voices but just your "thought voice" i guess i could call it.

@IJustWantToUseMyName 4 жыл бұрын

I have chronic migraines and have experienced this, usually the sensation of one of my arms growing to very large sizes. It stopped once the neurologist started treating me with a combination of Botox injections and amitriptyline, which reduced the severity of the migraines.

@limalicious 4 жыл бұрын

I get these symptoms with migraine and hypoglycemic episodes.

@monsterram6617 4 жыл бұрын

I had this same thing when I dropped acid and did shrooms. It went away, though.

@uniqhnd23 4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't matter. Your case and theirs is different.

@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 4 жыл бұрын

@@uniqhnd23 nice grammar Einstein

@uniqhnd23 4 жыл бұрын

@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 Damn didn't even notice that. Thanks Newton.

@CanadaSims 2 жыл бұрын

My hallucinations started when I was young and I remember having a bad fever around Christmas time and my mouth and hands felt huge. Now I experience the visual and auditory hallucinations still and I am 30 years old. They happen a lot less frequently but I just found out about Alice and Wonderland syndrome a few days ago and I match it perfectly. It’s always disturbed me but I’m glad to know that this is what it is. I only get the visual hallucinations of everything seeming very small and myself seeming way larger than it actually is. Usually happens when I’m tired or stressed. It’s when I get very stressed that I start to hear the auditory hallucinations do everything seeming to sound much faster than it actually is and everything having a very serious and aggressive tone to it. Even sounds like the wind or a door closing seem this way to me.

@DaHALOSHOCK Жыл бұрын

I too have this, it’s the strangest thing as the room stretches as your own arms and hands become smaller while also being fully aware nothing in the world has changed, it’s almost like your FOV field of view gets set to 250 and a few minutes or seconds later it’s gone and you won’t have it happen again for months or years...

@LesleyWrightWhitmell 4 жыл бұрын

Brit looks really good in this video :)

@PeterAnthonyMartins 4 жыл бұрын

I'm also having an hallucination now. I'm seeing Brie Larson as the presenter. I wonder if I'm the only one.

@0mn1vore 4 жыл бұрын

Saw Brit and hit `like' immediately. Stayed for the cool video, because SciShow. Cool video, thanks. :-)

@BADBOYS1324 4 жыл бұрын

I've had this since i was very young, i'm 18 now, and have learned to live and cope from time to time, for me its mostly that my hands, or limbs feel big or small, or that what i'm holding is very big and very small at the same time. Which is really really uncomfortable. With this said i know this feelings in and out. They are not hallucinations, but rather illusions. It is different from person to person but all research I've done and all the time I've felt it, i know for a fact for me and a lot of people, t is not a hallucination, you can still differentiate it from reality. It is just in your brain. And it is not dangerous, so try to relax, the years I've found small solutions to help you to get rid of it for the moment, or maybe forever, and for me it has always been about just thinking about other things, very simple! Ex: Taking a shower, drawing, playing video games, jump around swinging your arms or legs, watch a movie, etc. Anything that will get you thinking about something else, that makes you happy. And trust me it will go away, i'm 18 now and my father had it too, which also makes sense, because research shows it can be genetically transmitted. For him it went away in his early 20s, which also makes sense because i also read that it mostly shows in late teens to early adults (16-22), but of course also is likely in kids, which was the case for both me and my dad. With this said if you are feeling this. I want you to know that, you are not alone and it will go away if you keep focusing on the things that makes you happy, go talk to your parents and ask them about it, maybe tell them to read this comment, or your friends, or a psychologist. Just remember that it is going to be okay no matter what happens.

@pestilenssi8979 2 жыл бұрын

can't wait till tiktok finds this

@lofi4381 17 күн бұрын

You knew.

@amygdala9679 4 жыл бұрын

I have these symptoms as part of my depersonalization / derealization disorder. But my brain is otherwise intact, I've had a lot of neurological tests done.

@alexcapdestanca4780 4 жыл бұрын

I feel you bro

@julesmasseffectmusic 4 жыл бұрын

Brit you do a video of you calmly counting to One hundred. I cant be the only one who would find it good for stress and anxiety.

@timsaxon5825 5 ай бұрын

I had this all the time as a kid. Then again as an adult during job interviews, which wasn’t very helpful. Never told my parents as a child. Just had these horrifying moments of distorted vision and incredibly intense sounds as well. I was so surprised to look into it a few years ago and realise it was an actual syndrome. Have also suffered from migraines throughout my life. So interesting to read everyone else’s experiences.

@illiteratemochi4150 4 жыл бұрын

I had this as a kid! Its nice to know that I wasn’t crazy.

@cesarbravo822 4 жыл бұрын

Nicole Hubbard Me too! I thought I was the only one

@myoko343 4 жыл бұрын

OMG I had mono and then I hallucinated shadow figures for weeks after. Got MRI's and everything seemed normal so we thought it was because of my anti-depressants. THIS makes sense now!

@tru7hhimself 4 жыл бұрын

it might as well have been the antidepressants. they makes more serotonin available for the neurons (and it takes a while for the brain to adjust), just as ecstasy floods the brain with serotonin. seeing shadow people is a common occurrence with high doses of mdma.

@patrickn4171 4 жыл бұрын

One of my weirdest memories of mono was when I was looking at a lamp across the house, my vision kept zooming in on it so it looked like I was a foot or two away when on reality I was 20 feet away. It would zoom in and go back every couple of seconds. I also saw flashes of light every time I was in the dark, they were like little lightning bolts that would appear from the side and hit my arm and go away. I was 15 and so I remember it pretty well, and I only took OTC drugs for pain so I never really understood what was happening. A hallucination makes sense as an explanation, I've never had a migraine or epileptic activity as far as I know

@mysteryman303 2 жыл бұрын

i was actually afraid of telling anyone about what i experienced once in a while, about my hands ballooning and in the first 10 to 20 seconds of the episode i would go crazy about the feeling before realizing that my mind is making these up. even today when im 21 years old, i suddenly experience them sometimes when i stare into the computer screens for long periods along with the migraine aura symptom. now that i know that it might be related, i guess i have to go check a doctor, its really annoying for 10 to 15 minutes straight to look at my hands to check every second that they arent big. and the things around me are small.

@KelpeeGee 2 жыл бұрын

I’m 19 and I regularly have this. It’s almost always when I’m trying to fall asleep and I’ve found the only way to get myself out of it is to get back on my phone and distract my brain for a bit. Even then sometimes the screen itself freaks me out and any time this has ever happened I get in an extremely panicked state and when I was very young I would cry ALLLL THE TIMMEEEEE bc it was so frightening and confusing. Now it just really makes me panic. I’m so glad there’s a lot of other people with it tho bc I fully felt alone bc I had no way of describing this to anyone without them thinking I was insane.

@KelpeeGee 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve also found a video that has triggered it. I watch KZfaq regularly and I was watching some people play golf it or golf with friends whatever. And there’s a thing in some maps where the ur ball becomes really big and 80% of the time that triggers it and I start to freak out and have to skip that part of the video or watch something else. absolutely crazy phenomenon tho lol

@ambrosiata 4 жыл бұрын

I most definitely had this as a child and I often had headache. As an adult I have migrains from hell.

@OfficialPrettyLittleLiars 4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes whenever I look at people giving a lecture, they start looking smaller and the room gets bigger. Also, sometimes when drifting off towards sleep, my room starts feeling bigger and I feel smaller and heavier. Both happen very rarely and I’ve been experiencing it since I was young. Glad to see you guys covering this!

@KiNGTuT.. Жыл бұрын

I have this, was “diagnosed” when I was around 8. Now I’m 27 and experience minor symptoms multiple times a year. For example during watching a movie, the TV 10 feet away and like 40inches wide will all the sudden seem as if it’s 100 feet away and very large, everything sounds off and loud. Or I’ll be doing something typical like washing my hands and the water from the sink is incredible loud and like in the video my hands feel and appear small. Worst I’ve had was when I was younger, was a bad experience and don’t want to share. Most recent and real uncomfortable one, was akin to in symptoms all I’ve described before but more intense and I was mowing a putting green. It’s all pretty trippy and currently I am looking back into it legitimately. Cool to see this video. 😊

@sethangeles5125 3 жыл бұрын

i experienced this a lot of times when i was a kid, mostly when i had fever. id be laying down in the sofa and id hear a bunch of armoured soldiers shouting, making their way to our house. then id cry because it wont go away and i was too young to handle that much noise