Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

[SeeFour]

Hi Dreamviews, About an hour ago when standing infront of the mirror, i got the strange but familiar feeling that my vision was rapidly zooming in and out and the scale and dimensions of my face were being distorted (yes, I did reality check). I experience similar things feelings often when looking at people's faces, but just now it was stronger than ever before and was accompanied by many of the feelings I get during the dreaded 'night terrors' that I'm sure many of you have heard about. I decide to do a bit of research on the subject and much to surprise (maybe?) I found a lot of discussions on the internet about the very thing. It seems it is due to an 'Alice in Wonderland syndrome' usually only present in children. It blew my mind to realise something that I'd been expreiencing and thinking about my whole life was shared with so many other people (many with the same feeling of amazement!) Often people experience the feelings when lying in bed when seeing the room 'shift' around them (sounds a little like SP). I myself have had the experince on MANY occasions of opening my eyes after about 5 minutes in bed only to be convinced that the ceiling is but inches from my face. I was wondering how many other people on dreamviews share this odd 'syndrome', and also I was wondering if this could in any way be taken advantage of for WILDing? any thoughts? Will

[nina]

Deja Vu. I swear I've seen this thread before. Merely similar, I guess. http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=87996

[Abra]

Once, I had a flu of 105. The floor tilted and the fireplace shrank: things got pretty hazy. . . I really don't see a connection to WILD, though. Could you explain your rationale?

[nina]

I experience Lilliputian Hallucinations/Alice in Wonderland Syndrome regularly from dissociatives. Fun stuff. But like Abra, I see no connection to WILDing.

[Bonsay]

Before sleep or when tired I also experience something that, which I think is also defined as the Alice in Wonderland syndrome. The perception of my body size and shape starts changing. It's pretty disturbing, since I can get (feel) as small as a point in space or feel as if I was a stickman or "fatman". The only way I know how to temporarilty fix it is by looking at a body part, move it around, I guess untill the brain gets the dimensions correct again. Like with some other hypnagogic sensations I seem to be able to exert some control over it. It's all very interesting, but one of the more disturbing hallucinations. All others have something to do with percieving the ourside world (visuals, sounds...) which is always changing whether you're awake or asleep, but here it's about loosing the perception of your body as you feel it all the time.

[duppsko]

hmm i wonder if this is what i have experienced many times some years ago. It felt like my hand or hands (dont remember if it were both) were 1:10 of its size. Always happened before i went to sleep.

[Noogah]

I could never stare into the mirror for more than two minutes. I feel creepy doing that. EDIT:OH WOW!!! I never knew there was a name for this!!! I used to do this all the time when I was five or six. I would contemplate the gap between my bed, and my far away wall. The wall would eventually, after much concentration seem to be closer or farther as if space was being hifted. This lead to many strange and slightly disturbing dreams. I just thought I was a weird kid!

[SeeFour]

I experience Lilliputian Hallucinations/Alice in Wonderland Syndrome regularly from dissociatives. Fun stuff. But like Abra, I see no connection to WILDing. Yes, sorry. It is similar I did read this thread before I create one, but I did feel that mine was making a seperate point. Come to think of it though, I'm not really sure what I had in mind about linking the AIWS to WILDing but i guess the feeling felt quite a bit like SP feelings. When I got the strong feelings yesterday that felt very similar to my night terrors I wondered if this link would maybe enable easier WILDing, as my brain had (how do I put this) become closer to ho it feels during a dream? Sorry if I didn't think this through enough. The link is a bit strang but did get me thinking!

[justme]

Well when I heard about this Alice in Wonderland thing I thought it would be something about auras or something. I heard that a lot of that Lewis' dudes work was inspired by auras. Basically if a person has migraines they have a 1/5 of having some trippy hallucination thing before the onset of a migraine and these things are called auras (I think).I'm not sure if Alice in Wonderland thing is the same thing as a migraine aura though but if your suppose to grow out of it a lot of people grow out of migraines as well (maybe not completely though). Even though I have migraines I have yet to have some weird hallucination thing, at least not to signal a oncoming migraine.

[The Dreaming Zombie]

I could never stare into the mirror for more than two minutes. I feel creepy doing that. EDIT:OH WOW!!! I never knew there was a name for this!!! I used to do this all the time when I was five or six. I would contemplate the gap between my bed, and my far away wall. The wall would eventually, after much concentration seem to be closer or farther as if space was being hifted. This lead to many strange and slightly disturbing dreams. I just thought I was a weird kid! I did the same thing, wow, but except with my bed and the door...it was pretty weird, though it doesn't really happen anymore.

[Kaylor]

I didn't know there was a name for this! I had this problem several times when I was younger, it would keep me up and crying for very long. I remember one time when I was about 13, I was at a hotel and I had an episode, and I had to go outside and look up at the sky for a few minutes to get rid of the feeling.

[OfficerFlake]

Every now again, My body feels distorted and disoriented, as if i can feel my bodys acceleration towards earth as i rotate around it via centripetal force... and the offscue of heading... makes me feel slightly dizzy. Never thought anything of it until now. It's a strange sensation.

[Dreamdreamdream17]

This is interesting, something similar happened to me, well it's sorta similar. I don't think it's happened for years now, but a lot when i was younger. When i was about to fall asleep, but still concious that i wasn't properly asleep, i'd have my eyes closed and i'd feel and hear a sort of soft thudding, like when you get a headache or the beat of you heart. It never caused any discomfort, anyway my eye lids would be closed and i'd see just black, but the black used to change and i's see faint swirls, or maybe i imagined them, anyway at each beat the darkness would get closer, and on the next beat further away, it would continue a while until the distance seemed really far. If i moved or something disturbed me it'd stop. But it never caused me any feelings of anxiety or terror, infact I used to like it and it meant that I'd be dreamng soon. Infact, i always found it quite funny and comforting. I dunno though, I was a weird kid i guess XD I'm gonna see if i can get it to happen tonight now!