Alice in Wonderland syndrome: LSD for the sleepless - General

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome[/url] It's a condition which is pretty common. It makes you perceive things really wonky. When I get it, things look really far away (which is HELL if you're driving, especially at night). It also gives me a odd sort of sensation around and behind my eyes - a weird comparison, but imagine cool water being sloshed around in your head. It's not uncomfortable, just really strange feeling. I personally get this almost all the time if I stay up longer than usual. Anyone else experience it?

I get it whenever I have an above average headache. Trippy shit.

I got something like this in Austria when I had flu. I kept thinking that the room was flicking to the right every 15 seconds and that my blankets where made of stone and when I shut my eyes I got a really overwhelming tingling sensation and I thought my hands where shrinking. I often hallucinated and sleepwalked after I did this when I was younger - I would walk into the lounge and go "Its time to put the pillows away" and pick up pillows and move them. I also once woke up on a ski trip and ran onto the patio in my boxers, ran indoors, jumped on my friends bed and kicked him, got back into bed and layed down and 5 minutes got up and ran, apparently sprinting speed into the door - But the doctor says that was me going delirious or something because I hadn't drank enough water, eaten enough or slept enough.

I think that's you being silly and not Alice in Wonderland syndrome, personally, because none of the shit you mentioned has anything to do with having distorted vision.

[QUOTE=Tropophas;26799696]I think that's you being silly and not Alice in Wonderland syndrome, personally, because none of the shit you mentioned has anything to do with having distorted vision.[/QUOTE] I did have some things about my hands shrinking and my eyes hurting but they where minor symptoms compared to the rest of the fucked up stuff I do when I [i]sleep[/i](?)

"hhi i haf a rare conditin wher my eys fuk up butt my simtoms dont mach it lole pay atentin 2 me plz xddDD"

It's not rare what are you talking about

[QUOTE=Tropophas;26799987]It's not rare what are you talking about[/QUOTE] [quote=wiki]Whatever the cause, the distortions can recur several times a day and may take some time to abate. Understandably, the sufferer can become alarmed, frightened, and even panic-stricken. The symptoms of the syndrome themselves are not harmful and likely to disappear with time.[/quote] Does that mean even if your not tired you still get it? [editline]loleshouldoftriedtoautomergebutimaidiout[/editline] Wait it doesn't say anything on the wiki about tiredness.

It says it happens more often when near sleep (And in my experience when you haven't slept for a long time, too)

I get this sometimes when I try to go to sleep. I hope I don't have a brain tumour.

[QUOTE=kapin_krunch;26800145]I get this sometimes when I try to go to sleep. I hope I don't have a brain tumour.[/QUOTE] I think you would notice symptoms more obvious than this if you did

I remember experiencing macropsia a lot when I was younger. That is, if I was alone in a quiet place, reading in my living room, for example, I would begin to feel and see the room as far larger than it actually was. It wasn't distressing, I was intrigued by it and at the time, I was really into lucid dreaming, so I wasn't unfamiliar with how we can perceive things other than how they are. (Never managed to get the lucid dreaming thing to work properly, I have very vivid dreams, but I can never tell they're dreams until I wake up). I would reach my hand out and it felt as though I was stretching my arm across a few metres rather than a couple of feet. Not directly Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, but related to it, I guess. I always thought perceiving things like that was something everybody went through. [editline]19th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=FreddiRox!;26799647]I got something like this in Austria when I had flu. I kept thinking that the room was flicking to the right every 15 seconds and that my blankets where made of stone and when I shut my eyes I got a really overwhelming tingling sensation and I thought my hands where shrinking. I often hallucinated and sleepwalked after I did this when I was younger - I would walk into the lounge and go "Its time to put the pillows away" and pick up pillows and move them. I also once woke up on a ski trip and ran onto the patio in my boxers, ran indoors, jumped on my friends bed and kicked him, got back into bed and layed down and 5 minutes got up and ran, apparently sprinting speed into the door - But the doctor says that was me going delirious or something because I hadn't drank enough water, eaten enough or slept enough.[/QUOTE] Fever from flu can cause hallucinations. That's not this, though. This is a condition in itself with a series of symptoms. What you experienced was a symptom of a condition.

[QUOTE=Tropophas;26800205]I think you would notice symptoms more obvious than this if you did[/QUOTE] Yeah, I doubt I have a brain tumour. I did get this quite a bit when I was younger too. I still get it now but not as frequently.

Being on the verge of sleep and experiencing this and having it occur normally is the difference that makes you not actually have the syndrome.

Do your arms look way bigger/smaller than they actually are? That's a common symptom. [editline]19th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Tropophas;26799499][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome[/url] It's a condition which is pretty common. It makes you perceive things really wonky. When I get it, things look really far away (which is HELL if you're driving, especially at night). It also gives me a odd sort of sensation around and behind my eyes - a weird comparison, but imagine cool water being sloshed around in your head. It's not uncomfortable, just really strange feeling. I personally get this almost all the time if I stay up longer than usual. Anyone else experience it?[/QUOTE] are you actually diagnosed with this or are you just assuming

I have this, not near sleep though, just randomly sometimes. It's mostly people's heads and some body parts that get super big or super small. It's pretty trippy, but I can temporarily get rid of it by looking away or closing my eyes. I have tried to focus in on the effect and see how long I can hold it without looking away, but everything gets extremely trippy and distorted very quickly, until I have no choice but to close my eyes. When I was diagnosed with it as a kid the doctor had only heard of only one other person who'd been diagnosed with it, good to hear it's more common than I'd though.

[QUOTE=x2cube;26807778]I have this, not near sleep though, just randomly sometimes. It's mostly people's heads and some body parts that get super big or super small. It's pretty trippy, but I can temporarily get rid of it by looking away or closing my eyes. I have tried to focus in on the effect and see how long I can hold it without looking away, but everything gets extremely trippy and distorted very quickly, until I have no choice but to close my eyes. When I was diagnosed with it as a kid the doctor had only heard of only one other person who'd been diagnosed with it, good to hear it's more common than I'd though.[/QUOTE] Interesting, I've always thought it didn't matter if you closed your eyes as it's a problem with the brain not the eyes. That's what I read at least. You'd know better from first hand experience I guess.

Sounds like what happens when you trip on benedryl

[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;26808118]Sounds like what happens when you trip on benedryl[/QUOTE] or robotripping.

Does not do anything for me when I close my eyes.

Take LSD evvv'rrry day

[QUOTE=doggyalt;26801410]Being on the verge of sleep and experiencing this and having it occur normally is the difference that makes you not actually have the syndrome.[/QUOTE] Sounds more like being up too long and then just passing into a dream to me.

I'm actually running a fever at the moment, around 102 and I always notice things are different or abstract, I consider it a perk of being sick.

I got it once I got the macropsia, I was lying in bed feeling sick everything looked as if it was shrinking. Scary stuff.

I used to get this as a child, but combined with a feeling of absolute terror and delirium. It was fucking terrifying and to this day I still associate the feeling of going to sleep with it.

It's really hard to get rid of, too, except for actually sleeping. If I close my eyes I can steel feel that icewater feeling behind my eyes. Washing my face usually staves it off till I get some rest.

I have a rare condition where I'm an owl.

Ah. What size are you?

[QUOTE=Tropophas;26824032]Ah. What size are you?[/QUOTE] Fucking owl size.