I though I was going crazy thinking I was the only one going through this. I never thought there were others. But yes I remember getting the strange sensation when I was 7 or 8 at school whit a headache then turnd to a fever of 105 and the thing whit me when i get them is my clothes feel wrong too like if i touch them the feel paper thin and my heart beat like if its beating in my neck so fast everything sounds louder then normal. I have tried to relax myself and tell my self that the things im feeling arnt real and it works sometimes but yeah it can go for 2 to 5 minutes and I never been abused or anything. I am 23 and have got them a lot from 9 to 16 but haven't got them for year till now.
Yep! I got in trouble in 3rd grade for being a "daydreamer" but I was always a great student so I was confused when my mom came back from parent/teacher night & told me this. I have dealt with anxiety as far back as I can remember too. But no one believed anything was wrong with me since I was "such a good kid/student" but I was having panic attacks nightly & frustration to the point that I used to throw things & sometimes hit myself in the head with brushes or other hard objects. :-/ (I also am very interested in psychology but no degree)
I have this too. From the age of 7 to now (27 years old). When i was younger it was more intense and frecuent, now i think its happens 2 or 3 times a year. Once i ask a doctor and he told me this could be some kind of epileptic atack. "Simple parcial seizures", look it up...
Im very happy i finded so many people that have the same than me. Im from Chile.
Thanks to the creator of this thred. Very nice description of this weird feelings.
a psychiatrist told the same thing. "Epilepsia parcial simple" or simple partial seizures
here it goes ... im not alone
I used to get all these feelings when i had night terrors as a kid but the first time it happened i was 6 and just simply walking into my school.
I have the same thing its annoying I need to know what's wrong and how to fix my self :(
I have experienced the feeling of things being too thick or too thin. I remember it happening often as a child, though I was never able to explain or express it to anyone. It happened again after going many years without. I'm now 22. I've decided that it is something of spiritual nature and I don't consider it to be a good thing either. It was frightening as a child and irritating as a teen and adult. I was abused as a child and teen, but remember experiencing the sensation before any major trauma occurred in my life.
I also started getting the weird thick feelings when I was younger. I'd be lying in bed and my head, face, arms and hands would feel 'thick' and 'big'. Kind of like a swollen feeling. Also things that I would look at, like a cupboard for example would seem really far away and little, like my depth perception was off. I would also get another weird sensation, in my mind, of noise and colour. I only vaguely remember how that feels though. It scared me so much as a child and my parents took me to the hospital to get my brainwaves tested and other test, but everything came back normal. Recently I had been thinking about these times from when I was little and I tried to bring on the feeling. I found out that I could do it. I do it now and then and try to see if I can go deeper or how thick I can get things to go before it starts to scare me abit.
Hi, I didn't fint the time to go through all of the pages for an answer but it seems there is no clear name for it.
I am happy to hear that I am not the only one.
O have experienced this weird sensation from a young age (currently 20)
For me it usually happens when I am trying to fall asleep and I can always recognize it from the beginning as my head starts to have a slight buzz but it is so hard to explain as its not really a buzzing that you would get from a blood rush or adrenaline but rather as if it is in my brain. The next big sensation I get is the feeling of myself being either very small and parts of my body being unrecognizeably distant or inproportionate. The senses of my fingers and my skin feels weird and unfamiliar and if I open my eyes it gets a bit less but still makes me feel extremely uneasy and every time it happens (just a few times a year) I just wait in my bed with my eyes closed until its over so i can fall asleep. Another sensation that i can try to describe is the sense of everything being sharp and fuzzy and then extremely smooth like in a movie with high grain effect, i see shapes that change their size and feel either very big and then suddenly extremely small while changing their sharpness to smoothness. Also i feel extremely aware of my position in the room but i feel extremely small and often wall seem to move away from me. All of this is followed by this buzzing somewhere in my head but not in the ears even though it feel sas if i can almost hear it.
I am happy to hear that I am not the only one.
O have experienced this weird sensation from a young age (currently 20)
For me it usually happens when I am trying to fall asleep and I can always recognize it from the beginning as my head starts to have a slight buzz but it is so hard to explain as its not really a buzzing that you would get from a blood rush or adrenaline but rather as if it is in my brain. The next big sensation I get is the feeling of myself being either very small and parts of my body being unrecognizeably distant or inproportionate. The senses of my fingers and my skin feels weird and unfamiliar and if I open my eyes it gets a bit less but still makes me feel extremely uneasy and every time it happens (just a few times a year) I just wait in my bed with my eyes closed until its over so i can fall asleep. Another sensation that i can try to describe is the sense of everything being sharp and fuzzy and then extremely smooth like in a movie with high grain effect, i see shapes that change their size and feel either very big and then suddenly extremely small while changing their sharpness to smoothness. Also i feel extremely aware of my position in the room but i feel extremely small and often wall seem to move away from me. All of this is followed by this buzzing somewhere in my head but not in the ears even though it feel sas if i can almost hear it.
Wow. So interesting to find people with the same expeience. I just randomly googled this. Like many people here the experience has never really frightened me, it just puzzled me. Its very comforting however to hear otherrs describe the exact same sensation which can only be described as thick and thin at the same time Wierd.
I have experienced this many times and remember the most visible experience I had if this was when I did a dry float at a spa, where they wrap you up in a mud blanket then you sink into this water bed like chamber, so you're floating but dry. I felt like I was back in my mothers womb, or perhaps being swaddled as a very young baby. Perhaps we all just have such good physical memories that we recall the sensation of "growing" before we were born?
Oh my god. I can't believe others have this too! I've had it since I was younger, maybe like 6 or 7. Especially before bed time. It happens still every once and a while (I'm 25). I have had anxiety my entire life but I'm on a daily medication for it now. It has happened prior and after taking medication so I don't think it is related to having a panic attack, I feel I now and I am very calm. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS IS YET?!
I am now 64 and now with the advent of the internet I thought I may now find and answer to this perplexing feeling that I used to call "thick and thin" at that the same time.
The last time I remember this occurring to me was when I was about 22 years of age. As I read the responses above what occurs to me is how articulate everyone who have these syptoms. Another observation people seem to question whether they have been abused as a child or had childhood violence as a precondition.
I was sexually abused as a 5 or 6 year old, but not to a great extent. As I said the experience began to wain then stop after I began to take LSD and smoke a lot of pot. For which in some respects I regret.
I have not thought of the experience for more than 25 years. I have raised a family, I am happily married for over 35 years. I now see others are on the Internet searching for similar answers for this benign experience of feeling "thick and thin" in their face and extremities. My experience has past but not the memory, strange!?
Hope some one reads this one day and has an answer. Until then I bow to my fellow bearers of this odd experience, as a fine club of which to be a member. Articulate fellows all.
The last time I remember this occurring to me was when I was about 22 years of age. As I read the responses above what occurs to me is how articulate everyone who have these syptoms. Another observation people seem to question whether they have been abused as a child or had childhood violence as a precondition.
I was sexually abused as a 5 or 6 year old, but not to a great extent. As I said the experience began to wain then stop after I began to take LSD and smoke a lot of pot. For which in some respects I regret.
I have not thought of the experience for more than 25 years. I have raised a family, I am happily married for over 35 years. I now see others are on the Internet searching for similar answers for this benign experience of feeling "thick and thin" in their face and extremities. My experience has past but not the memory, strange!?
Hope some one reads this one day and has an answer. Until then I bow to my fellow bearers of this odd experience, as a fine club of which to be a member. Articulate fellows all.
Yea same here, When I was young it happend to me all the time, It happend to me for the first time last night after I woke up and I remember it and its just really uncofortable mentally and almost physically, I have read about alot of people with the same thing but I just like to see I am not the only one.