I was just reading about astro projection and I remembered when I was young I would be watching tv and it would get very far away like the tv was vary small. And it was hard to look away it mad me feel weird vary hard to explain it would happen a lot and I read you had bad dreams afterwords well I thought I use to see things in my room and I was scared to sleep at night I would sleep under the blankets . Scared to look out if I woke up. . But watching the tv it would go away if I looked away and I at the end I could make it happen it felt so wird it was like if I kept looking I would get lost or something. Any way I typed and googled it and found your post was the first thing I saw and it was so familiar do you know what it was because it's happening again and it's scary I have no ear problems its wird like to know what it is any one know?
Ya I just asked about this same thing it's the same thing that happens to me it never happens to me since I was young but I was able to make it happen when I wanted it to I never thought no more about it lived my life and I just tried to make it happen like I use to and it is happening again and now it's hard to shut it of like I use to make it turn of much harder . I think it's because I never did it for a long time I can only make it happen when watching tv never tried to any ware else but I thought I was the only one my mom use to clap and get me back .
Ya I have the same thing well kinda the same . And I was real sick when I was young and had a high fever in the hospital and this happened a wail after that .
hiya i have the same with my son who is 7 what did you do in the end? and has it stopped now? ive had his eyes checked they are fine
Ive had a few of the symptoms people here are describing. It usually happens once a month and when it does I think I almost have a panic attack.
It only happens at night. Ill go to sleep and suddenly a couple of hours later I wake up (but nothing like noise or sound wakes me) and I think what wakes me up is the depth perception problem. Everything will seem far away and nothing I do will make it stop usually. If I close my eyes it makes me panic even more because it is happening then too. (hard to describe). Ill walk around but sometimes it makes it worse. All the objects/walls/ anything that I look at seem far away and it only goes away if I walk up close to it. Then sometimes when I step away or look around its still happening.
I used to get this when I was younger. Maybe 5 to 7 or earlier and it happened for a few years I think. And it hasnt happened for years, except it started again several months ago and happens every few weeks or months. Im not sure if its Alice In Wonderland Syndrome because it doesnt exactly sound like it. Also the darker my room gets or if I hide under the covers it gets worse. (also sounds makes it worse I think. If I hear a noise it will echo in my head over and over and make the panic attack worse).
Ive also been feeling so tired lately. For the past few months. All day Im tired and usually don't have energy. No matter how little or how much I sleep the night before. Could this have something to do with it? Id appreciate if someone could figure out what it is. (Ive never gotten headaches)
Oh and I also I have really bad memory. I can remember important things but if I set something down or do something Ill forget. Ill aslo forget things that happened a while ago. Like from childhood to a week ago
I had this as a child, and it went away as a teenager. I had it happen once in my thirties when I had a high fever. My son started this a couple years ago, but had an episode last night. It seemed to bother him a lot more this time than in the past. Should I take him to see a neurologist? Anyway, your posts have been helpful and the macropsia, was an issue with me too, though I haven't mentioned this to my son, because I don't want him to imagine symptoms.
I don't know if you will get this since your post was from over a year ago. I have been looking for answers for the same problem. My son is now 14 years old. He used to wake up crying since when he was 10 months old. Nothing would calm him down. We would just hold him and rock him until he gets calm by himself. He continued getting this thru his toddler years and when he got older it was down to once in two weeks or something like that. He was unable to describe what he was feeling. We thought they were night terrors and thats what his pediatrician thought too. He would sit up in bed in panic and sweating about 30 minutes into sleeping and sometimes would run to us in panic. Sometimes he would try to throw up. He would calm down in a few minutes (like 10-15 minutes) and go back to peaceful sleep. The frequency was less and less as he got older and he never had a episode for a year until recently (he was still 13) when he had a fever. He woke up from a nap and got panic and that is the first time he was able to describe to us what exactly he was feeling. The same feeling everyone is descrbing here. The room looks huge and everything is far away. He has been getting it again (so far happened at least 3 times since the fever). He gets it just like he used to before, shortly after falling asleep. Last night he even said he is already having that feeling when he just went to bed. I told him maybe he is too warm and told him to leave the bed covers off. (Being too warm triggers it too). Then he told me, he had it when he was in his private violin lesson. The teacher looked like she was far away even though she was right there in front of him in a tiny room. I got worried after he told me this last night. But now I feel so relieved after reading all these posts. I don't know what this is, but as for you , I would say, just hold your 7 year old little boy and comfort him when this happens. I don't think you need to take him to a neurologist. But maybe you can mention to his pediatrician on his yearly visit. This is scary and I have memories of something similar when I was a kid. I used to get it when I had a fever. It was like I was really really small like a small bubble and everything else is big and huge around me and I was about to explode or something. I got it for the last time when I was 24 (I am 44 now) when I was at my parents house one night. I fell asleep on the couch and woke up in panic. I got up and ran to my mom like a liile girl crying. But that was the last time. My son is a brilliant student and a kind and sweet boy. He is in gifted and talented groups. He is second chair violin and he is a good basketabll player. So lets hope this is a childhood thing and would eventually disappear.