Disterbed vision, almost like virtigo, everything seems a million miles away

yea same here but it happen to me more often as soon i try to go to sleep you no when u think of anything in ur mined it just seem smaller and very far a way then i open my eyes and the windows curtens small very like tiny and its just miles a way its driving me crazy

I have also had these bouts of zooming vision a couple of times, where it seems everything (ceiling, clock, curtains) is moving in the depth direction. Usually everything appears to be far away but I also get a feeling objects are moving closer and further all the time. It's impossible to define "how" far away an object is.

And it's only a feeling. In reality nothing moves but you get that feeling everything is moving. And the feeling gets worse if you shut your eyes. Usually it happens if you're about to fall asleep. But I've also got those while having a fever or when doing intensively something like reading or writing with pen or keyboard. Also, I've noticed doing intensively Rubik's cube triggers this zooming effect.

Best thing to recover from it is getting on your feet and turning lights on and focus your perception on something very close and then farther away.

last night my daughter began commenting on how the TV and things across the room looked small. Then she looked at me and said "you look small too daddy, its really weird." I knew exactly what she was describing but I hadn't experienced it in about 15 years. I'm 39 now and used to have these episodes a few times a month that I can remember from the age of 5 till my mid 20's. I'd forgotten all about it I until my daughters comments. I never really researched it because every time I tried to describe it people they'd look at me like I was crazy. And it never really bothered me, I thought the perspective was very interesting. The part that I didn't like very much was the recouring nightmare that sometimes accompanied the vision. It always involved tall thin faceless figures looming over me in a bed, speaking very calmly and undiscernably to each other. There was also an indescribable feeling that accompanied the nightmares, not an emotional feeling but a physical texture like feeling. The only words I can find to describe it is, "a sharp roundness." I know, it makes absolutely no sense but that's what it felt like during the nightmare. I can remember waking in the middle of the night and asking my parents, "why did you let them in the house?" These nightmares recurred until I was about 13 or 14, but the visions kept up into my mid 20's. I did begin to have full fledged migraine headaches in my mid 20's that continue to happen once every couple of months, usually when I'm over tired or really stressed. 

This is at least reassuring to me that I'm not the only one who has experienced this and that I'm not just "crazy" like everyone said when I tried to describe the vision and nightmares. It will be interesting to see how it develops in my daughter and how she reacts to it. It doesn't seem to freak her out yet which is good. And I'm glad that I've gone through it so I can relate. My parents had no idea what I was talking about.

Be strong every one, different perceptions and perspectives help us evolve and grow. Maybe we have an advantage and more of an open mind than people who don't get "the smalls" I love that term for it.

Yes! I have felt like a giant! And everything is so tiny! My hand feels as if it was swollen x10! I first had this experience when I was about 6-8 with a bad fever!

I had these things happen to me as a child as well. I had forgotten about them until my 6 year-old son told me over the past week that everything look smaller (It has been occurring mostly at night for him as well) and that I looked like I was small too. He said I looked like I was his size, and I'm 6'2". I used have a recurring nightmare as well but I could never describe it to my mom. All I could say is that it was mechanical, because I had no way of explaining it. I would also compare it to the parts of a train in motion but that really doesn't explain it either. I would look at my hand and touch my fingers and they would feel super thin. It was a very weird sensation. I am glad to know that I am not the only one who has had these experiences.

This same thing happened to me a while ago, it was a major issue then after 4 years t comes back for i little bit. The one thing that was an issue was that i couldn't describe it, and so that means that i couldn't find out what it was and i couldn't find a cure. It was worse when i went to my bed and closed my eyes. I'd just like to know a cure for it mainly.

My son is 9 years old, and he's having the exact or very similar symptoms described by all of you - "things seems to be far far away", followed by a "weird feeling in the tummy" (panic, I guess). It's all started since he had a high fever a couple of days. Before getting sick, he played Xbox quite a bit lately so I stopped it immediately. But the vision problems continue, especially at night. It's freaking me out of my mind. He does not sleep very well, wakes up at night thirsty which is probably just a fluid loss caused by the flu. Some of the posts on the subject are 4 years old. I would be very interested to hear if some people had succesful treatment. So far, the common solution is to focus on light source or an object in a room, get up and walk around, watch TV for a while, etc. It's good to manage this condition but not focused on the cause. Going to the doctor tomorrow morning, we'll see what happens. God bless the Internet and people who share ! :-)

This is exactly what happened to me when I was that age. I was completely aware of what was going on and I remembered it in the morning. When it was happening it was SO scary. Things, like you said, seems "far away". I also would sleep walk when i was younger too and my parents thought they were related. What got me looking up symptoms now is that I had another one a couple nights ago. I haven't had one for 5 or 6 years. It was good to get some answers.

My daughter, 8, has been waking up 2 or 2 and a half hours into her sleep and she is completely panicked and telling me to come closer I'm too far away and I'm right beside her. She also was crying that everything is so tiny; her hands etc. I have tried different things to calm her down and giving her her glasses, staying close to her face and turning on a light or tv for a bit help. It is seriously upsetting to watch and has me so worried. She has a virus right now but no fever. She is definitely overtired from being sick and not sleeping well. I didn't put it together at first but this has randomly happened before from time to time. Never like this. This was 4th night in a row. Last night she kept saying "tell them..." but couldn't finish what she was trying to say but was so panicked. I feel better reading these posts but I am still worried!

I used to experience this quite regularly as a child too, still do actually although it only happens once or twice a year now.

The first few times it happened it scared the life out of me. It usually started by having a regularly occuring nightmare (felt like I was being crushed by mountains on all sides and being stabbed by pins from above and below, odd I know), I'd wake up from this nightmare and then experience these symptoms of everything seeming far away and sounds being amplified. It also rarely happened through me either reading or playing on my Gameboy for a few hours, probably brought on because I was staring at something. I eventually got used to it and when it did happen I'd just put the telly or radio on and eventually drift off to sleep.

I've since spoke to my mum about it (at the time she thought I was just halfway between being awake and asleep and not really being concious of what was happening) and what I experienced and it so happens that she used to get it and my younger brother experiences it too (I'm 25, my mum's 50 and my brother's 10), so maybe it's an hereditory thing?

I get these symptons when i have a fever like everything is really far away and you just want to go and cry into your blankets.

Did you get an answer from your Dr? My daughter is 8 and has had this problem for about a week on and off. The symptoms last for about 20 min then go away. She also had a high fever before this started happening.

This is my first time writing something. I am 20 now. When I was young I use to have night terrors and then wake up in an anxiety attack and everything would be very far away. I need to talk to more people that have experienced this. Now I am older and some nights when I am about to fall asleep I close my eyes and all I see us black but then it will start to look like the blackness is spinning and pulsating and I will open my eyes and everything is so far away.

I have the exactly same problem, when this problem occurs, everything I see is getting smaller and smaller, in the mean while they are going far away from me, but they are extremely clear instead of obscure if something is going far away.

The problem first appeared is when I had a fever at age 13, after that, it occurs 7 or 8 times a year.

 

I have same problem. I had experienced this when I was 12 or 13. After that It happened to me. Now, I am 27.

I did not share this problem with anyone because I thought that they never gonna get it. 

I surprised that so many people are suffering with same problem. 

I'd like to add something about this experience which has not been discussed yet  in this thread I think, that "All the objects looks very very far away and I felt my hands, tongue, lips big and thick but when I look into my hands they seems very tiny.  Recently (2 days ago) same thing happens to me. As I am curious about this, I started analysis of it. I got up and  looked into mirror also I found myself very far away. I could not be free from this problem as I tried many way. But when I switched on the lights, slowly the objects came nearer and it recovered."

This might be the miss-communication between the sense organs and brain as brain gets input from sense organs and processes them or the brain does not functioning correctly.

I don't know when this will happen to me but I am waiting for that believing that any immediate solution will be found.