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

Ah, I remember this.

 

I remembered waking up in the middle of the night, with the rememberance of a dream- a quite messed up one of something related to rockets and a bunch of wrecking balls in a line order that would swing back and forth. If I was hit or something went wrong in one of these dreams I know I would wake up with the feeling of things feeling far away but close and sounds feeling very strange. I believe this is normal in a younger age, they are either growing up or they have this (which is entirely normal): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome

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Internally just happened like 30 mins ago talking to my sister. Always happens when I'm right next to someone and talking to them, but mostly when I'm just listening to a person. I wonder whether there is more to it than the simple visual seizure as I get a weird feeling when it suddenly happens, feels great when it happens!

Temporary teleopsia caused by a painless migrain or temporal seizers I don't know but it is what I decided it's called after searching a lot. I toot experienced this around age 5 and intermittently up into my teens. Neat to find people searching for it.

Did u ever take your 6-yr old to the Dr for this? My 6-yr old just started this. He's had night terrors in the past, but we thought he was over it and just this week twice he's come into our room crying and scared because everything looked small or far away. Putting the tv on seems to help him but he's genuinely scared when it happens. Just wondering what some possible causes are. He's a normal healthy kid, but I think this happens when he's exhausted, and when it happens, it's always within two hrs after he has fallen asleep.

Hello, I was looking at your post and my 10 year old nephew recently started having these symptoms. How is your daughter now? Did they put her on any medication to control it? Do you know if this is permanent, or can the body fight it off? Thank you for your help!

My name is Thomas I have this problem to ( I'm only 11) I have the egsact same symptoms

I had this when I was younger. At first I would wake up in the middle of the night, and when I looked at the ceiling it would seem really far then really close. Same if my eyes were closed. It was as if I was bungie jumping (although I have never bungie jumped so that I just how I imagine it would be like. I would feel a bit sea sick, and if I or someone else spoke it would be very loud. After a while it subsided, but I could trigger it. I had a bit of fun with it so long as I was trying. A year or two later I forgot about it. It came back recently, even though I am older now ( not much still in high school ) If I try to recall what it was like when I was younger ( even when it isn't happening at the moment) I feel the fear I use to. I don't know if it is related or not, but I also have allergies, sometimes have migraines, and used to have asthma. It could be lack of sleep, but it occurs sometimes when I don't have a lack of sleep. It also doesn't always happen when I do have a lack of sleep. I am wondering if maybe it could be medicine that is causing it. When I first had it I was still taking medicine for asthma and allergies. One time I was having a tooth taken out and when I was put on laughing gas I had the symptoms again. A few months later I started getting migraines and was taken off my medicine. The migraines stopped for a bit. Then I started swimming and my migraines came back after I would swim. (Indoor pool, hot, chlorine.) I eventually stopped swimming, they still continued. A month ago I found out peppermint essential oils help a lot. 2 weeks ago I had my wisdom teeth taken out instead of being put to sleep I was put on laughing gas and a pill. The symptoms came back. After for about a week I was on medicine, and this week at night it happens again... On another note it would be, what is the word, ironic? It would be ironic if this is the alice and wonderland syndrome, since I liked(and still like) princesses. (If she counts as one) I hope this is all figured out one day. ;D

I've always called it my own litle syndrome. I'm Logan and I'm 29.It's like my brain stops assembling the low light data received by my eyes into their visual "concepts" and so I can see every single tiny particle dancing around, but I still know the concepts, like, I can to chose to see a wall or particles which make up a wall. Sometimes there's a buzzing, I always thought of chainsaws getting ever faster and always louder, but now I might say electricity.Darkness looks like a rainbow of little particles. My very-distant-hands seem to be very close or monsterous - I think because of the incredible detail my brain assumes high detail == "large" but at the same time my hands seem so far away they're completely out of reach. It's almost like, you are inside of yourself and can distiguish an experience between you and yourself. It's far away like you are looking though yourself's eyes like lenses.

I'm wondering if anybody else feels like there's an emotional avenue you can take in your mind just before anything happens. It's almost like I can almost admit I let it happen.And somewhere in this same emotional avenue is sleep paralysis. Like, just as I'm relaxing at night, I find this pleasurable emotional way of being and as I enjoy following the feeling my body shuts off and I think "c**p" while my heart is struck with fear as my body is pressed into my bed. My only method to wake has been breathing as heavily as I can to cause enough skin stimulation from my bed sheets to trigger the reflex that disenguages the paralysis of sleep. Luckly, my eyes are always closed; I hear your brain can halucinate all your fears indistinguishably from reality.

Alice In Wonderland Syndrome seems to fit, but that also seems like on of those diagnosis the medical community uses euphemistically for "we don't know, but having a label alows us to issue treatments and get paid by your insurance company"

I have this also but mine happens about every month but it lasts about a day

When I was 5, I saw a doctor for this and he called it "far away vision". Before seeing the doctor, the episodes would freak me out. I would see things like they were both close up and far away. Like looking through a telescope with peripheral vision normal.

Also, time seemed to slow. Things I was looking at (like the TV) would seem to slow down. For example, the program on TV would be played in slow motion.

Almost all the time, I would stare into space and my mother would tell me to go back into bed. I didn't process her words right away (something delayed it) but when I did look at her she said I had a spaced out expression on my face. This was what got me sent to the doctor.

The only other thing I can add is that when I went to see an eye doctor, he said I had an interesting birth mark on the back of one of my eyes. He also said my vision was normal in one eye and better than normal in the other (like 20/22 vision, if i remember correctly). Is that weird? I can see things far away, usually. People will ask me how I see that far. I don't wear glasses yet most of my family do. Anyway, it could be like a freak ability. I'm not sure. It did scare me though growing up. 

Micropsia..my 6 yr old grandson had these visual distotions where everything appeared far away. I looked it up and it can be caused by the effects of phenylephrine.  This is found in decongestants, such as Dimetapp.  He has been taking this medicine for a cold.  

jJohn I can't believe any one else has had this happen to them. The same thing happened to me as a child only when it happened to me it wasnt scary.my body felt "blocky" every thing felt unreal. I havent had it happen in years. but yes I know what it looks like and feels like have u ask a doctor about this I would very much like to know the cause of this to.

This is also happening to me. Like right now. Everything seems soo far from my eyes and sometimes things go slow motion. This thing started when i was still young i thought it was as just an imagination so i didnt tell anyone and still happening until now. Usually it happens when im ready to sleep. And when u close my eyes everything is starting to look weird. And when i close my eyes i still feel everything is very far. What do you call this? Is this some kind of disorder, psychological or eyesight problem?

Yep, I have got this recently and hadn't had it for years before the recent one, but got it a fair bit as a child, used to scare me. Could not sleep with it!

I am really glad that so many people have a similar problem. Kinda reassuring. Happens to me during fever usually.