unusual 'fast feeling' in my head

Wow I'm so glad I found this forum. I used to get these all the time when I was a teenager. Now I'm 34 and out of nowhere I've had two in the last week. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one this happens to.

Mine always occur at night after I've turned out the lights and am lying in bed. It starts by my feeling disconnected from my surroundings and small in relation to my bedroom. Like the room is three times larger than normal. I look at the bedroom walls or a clock on the wall and it seems to be 10-15 feet away even though I know I could reach out and touch it. I hear a noise in my ears or maybe in my head that I would describe as a buzzing or maybe an electrical type noise, and it pulsates to a rhythm, a very fast rhythm. When I move my hands, head, and eyes they seem to be moving at an extremely fast speed, and to this same rhythm. It's really weird, I feel like I'm moving at regular speed, but I'm seeing it in fast motion like if I pushed fast-forward on a VCR. Lately it's happened while I'm reading on my iPad with the lights out. It feels like I'm reading at warp speed, although I'm aware that Its taking me the same amount of time to complete a page.  My thoughts seem to race, and I have trouble concentrating on any one thing. My brain seems to be going a million miles a minute. It only lasts 10 minutes or so at the most.

It's not an unpleasant sensation, it just kinda freaks me out because I start to wonder if there's something wrong with me. That's why I'm so glad I stumbled across this discussion.

I have never done drugs, I don't drink anymore, don't smoke, don't take pills, I'm happily married, I do have some stress, but leading up to these two episodes my stress level has been lower than a couple of months ago. I do get migraines once in awhile although these episodes don't seem to correlate with migraines, and are completely painless. I do not have anxiety or panic attacks. I do not experience altered body image or distorted touch perception like some posters.

I'm so glad there is a name for this and that I'm not alone!

I am extremely shocked at how many people have this same feeling, like many of you I felt like I was alone with this. Every since I can remember I have gotten these "Fast Feelings" Where I saw things at a normal speed but my mind seemed to process them like they were going much much quicker. I can feel the onset of it happening and it gets progressively worse over the course of a few minutes. I have had the feeling smaller and things getting smaller and further away from where I am at. I actually had the feeling happen about 5 minutes ago and decided to look it up. I have talked to psychologist and doctors and I feel like they are looking at me like I am crazy or something. 

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Also, I've been trying to explain to family how I can be moving at normal speed, but seeing it in fast motion. The fast forward on a VCR analogy is not bad, but the way that best describes what I experience is it's kinda like how your movements look really fast when you are in a dark room with a strobe light. Everything looks fast because you are only seeing a couple of "frames per second". Maybe claymation is also a good way to think of it?

 

I too get this from time to time. The google search that eventually led me to this forum, was 'louder voice in my head". This is a HUGE indicator of the onset. Time will slow down and my voice, my thought voice, will almost be yelling. Very slow and faint, rising in volume. This began when I was a young kid too, 4 yrs old maybe. I would get up to go to the bathroom, and begin hearing my thoughts yelling my name in the same way I described above. Another incident, was when I was about 18 yrs old, and DURING SEX my focal point began growing, like a magnifying glass. It was bugged out, cuz this chicks face just started growing... But now I'm assured, like the rest of you, that I am not crazy. A little disappointed that i DO NOT in fact have super powers. LOL. 

I too get this feeling I use to get it when I was younger i A lot but as I got older it seemed to happen lass and less, lately it's Even happening more then usual age 18. It feel like I'm moving super speed I feels small and everything feels huge I could. Ever explain it and never told anyone because I didn't know how I would put it, I think the only thing that I get a bit different is every time I get it I have this odd feeling of my dad yelling at me in the back of my head.

Incredible!! I  thought it was just me...and I am looking it up because I am having one right now for the first time in many years..I am 47 !

going to check that hypoglycemia link as I often shake if I don't eat at the right time.

I'm really glad that I'm not the only one who has experienced this. I'm 18 and I've been Having this weird feeling randomly throughout my whole life. I wish their was an explanation What's also weird is the age group that this happens too.

I'd had dreams or sensations very similar to this!!! Your description of the wagon in your dreams really resonated with me.

I think it's really great that we seem to have pinpointed a condition such as this. But, by jove, why can't we even NAME IT?!?! Surely SOMEBODY must know its name?!

It may sound like what everyone else is saying but same thing has happened to me regularly since i was a little kid and its always random for no reason whatever ill be doing the first thing i notice is my thoughts get so loud it feels like im screaming at my self even though the content of my thoughts dont change second thing is everything i do say or see feels like its 100 times faster than it should be and its always freaked me out i would just wish and wait for it to go away iv tried explaining it to my doctor and he has nothing to say about it which is extreamly frustrating but i am really glad to know this happens to other people...

I replied under guest a month ago (I get notified via email when someone posts). I would get the loud "thoughts" in my head also. It would be nice if there was a clear cut word for the experience. The length makes me doubt it's a seizure. It's something though- you wouldn't have a lot of people replying with similiar symptoms, reporting a decrease in frequency (or elimination in symptoms) after puberty if it wasn't something. It appears to be relatively benign which may account for why it doesn't appear to be known.

Yeah I get this to I don't know what the voice is saying but things go really really fast and I think the voice is telling me something bad will happen so I try to slow it down and it seems to tell me the same thing happens when i go to slow i can only feel really fast or really slow and not inbetwea and it jumps so nothing "bad" happens any ansers? Also it may be nothing but I have what feels like the same dream sometimes but i cant remember it but i know it's the same some how...LInked to it? Cheers get back to me.

I'm 17 also and I get them too!! Am I losing my mind? I'm really scared now!! I never told anyone that this happens to me!! And now I regret saying anything cause I've had this for years!! I just didint know what to do!!

My daughter has been having this happen for years.  She is failing school because of it.  Has anyone medically qualified viewed these posts?  Has anyone been able to be diagnosed?  She has terrible migraines - at least we think they are migraines, but the neurologist put her on tons of meds that she cannot function on and frankly, don't work.  These "auras" as I have been calling them are causing her to fail school.  I desperately need help with this!!!!!!!