unusual 'fast feeling' in my head

I've felt this exact thing too for years. It got so bad that I ended up going to a neurologist and getting EEG's. When they did my first EEG they couldn't find anything but when they did a second one for 24 hours they found an abnormalty in my brain waves. In my senses the brain waves would randomly spike and everytime they would spike 4 times I would experience this. They diagnosed me with a seizure disorder but still weren't even sure if that's what they should call it:

I had this all the time as a child! I'm 28 now and it happens maybe once a year, it used to terrify me. I hated it and thought I was alone. I wish I knew what caused it in case my son ever goes through it.

i am 19 now i too feel the same i user to feel it when i was kid in dreams but it stopped after sometime but now again i am feeling same it is terrible to handle it. i really want to know what exactly it is and any prevention for it

I get it to. The funny thing is I was searching all this when I got it if this is a medical condition does anybody know what it is

not AIWS, nor Migraine Aura ...

symptoms are not the same.

At least in my case...

I used to have these feeling when I was a kid, then they were gone for years ... started again couple of years back.

everything is going faster, so it seems.

but no other visual effects (like in AIWS).

I actually had to measure the time for simple actions (for example how long it would take for water to boil in my boiler, then measured again after the "attack" to make sure it was only a sensation).

Could never find an explanation, but I managed to associate this to a few things, although I was never able to "recreate the attack" : example, if I was playing a silly puzzle game on a DS it would trigger the attack (or better, everytime I had an attack recently I was playing that game ... but other times, playing the same game would have 0 consequences). If I had to guess, I would link it to stress + flashing objects + other conditions (costipation for example). so it could be more similar to a sort of epilepsy occurrance rather than anything else.

I also noticed that concentrating on something else, like reading a newspaper, usually helps getting rid of the symptoms more quickly...

i am having the same problems. I have been having them for a long time now and havnt told anyone, I don't know what it is but it's comforting to know that i'm not the only one going through it.

Yes. I'm 14 and I get these all the time when sitting in a quiet room.

So I know these forum hasn't been used for ages but I am 17 and have been getting this fast feelings since I was little but I haven't grown out of it like some one you. I dont get the small thing but I get an intense buzzing like a radio. I always feel the need to talk and move in slow motion to try and combat it. I don't think it does me any harm but can be annoying

I dont agree that what I feel with this fast feeling is Alice in wonderland syndrome as I dont experience migraines

I just had this ''fast feeling'' now. 

I used to get it quiet frequently when I was younger, but I didnt really think much of it. I am now 16 years old, and I was standing in my bathroom when it happened to me again. I felt as is everything was going fast. Whenever I moved my body I felt as if I was moving extremly fast, even when I slowed myself down. My mind was racing with thoughts and when I tried to play a memory or a scene in my mind it was playing extremely fast as if I had clicked a fast foward button my a remote. I felt like the room was really small, and that I was too big for it. I never knew how to describe the feeling to anyone, so I kept my mouth shut. I am so glad that I am not the onlyone that has these ''episodes''..  i thought i was going crazy.

Oh atleast i am not the only one. ANYONE FOUND OUT WHAT AND WHY THIS HAPPENS? IS THERE A CURE?

Hey everybody. Posted this on another forum, also discussing this phenomenon. I'm 26 and from Denmark. Wow I have been totally thrilled to read all the stories – and had the exact same feeling as many of you – (“Do other people really also experience this” :D) So I have experienced this thing or feeling for as long as I can remember, maybe with a frequency of 3-10 episodes pr. month in my early childhood, to now only having the experience ones a month maybe. This is the first time I have ever considered googling it – and it was of course an episode of this feeling which triggered it. I have just ended one with a duration of 10 minutes, which actually is the most common length. And when they are longer, the first one will sort of ware of, and then a new "wave" will hit me. So for me it most often occurs when I’m lying in bed, before I go to sleep, but I have also experienced it out of bed. The best way I can describe it is with the word synchronicity - like I’m out of sync with the world or wise versa. Anyway it defiantly gives me this strong feeling of Spiderman effect, as someone else described it, as if I suddenly can comprehend 10 times more. I can be extremely disoriented and also extremely concentrated in this state, and just sort of focus in and out at freewill. When I shut my eyes it will feel if I’m totally detached to the outside world, or like it isn’t there at all, or like I am everything there is, and when I then open them again, I will usually struggle a bit to get my focus again, kind of when you are really drunk and you have to be extremely concentrated to keep your focus, and when you final get focused again, the outside will sort of settle down. I remember being a bit scared of it in my childhood, but now I actually just find I sort of amusing, and a quite interesting phenomenon, considering I’m suddenly not the only one any longer after reading all of this. So I also happen to do a lot of yoga and meditation, have done it over the past 8 years, and when I’m in deep meditation, so like 1+ hours, I can also get this feeling some of you are describing, with one being infinite big and infinite small and sometimes both at the same time, and I will also get this sort of tingling all over the body - a vibrating feeling. And it is exactly the same thing I will experience when I have "this” feeling most of us are talking about - which is anything else but anxiety, panic attacks etc., as some of you are mentioning by the way. So here are my two cents. Meditation are known and well documented to release natural DMT, along side REM Sleep and Death known so far - and I wouldn’t be surprised if a high fewer could also trigger this, as some of you are mentioning will trigger it. So are the experiences we get a sudden involuntary release of a small amount of DMT? It would explain why it would course similar experiences along side deep meditation and why it only last a short while, and why et feels like a switch is suddenly switch on, or a wave coming over you, and it has a peak (at least for me) and a natural comedown where it will decrees slowly in intensity. Wow it just felt like a huge insight just hit me. And also why it can occur when you are extremely concentrated - because where do you draw the line between deep meditation and extremely concentration? What do you think? Now it is just up for science to understand the what’s and why’s about DMT :P But hay - shouldn't it have a name? We all describe bits and pieces of the same phenomenon. But what do we call it? “The Switch” Maybe??? :)

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My young boy who is now 12 years of age has had these exact symptoms when he is trying to go to sleep. The only other additional factor with him is that it only happens when he is sick with a cold or a flu. Very strange and worry some although doesn't seem to affect him in a negative way. This has only been going on since he was 10 (2 years now) and of course the family doctor says the usual " If it gets any worse, come back and see me". It only seems to happen once or twice a year. When it happens, our boy accuses us of yelling at him because it seems so loud in his head.

I can't believe other people go through the same thing. It has been happening from about age 12, but I only had them maybe 1 again after that year. But LastNight I experienced it agin, after 3 (now 16 years old) years, and I was so scared cuz I didn't remember it. It's funny though my mom has the same feelin, so I have someone to talk to who understands it. I feel rushed, even when i try relaxing, and taking a deep breath it feels rushed. Every little thing I do is at a faster pace and every one is at a normal pace. I ask people if I move faster, and they're like no. It's weird, need to kno what it is. Used to shrug it off, cuz I thought it was just me but now I kno others go through it I wanna kno

my son gets this too. He used to get it more often when he was younger and it would happen playing video games. As he got older, it's only happened when he is focused on doing math-strange right? He thinks it's the repetive nature of it. I have seen other mentions of math and video games on this forum which I find interesting. I do think it's Alice in wonderland syndrome or a migraine variation - several of the sites say it can also cause the time distortion thing as well as the loud thing. My son says everything moves fast and everything sounds louder than normal. I wonder stress is a factor ?