unusual 'fast feeling' in my head

This is exactly how I feel when it happens! The feeling like I'm moving faster, or things and sound is moving faster and/or louder. Then it scares me and my heart starts pounding. It started when I was young, maybe beginning of elementary school. I get it once in a while still and I'm 20. I just had it today and it only really lasts about 1 to 2 minutes. Sometimes, not always, when I'm thinking a lot, especially at night, it starts to happen. I used to get night terrors when I was little as well and have a few times in the last few years and it's the same feeling when I get both of them! I never knew how to explain it to people cause it always kind of sounded silly to me. Haha, so glad I found other people that are experiencing/experienced the same thing. I still want to know what it is or what causes it!

OH, and also things looking like they're farther away then they are!

I get that too! Scared the heck out of me at first, always thought it was a seizure since I have epilepsy. And that the meds were causing it. When I get that feeling its usually when i'm waking up, or falling asleep. I -try- to move at a normal speed but its always slow motion which is sorta amusing afterwards...

Sooo I finally looked to see if anyone else had this... I Get this feeling quiet often, probably like 5-10 times a year almost always while going to sleep, but also happens in times of extreme focus on tedious repetitive tasks. I enjoy the feeling now but I remember the fear. I used to get horrendous nightmares as a child when I had high fevers(so bad I would have to be held down and iced so I wouldn't hurt myself or anyone else in my sleep) and as far as I can remember this "fast feeling" started then too. For me it's like the whole world and my sense of it is moving a million miles per hour. My sense of touch gets heightened and it almost seems like I can feel everything at once. My thoughts stand out like everything else is just background noise and if I focus on any one feeling that one grows in intensity. When I feel it come on now I revel in it and try to make it last but as soon as something distracts me it will drift away. Sometimes when I go to bed I think I can make it happen, usually when I focus on one sense or focus on my thoughts and nothing else(not the best for going to sleep) As far as possible causes, I was diagnosed with narcolepsy in the army but not fully tested, and from my research into that it may stem from a very high fever at some point in all our lives. Has anyone else had problems with sleeping too much, trouble waking up, automatic behaviors(while asleep), sleep attacks, severe need for naps a few times a week or more, sleep talking, waking up multiple times a night, sleep peralasis, hallucinations just before bed or right after waking up(a shadow in the room often accompanied by peralasis). Ultimately I am an artist and I kind of want to induce this feeling more regularly especially while I work, that sensory overload as I like to think of it would be awesome to paint with! If anyone can think of how to trigger it I want to know.

I wrote the previous. sorry it was on my phone so it got squashed together and I don't blame anyone for skipping it.

Same guy... I'm also 26 and it started around the age of 8 with one particularly bad fever nightmare. Would happen a few times a year then went away for a few years. Got food poisoning when I was a teenager and it came back and then stopped for a few years until joined the army and then it would hit me at least once a month and I started liking it. Now it's only a handful of times a year.

Okay this is so weird , everything you guys are saying I experienced when I was child . Now my 8 year old son is experiencing the same thing . It sent chills down my spine when he said it all started after a dream he had about everything going fast . I also had this start related to a dream about everything going fast , rushing water and someone calling for help . He has been experiencing a feeling of heaviness on his body , racing thoughts, the feeling of everything going fast , sounds more pronounced and visual perception changes of things appearing farther away then they are . It usually lasts like 5-10 minutes . What is this ?? I'm making a doctors appointment to rule out low blood sugar , thyroid problems or neurological problems like simple partial seizure . Could it be anxiety / stress related ? He says he isn't stressed.

IT LITERALLY JUST HAPPENED TO ME! This has never happened to me before, I'm 20 years old, im not the healthiest but that has never happened before. I was lying in bed thinking of my coming week I had in work and had a panic attack, which as well does not happen to me. It was like my head was screaming running around, when I closed my eyes and I tried to concentrate it was like a montage of images in my head. The clock in my room sounded ten times faster and louder, I could feel my blood pumping faster and the slightest twitch felt rushed. I reached for my tablet slowly but I still felt like I was rushing. I was terrified and the fact that this is unknown but not uncommon, with no real advice other than "just let it pass", is terrifying, and the fact people have been having it since they we kids seems worse. There's nothing to call it and no cure or advice. Did I just join the worst mental health club?

Im here to join the party. 

Happened to me this morning after a pro rough first night with the flu While llying in bed. 

I got these on the regular as a kid along with a feeling of being shot through space or something weird with a loud fast voice telling me strange things. But it could have just been my own voice really sped up. 

Weeiirrd man. 

So anyone got any diagnosis/solution to this, im going crazy, its so frequent , it lasted 2 hours last time it happened.

I get the exact same thing and for years haven’t been able to describe it in words… the first time I remember getting this feeling was when I was around 7 and was burning a high fever I started hallucinating and got this “fast feeling” like everything around me (even my mother’s voice trying to calm me down) seemed to have a sense of high urgency to it, like it was fast paced.  Ever since then I have been getting these random episodes that last for around 10 mins where I feel like everything around me is extremely urgent or moving at quicker than normal pace, especially any audio intake, like a ticking clock would drive me nut or even my own voice in my head.   These episodes are not frequent anymore and I have learned to keep myself calm knowing that it will pass; but I was still curious to understand why it happens.

I recently decided to see a doctor about it, I am not sure if I was able to explain it properly to him but he seemed convinced that this is a form of subconscious panic attack that might be triggered from a combination of stress, irregular sleeping and eating habits and high consumption of stimulants (coffee, tea, Pepsi, etc…).  He prescribed a pill I think it’s a sedative or a calmative of some sort but I am reluctant to take it until I am sure that his diagnosis is 100% actuate.

Did anyone get a similar diagnosis from a doctor?

I have this too and I looked it up and I think it links to either derealiazation or depersonalization

omg! i cant believe that there are another people experiencing EXACTLY the same thing with me! i thought i was alone in that strange illness. I experienced that 4 years ago like 2-3 times per WEAK! It started with a fever. I also survived a meningitis kinda 3-4 years before the illness. Then I went to a neurologist, they performed EEG and MRI of the brain but didnt find anything except a small arachnoid cyst (not a big deal). It didnt happen to me since the last 4 years except YESTERDAY. I got afraid because it didnt happen for 4 years and now it occured again so i managed to google the symptoms and found you. I'm also a med student for 2 years but our neurologists say it is a form of epilepsy (just asked them today). They say i should fight with it, control it and try to forget it, i should sleep well and it should pass. I even started to find it enjoyable now, since i know that im not alone. Sorry for the bad english.

Yes mate, there is a diagnosis. If i am not mistaken, it is a form of epilepsy called "Simple Partial Seizure". OMG WHAT! 2 hours????? Oh Jesus, man it is helly long! I dont advice you the drugs, cause as i heard they causes some SERIOUS nightmares. Try to fight with it. I'm sure that you understand the first symptoms (like getting in a bit nervous state and sometimes a weird feeling in fingers/hands etc.). When u realize that it is coming, try to fight with it. With distracting yourself, speak with someone, think something that will make you very happy (like you passed all your exams) or get in a very very silence and dark room and try NOT TO HEAR EVEN YOUR BREATHING. (last thing worked on me yesterday. I realized that the seizure is coming and rushed to the silent and dark sitting room and i tried to breath realllyy silent (not slow, silent!) Wish u luck, if u need any more help,  I'm a medstudent and im determined to find a cure :D

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This has been happening to me as well since I was a child a few times a year. I realized it got better when I had some glucose or Electral which are basically oral rehydration salts or even just plain salt.