Wow....NEVER did I expect to find anyone with this same experience...i never thought I'd be able to explain it well enough to know what words to Google lol.
For me, I get this strange feeling of being in a room, dark and of infinite size, with a wall that is extremely far away from me but super close to me at the same time...and I feel like there is a presence there that is communicating with me through pure intensity...no words or language, just a feeling of super fast intense nothingness (best way I can describe it). Like a rush of the speed of light, but contained in the smallest space possible.
I sometimes feel like I'm in trouble, like something really bad happened, does anyone else get that sensation? It almost feels like I'm in another state of existence. I use to get this a lot as a kid, but very rarely now.
Really hard to find the right words to explain this..
Thank god there's more people with the same thing. I just had another "attack" (I'm 16) and I used to get them quite frequently when I was younger. Some last for a couple of minutes but my last one went for a lot longer. It's quite scary because everything is so distorted, like you feel as though everything is going extremely fast but then also when you or someone else speaks you can hear that it's quite slow/average. What I don't understand is why no one has really figured out what it is except for a really broad "depersonalisation disorder", which even then it doesn't quite fit.
Oh jeez, I never knew this was something other people actually dealt with, and I have a lot to say. This was something the plagued me for YEARS throughout my childhood (I'm 18 now) and still pops up every now and then. The only thing, everyone is talking about feeling like everything is sped up, which I experienced, but I would also have intense feelings like everything was slowed down, and it would switch between the two. Either everything was super fast and there were voices in my head talking super fast and I would make sure to do everything slower to accommodate for that and try to act 'normal', or it was the complete opposite and I would try to do things really fast, and end up speed walking around the house.
It was like this bug in my head, this alternate universe that existed in my brain that was telling me I was moving and operating at the wrong speed, and if I didn't listen and slow down or speed up, as requested, then something bad was going to happen. The only way to make it stop was to not think about it, but it was impossible to not think about when it was controlling my life, so it was a vicious cycle. Also, I was always terrified to tell anyone because I was scared that I would get in trouble, so this went on for so long.
Another thing I haven't seen mentioned here is the nightmares that accompanied this for me. I would have the reoccurring dream that was pretty much always the same except for the speed. It would always start with me going down a slide into this round room that had dim, warm lighting and low ceilings. The room would be full of people chatting and I would be standing in the middle, and then, depending on the speed, everything would change. If it was fast, all the people would start talking fast, their finger, toes, noses, and basically entire body's would get long and pointy and start filling the room. The walls would become sharp and start closing in, their finders would start stabbing me, it would get louder and louder and the room would get smaller until it all goes black, and then its over. If its slow, the peoples body's would blow up like balloons, and they would all start talking really slowly. The walls would start inflating and closing in on the room and everything would blow up and up and up until I suffocated, and it would all go black. I can't remember the last time I had either of these dreams, but I still think about them a lot.
To this day, there are still times where I will be going about my day and I will feel that shift in my brain, but I know how to stop it now and I can make it go away. I've discovered that listening to music will make it go away, because I just tell myself that the speed of the music is correct, and whatever else my brain is trying to tell me is wrong. However, for some reason, I can't listen to the song UNI by Ed Sheeran because it triggers something and makes everything seem slow.
I've never put into words exactly what has been happening to me for the past 18 years, so I understand this is a lot, but it's incredible to me that there are people out there who have experienced similar things.
It was like this bug in my head, this alternate universe that existed in my brain that was telling me I was moving and operating at the wrong speed, and if I didn't listen and slow down or speed up, as requested, then something bad was going to happen. The only way to make it stop was to not think about it, but it was impossible to not think about when it was controlling my life, so it was a vicious cycle. Also, I was always terrified to tell anyone because I was scared that I would get in trouble, so this went on for so long.
Another thing I haven't seen mentioned here is the nightmares that accompanied this for me. I would have the reoccurring dream that was pretty much always the same except for the speed. It would always start with me going down a slide into this round room that had dim, warm lighting and low ceilings. The room would be full of people chatting and I would be standing in the middle, and then, depending on the speed, everything would change. If it was fast, all the people would start talking fast, their finger, toes, noses, and basically entire body's would get long and pointy and start filling the room. The walls would become sharp and start closing in, their finders would start stabbing me, it would get louder and louder and the room would get smaller until it all goes black, and then its over. If its slow, the peoples body's would blow up like balloons, and they would all start talking really slowly. The walls would start inflating and closing in on the room and everything would blow up and up and up until I suffocated, and it would all go black. I can't remember the last time I had either of these dreams, but I still think about them a lot.
To this day, there are still times where I will be going about my day and I will feel that shift in my brain, but I know how to stop it now and I can make it go away. I've discovered that listening to music will make it go away, because I just tell myself that the speed of the music is correct, and whatever else my brain is trying to tell me is wrong. However, for some reason, I can't listen to the song UNI by Ed Sheeran because it triggers something and makes everything seem slow.
I've never put into words exactly what has been happening to me for the past 18 years, so I understand this is a lot, but it's incredible to me that there are people out there who have experienced similar things.
The best thing you could do is try to just close your eyes and go to sleep. I just had it last night and I had a fever 2 nights ago and I'm just now getting over it. I think it was because I consumed 2 DayQuil pills and I had 3 ibuprofen 4 hours before I took the DayQuil so it's probably just adrenaline. I drank some water and tried to just sleep.
I hope it's not been too long since your post. I have never been on a motorcycle or used an inhaler in my life (I'm currently 38), but I can recall having these "episodes" in high school. They are infrequent and vary in length and intensity, but I don't think they stem from any past head trauma or medicine as I've experienced them long before either of those variables would play a role. It's a bit frightening, so I hope that you've remained receptive to your son during these times. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why they occur. But if someone would simply try to ascertain the feeling, I think that may provide temporary solace.
Ugh. I feel stupid. Kawasaki disease, not a head injury from a motorcycle accident ... I'm sorry. I was too quick to respond w/o thinking. In any event, I never was ailed with any illness as a child or since. I honestly don't think a correlation exists there.
My 11 year old daughter has been telling me that she feels the same thing you are experiencing. She also calls it the fast feeling. Should I take her to the doctor?
I have the same thing am glad am not the only one
I just felt it at school it's crazy and scares me I'm only 14
I've been getting that since I was 12 and I have to stare at something for it to stop
I know when it's coming I would look at something and be like no and then everything goes super fast and then I just stare at something for so long and it goes away seriously wtf is it
i have the same thing. upon some research, i think it could be the Alice In Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS). they say that time either goes fast or really slow, the hands and head sometimes look as though they're bigger than they really are, and a lot of other symptoms. they also say that in many cases it fades with time and it's pretty common. here's the website if you want to read more about it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302569/
Finally I'm not alone !!! No one seems to know what I've been talking about ...I had a huge episode of this when I was hunger lasted all for most of the day ...along with the fast motion feeling Everything was enhanced in my head loud random thoughts I ended up crying my self to sleep ...this hasn't happen to me since maybe a few minute here or there but nothing like that ...
I had this when I was 15 and it started when I was sick and having crazy dreams and I'm 31 now and it's the same thing where my voice is in my head and it cycles with Pace it makes me feel if I was sick I would spew like the spinning feeling of when your drunk when you lay down or something haha.. anyways it is back and has just stopped and this is the first time I've looked it up 16 years later since it first happened.. I'm assuming it's aliens or government doing tests lol #Jokes best part about this is I'm not alone and the one I just had lasted for about 15 minutes but 16 years ago it was over 3 days on and off while I was sick. Anyways people just scream in to your pillow and say a gooosfraaabaa and maybe that might help haha if not just try something else.
I used to get it when i was younger in the middle of the night. I would wake up and my room felt really big, but i felt really small. And like everything was happening really fast but I was really slow. I would go into my moms room and her room felt really big and My hands specifically felt so small. I would have to go down stairs and sit still and wait for the feeling to go away. But it happened in the middle of the night for me a lot. now I only get it like once a year but when I'm sick. It feels like I took a shot of coffee so i'll be moving really slow but everything around me seems to be moving fast. Also when I see a come tail that is too fast the feeling comes and i have to look away and close my ears so I don't get the feeling.