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unusual 'fast feeling' in my head

By markbrighton | 1479 posts, last post
Angelica Giron, MD answered this Alice In Wonderland Syndrome
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Hi! I know you probably won't see this, but I'm a younger teenager and I have the same problem. With a bit of digging, I found something called a sensory overload? It seems that what we are all experiencing is a smaller version of that.
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this sounds like epilepsy. I have temporal lobe epilepsy partial seizures and tbis is what my seizures are like and even more so as a child. The size perception changes of the room and fast thinking. The perception changes can be Alice in Wonderland syndrome (Lewis Carol had Temporal lobe epilepsy and described his seizures in the story). You don't go unconcious with these seizures it involves a sense of perception change and sometimes accompanying symptpms depending on the individual. Google it . x

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Yes you're right peajayz! I have only been diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy partial seizures in the last year...I'm 30. And I'vr had these crazy symptoms since a child. I used to wake up in terror woth repetitive phrases/sentences of a man speaking OR fast urgent babble thiughts the room felt like everything was really close to me and huge. ..sort of 2D. I always felt nauseated aswell. it would last a few minutes. As an adult I sometimes get the fast urgent thoughts or repetitive phrases on there own for a few minutes. I don't know if this is due to the seizures still or not. That's why I'm on this page. It can feel like q mental health issue. I had tbis lastnight and it was in tbe hours AFTER a partial seizure. I also get room size perception changes during a seizure.
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ps....any adrenaline rush is part of the seizure. Temporal lobe is responsible for the fear emotion and electrical activity triggers this fear response to happen
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I am 80 years old and have gotten that feeling all my life. It’s frequency has definitely decreased as I’ve aged. For many years only my cousin also got it, and only she understood what it was when I spoke about it. I recently learned that two of my daughters also get it. They call it !’fast forward’. People who don’t have this think I must be nuts. But now I see that it’s not that uncommon.
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Omg this happened to me many times therefore I searched it and I'm so glad that I found someone who I can relate to about the "thing" xx
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I have it to and I wanted to tell you guys that you can help it by trying to think of something else not stressful but normal like a list of people or places it helps a lot and I hope it can help you to PLEASE READ
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Woah, I'm not alone! Just as everyone else said, I used to get them quite often as a child but now it happens about once a year at the most (25 yrs old now). I just found this page because I looked it up after it happened again about an hour ago. This is wild! I never thought so many people could be experiencing the same thing as me with similar frequency patterns. I'm not even interested in treating it. A few minutes a year doesn't bother me enough to try to medicate myself or go to a doctor, but it's still interesting. I've never had an anxiety attack so I don't know what one feels like. Because of that, I always just kind of assumed that maybe I was having an anxiety attack of a different variety, but it always seems to happen randomly so I never really linked it to stress or anxiety.
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I get these quite frequently (I’m 14). Before typing this I had just had one were for me everything goes faster my thoughts, when I talk, and when other people talk, however it wouldn’t affect how fast I was moving. One thing that I’ve always believed to be the reason (I don’t actually know) is that I have ADHD and I figured it had something to do with that.
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Hi
This is incredible. I had exactly the same experience when I was aged around 5 years - I am now 70. At the time, I told my mother and over the years I have told other people including doctors and no one believed me. Then amazingly yesterday I met someone who had experienced the same thing, which encouraged me to look up this forum. I think the last time it happened was when I was 10.
Twelve years ago I had a breakdown with severe anxiety and moderate depression caused by excessive stress.

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I also have both the bigger/smaller an gast foward feeling. It first occurred to me in combination with a nightmare when i was 7. When i slowly move my feet in bed, in my mind Im kicking very fast in every direction. Going wild like Bruce Almighty in bed lol. Does this also sound familiair to u?
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This is a fact and my research has come up with the same diagnosis. I have the Alice in Wonderland syndrome. I did a paper on my studies in college.
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I'm 17 also but the first time I felt this it was in a nightmare around 13 or 14. Every now and then I'll wake up or even suddenly feel it and I don't like to move, think, talk because I hate it. It feels like I'm going insane and I start to tear up when it lasts a while because I just want it to stop.
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Yes! Wow! This is amazing to know others have this! I’m 12 and I haven’t had it for years but last week I had a fever and got that feeling! It still hasn’t gone away but I know it will soon and I’m not worried!
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OKAY so I’ve had these happen since I was like 9 or 10 years old I just had the LONGEST “episode” for about an hour. I couldn’t figure out a way to make it stop until I did this:
I said words out loud in a paused manner. I would stop in between each word with a few seconds pause. I specifically was reading comments on this forum and read the words out loud with pauses. For example:
I. Ate. An. Apple. Earlier.
I know this sounds dumb and i don’t know why these episodes happen or why this method helped me. I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one dealing with it now at 19 years of age. I hope at least someone reads this and finds this helpful.

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