unusual 'fast feeling' in my head

I'm 26 and get this feeling really frequently, if I think of big numbers or watch a video on YouTube of something with a lot of speed I get it a lot! I need to get it seem it soon as I work with a lot of machinery and I wouldn't want to have an accident...I'll get to the doctors next week and hopefully post an update

Hi, just wondering if you made an appointment at the Drs?
My son has recently started to experience this feeling. He first had it after being ill with a cold but it's happened on a few occasions while he's falling to sleep. I'm worried sick.

I always get the loud noise and thoughts running through my head really fast it's annoying I'm getting it a lot lately.

Anybody actually know if there's a diagnoses for this? I have it as well and haven't found an actual diagnoses for it

Seems like we're not alone. Had an episode this morning. Same thing and I used to get them lots as a kid too. I always described it as racing thoughts but I felt like I was moving in slow motion and calm

I also feel the same

My son also had night terrors at that age. He hAs since grown out of them (he is 16 now). I don't recall him mentioning a feeling like this. We felt it related to the number of ultrasounds I had while pregnant possibly.
I however experience these symptoms rather sporadically. I'm curious now whether my son does as well.
I hope your son is better. I know that was quite frightening and worrisome for us.

Wow, so other people actually get this same sensation. Actually it seems as though many people get it after reading the posts on here. As many people wrote, it usually happens when I'm laying down trying to go to sleep. Its a scary feeling. I'm 35 now and have been getting this feeling since as far back as I can remember. Its not that frequent, sometimes more than others. I've had several minor head injuries so I don't know if that could have something to do with it.

Thank goodness i was terrified at first. I'm 13 and this happens to me quite often and i kind of feel like of a wimp for saying this when no one else is scared but it really scares me. I can hear my sister talking or my parents arguing and then all of a sudden everything becomes more urgent. I was so scared. I thought it was skitsofrania ( i know this isn't how you spell it) or something. Feel much better now.

I am so glad to see other people get this!! I get it at night when I'm trying to fall asleep. Sometimes a scenario happens in my head too. Like once I was imagining a castle being built in my head and it was going faster and faster and I couldn't make it stop. It got to the point where I was hyperventilating a little. I found that deep breaths and getting into a warm shower make it go away faster.

I know the feeling! It doesn't happen that often, maybe once every few months. But when it does happen, it's when I'm just coming out of sleep, usually in the middle of the night or early morning hours.
I feel like I'm still half asleep and I start having these thoughts, almost like dreams, that are about nothing important. They're just random thoughts and images that are scrambled up and make no sense, but they feel so urgent. It feels like my mind is fighting against its own thoughts and it starts going faster and I can't stop it. It's such a frustrating feeling. It might only last around 5 minutes give or take, but I hate it.
Only a few times has it ever happened when I wasn't in bed, but even then it was just a few minutes after I had woken up and I'd be in the bathroom getting ready for the day. Usually it's when I have to wake up early and my mind is still sleepy.

27 year old male.
Been having similar episodes since as long as I can remember(but I wont say it's exactly the same). They are not frequent usually maybe once to three times a year. It doesn't feel like a panic/anxiety attack(which I don't think I've ever had) as I'm not really afraid, worried, or panicked. I am completely lucid whenever the "fits/episodes" or whatever else you want to call them when they happen. I feel like I've taken a mental adrenaline boost. Everything is moving at a 2 times speed while my body is moving at half speed. Noises seem to get louder and only slightly faster at like a 1.5 speed which throws me off because I feel like I'm playing 3 different speed settings at once.

Objects like my fingers feel elongated and very skinny to what I think they should feel like. Most everything I touch will either feel softer or rougher and always usually skinnier than what I know it's supposed to feel like.

It usually occurs either very early in the morning within the first 10 minutes of actively being awake. Or whenever I put alot of focus into a specific task (solving 1 specific difficult puzzle, drawing, fixation on a specific object, and once while playing an first person shooter for way to long).

The effects only seem to last generally 5-15 minutes. And always seem to go away whenever I stop trying to actively fixate on objects. Most of the time I turn on a video from YouTube or play an episode on netflix and it goes away without me even noticing.

Other affects: for some reason I feel like I can react much faster than I usually can "probably because of the different speeds" but I don't feel 100% confident to test the theory out for some reason. Like something in the back at my mind nags at me saying "don't try".

Also unlike an adrenaline rush I don't feel a fight or flight response, and I don't feel like I can lift a car over my head, or my breathing doesn't really quicken. So none of the symptoms really fit to say it's an adrenaline rush.

Idk maybe one day someone can tell me what it's called but I've looked for several years online and anyone I've ever asked about assumes I must be going crazy or be on drugs so I've stopped asking and openly telling people about it in public.

I have been experiencing this a lot lately, have you found out what it is?

I dont believe that this is AIWS. I'm 17 and the first time i remember getting it was last year but im pretty sure i used to get it at night when i was little. I get this "Fast Feeling" when im walking to my bus stop in the morning. It usually only lasts about 10 minutes and by the time im at school its gone. But this morning it lasted about 30 minutes and it was the first time ive talked to someone during one of these attacks. After it was over my friend (who i have told about this feeling) said that i was speaking really slow and monotone when i felt like i was talking normally. I always thought it was an anxiety thing but i guess not.

Hmm I don't think so. I grew up without a TV and I still got this bizarre feeling until now.