unusual 'fast feeling' in my head

I am 16 and i have been getting these what i call "speeds" for a few year and this is the third one this week so i finally looked it up. Its nice to know im not alone. It usually occurs near or during my period but not always,lasting about 5 minutes. My mom has noticed while i speed my eyes are dilated huge. I also feel like im inside myself watching from the inside talking to myself. Something that i experience that i have also not seen anyone else question is this feeling or something squishy in my mouth like a clay forming tray a dentist would use to mold your teeth and as i text, my phone feels squishy and kinda like my thumbs can indent it. I am curious to know why this started and what i can do about it. I hope others can find my message helpful

I feel the exact same way. I’d say it happens at least once a week. I feel like it helps when I listen to slow music, and just try to get my mind on something else, then it’ll go away a couple minutes later. But I also feel like I have these weird voices in my head. Now I’m used to it because it has happened many times now.

This happens to me when I feel sick or when I’m super sleepy. I happened all the time when I was 5 or 6 now it only happens rarely

I found this thread years and years ago and was comforted that others had the same thing and i've just rediscovered it. When I was a kid, this exact phenomenon would happen a lot, my mother actually told me that she experienced the same thing up until her mid 20's and knew exactly what I was talking about. My parents had me taken to a neurologist where they checked my brain while I was sleep deprived, from what I remember they were mostly checking for epilepsy as my uncle had it, they didn't believe it was epilepsy but they did say I had some unusual brainwaves during the test but it seemed all fine. When I was younger it was much more physical, which I have read other posts also say, my hands and fingers felt tiny etc, this lead me into doing a lot of research on alice in wonderland syndrome when i was an early teenager but I remember concluding that it didn't really fit that well, as the 'fast' feeling was the primary symptom, and although the studies on AIWS do mention time distortion as part of it, they never specifically talk about the fast feeling, which is obviously the stand out for all of us.

It kept happening but less frequently as I got older but the distortions other than the 'fast feeling' basically stopped occurring. During uni I noted that it happened a lot during exams, I struggle to think clearly during it, so I had to put my head down to force it to stop before I continued with the exam. I always assumed based on this it was due to anxiety. However since uni, i've only gotten it a couple of times a year and it didn't seem to correspond to times of high stress or anxiety at all.

Just recently i've had to swap my sleeping pattern over to do a block of night shifts at work, my sleep pattern still isn't properly adjusted and i've been pretty tired during my nights off, in the last 2 days it's happened twice, the most often it's occurred in a long time (im 25 now). I can probably conclude that it's at least somewhat triggered by lack of sleep, this would probably fit the university days exam times as well due to long nights of cramming and potentially why doctors did notice something odd during sleep deprivation test. I am interested if it will continue to occur at this frequency during the rest of my night shifts, I will keep you guys updated.

I'm 24 and used to have them when I was younger but I just had one and it's one of the worst, what I used to call "fast spells", that I can remember having. It seemed to last quite a long time but only lasted 5-10min I'm not sure what this actually this is but I'm happy that I'm not alone.

I had this happen when I was in elementary school. I hadn't thought about it in years, but a stressful day triggered the memory so I googled it. Initially it was scary or annoying when I was trying to concentrate. It seemed like a kind of self hypnosis that I could stop at will. After that it was kind of entertaining. I called it "speeding". It quit when I got older. I have not experienced it since.

I am 15 and also get the feeling it happens frequently and i’m actually worried of what it may be

Hi I am a teenager, and recently asked my psychiatrist about this as I get this frequently. He said it was linked to anxiety but it does not seem to add up with when it occurs. If anyone figures it out please contact me.

Yes! I almost enjoy it as well... This thing happens to me too. Everything gets very fast and loud and sometimes it lasts for a long time, sometimes just a few minutes. But all I have to do is think about it after it happens and then it's back. I am 14 and it's still happening, but it happened a lot when I was more around 8-12.

I get the same thing freaks me out having it right now why i looked it up

I did experience this when I was younger the last time I experienced it was when I was 28th but now I have seizures but when I experienced it it happened when I heard a certain sound I would feel like things would intensify as far as fast motion as far as everything my hand my walking sounds but when I explained it to people they weren't acknowledging what I was experiencing so I knew it had to be all in my head some people would look at me like I was being strange or weird because they didn't understand what I was telling them my siblings would tell me I was just being weird I was the last of 20 kids I did experience when I was almost to we were going to Mexico to visit my grandmother and we had stopped and we were pulling a trailer behind the station wagon there was a window in the far back of the station wagon it was rolled down as soon as my dad went to pull off I stood up at the same time and went out the window I was ran over by the trailer we were pulling luckily I wasn't mangled I got a bump in the back of the head it's split my head open I still have the scar we never went to the emergency room they just cleaned it and wrap my head up in the sheet and we kept going to Mexico to bring my grandmother clothes rice and beans and other Foods that was the only head trauma I had other than when I started having seizures I fell down and hit the back of my head around the same spot that I have the scar from falling out of the back of the station wagon I guess the trailer hit my head pretty hard don't really know what hit the back of the my head but I guess I did experience the Todd syndrome it sucks but I went through many years not knowing what it was just here recently found out what it was I carry that around with me for a long time when I turn 34 I started to experience seizures don't know what happened or how I did it but it really sucks because I keep losing jobs because of the seizures they've told me to not mention it because medical is confidential but I can't drive and it feels unsafe for me not to let them know that I have seizures but I have been let go I guess I'm a liability I have applied for Social Security disability I don't know if this has anything directly related to the Alice in Wonderland syndrome or Todd syndrome or if it all extends down from when I was a child or a baby when I was ran over thank you for reading this

I had this from the time I was about 12-13 until my early 50s. I haven’t experienced it in years- I am now 64. It was not unpleasant and did not last long. I felt I was talking fast or my thoughts were fast, and as though time was speeding though people weren’t talking fast. It was just me. I would not talk around people when it occurred for fear that I would talkbsuper fast. Li was afraid that I might move too fast or jerkily, so I usually was still. I felt somewhat disconnected from what was around me. I kind of miss it.

I'm so glad I found this thread. I thought I was literally going insane sometimes but it's incredibly reassuring to find that I'm not alone. I'm in the same boat as most of you. Happened a lot growing up as a kid called it the "fast thing". I could make it go away by finding someplace quiet and almost meditating. But everything around me felt like it was going fast and amplified. Almost like a super power haha, but incredibly unpleasant. I could feel, hear everything and my limbs felt weighed down. Now I'm almost 24 and I get it once a year maybe. I find that it's more likely to trigger now either after or during being sick as I'm older. As I've had it maybe 3 times in the past 5 years and it was always around me being sick. All the syndromes people are throwing out don't really explain it but the descriptions people describe the fast thing are spot on. Happy to not be alone but I want to know what this is and based on this thread i don't see that happening since the episodes are random and only a few minutes for all of us and neurologists won't know what to look for. If anyone every figures it out let us know.

I get a mettallic taste in my mouth while all this is happening does anyone else get a metallic taste in the mouth while this is happening

Oh my god! I’m so glad to find out this happens to other people. I told my parents about it when I was younger, but they thought I was making it up. It used to happen a lot when I was sick, but now it just happens randomly, and I have difficulty breathing. It also happens less frequently now, and when it happens, it’s for a short time. It’s like everything is just rushing at an abnormal speed and even when I think it sounds like I’m speaking at a weird speed. No one else that I know personally has this, and it makes me feel better to know I’m not the only one!!!