unusual 'fast feeling' in my head

For me it was as though time almost stood still and yes, very quiet. Anything moving around me was going super slow while any movement I made was super fast. Started happening when I was around 10 and happens every 5 years or so.. would love to know what exactly is this.

I used to get it to, but now rarely. I still wonder if this type of thing has a name.

I remember having these episodes when I was younger. I actually just had o e which prompted this search. I checked my heart rate, it was normal, and pupils were very small even though I wasnt in a well lit room. I never feel threatened by the condition and can normally continue may current task.

Hey everyone !

So these experiences that everyone is discussing I have had them too when I was younger and now my 12 year old son is having them , it started for him I believe around 7 or 8 years old ! It is strange that they seem to be linked to a dream ! I had a dream when I was younger ! The dream is not extremely clear but it is intense ! It leaves you feeling with an intense feeling . It’s hard to explain ! Mine was about a very fast rushing waterfall . While this waterfall is rushing I hear a voice , I remember it sounding like a mans voice yelling for help ! It was so long ago like I was maybe 10 or 11 when I had this and I’m 31 years old now .

Then the feeling started happening to me in real life ! Everything would start going fast , I would be sitting in class and it was like the teacher was talking a million miles an hour and then I would hear the rushing water . The fast waterfall while I was awake . I don’t know if I thought of the dream first and it brought on these feelings or if I had the feelings first and then thought of the dream

Continued .... I never did tell my parents about it ! Now my son who is 12 years old is having similar experiences . It started on a trip to BC when we were driving and he was napping in the car at the age of about 7 years old I believe . He said he had this intense dream with very large boulders or rocks moving really fast . He woke up disoriented , feeling heavy and like everything was still moving fast and he was crying . Then as the years went by he kept experiencing these feelings asleep as well as awake in the middle of the day or sometimes right before bed . He feels like parts of his body are bigger , the fast racing of everything , sounds are more pronounced as well as touch . Rubbing his back was too overwhelming for him ! He also experiences where things appeared to be a lot farther than they were !

I brought him to the doctors . We did blood work , EEG on his head ( rule out simple seizure) , also saw a psychologist and got his teacher to do a Attention deficit disorder assessment but everything came back normal !

What could this be ? I’m not sure ? Panic attack ? Psychological . I looked into the simple seizures but I don’t think that’s it . I have read about this Alice in wonderland syndrome but what causes that !? Could it be spiritual ? It is possible . I do believe in God, I do believe our dreams have meanings but I don’t know I’m stunned . I am praying for him and going to try some techniques used during panic attacks with him ! I suffer from anxiety myself but I have not had experiences like these since I was 20 . Could it be hormonal / metabolic ?? Maybe . I find it very interesting this many people have experienced this

Yes it is so strange !!! I feel bad for my son because a lot of people don’t understand it and sometimes think he is faking it ! However being someone who has experienced it myself I really highly doubt he is faking it and if you see him in one of the episodes you would not think he is faking it. Something is going on

I am still very young and I get them up to twice a month. I have been wondering what they were for a long time. I feel like I myself am going very fast but I still proses that I am going a normal speed. Everything around me is going fast as well. It happed to me in school before and it was hard to concentrate. I would still like to know what causes it.

Haha it just happend to me, i have to move really slow and then it feels like I'm at a normal speed, puting hands and feet in water seems to make it go aswell

My son and I get this too .. everything is fast yet slow and weird ... I have no idea what it is .. but def other people have the same experiences

I have experienced the same feeling! It was more frequent as a teenager, now less frequent, maybe every few months. I got it again the other night and it reminded me; “oh yeah, that feeling again.”
It’s so hard to describe but I’ll try my best. It feels like my head is spinning really fast. It feels like the inner voice in my head is talking so fast, like listening to audio on fast forward. It feels like every sense and sensation around me is amplified and exaggerated. It’s like my brain or subconscious is on overdrive and I can’t control it. The other night when it came back again, I was lying in bed just before going to sleep. All I could do was massage my head and take deep and controlled breaths. One thing I noticed is that it doesn’t go anyway in a second like a light switch. I can feel that it slowly descends away over the course of say a minute and your mind slowly starts going back to normal speed, the sound slowly goes back to normal and ten everything is fine. It used to bother me a lot when I was a teenager but I don’t get it often as an adult. I have been very busy and stressed at work lately so maybe it has something to do with the stresses in everyday life but I’m still baffled as to what it could be.

I have this feeling now. My head feels funny and everything is speeding up and my own voice in my head is yelling or shouting when im reading something and i swear things are louder its weird?

I constantly experienced the “Fast Feeling” growing up as child and continued well I to my adulthood. They would usually occur during the night time while I was in bed. I’m 57 now and I recall don’t the last time I experienced the sensation.

I love the internet! Without it I would have thought I was really special for having had the "fast feeling" episodes. Looks like it's quite common. I am 50 now, but I still remember them vividly, they started when I was around 8 and like many others on here, everything appeared different, amplified, faster somehow. My own thoughts seemed to be very loud, almost shouting in my head. I felt an intensity to everything. They never lasted very long but they were so strange.
I remember, years later when I saw lord of the rings when Frodo puts on the ring it reminded me a bit of the feeling.
Reflecting back, for me at least, it seemed to be triggered by over-thinking when I was on my own. It never really happened when i was interacting with other people or when distracted e.g. playing sport.
Over the years they happened less frequently and then more or less stopped in my 20s. My own view is that they are part of how some people's brains develop and once the brain is fully formed they usually stop.

As with everyone else, I get this fast feeling, this artificial acceleration, this sort of fevered sensation where perception skips several beats, like stop motion, so that if you turn your head, your vision doesn't follow a smooth arc, but jumps erratically. My perception feels split into three. There is the normal me who knows it's an illusion, there is the panicked me, which is experiencing the acceleration, and then there is a third element which isn't 'me'. it is like a presence, behind me, and it repeats everything I think or say, in a lazy malevolent mocking tone. I always described it to myself as a devilish presence. as with other accounts, it happens less with age, but I am 33 now and it still happens, and has even gotten a bit more frequent of late. I've never had the experience of being bigger or smaller or of objects being bigger or smaller. I remember a particularly trippy fever when I was little though, with pronounced claustrophobia - walls moving towards me and chasing me as I moved around the house. the fact that the majority of people writing here don't seem to have this telescope effect either would appear to invalidate the Alice in wonderland syndrome hypothesis, even if that's a rather alluring diagnosis.
my brother contracted epilepsy around the same time as this started happening to me. I also have a paranoid schizophrenic epileptic uncle. both my brother and I are bright in an above average sense, as was my uncle before his life deteriorated due to mental illness.
it literally just happened to me, and I probably haven't eaten enough today, and the trigger was going on to my balcony and smoking a cigarette. the last time it happened, I was smoking on my balcony too. the occasional mentioning of hypoglycaemia does seem relevant. I feel as though shifts in light levels might also have something to do with it.
the first time it ever happened to me I was playing on my electronic keyboard as a child. I had been sat there playing it for ages. excessive concentration does seem to bring it about. and like others have mentioned, it only ever happens when I'm alone.
I found it odd also, it took me until into my mid twenties to remember to talk to a doctor about it. and they suggested it was a mild fugue state.
I think it would be interesting to conduct a survey of affected individuals and see if there are any commonalities in the lifestyles. I grew into someone who is very interested in psychic and psychedelic states with a mystical streak.