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1. I began experiencing the alice in wonderland syndrome when I was 8 years old, at that time it was very scary for me and hard to descirbe to the doctors what i was experiencing and doctor after doctor had no explanation of these occurances. It always happened when i was laying in bed trying to fall asleep, and dark in the room, even when i closed my eyes, i felt like my eyelids were so close and humungous to me. We finally visited a prestigous childerens hospital, where a doctor told my mother that i has alice in wonderland syndrome and associated it with migraines also stating that i would grow out of it. Now I am 21 and still deal with the experience maybe 1 time every 2-4 months, only lasting about 30-45 min. I am older now so it is easier for me to deal with, without freaking out… It happened to me 2 nights ago and I began to realize maybe the reason why this was happening and what i could do to make it stop. I know i was thinking about a million different things in my head, laying in bed trying to fall asleep in my dark room, stressing about money, bills, errands that needed to be done, work, then being excited about my paycheck, and a weekend trip, but the thoughts were absolutley racing through my head. I have been told i think too much and i know that i do..i think it is these type of people that are having the problems, especially as a child when your mind and thinking capabilities in that sense are in the early developmental stage. I felt like my mind was working so fast, then i felt like maybe blood was rushing to my head. I was so tired minutes before that now i felt completely awake, i opened my eyes and realized i was having the occurance, i felt my pulse- which would start racing everytime i looked at something and it appeared so close and big to me. I closed my eyes again and started taking some deep breaths, trying to slow it down, counting to myself. It eventually went away. But i believe that the intense mind set, and how hard my mind is working is triggering something in the brain-almost like some type drug or hallucinagin would do to effect the sensorys of the eyes and sight. This is the conclusion i came to and I’m nothing near to the title of a doctor. Doctors dont have much information about this syndrome, it seems to me, because they dont have the chance to do tests or conducts studies while the child is actually experiencing the occurance, and they really have no way of doing that because it is completely random, never knowing when it’s going to strike. The only way doctors will be able to know more about it is hopefully from people like me who are adults and able to understand it better and explain what is happening to them….I just wanted to give my input!!!

   Comment by Tiffany Johanneson — October 18, 2005 @ 9:40 am

2. my name is justin lee and i have had this all my life only it has never scared me. in fact i have always been able to control it, making it come and go as i please. until just now i never new it was a condition or a problem for anyone else. its almost like being in a movie and having the camera pan out and move away only as the camera gets further away everything gets biger not smaller. i always found it funny that i could make ma top bunk, at night, seem 10 or 20 feet away or more instead of 3 or 4 like it actually is.

   Comment by justin lee — November 22, 2005 @ 7:11 am

3. It sounds very scary to me, especially if you experience it as a small child.

   Comment by spacebar — November 22, 2005 @ 10:58 am

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