ALICE IN WONDERLAND SYNDROME
AWS is a rare neurological condition that can temporarily cause bodily, environmental, or/and time distortion. It can affect everyone differently. Lasting for minutes, or even hours at a time, a sufferer might feel smaller, or bigger than the environment around them. Or, they might feel as if everything around them is shifting around and feels bigger or smaller than reality. Time can also feel warped. These episodes are not the result of hallucinations or a visual impairment, it is a neurological effect that changes one perception of their own self and/or the area around them. Commonly happens at night. Also known as Todd’s Syndrome as it was identified by John Todd in the 1950s.
In this series, I focus on the size perception of one’s body and feeling small/shrunken (micropsia).
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