Woah....a neighbour of mine has been diagnosed with.....(no not swine flu).....Alice in Wonderland Sydrome. I was like WTF?!?! Apparently Lewis Carroll suffered the same thing which helped him write his book.
"Eye components are entirely normal. The AIW syndrome is a result of change in perception as opposed to the eyes themselves malfunctioning. The hallmark sign of AIWS is a migraine, and may in part be caused by the symptom itself. Using psychoactive drugs (notably dextromethorphan[citation needed]) may also produce micropsia. AIWS affects the sufferer's sense of visual, sensation, touch, hearing as well as one's own body image.
The most prominent and often most disturbing symptom is that of altered body image: the sufferer will find that they are confused as to the size and shape of parts of (or all of) their body.
The eyes themselves are normal, but the sufferer 'sees' objects with the wrong size or shape and/or finds that perspective is incorrect. This can mean that people, cars, buildings, etc. look smaller or larger than they should be, or that distances look incorrect; for example a corridor may appear to be very long, or the ground may appear too close.
In addition, some people may experience more intense and overt hallucinations, seeing things that are not there and misinterpreting events and situations in conjuction with a high fever."
Wow this sounds awesome(yet very...tragic...yes, tragic). To think I was talking to someone who thought I was miles away lol. This was possibly the most awesome discovery so far this week.
WOW! scary!--yet cool in a way. I wonder if the huge alice in the house thing was a reference to this....
ReplyDeleteCarrol is one of my favs!! :)
One of my characters has mild 'Charles Bonnet Syndrome' in which you rapidly lose vidion, but not large amounts of it-One of the side effects is hallucinations. Some people don't realize it was a hallucination because the eye can go back to normal immediately after the warp. No writer connection that I know of, but still kewl! :)