Seeing the World (and Writing It) with Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

Re:Seeing the World (and Writing It) with Alice in Wonderlan... by warent on Saturday March 09, 2019 @08:42PM (#19349693)

This is a cool article. I've definitely experienced similar things when I was younger, particularly during a fever, but grew out of it. Experiences included waking up and seeing my bed was elongated out hundreds of feet in front of me, or the sizes of my limbs were somewhat randomized, e.g. small arms and stretched, rubbery fingers.

But one thing about this article that bothers me is how it says "many have speculated that Lewis Carroll took some kind of mind-altering drug ... the truth is that he too suffered from the condition"

Is that actually proven true or are they speculating?

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Re:Seeing the World (and Writing It) with Alice in Wonderlan... by gnarcoregrizz on Saturday March 09, 2019 @08:49PM (#19349710)

> This is a cool article. I've definitely experienced similar things when I was younger, particularly during a fever, but grew out of it. Experiences included waking up and seeing my bed was elongated out hundreds of feet in front of me,

Hah, I had some similar experiences as a kid. In particular I imagined my bed was suddenly stretched into "outer space" and I was looking to earth through a tunnel or hole of some kind. Only happened a few times when I was <12 probably.

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