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At first I smiled at this, but then I realized that its not a joke. There is an actual sickness called Alice in wonderland syndrome where you see things out of proportion. Do you believe me? I saw it on some website. It looks very uncomfortable to have.

I remember chatting with my cousin-once-removed about Alice in wonderland and she said I probably have Alice in wonderland syndrome. Then I told her what it actually was. I dont know what she thought it meant. And I actually found that amusing. I remember hearing about the scientific word for the illness.

Does anyone know it? Going SLIGHTLY off-topic, they had this picture on the website and I thought it was cute. Heres the picture. Were you suprised when you found out about it? I know I was!

It's only a temporary thing caused by a disruption in the link towards the part of your brain that gauges proportion and your eyes. I sometimes get really minor effects after a particularly bad migrane and it does indeed make life very trippy for about 15 minutes or so. It's very VERY hard to do much without a propper sence of proportion and no depth perception to speak of, it becomes difficult to say...pick something up from a shelf because it's difficult to judge how far away something is, how big or small it is, how heavy it might be and various other things that usualy you would judge sub-conciously.

I had something along the lines of that when I was a child. Thankfully it wasn't a neurological disorder but only a weak muscle that killed my depth perception and proportions. I had it up until I was five, then I got the surgeries to fix it. But now I'm just blind as a bat, so I hope to get that problem fixed soon. Anyway having the weak eye muscles really messed me up. It was so freaky when I saw things normally. The worst part of that whole ordeal had to be going up and down stairs.

Huh, that would be interesting indead to be able to have a dream like that. My boyfriend had something similar to this disorder in a dream however it was through manipulation of physics thus creating an ACTUAL variation between regular perception and actual porportion, weight, or distance. I was incredibly jelouse needless to say, disruptions from reality are so much fun, ummm momentarily as this disorder would cripple my career as a cosmetologist

i have this
it freaks me out and enables me to read a book for time to time
and it give me a headache and makes me angry crying

I actually read that it's not as bad as it seems and is actually the name for a phenomenon that most people experience at some point. It's not so much a full-blown illness, sort of like vertigo. It happens to me a lot when I look at my hands and feet and weirdly enough merry-go-rounds and my little sister. My hands and feet look humongous and I actually tripped once, because I was staring at my humongous feet. I also sometimes have to put my pencil down when I am writing and my hands look much bigger than the pencil.