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Makes you wonder how many fantasy creations from fiction originated not from the author’s imagination but from their actual sensory experiences.
by cainxinth 3y ago
Makes you wonder how many fantasy creations from fiction originated not from the author’s imagination but from their actual sensory experiences.
- 0xcafefood 3y agoThis is famously true for Lewis Carroll.
- refulgentis 3y agoNot so famously, I'm afraid, I'd love to hear more. I did put in a honest effort: 35, fairly well read, and I spent some time Googling. Can't find anything other than a syndrome called "Alice in Wonderland syndrome" where sizes are perceived incorrectly in e.g. epileptics before a seizure.
- _nalply 3y agoWhen I was younger I had some episodes where I started to perceive distortions in distance and size. I perceived big things like houses suddenly as very little, like toys, and I felt I could grab then in my hand. Or I perceived little things suddenly as very large and far away. A toy soldier for example could grow to be the size of Statue of Liberty as if watched from the Battery Park. I found these distortions very fascinating. I didn't have episodes for more than twenty years. Last week however my older son told me about it and I told him, me too!
- rrr_oh_man 3y agoSame here. It’s common in children.
- GolfPopper 3y agoHuh. I had this as a child as well. Stopped well before I turned twenty. I can still vividly remember a doorknob seeming immense and then a tiny knob in the middle of a vast stretch of door. Thank you for sharing!
- sebtron 3y agoI have recently read that surrealist painter Giorgio De Chirico might have been suffering from Alice in Wonderland syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico