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This is famously true for Lewis Carroll.
by 0xcafefood 3y ago
This 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