My brains has these fast motion periods where everything around me is going in fast motion what is it?

[Aims215]

I'm 14 years old and I have these periods where my brain starts to race and it feels like everything is going in fast motion. When I talk, somebody is talking, music is playing or when I walk it feels like everything is going in fast motion like everything is being extremely rushed.It happens at least once every 2 weeks but i've had it twice this week . This only happened to me about 2 times in the past year but also I get these patterns of noises in my head when I'm lying in bed and it keeps me from sleeping.I just wanted to know what it was because I honestly am scared and my mother laughs at me when i try to tell her that something is wrong and it frustrates me

[ConcernMom22]

My son has this too, he has and AVM (Artero Venous Malfornation) in the brain.

[specialmom]

How old is he? How is he doing?  Probably pretty stressful on a mom!

[ConcernMom22]

He is 18, had the fast feeling episodes since he was little, we find out he has an AVM in his brain when he was 16 after an aneurysm burst in his brain. I always wonder if I paid more attention and went to a doctor to see why he had those fast feelings episodes, well, maybe I would know earlier and prevent the bleeding (twice). The bleedings were just like strokes, paralysis of half of his body, loss of abilities and off course life threatening. After lots of rehab my son is almost back to 100%, so we were lucky. He had radiation to reduce AVM, seems to be working, crossing our fingers that will be gone for good. My theory is that the strong pressure of blood coming into the AVM has no chance to slow down because of lack of capillar veins and that provokes the rush in the brain. Who knows. Doctor have no answers.

[ConcernMom22]

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/brain-avm/multimedia/avm-blood-flow/img-20006462

[annaduffey]

This used to happen to me all the time as a kid. I would almost subconsciously feel or see or hear textures and sounds and my mind felt like everything was going 1000mph even though everything was moving at normal speed, including myself. The things I would see/hear/feel would be the same every time too, it was almost like a reoccurring nightmare. It was like my inner monologue was yelling and felt big. I used to chalk it up to an overactive imagination when I was younger and then suddenly it went away but today (I am almost 22 now) I felt it again at work. I was walking back to my office from the bathroom and suddenly I was back in that same place that I was as a child. It felt like sensory overload, but only in my head. Nothing actually sounded amplified, but the movements of my body, the voice in my head, it all just felt big and fast and panicked. Like the feeling you have during an adrenaline rush, but without the adrenaline. I was not shaking, I was not sweating, my heart was not racing. My vision felt a little "tunnel-y" - not exactly seeing tracers and not exactly blurry, just felt off. Like the room was spinning, but not moving at all. I also found the Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, but I know its not that because I am not actually seeing things shrink/grow/change. Its all something I feel inside. It very easily could be a panic attack, but I did not physically feel panicked, like I said before, no shaking, no sweating, no increased heart rate. All the thoughts in my head and the things around me just felt BIG, like it was closing in on me. I haven't experienced this in years. It's been about 20 minutes and I am feeling better after reading through this forum and seeing other people explain what I have felt for so long and NEVER ever spoke about because I thought I was just an extraordinary kid with an overactive imagination.

[Hrkorson]

I’m so late but I have this too and just now found out it’s a variation of Alice and Wonderland Syndrome! Mine is mostly a visual perception change with time and sound distortion - everything is moving fast and ordinary sounds and much, much louder. This info is listed with the symptoms for AWS!

[qwertyuioplkjhgfdsazxcvbnm]

I have no idea what it is or what causes it, but this is how I cure it. I'm 17 and have had flashes since I was 10. I put on headphones and turn on Let it go on youtube. I think any music video would help as long as you know it really well and it has both slower and faster parts. like when I started the video, Elsa was singing sooo fast but by the time it's over as I type this everything is back to normal speed.

[SillaV]

I am 20 years old and just had this experience this morning when I woke up. I went to go wash my face and brush my teeth and as I was doing so it felt like the toothbrush was going too fast and when I washed my face I was rushing in 2x speed, making me have to literally wash my face in slow motion to try to bring the speed back to normal. Its never happened to me before so thats why I just found this question now, searching for answers of my own. I almost threw myself into a full fledge panic attack as I felt like all the words in my head were going at an absurd speed, but then I laid down for 2 minutes and it completely vanished and everything is back to normal. One thing I can note is that before the fast motion part happened, I woke up feeling like I was in a fever dream if that makes sense...I hope this never happens again.

[Shelmo88]

Yes I felt this same way! It is hard to find answers online! Hard to describe too. All I could find was about racing thoughts but this isnt that. The world seems to be speeding by, the fan is spinning faster, noises are faster, it feels like my body is moving faster but I recorded myself during it and I am talking very slow....so weird! I had them as a teenager almost daily in the evenings but they stopped for over 10 years. Now after my husband passed away they have started again.  Maybe only once a month tho so that's good. I am thinking stress...