Everything moving fast and Hallucinations

[Debbie71]

Hi everyone,
Im hoping someone can help me here.   I have  a 10 year old son that is having episodes where everything is moving very very quickly, for example, if I move my arm he says I did it so fast when I moved it very slowly.  This happens to him alot in school while the teacher is teaching or when he is lying in bed trying to get to sleep. These episodes last on an average from few seconds to 10 minutes.  He is aware of what is going on and remembers what happens.
What really concerns me is that when this is happening he sometimes hears a man screaming in his head.  The man does not say anything to him, he only screams.  This has been going on for about a month now.   I am in the process of making an appointment to a neurologist.  
If anyone has any idea what this may be or have had these same experiences I would love to hear from you.
Thank you so much for your help!

Debbie

[PaulMD]

Hi there.

By the way you describe the symptoms of your child, it seems to me that there can be an underlying psychologic or psychiatric conditions.  One of the hallmark of these kinds of condition is some misperception or substitution of reality (screaming inside the head, perception of slow as something very fast, etc).  I suggest that you have him evaluated by a child psychologist or psychiatrist for him to be thoroughly evaluated.  I hope you all get to the bottom of this soon.  Regards and God bless.

[Debbie71]

Thank you for your suggestions.  I am also going that route also.   Im also wondering if maybe something going on with the temporal lobe which may also cause for the hallucinations.  Im hoping an MRI can give me some answers.  Its very scary to think my son has to go through something like this, exspecially in school when he is trying to learn something and he has to deal with something like this.

Thank you.

[Brigitte1995]

I know what your going through. My son is 12 years old and is having the exact same episodes of everything moving very quickly. It originally started when he had a high fever, but now happens on occasion when he doesn't have a fever. Although he doesn't hear anyone screaming, along with the quick movements he feels very nauseated and has a strong feeling that things are alive (eg.. while looking at the trees he felt they were alive). My son also diagnosed with an anxiety (panic) disorder when he was only 7 years old, experiencing unrealistic worries with many strange symptom his psychiatrist felt he would grow out of. Although this worries have improved as he got older, he still at times has worries. These problems with my son are primarily happening at night, when he goes to bed.
I would like to know if you have anymore information you can share to help me with my son? I too am taking my son to the doctor and if I get any useful info I will pass that along to you. Try relaxation tapes and have him so relaxation exercises.
I feel for what you & your son are going through.as I know how distressing this is.

[cabezadetele]

hello debbie, i am a 27 yar old guy from sweden, i just want to tell you not to worry and you are not alone in this,i had similar episodes from i was 7 until i was 20,

i remember the first time, i was watching tv with my parents when suddenly everything went really really fast, my parents moved so fast and i got scared , i remember the voices were slower than usual but what i saw was maybe 4 times faster than normal, i later figured out what made them happen and how to prevent them.

this is what brought the episodes on.

first off i always got them when trying to fall asleep, you know when you feel like you fell a few inches down on your bed? that triggered most of my episodes. something to do with falling in to REM sleep,

secondly dont let him fall asleep in front of the tv ,i figured out it has to do with the frequency of the tv, old tv's flicker at 50 to 60Hz that is no good for us  i remember a sensation of falling toward the screen, like zooming in to it, that triggered it a lot of times, use a lcd tv that flickers at a rate of 85 to preferably 100Hz like a pc monitor or such, that will prevent the tv incidents i promise

thirdly when really really bored like trying to read a book for school but not wanting to do it, i remember staring at the page feeling like falling towards it just like the tv,

another thing is watch him a few times when falling asleep i later found out i had sleeping apnea,
its when you stop breathing when you sleep there are 2 types of apnea hypopnea from beeing overwheight of short jawed, and neuropnea where your brain does not send the signal, there are treatments for this i use a CPAP machine it blows air into my nostrils and expands the airways in to your lungs i find it also helps for falling asleep faster :D so no episodes so far.

do not take him to the shrink it will just make things worse
there is not many ways they can help you and the kid will just feel
alienated, dont overprotect the kid tell him to be strong and brave and that it ALWAYS PASSES
he may have trouble sleeping because of fear having episodes, which in turn makes him stay up longer and get more tired and more susceptible to them

i remember seeing and hearing things when it happened and once i even did a 360 flip by walking on the wall, my mother thought i was possessed hahaha. i just thought well if i can see faster maybe i can do stuff faster too.. hahaha it worked, perfectly i sometimes miss the damn things and i feel that they had some higher purpose to them...

anyway tell your kid not to be scared THEY ALWAYS PASS just talk to him, tell him youre there, hold him and caress his head really really slow.... tell him to just try and sleep....

also, for you debbie,don be scared you are not alone
do write if you feel like it, i always wanted to know if there was more like me out there...

i personally believe i was a indigo child, and that your child might be aswell

look up indigo children on wikipedia. and see if it sticks...
it did on me hehehe...

just dont think of it as a curse, i know i don't although the experience was very scary
i think it made me more open minded...

i hope you and your family and especially your child all the blessings in the world

:D felix brito olivares

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