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

[boxy_lipton]

I've been dealing with this for years - I'm 36 and these episodes started when I was maybe 10.  My parents tried very half-assedly to figure out the issue, but most likely just wrote it off as puberty related after taking me to a specialist once (they gave me an EKG which showed nothing unusual since I wasn't actively having symptoms).  I've just dealt with the episodes as they've been pretty sporadic.  I usually chalked them up to stress, which actually makes sense since they almost always happen when I can't fall asleep right away and I just lie there in the dark.  I've actually been able to make them happen by sitting very still for too long.

They always happen the same way - suddenly, but also gradually, my jaw begins to feel too big and I am aware of all of my teeth.  Then the rest of my limbs/bones, starting with my fingers, start to feel huge.  Then a whirring repeating noise starts in my brain which builds in intensity until the episode ends.  Then everything speeds up.  I speed up and make way too much noise when I move (its also usually at night, so I feel doubly loud).

I've asked the people I'm with if I'm moving too fast or being loud.  They always say no.

When I was a kid the remedy was often warm milk or chamomile tea - you know, something to calm me down.  I don't really know how effective that was, but as at least one other person here said, the absolute best way to make it stop is to watch a video.  Music probably works too, but the combination of sound and image moving at a predetermined speed seems to reset my brain.

My told me it was a panic attack, and for years I believed her.  It made a certain amount of sense and it was an answer, at least.  I had no idea there were this many people who are experiencing the same thing, and I had no idea it had a name.  AIWS isn't a perfect fit, but few diagnoses ever are.  I don't know what I'll do with this information, but it makes me feel better knowing it.

Thanks everyone.

[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...

[jhene123]

I started having those same episodes at the age of 6 maybe younger and I would have them up to 4 times a day, I'm not sure how long they use to last but it felt like forever. it would start early in the morning I would just lay there and after I always felt sick.  It stopped for awhile and I would have them once in awhile now its starting to come back more frequently and I'm 20 now this has nothing to do with caffeine. And I've always tried to explain it and people always looked at me crazy even my doctor.

[Nrlj123]

Im 14 years old too.  The exact same thing happens to me. It happened a couple of hours ago. I suppose you're not 14 anymore but im so happy that im not the only person that gets this scary feeling.

[bip1manic]

When I was 17 I started experiencing something similar to what you describe. It might by mania because of bipolar disorder. Are you also suffering from depression?

[SophiaLizard]

I get these too. In mine, there is always the same thing: a person, I don't know who, talking the same things in my mind. Laughing at the exact moment it always does. I don't know why I get these. They are so horrible. I've never told anyone about them. I wish I could know what this was.

[raushanfab]

Even i feel the same,  its happens 4-5 times a year,   it's like everything around me is moving so fast... Something unusual, i hear loud sounds, thile ticking sound of the clock in the other room also appears to be loud to me.... I don't understand what is it... Anyone else?

[Leah_bumblebee]

Has anyone found any answers about this, any long-term healing? It seems like a lot of very young people are suffering from something that doesn’t even have a name

[gracenotar]

the closest thing i could find is something called Alice in Wonderland syndrome, also known as Todd's syndrome. There's no definite answers to anything, though. One consistent detail i have noticed is that this started when people were young. then in went away, and it came back again later on in life. Weird

[MadiLucas]

My boyfriend has been having problems with "everything is going fast" hes had it since he was a kid. Ive been with him for 4 years and ive seen him go through this a handful of times. This last year its been getting worse. I think its linked with his night terrors he has. I dont know what i can do to help. I talk slower and am patient with him but i think his mind is spiralling. He says his mind feels like someone is shaking it, he said he feels that in his ears and eyes too. I feel like he could hurt himself because of it. I sometimes feel helpless  i looked up Alice in Wonderland Syndrome  and its not like that, he doesnt see different sizes its just sped up, is there anything I can help with  I want to be there to help him i want him to be okay

[Paxiled]

I'm not sure how many people are still looking at this old thread, starting a new one can be more helpful to you, but I saw it.  Has he ever sought treatment for this?  Ever seen a doctor?  Ever seen a therapist or anyone who might be able to see if there's something going on?  This could be a manifestation of an anxiety attack.  I'm also wondering, if you're both old enough to be boyfriend and girlfriend for 4 years, I'm assuming you're not super young, right?  I mean, I have to assume you're not kids, so you might want to explain what you mean by "night terrors."  This is usually associated with childhood nightmares.  If they're continuing into adulthood, again, what kind of treatment has he had for it?  I have no idea what anyone on this long thread is going through, but it's really hard to treat anything without a professional diagnosis if one is to be had.

[helpfullhand111]

I am 34 and had this same issue when I was much younger.  I don't remember the exact ages but it was probably 11-14.  Personally I don't think it's an anxiety attack or a panic attack. It does not need medication.  Things sped up to the point where when it first happened I said to my mom why are you talking so fast.  It was as though she was talking 4 times the normal speed.  It would also happen at extremely random times.  There was no trigger.  I found that when it starts breathing slowly, thinking a sentence in your head slowly, moving your body slowly, if there is music playing either find a channel without words that is slower paced or just turn it off.  If someone is talking to you just say give me a minute I need to respond to someone via your phone or make up something that stops the conversation.  Maybe say "something popped into my head and you lost it.  Give me a minute to remember what I was going to say."  I also suffered from something that many have experienced a few times in their lives. I have suffered from it from a young age to now.  It's call sleep paralysis. Most that experience it suffer from it between 14-20.  It's something that most who experience it only deal with it a few times. I however have dealt with it for probably 20 years.  Early years were more regular and now it's few and far between.  I am not going to explain what the dreams of sleep paralysis consists of you can look it up yourself.  I will say when I experience it now a days it's not scary at all.  I realized that my extremely lucid dreams are just that.  If I have a sleep paralysis attack I just go with it and know whatever happens it's just part of it and its not real.  I am not sure if they go together just my experience.

[AshleyS672]

I am 12 and I have been expirencing this since I was little

[fatherhgrace]

i always used to have this when i was about 6 or 7. Then it stopped but in the past few weeks, its been coming up again, and im 14 now. My air conditioner was on and it felt like it was going to fast for my brain to handle. so i put on some music to come myself down, but that too felt way too fast. And i purposely put on a song i know by heart and love so it'll feel calming. I know the song so well and it too definetly felt like it was going way too fast. This thread started in 2008 and since then still, nobody has found a reason. Well, i hope everyone gets over this and a tip that helps me is count back from 10 very slowly and breath deep.

[Anjunagasm]

I’m glad I’m not the only person feeling like this. I’m 25 years old and it just happened to me in December of last year. I was washing dishes after a long and medium day at work (I worked at a Japanese restaurant in the kitchen at the time) and all of the sudden I had this horrible splitting headache in the back of my head, almost like someone lit a firecracker and cut a hole in my occipital lobe and stuck it in. Then about 15 mins later i was walking down the street and I had these weird out of body flashes like i was staring at myself from the corner of the street, and then ever since then I have these episodes where everything looks like it’s in time lapse video format. Things don’t look like they adhere to the laws of physics and I get these strange feelings like I’ve got syrup or something flowing through my veins. I feel weak and scared and everything starts moving super fast. Colors look super bright almost like someone loaded a photo up into photoshop and turned the saturation all the way up. Sometimes when I close my eyes it’s like the backs of my eyelids are little movie screens and I can see things as vividly as I can when I open my eyes. I’ve been told it’s anxiety. I was told it was PTSD. I have bipolar and I’m hoping it’s not some sort of psychotic episode. I’ve also been told it’s something called depersonalization/derealization. I just want this to end and my life to go back to normal.

[Kimmiwilson09_]

I’m having it too. I feel like this one is worst from the others and I can’t stop, I get a weird feeling in my hands sometimes where it feels like everything is soft and I’m hoping when I go in that there is nothing wrong with me surgery wrong with me. It’s 2:34AM and I work up from a sleep and start feeling this.

[harveybird]

I have had this since I was kid, but not for years. and yes it sometimes happened when I had a high fever and once when I was on a plane getting ready for takeoff which was super weird. And like every one else I am really stoked that I'm not the only one who experiences this.

[MightyPotato]

Wow I didn't know there were other people experiencing the same thing as me! I am 15 and this I experienced this two or three times. It happens out of nowhere and it lasts only a few minutes. I just feel like I am in speed motion, that I do everything super fast and for  long time I wasn't sure if I was really just doing everything faster or if it was only a perception... now that I see that many peoplle have been in the same situation I think it was only a perception. I think it's caalled Alice in Wonderland syndrom and that I had it on a very small scale...

[gg_me]

i just now experienced this. i woke up because i had just started my period and i knew immediately i had to rush to my restroom but as i was completing this task,  i felt “rushed” persay ; as if i was doing things very very fast and this is not abnormal for me. i have experienced this plenty of times before, only though it would occur when i was running a fever. i’m not quite sure why this happened so abruptly but i hate when this happens because it feels to me as though when it starts, it’s as if i’m in a transe and i cannot get out of it. as if when it starts, it never stops. of course, a few minutes pass and it subsides, but i just never took into account that maybe it was something i needed to put more attention into and maybe do some  research on. i am only 13 but these “episodes”, i supposed you would call them, have been occurring ever since age 9. i want to learn more about it, but i am very comforted by the fact that i am not the only human on the earth experiencing such abnormal actions.  

[Lee89hd5]

I have had this since I was a child age 11 It first happend with a fever and happend spontaniolsly untill I figured out that been alone and thinking about it caused it. it's like falling inside your self deep into your own thoughts and mind and it can be stopped with slow controlled breathing and counting backwards. Am now  nearly 29 and can turn it on by thinking about it and retreating within my self but can not hold it for longer than 30 mins as it ends when my heart rate drops to a normal pace it leaves the body weak and worn out but during the fast forward all senses are  hightend. If I abuse my body by doing it over often I suffer from cluster headaches and ringing in the ears. Although I can start the sensation and stop it once it accours I can not stop it from hapning of its own accord. And as a child the sensation filled me with panic and fear controlled breathing and company was the only thing to subside the feeling.

[OddNumberSix]

I've been having this feeling for as long as I can remember. Today I finally found something that might very well be what we're all experiencing.
It's a thing called Racing thoughts, and can be caused by things such as Bipolar disorder, ADHD, sleep deprivation and the use of amphetamines.
Here's the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_thoughts

I hope this helps all of you guys.

[Animallover79]

What I am feeling a re not racing thoughts. Racing thoughts are when you are interrupted by random thoughts that you cannot control.

What I am feeling is everything feels like it’s going faster, like fast forward. I am very aware of my surroundings and have to bring myself back. It’s kind of disorientating. It doesn’t make me dizzy, just confused. I have to snap myself out of it.

[Sebastrashh]

I;m going through it right now and its so hard to keep calm and type because I feel like im yelling at you guys lol. Do any of you know a good way to keep calm during one of these?