Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

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Falling Down a Rabbit Hole in Real Life​

Imagine, as you’re getting up from the dinner table, as you blink, you look down and notice that the apple on your plate is suddenly enormous, the size of a tortoise. When you rise from your chair, you feel your legs are three times longer than normal—as though you were dangling on stilts above the table and the now monstrous fruit. If this happened to you, you might begin to suspect that you had slipped down the rabbit hole into Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland along with Alice.

Neurologist Maximilian Friedrich first heard this very anecdote from his great-grandmother when he began studying perception. She had experienced it decades earlier when she was a mother suffering from migraines, but it never happened again and she kept it a secret—there was too much stigma around illnesses of the mind at the time. Today, her great-grandson is a researcher at University Hospital Wuerzburg in Germany—and he studies what has become known as Alice in Wonderland syndrome.

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Falling Down a Rabbit Hole in Real Life

Neurologists are just beginning to understand Alice in Wonderland syndrome.

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[Goldhedge]

sounds like someone's doing LSD...