AIWS and Night Terrors?
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Allen O'Brien
Oct 30, 2014, 4:13:20 PM10/30/14
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I had severe night terrors growing up and connected them from a young age to the feeling of "everything being far away from me." I read somewhere that there is only anecdotal evidence for a connection between childhood night terrors and the symptoms of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome and am wondering if anyone else has made the connection?
My experience (which you can read about here) took on overtly religious tones, but as I've worked through it, I believe there is at least some connection to my AIWS.
My experience (which you can read about here) took on overtly religious tones, but as I've worked through it, I believe there is at least some connection to my AIWS.
Darius Helm
Oct 30, 2014, 4:28:11 PM10/30/14
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I read some of your post online. I also had night terrors, though they didn't start in dreams, they started when I was trying to fall asleep. I got these hallucinations BEFORE I got other trademark AIWS affects. The two were definitely connected for me.
Darius
On Oct 30, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Allen O'Brien wrote:
I had severe night terrors growing up and connected them from a young age to the feeling of "everything being far away from me." I read somewhere that there is only anecdotal evidence for a connection between childhood night terrors and the symptoms of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome and am wondering if anyone else has made the connection?
My experience (which you can read about here) took on overtly religious tones, but as I've worked through it, I believe there is at least some connection to my AIWS.
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Josh Martin
Oct 30, 2014, 11:48:42 PM10/30/14
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My son first had these when he was around 5 ... as he is falling asleep he gets a sensation and everything appears far away. Screamed his head off like crazy; although he never associated it with a dream. He was just legitimately freaked out. We thought they were initially night terrors.
He is now 8 and it happens a lot less frequently, but when it does he is now aware of it and he doesn't freak out. It's happened at all occasions and typically lasts about 5 minutes. Some things we have learned: turning on the light sometimes helps make it go away; it seems to occur most often when he is congested and our homeopath has helped considerably.
He is now 8 and it happens a lot less frequently, but when it does he is now aware of it and he doesn't freak out. It's happened at all occasions and typically lasts about 5 minutes. Some things we have learned: turning on the light sometimes helps make it go away; it seems to occur most often when he is congested and our homeopath has helped considerably.
In good health,
Josh
Josh
Ray Shoffner
Aug 25, 2015, 2:37:10 PM8/25/15
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Hello Josh,
Our 9 yr old son has been experiencing the AIWS symptoms since he was 5. The episodes occur maybe 3-4 times a year usually associated with the onset of a viral cold that is accompanied with a fever. Recently in the last month he has started sleepwalking with night terrors and AIWS symptoms. We redirect him back into bed and sit with him till he drifts off again...usually 5-10 min. You mention using some homeopath solutions. I was curious as to what those were and how you may have used them. Any info you can share would be appreciated.
Ray
On Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 10:48:42 PM UTC-5, webcomposer wrote:
My son first had these when he was around 5 ... as he is falling asleep he gets a sensation and everything appears far away. Screamed his head off like crazy; although he never associated it with a dream. He was just legitimately freaked out. We thought they were initially night terrors.
He is now 8 and it happens a lot less frequently, but when it does he is now aware of it and he doesn't freak out. It's happened at all occasions and typically lasts about 5 minutes. Some things we have learned: turning on the light sometimes helps make it go away; it seems to occur most often when he is congested and our homeopath has helped considerably.In good health,
Josh
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Darius Helm <dhfloo...@optonline.net> wrote:
I read some of your post online. I also had night terrors, though they didn't start in dreams, they started when I was trying to fall asleep. I got these hallucinations BEFORE I got other trademark AIWS affects. The two were definitely connected for me.
Darius
On Oct 30, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Allen O'Brien wrote:
I had severe night terrors growing up and connected them from a young age to the feeling of "everything being far away from me." I read somewhere that there is only anecdotal evidence for a connection between childhood night terrors and the symptoms of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome and am wondering if anyone else has made the connection?
My experience (which you can read about here) took on overtly religious tones, but as I've worked through it, I believe there is at least some connection to my AIWS.--
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May 3, 2016, 10:18:28 PM5/3/16
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I have had night terrors my whole life and still do!
Also I get the feeling of inemment doom on waking sometimes, although more rare.
When I wake from night terrors the demons or whatever are still in my room and house I can see talk too and smell them.
It's very very scary.
My nuro said it all part of the Alice.
He said it's a completely brown area in science.
I have learnt just to pray till it passes.
Even Hough I am no heavily religious.
Anything will help till it passes.
Also I get the feeling of inemment doom on waking sometimes, although more rare.
When I wake from night terrors the demons or whatever are still in my room and house I can see talk too and smell them.
It's very very scary.
My nuro said it all part of the Alice.
He said it's a completely brown area in science.
I have learnt just to pray till it passes.
Even Hough I am no heavily religious.
Anything will help till it passes.
Jor Barrie
May 4, 2016, 7:06:44 AM5/4/16
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Hi guys!
I had night terrors as well as a kid; it would start with the usual AIWS symptom of everything becoming really small and seemingly far away from me, like looking through binoculars the wrong way round, and then sometimes I would get the feeling of something bad being in the room with me.
I never actually saw anything, but I knew it was there watching me, and sometimes it tried to scare me by making me do impossible things, like the one time I felt I had to fill up my bedroom with bricks, which I had to collect from the bathroom...
For me, turning on the light would always break the spell, and enable me to go downstairs to my parents, but 'it' seemed to be aware of that and tried to stop me from reaching the light switch. Fortunately, I always won in the end! ;-)
Nowadays it doesn't happen anymore; it's only when I read about some of the symptoms that other people have -like the feeling of holding a grain of sand between a giant index finger and a giant thumb- that I can feel an episode coming on and then quickly disappearing again; it's probably more like a memory than a real AIWS episode.
Jor.
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Johann Wyrsch
May 5, 2016, 2:01:52 AM5/5/16
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Jor, that's very similar to me.
On occasion I have also seen the person.
Or in my case animal cross human.
Demon of some form.
it still happens today and my husband litterly watches me be all crazy thinking something is after me.
As a kid he would come to be and tell me my parents were dead and I would struggle with the grief until it passed and I realised he was watching me suffer
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Jor Barrie
May 5, 2016, 1:24:39 PM5/5/16
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Hi Johann!
Yes, that is indeed very similar; I too had the feeling 'it' was enjoying seeing me suffer!
I wonder where all that comes from; it really felt like it was an outside source, not something that I could possibly have made up myself.
I'm sorry to hear it still happens to you; I'm really glad I grew out of it somehow!
Take care,
Jor.
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Johann Wyrsch
May 5, 2016, 10:18:23 PM5/5/16
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Hello Jor,
My name is actually Nadine.
I have linked with the group using my husbands email as it was set on the computer :).
I have always wondered about it.
Parts of the Alice are so different.
I have had it come for a period of 3 weeks.
I though I had lost my mind and the thing that watches me was there and it was telling me to kill myself.
A horrible voice in my head.
The neurologist said he has heard of it before.
He said he had a young boy who was litterly screaming and climbing walls with a monster after him.
He said the same young man had tried to jump off something and had injured himself.
I have only had it once last for a large period of time and it was due to a very stressful time and that was when I was formally diagnosed.
Randomly years later I had a reading done with a medium for a birthday present.
She brought up my Alice with out me saying anything.
She said it was a gift and not a hindrance and that I needed to learn to control it.
Even telling me to go speak with a man she new.
She said I had a man I didn't know who was attached to me who wasn't nice and her friend could help get rid of him.
I know it sounds crazy and I never went and saw the friend of hers.
But she seemed to be all over a few of my experiences and I never told her about any of the things going on.
She called the bad people that watch littl black fleas.
Sounds crazy ha ha, but then what We see and feel is crazy....
:) Nadine
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