Talk:Alice in Wonderland syndrome

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There is some suggestion, unsubstiantated, that certain ingredients of cough syrup may help cause micropsia.

Your damn right it does. Anyone who has ever taken a high dose of Dextromethorphan knows that it can cause visual distortions which may make objects seem smaller, or bigger. Of course these are effects from taking doses of Dextromethorphan that are far out of the medical dosing range. --Arm

That's funny, because yesterday I just experienced this after taking a dose of cough syrup. I wonder if it was just a coincidence. I've also had this happened to me many times in the past. Aurora sword (talk) 04:24, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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"Micropsia does not only affect visual perception, but also one's hearing, sense of touch, and sometimes one's own body image; the syndrome continues even when the eyes are closed."

So... if I'm interpreting this correctly, it means you can feel like different body parts are bigger are smaller? I have this happen to me sometimes while I'm lying in bed trying to sleep. It's not a visual thing... if, for example, I feel as if my hand is small, I can pull it out and look at it and it looks normal to me, but it still feels that way. I'm just wondering if this is what this part of the article is referring to, as I'm not sure if these symptoms come from AIWS or not, and I'd like to find out for sure since my mother doesn't seem to believe me when I tell her I've experienced AIWS many times before. (Hope I don't sound crazy or anything... don't worry, I'm not.) Shivers 23:03, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I think that you are correct. Try to see if you can find descriptions of micropsia or AIW in PubMed. Not that AIW is necessarily a disease, but the medical literature might have info and stories. Jclerman 20:21, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

WHY ARE THERE TWO ARTICLES OF THE SAME NAME?? THERE IS A SECOUND ARTILCE TITLED THE ALICE IN WONDERLAND SYNDROME, WHY IS THAT ?? P.S. THE SECOUND PAGE SEEMS TO MORE INFORMATIVE THAT THIS ONE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.164.156.17 (talk) 00:18, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is a general term.

Alice in Woderland Syndrome is neurological condition, encompassing, micropsia (ethimologically "small sight"), macropsia ("big sight), distorsion of body parts and of time.

There are nevertheless ophtalmologic causes to micropsia, like macular or corneal oedema http://www.springerlink.com/index/X22427718J127L83.pdf, http://pn.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/3/3/178-a

It looks like this article is based on [1], and written by someone who had little understanding of the subject at hand, and did little research past summarizing this confused web page.

5 min later: I edited out the mix between AiWLS and micropsia, and creeated a micropsia article.Zorbid (talk) 11:12, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lilliputian hallucinations/Delirium Tremens

Lilliputian hallucinations, a psychological symptom of Delirium tremens. However, there is no mention of delirium tremens here. (Glossary_of_psychiatry#Lilliputian_hallucinations does mention lilliputian hallucinations in the context of delirium tremens, but only as a brief definition of the term) Could someone add a mention to this? Ged3000 (talk) 19:40, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I've added a brief comment at signs and symptoms and provided a PMID 9885400 reference. Regards, CycloneNimrod^Talk? 20:15, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Not linked with age?

I could have sworn this also happens sometimes in children around the ages of 4-8 or so, and then goes away as they get older. Actually I thought that was the one of the more common ways people have it.--75.95.95.227 (talk) 06:23, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I read in an old issue of Annals In Pediatrics that this syndrome occurs mainly in younger children, around the ages you mentioned. This has been the case in my experience, although I diagnosed it once in a 16-year-old girl.--Beezer137 (talk) 23:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Some years ago I got an email from a narcoleptic subject, college student, that under severa emotional stress developed AIW acutely and transitorily. In particular, she went for a drive and saw the little beings in front of the car. I've had one or two AIW during dreams. Jclerman (talk) 01:52, 2 June 2008 (UTC)