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TIL that an experience that I've had ~once every month or so for my whole life, and assumed was near-universal, is actually relatively rare, and correlated with various bad things that I'm not aware of experiencing in relation to it (EBV infection, migraines, head trauma).

Basically, as I experience it (typically right as I'm falling asleep) everything visually starts to feel very small and far away, except that my tongue feels large and cumbersome in my mouth.

It's called Alice in Wonderland Syndrome; other people experience similar size distortions though the details vary a lot.

in reply to Ben Weinstein-Raun

When I was younger, I heard some stories (that in retrospect may not have been true) of people with head injuries who became extremely gifted in certain ways. Dreamer that I am, I of course vaguely hoped this would happen to me (I knew I was really asking for a lot in this fantasy). And now the same fanciful part of me wonders if maybe it did happen, and I would have been pretty normal, but for a childhood bonk on the head?
in reply to Ben Weinstein-Raun

I don't know if we have discussed this . . . but me, too. So maybe it was passed down.