I used to have those feelings too. Turned out to be a form of vertigo. Doc put me on meclizine to help and it works great whenever I feel it coming on.

Hmm.. Mostly when I was younger, escpecially when I was laying down with my eyes closed, I got a mental picture of something moving encredibly fast in first person. A small rush of... Thinginess.

That happens to me too, sometimes, completely randomly i'll get a rush of adrenaline, and in my minds eye I see something rushing really fast towards me and to my left, sometimes enough to make me jump and feel a little nervous. I never really thought of it as being anything strange because I grew up with it.

the first post describes exactly what i have experienced. i have thought it was due to rumination and obsessive thoughts. i went on zoloft for ocd tendencies and the "fast feeling" returned infrequently and milder. since the medicine left me feeling complacent i am off of it and wondering if there is another way to avoid these weird perceptual feelings. the vertigo medication might be one way. any other thoughts?

I have always had those feelings and could never describe them. I felt weird and anxious when it did happen. I felt like I was moving in slow motion, or my brain was trying to slow me down from, like, walking. It was all too strange. Well, I looked up vertigo and feel at ease to know I am not the only one. I am glad to have a name to the odd feeling I have had as a child, and sometimes as an adult.

Oh wow, the initial post got it spot on for me. I had no idea what it was, just every now and I'd get the feeling of everything, my own movements mostly, was moving incredibly fast depite in reality moving at a regular speed. It is such a strange feeling, its great to know I'm not the only one!

I'm actually experiencing it right now. Typing is especially wierd when you have it. I seemed to get it during tests in elementary, or things like that. Wow, typing is ridiculous right now. It is a very strange feeling, but you put it into words very well. If anything now I can better explain what it exactly is now. Thanks... and yes it happens rarely, like 2 twice a year.

Ive been trying to find out what this was for a long time. In my personal experience it can be quite stressful, my breathing accelerates and i feel as if everything is faster around me. I get this feeling in bouts. im haveing it at the moment and ive had it twice in the last couple weeks. I tend to find that if im on the computer i get tunnel vision. also i find it occurs when im tired (at uni so lots of that) im twenty now but i remember first trying to describe it to my parents before i was ten. It might be hereditary as my mother says she got it as well. Ive looked around and someplaces suggest its a form of temporal epilepsy. I dont think its dangerous. Apparently in order to diagnose they need to record you while your having an attack.

so for anyone who wants more facts
20 year old male
had these episodes since i was a preteen.
had them with a frequency of about once a month on average.
tend to get them in bouts
each attack lasts for about 15-20 mins
sometimes have trouble breathing (i should say it feels as tho if i dont concentrate on breathing id suffocate rather)
and it seems i get them most when im tired or have been at the computer for too long.

id like to know how many people have this.

Also id like to add that as a smoker i can tell you smoking makes this feeling WORSE not better. i thought it would help chill me out but that rather it made the sensation ten times worse. It is trippy but if anyone knows a cure id love it as personally it messes with me quite badly.

Mines certainly not that bad but does anyone get it the other way around too? Mine happen about once a month but they can either be this 'fast feeling' or the complete opposite of everything seeming to move at incredibly slow speeds, effecting my movements mostly but also the rate of my breathing which unnerves me a little.
it'd be great to hear from any fellow sufferers!