"fast Feeling" (Page 7)

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Amazing!! I have had these exact same "feelings" since I was a child. I'm 30 years old, and just had an "episode" about 5 minutes ago. I've never really researched it before, but this last one was pretty intense so I though I'd see what I could find on the internet about it. Its a relief to know that there are others that have had this same experience. I used to try to explain them to my parents as a child but I could never really express what it was like. Having read the posts above, its obvious that everyone else has had the same "fast feeling" (really the only was to describe them). I stared having them after I suffered a head injury, and a series of seizures when I was about 6 years old (at least that when I remember them starting) and they have always freaked me out. But after a few minutes they pass so I never gave them much thought. I used to get them more frequently as a child. Now I seem to only get them once every year or so.. Anyone who has ever experienced them knows how intense they can be. Even after all these years they still freak me out a little.

This is so shocking to find that other people have had this happen to them. For years I thought I was just a crazy kid. I was ten years old when it happened to me. I had all kinds of test run on me. I remember having to stay up for 24 hours and fall asleep at dr office to have an EEG performed. Everything turned out normal. The dr told my mother he thought it could be a seizure disorder. So they treated me with a placebo and sleeping pill. It only happened to me a night. Haven't had any since.

SOOOOOO happy I found this thread I could cry!!!!!! I thought I was alone! Let me start with my story... I'll try not to leave anything out. I've dealt with this since a child! I remember waking up in the middle of the night... hearing loud noises, almost voices it seemed, everything was extremely fast, even though it wasn't, and I'd start screaming and balling my eyes out. I couldn't take the feeling... the fast feeling. My mom/grandma/grandpa would wake up tell me it was okay that I was dreaming... but it wasn't okay... I wasn't dreaming... it was happening... and I never told them. Till this day I never told anyone. How do you tell someone you feel fast? It sounds kind of goofy doesn't it? Feeling fast doesn't cover the fear, or feeling, you get while having that episode though. It's like there are 15 voices in my head all whispering extremely loud in my head, although I can't make out one word, every breath... movement... heartbeat... feels like it is going 1 BILLION miles a minute... and honestly I feel like I could hurt someone or myself if the feeling doesn't go away soon. I try to calm my breathing, relax, walk, move extremely slow (although it still feels like the world, me, everything, is going 10,000 miles a second) and think of something else.

I did have asthma extremely bad growing up and took an inhaler nightly. I also had a bad double ear infection as a baby, but it was treated. My last episode as a child was when I was 8 at night... I remember because it last for 5 minutes, my grandpa came out and held me, and I was scared to go back to bed. Well now I am 23, on TOPAMAX, and have had my 2nd "fast-feeling" attack" the first one was about 3 weeks ago and was very quick that I thought nothing of it. But I just had one last night that seemed to last forever. I was freaking out, tried calling my boyfriend at work a million times although he didn't answer, thankfully he didn't because what would I tell him?, and eventually it went away. I told him later it was a panic attack. I've seen a few people talk about Topamax and their fast-feeling coming back. I wonder if it brings back these attacks in people who previously had them as children? It scares me that they could be seizures. But how could they be seizures when I'm on an anti-seizure medication? By the way, I take Topamax 50 mg at night time once a day for migraines. I don't for a second believe this is in anyway related to Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, although I love Alice, lol, the symptoms don't fit. I never feel big, or small, or distorted, just fast. Like someone has me on a tv, and pressed fast-forward on my life, body, and brain. It's the worst feeling. For those of you who say "you miss it" BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. I was balling my eyes out scared to fall asleep.

It makes me mad that no doctor will take any of us seriously. And doing more research, there are more forums, people just like us, talking about the same exact symptoms, all starting in childhood! Something is wrong here!!!!! I have been peeing a lot at night, so I'm interested about it being possibly related to hypoglycemia. Thank goodness it happened at night, alone, while my daughter was asleep, and while my boyfriend was at work, because the noises and voices? were already so loud, and everything around me was so fast and quick if they were up I would of flipped out curled in a ball and cried. He would of thought I was nuts. I wanna tell him, or at least my mom, but I'm always so sick this will just be another thing on the chalkboard for him and he'd probably think I was legit nuts. I'd like to know what we have because what if there were other symptoms, or complications involved? What if its genetic?

Too bad we can't all come together and have some kind of tests run on us. I would do it if it meant answers. We're not alone, they're are lots of us out there, and I wouldn't even of found this group if it didn't come back up again, so imagine the people that had this happen as a child and still have not said anything!


I really hope this thread keeps going. It gave me hope and relief when I was freaking out. Thank you.

Also, would like to add i would never actually hurt anyone or myself, i just feel very uncomfortable. I remember having the same dream when this happened when i was younger, although i do not get it now. I also do not see htings smaller or bigger.

It's interesting i experiences this fast feeling and Alice in wonder land syndrome at the same time. As long as i could remember ,i would get the feeling of everything really far away, and would usually happen at night, or while focusing on something like a teacher in class or the t.v. or while sick. it would get really bad!

Three years ago i got testicular cancer and it had spread to my brain. the tumor in the brain went away and i am all better now. But in the months during my treatment i was given lorazapam*(sleeping/anti-depressant/anxiet y) and steroids. and that is when i started getting the fast feeling. just like everyone one had described and i attributed it to the combination of those two medications.

;The lorazapam calming me down and slowing my heart rate and putting me to sleep therefor making my physical body slow and lethargic. And the steroids wanting to increase blood flow blood pressure and but was unable to so it only did it in the brain and the signal never made it to my organs. the combanation of these two medication made a strong contrast that made everything seem very fast.

Physiologically i wonder if your body is producing these chemicals together or if you if brain just slides into this state.

I have that feeling too! I'm an epileptic with many other health issues... Cerebral Palsy, Scoliosis... But i'm glad i'm not the only one!! It sometimes feels like my head is in a drying machine, or a tornado & makes me so dizzy that I cant walk straight. Yet very deep in my mind... I know everything's moving at a normal speed but I can't get myself to move at that pace. It's annoying and can last from 3min-1hour....
I'm glad I found this page, after researching for a month or 2!! Thanks guys.

This thread is crazy... many of these posts have small sections of the symptoms I have during my "fast feeling" episodes. I've been having an episode for the past 15 mins, just getting over it right now... I've been getting these episodes more frequently over the past few months. I use to get it a couple times a year when I was a kid. Right as I was trying to fall asleep... things around me would start to slow down, like the clock on my wall (even though I knew they were moving at the same normal speed) I would always try to define it as something- to put it into words... and always ended up relating it to a dream. One that I couldn't quite remember but was always re-occurring. But lately I've been getting them maybe 3-4 times a month. It usually happens when I am on my laptop concentrating on a project, or reading a story. Just as people on here have described it... its like 10 different voices screaming in my head... or whispering really loud. I'm not sure if it's what I'm reading, but i can never understand what it's saying. I sound completely mental trying to put into words... more like my head is really busy and loud, overcrowded. If I don't try and stop it, It gets so loud to the point it affects my vision. my head is pounding but no pain is there. just the loud whispering. everything around me is moving slower than usual until the movement is complete then it seems fast. Like if i'm moving my arm it seems slow at the time, but as soon as i'm able to stop moving it seems fast. my eyes can stay focused on one thing for very long as everything else seems to be moving so fast in my peripheral vision.

As much help as it is to see that other people are having these same episodes, i haven't seen anyone provide an answer as to what it is or how to stop it??? The only way to stop these episodes for me is to watch tv for a couple minutes... but it's hard to do that when you work in a hospital as a nurse!!

Well thank God for that! lol
I've been getting them since 8 ish years old. I'm now 32 and had the first one for years this lunchtime while reading the paper.
I remember trying to tell my mum about them but I'd been having them for years by the time I could put it into words. Halfway through explaining it to her she started asking me if I was "on drugs". Since that didn't really help (thanks mum) I shut up and stayed shut up since.
I remember thinking as a youngster that maybe everyone got them and I didn't want to feel stupid by bringing it up.
The most important thing in this (or any) situation is to remain calm. Plenty of posters liken it to a panic attack so freaking out will obviously make it worse.
My symptons are as follows:
Normally when lying down about to sleep
Wierd taste in the mouth (tin and battenburg cake. try them together and you'll see!)
Wierd texture in mouth thats not actually there!(ridges or lines)
Same recurring dream (for me its driving along a smooth road with regular bumps that are heard not felt)
Everything moving quickly (or my brain is registering normal speeds slowly if that makes sense?)
If I close my eyes I see horizontal lines of differing shades of grey moving diagonally with a buzzing noise.

One or two other posters have said they have flu or a cold. I have a cold at the moment, the first one for ages. Also the first fast forward feeling for ages too. Coincidence? Can't recall if I was ill the last time.
I found I could make it last for less if I concentrated on the second hand of a clock or the seconds display on a digital watch. I'm not sure if this isn't just a distraction technique (like for hiccups for example)

I'm going to print this thread off and go to the doctors. Not for treatment, just to know what is causing it.

For the record I am and always have been well exercised and eat healthy. I was more stressed in my early to mid twenties (soldier, maybe happened once) than I am now or was as a 7 to 15 year old (1 or 2 a month minimum) so I wouldn't think it was stress related.

Bottom line: STAY CALM, IT WILL PASS.

This has happened to my 6 year old son 3 times in the past 6 days. He describes it as everything going really fast and it's very scary for him. The first "episode" happened on the night he developed a fever of 102. The next one was 5 days later in the morning and he had been afebrile for 4 days. The third one was that same night. Still afebrile. It is very traumatic for him and myself. I stay calm for him, but inside I'm petrified. I can only imagine how he's feeling. Especially when he's saying things like, "I'm not going to make it. I'm going to die," and "Your son is in danger," and "I think I'm having a heart attack." The 3rd time it happened he told me not to speak because it made it worse. I could do nothing but hold him until it went away. It was a helpless feeling as a mother. When it finally ended about 10 minutes later he was totally fine. He was happy and no longer scared. We even talked about it. He ended up going to sleep after about an hour. I took him into the dr today. He questioned him about what has been happening, but he was a little shy and I had to tell him about it. I think he was just getting tired of me talking about it. The dr was going to order an EEG, but before we left, he did a rapid strep test and even though he has no sore throat or fever since 4 days ago, he tested positive for strep. The dr didn't say there was a connection, but that's the only connection I've been able to make. (Strep or fever) He just told me not to worry about the epidodes and not to make a big deal about them or bring them up again unless my son does. Does anyone remember having a strep infection at onset of symptoms? BTW, my son is a very healthy, normal boy. No psychiatric or medical hx at all.

Thanks for all of your posts. Until we find an answer, it's nice to know we're not alone.

Hi I've had this type of thing since I was a child when I was young I always got it whenever I had any kind of fever or prolonged illness (don't know if it was strep or not tho). Then I didn't get it for years and years but it's stated up again recently but I now think its linked to my migraines. I remember it being very scary when I was a kid but I assumed it was something everybody got when they were ill! I remember if I put a cold face cloth on my head and had some sugary juice it used to go away a lot quicker, looking back I now wonder if it's linked to low blood sugar, this doesn't seem to help now but definitely made a difference when I was a child. Hope you get to the bottom of it it'll be interesting to see what the doc has to say!

I have similar episodes too. I call mine "the quickening" (not a reference to the highlander films) Here's the details of my experience with it.

Started happening probably around 10 years old. I'm 29 now.
Frequency is a few times a year at most.
The episode lasts 5 minutes or so.
It hasn't become more frequent or more intense as I get older.
Often happens later on in the day when I'm tired.
Often happens when I'm reading, or focused on something visual.
Nothing to indicate it's an emotional response to a particular event or memory.

The symptoms are as follows:
a) A feeling of intensity and rushing, jittery urgency. To say that it feels like time is sped up is inaccurate. It's different to a psychedelic or dissaociatve experience where you actually percieve time speeding up, like a film running at a higher framerate. It's more of an inner feeling of time flying, something psychological rather than external and perceptual.

b) A slight increase in the volume and intensity of the aural sense. The kind of thing that can accompany flight or fight response. A slight sharpening of the sense. The sound's quality changes in the same way a sound does when you move your ear closer to the source.

c) Extremely mild visual distortions in depth perception and relative dimensions of objects. In particular things feel further away and smaller than they should be. No change in my field of vision range.

d) My emotional reaction is usually curiousity and mild confusion, a feeling of expectation, like it seems to be heading somewhere. It's not distracting to the point where I have to stop what I'm doing, although it is a bit uncomfortable in social settings. Like others here, now that I'm relatively sure it's not a serious illness it can be mildly fun to experience.

What symptoms I don't get:

No fear or anxiety. No pleasure or euphoria. No drunkenness, dizzyness or woozyness. No heart rate elevation (I checked today). No sweating. No hyperacivity or physical jitteryness. No shapes or colors, dots and lines, etc. No intrusive or disturbing thoughts.

My thoughts:

In my case I'm sure vertigo and seizures are inappropriate labels for what I experience. It feels like it may a temporary imbalance of hormonal chemicals in the CNS, but distinct from the usual adreneline/dopamine cocktail that comes with a panic attack or amphetamine use. It's more gentle and subtle, yet more intense within it's this one sphere of time perception.

I'm a guy in my twenties. I get a rushing sensation, amplified sounds, see stars (or "tinglies"), and everything is a little too bright. There is also a sensation of a change of circulation in my head (pulsing, rolling, swimming etc). I have experienced migraines, anxiety, depression. These are symptoms of migraine/silent migraines, which is correlated with stress/anxiety.

My triggers:
-lifting heavy weights, or interval training and then doing something physically active (eg sport) in the next 48 hours.
-very strong coffee
-reading, studying (when combined with earlier heavy physical exercise)
-certain types of lighting/screens
When I was on antidepressants I could drink lots of coffee, do lots of heavy squats, and study nonstop - so they sort of fortified my brain I think.

I think most people here have an overly sensitive/delicate central nervous system.
Not necessarily a disorder, but if you push yourself physically/mentally or run into an unknown trigger, this little blip will occur.

I've had this ever since I was about 7 years old (I'm 22 now).

I've described it as "noises are yelling at me." It will start with one sound, like a door shutting or a footstep, and that noise will repeat over and over in my head, getting slower until every sound I hear seems to last really long and loud. It sounds like everything is angry at me somehow.

At the same time, I can't tell if time is moving slower or if I am, so I feel like I need to do everything really fast. So I'll be running around trying to hurry, while all every noise around me is repeating itself in slow motion. Even my thoughts get really loud and angry sounding. (They're not actually angry thoughts, their tone is just angry somehow.)

When I was a kid, I could kind of make it happen on command, and I could stop it when I wanted to. I was actually kind of entertained by it, until I couldn't control it anymore and then it became frustrating. Now, it only happens maybe 2-3 times a year, only when I'm alone, and I can't stop it until someone else starts talking to me.

There are so many of us that have experienced this; I'm surprised that I haven't found a name for it.

This is such a weight off my mind I thought there was something really wrong with me I get the "fast feeling" but slightly different everything feels really fast but looks like its in slow motion and I get tunnel vision and magnified sound. I think it's linked to my migraines and it's been happening lots recently i'm so glad to find out other people have it too it was starting to really stress me out!

I've recently taken my 15 year old daughter to the Dr with these symptoms with a printout of some of these threads to show she isn't crazy! As I suspected would happen, the Dr said not to worry unless unless it gets more frequent. He mentioned partial seizures and I think he's probably on the right path - it's as if her brain slows down tremendously which gives her the impression that everything around her is speeding up. She has suffered from migraines in the past and the two conditions could be linked?? Her 'fast feelings' began some years ago after a dream where she was playing 'ring o' roses' with me and we started spinning faster and faster. This song plays in her head whenever she gets the feelings which are every couple of months. The last two episodes have been in stressful situations - once in a school test and once when she was almost hit by a car. There's a history of migraines in the family and one of the symptoms is everything seeming extremely amplified - I mention this as some posters have said everything seems louder and I'm thinking there's a possible link to migraines! (they do funny things - I once had to go to bed with a migraines cos a got a bout of Tourette's with it and couldn't trust myself not to offend someone!) The fast feelings don't seem to have any long term effect and pass within an hour so I've advised my daughter to try not to worry about them. (Easier said than done I understand) I'm so glad we found this forum though, just knowing she's not alone is great.

There seem to be many of us out there. I am a 37 yr old male, had these symptoms since childhood. Remember the first so well; I was at the bottom of a hill and a man in black was at the top, he started by asking me a Maths question ( say 2 x2) they got progressively harder and faster and each time I got one wrong it became a ball that grew larger and rolled quicker towards me, overwhelmed my little mind but i was coping with these equations because of how fast time was moving for me, each hand movement is like lightning but also like being through water, I am aware my heart is pounding and no attempts at controlling my breathing or concentrating elsewhere helps. Anyway, these stopped for me for a few years but for the last 10 years I have been employed as a firefighter, they now happen to me at least once on my 2 night duties, I assume the increase is due to the increased tension of waiting for a shout and trying to get some sleep, it is just strange that this has started again for me after an absence of a few years. Good to know others are out there, had always wondered whether I should try and talk to the docs about it but as u know its So hard to describe the feeling.

I am 32 now and have had these symptoms for as long as i can remember. My symptoms are only the "fast feeling", and that like the last person said, a feeling of moving through water. This was brought on almost always during tests at school, primarily math tests. I remember being afraid that someone would ask me a question, because to me, it sounded like I was speaking really fast. But if I tried to slow down, it was like I was in super slow motion. I actually have not experienced this in a several years until tonight I was reading to my daughter and it happened. I thought I had outgrown it. I had no idea there were so many others out there!

I also feel this, as a child I would get it once a week. Everything around me would feel like its moving really fast but in reality it isn't. I would move my blanket and it felt like I did it really fast. Everything was also very loud, I could hear my own thought like I was screaming at my self. I never knew how to stop it. The episodes lasted about 10 minutes or less. I would stand up and try to get rid of it go for a walk but it was the worse feeling ever. When I hit high school I would have them once a month. I'm 20 years old and I have just recently had an episode. I was driving my car at 60ks. But it felt like I was going really fast. When I looked at my speedo I had actually slowed down. The cars going past where really loud.
I'm still not sure what it is.
If I run around or exercise I need too sit down as I feel like I'm going to pass out. Low iron. I take iron tablets for it but that's when I started getting problems with my heart.
I also have a heart condition. I get really dizzy a lot and suffer from sharp chest pains. The doctor recons it's nothing too worry about. I think it is something major and I hope too soon find answers.

I also feel this, as a child I would get it once a week. Everything around me would feel like its moving really fast but in reality it isn't. I would move my blanket and it felt like I did it really fast. Everything was also very loud, I could hear my own thought like I was screaming at my self. I never knew how to stop it. The episodes lasted about 10 minutes or less. I would stand up and try to get rid of it go for a walk but it was the worse feeling ever. When I hit high school I would have them once a month. I'm 20 years old and I have just recently had an episode. I was driving my car at 60ks. But it felt like I was going really fast. When I looked at my speedo I had actually slowed down. The cars going past where really loud.
I'm still not sure what it is.
If I run around or exercise I need too sit down as I feel like I'm going to pass out. Low iron. I take iron tablets for it but that's when I started getting problems with my heart.
I also have a heart condition. I get really dizzy a lot and suffer from sharp chest pains. The doctor recons it's nothing too worry about. I think it is something major and I hope too soon find answers.

This makes me feel great to know of so many others who feel the same - I'm not mad after all! Had this for as long as I can remember, from a child to now, 35 yrs and now my 11 year old son has started feeling the same. I felt better when cupping my hands over my mouth and taking long, slow deep breaths.

We my brothers are a chosen race.
We will crush the insignifigent humans and take over.
So rise up my brothers judgement day is hear.
( insert maniacal laughter here)