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Hi all. I hope that every one is enjoying the long weekend.
When I was at the age of 9 years old. I started to have this awful frightening
nightmare. I would scream out for help, but my screams wouldn't come.
The nightmare?? consisted of having the feeling that many parts of my body seemed and felt like they were enormous. Especially my hands. They felt like they were 10 times the size than they actually were.
I never told anyone about these episodes that lasted around 2 -3 years, then I grew out of it.??
When my son was 10 years old, something made me think about what I went through. I asked my son if he ever had a nightmare were he feels big. My son just stood there, he was really taken back at my question.
YES....my son said, and he described it in great detail. He was going through the same thing that I did. I was glad that I asked for I could help my son deal with this.
Many times my son would wake me up in the middle of the night and tell me
"Dad, I feel big"
Well after 43 years I found the answer. The answer was that my son and I was having a seizure in our sleep. And the cause (not diagnosed by a doctor...I dread that thought) was a syndrome called Alice In Wonderland Syndrome.
It has many symptoms and causes, one cause is having "Temporal Lobe Epilepsy"
WOW after all these years my son and i finally have the answer at what was happening to us.
I still get the same kind of S in the mornings once in a while, but not as severe.
Usually a child grows out of this syndrome, as my son did. But I am keeping a close watch on him.
Here is a good web site which explains it in more detail:
http://www.aiws.info/
Blessings.
Norm Beam
When I was at the age of 9 years old. I started to have this awful frightening
nightmare. I would scream out for help, but my screams wouldn't come.
The nightmare?? consisted of having the feeling that many parts of my body seemed and felt like they were enormous. Especially my hands. They felt like they were 10 times the size than they actually were.
I never told anyone about these episodes that lasted around 2 -3 years, then I grew out of it.??
When my son was 10 years old, something made me think about what I went through. I asked my son if he ever had a nightmare were he feels big. My son just stood there, he was really taken back at my question.
YES....my son said, and he described it in great detail. He was going through the same thing that I did. I was glad that I asked for I could help my son deal with this.
Many times my son would wake me up in the middle of the night and tell me
"Dad, I feel big"
Well after 43 years I found the answer. The answer was that my son and I was having a seizure in our sleep. And the cause (not diagnosed by a doctor...I dread that thought) was a syndrome called Alice In Wonderland Syndrome.
It has many symptoms and causes, one cause is having "Temporal Lobe Epilepsy"
WOW after all these years my son and i finally have the answer at what was happening to us.
I still get the same kind of S in the mornings once in a while, but not as severe.
Usually a child grows out of this syndrome, as my son did. But I am keeping a close watch on him.
Here is a good web site which explains it in more detail:
http://www.aiws.info/
Blessings.
Norm Beam
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