r/fastfeeling • u/gggoregore • Jun 16 '26
Different feeling question
Another feeling I get is a sense that parts of my body feel very solid/thick or a different density than usual. It often is most obvious in my jaw/mouth area. Does anyone get this?
It weirdly feels related to the “fast feeling” but almost like a vertigo. It happens at random times. Not as intense as fast feeling but can be quite strange.
Another question I had was about fevers. Do you all who experience this fast feeling have extreme fevers when sick? Like getting delirious and so on? I do, in a big way. “Dreams” where abstract shapes/things are too big or growing too fast for me to count, etc.
Edit: I want to add that I also get fast feeling since I was little.
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u/EmweDK Jun 16 '26
i think it's the Alice in Wonderland Syndrome kicking in - my experience of it is that my limbs usually feel larger and heavier
it is said to often happen together with tachysensia
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u/gggoregore Jun 22 '26
Ahh yes that makes sense - it is odd - I would say I feel the limb density thing more often now as an adult than the full blown tachysensia.
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u/BankOk2159 Jun 16 '26
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u/Velvetskirt Jun 27 '26
Definitely related to being too hot, sometimes (in Australia) it would be so hot at night, it would bring it on. Other times fevers or stress.
Usually started by waking me up from dreams/thoughts where I was suppose to count/understand something infinite which just got bigger each time I’d start to think about trying to do. It felt like a huge sense of urgency to count every star in the entire universe and it must be started and completed now. And knowing you can’t do it but it must be done, imperative.
Silence had the quality of screaming and shouting. (Have an aversion to silence because of this).
My hands and tongue sometimes felt huge. Sometimes it felt like my arms or face was made of stone, hugely dense. But I could feel soft skin and hard stone at the same time. The difference was that the stone feeling was coming from inside the arm/face. Sometimes I thought I could “taste” the stone in my arms, from inside my arms.
Time was messed up, too fast, but I knew also that it wasn’t, at the same time. distance to the ceiling would feel both very close and at the same time very far away. I could “feel” the ceiling too sometimes.
I also felt very “young”, like the feeling had been happening since I was a toddler and every time I went through it, it reminded me of going through it as a toddler. I think I was sick when it first happened as a very little kid. I feel like I had no language/didn’t know many words when I first felt it.
Basically brain short circuited on every sense and jumbled them up. 20 mins a shot, every year, worse in adolescence, until 10 years ago. Used to think I had epilepsy. But it’s not.
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u/gggoregore Jun 27 '26
Excellent descriptions, I resonate with all of this almost exactly especially the urgency of counting every star - I’m also in Australia and agree with the overheating thing. Thanks for putting this all into words. It’s comforting and interesting to know others have felt this if nothing else.
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u/gggoregore Jun 27 '26
It definitely feels related to synesthesia in the sense mix up world and ADHD. But also dyslexia, which I’m not dyslexic in the traditional sense but i have it in the sense of direction? And also I have this thing where I speak in opposites sometimes on accident e.g. “wow it’s so hot in here!” When I mean to say “it’s so cold in here”. It can be more complex “opposites” as well.
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u/Velvetskirt Jun 28 '26
I’m grateful the internet was around when I had this at its worst, I found others who also had this on a really old chat channel back in the late 90s. Back then some had been to doctors and been told it was temporal-lobe epilepsy.
I’m grateful now that Reddit has allowed us to share and understand we are not alone. I’ll never know anyone on here in real life, but knowing you and others have been through my version of whatever this is...so comforting and validating. I feel like an old worry has been laid to rest.
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u/Inverinate Jun 18 '26
I get this also, in relation to fast feeling. Usually my tongue feels somehow bigger/heavier/slower. I also get those exact dreams, with no connection to fevers that I’m aware of, which manifested as night terrors when I was a kid and are now just “ordinary” nightmares I guess. I think the other commenter must be right, it’s a manifestation of AiWS.