My brains has these fast motion periods where everything around me is going in fast motion what is it?

[Aims215]

I'm 14 years old and I have these periods where my brain starts to race and it feels like everything is going in fast motion. When I talk, somebody is talking, music is playing or when I walk it feels like everything is going in fast motion like everything is being extremely rushed.It happens at least once every 2 weeks but i've had it twice this week . This only happened to me about 2 times in the past year but also I get these patterns of noises in my head when I'm lying in bed and it keeps me from sleeping.I just wanted to know what it was because I honestly am scared and my mother laughs at me when i try to tell her that something is wrong and it frustrates me

[MadiLucas]

My boyfriend has been having problems with "everything is going fast" hes had it since he was a kid. Ive been with him for 4 years and ive seen him go through this a handful of times. This last year its been getting worse. I think its linked with his night terrors he has. I dont know what i can do to help. I talk slower and am patient with him but i think his mind is spiralling. He says his mind feels like someone is shaking it, he said he feels that in his ears and eyes too. I feel like he could hurt himself because of it. I sometimes feel helpless  i looked up Alice in Wonderland Syndrome  and its not like that, he doesnt see different sizes its just sped up, is there anything I can help with  I want to be there to help him i want him to be okay

[Paxiled]

I'm not sure how many people are still looking at this old thread, starting a new one can be more helpful to you, but I saw it.  Has he ever sought treatment for this?  Ever seen a doctor?  Ever seen a therapist or anyone who might be able to see if there's something going on?  This could be a manifestation of an anxiety attack.  I'm also wondering, if you're both old enough to be boyfriend and girlfriend for 4 years, I'm assuming you're not super young, right?  I mean, I have to assume you're not kids, so you might want to explain what you mean by "night terrors."  This is usually associated with childhood nightmares.  If they're continuing into adulthood, again, what kind of treatment has he had for it?  I have no idea what anyone on this long thread is going through, but it's really hard to treat anything without a professional diagnosis if one is to be had.

[helpfullhand111]

I am 34 and had this same issue when I was much younger.  I don't remember the exact ages but it was probably 11-14.  Personally I don't think it's an anxiety attack or a panic attack. It does not need medication.  Things sped up to the point where when it first happened I said to my mom why are you talking so fast.  It was as though she was talking 4 times the normal speed.  It would also happen at extremely random times.  There was no trigger.  I found that when it starts breathing slowly, thinking a sentence in your head slowly, moving your body slowly, if there is music playing either find a channel without words that is slower paced or just turn it off.  If someone is talking to you just say give me a minute I need to respond to someone via your phone or make up something that stops the conversation.  Maybe say "something popped into my head and you lost it.  Give me a minute to remember what I was going to say."  I also suffered from something that many have experienced a few times in their lives. I have suffered from it from a young age to now.  It's call sleep paralysis. Most that experience it suffer from it between 14-20.  It's something that most who experience it only deal with it a few times. I however have dealt with it for probably 20 years.  Early years were more regular and now it's few and far between.  I am not going to explain what the dreams of sleep paralysis consists of you can look it up yourself.  I will say when I experience it now a days it's not scary at all.  I realized that my extremely lucid dreams are just that.  If I have a sleep paralysis attack I just go with it and know whatever happens it's just part of it and its not real.  I am not sure if they go together just my experience.

[AshleyS672]

I am 12 and I have been expirencing this since I was little

[fatherhgrace]

i always used to have this when i was about 6 or 7. Then it stopped but in the past few weeks, its been coming up again, and im 14 now. My air conditioner was on and it felt like it was going to fast for my brain to handle. so i put on some music to come myself down, but that too felt way too fast. And i purposely put on a song i know by heart and love so it'll feel calming. I know the song so well and it too definetly felt like it was going way too fast. This thread started in 2008 and since then still, nobody has found a reason. Well, i hope everyone gets over this and a tip that helps me is count back from 10 very slowly and breath deep.

[Anjunagasm]

I’m glad I’m not the only person feeling like this. I’m 25 years old and it just happened to me in December of last year. I was washing dishes after a long and medium day at work (I worked at a Japanese restaurant in the kitchen at the time) and all of the sudden I had this horrible splitting headache in the back of my head, almost like someone lit a firecracker and cut a hole in my occipital lobe and stuck it in. Then about 15 mins later i was walking down the street and I had these weird out of body flashes like i was staring at myself from the corner of the street, and then ever since then I have these episodes where everything looks like it’s in time lapse video format. Things don’t look like they adhere to the laws of physics and I get these strange feelings like I’ve got syrup or something flowing through my veins. I feel weak and scared and everything starts moving super fast. Colors look super bright almost like someone loaded a photo up into photoshop and turned the saturation all the way up. Sometimes when I close my eyes it’s like the backs of my eyelids are little movie screens and I can see things as vividly as I can when I open my eyes. I’ve been told it’s anxiety. I was told it was PTSD. I have bipolar and I’m hoping it’s not some sort of psychotic episode. I’ve also been told it’s something called depersonalization/derealization. I just want this to end and my life to go back to normal.

[Kimmiwilson09_]

I’m having it too. I feel like this one is worst from the others and I can’t stop, I get a weird feeling in my hands sometimes where it feels like everything is soft and I’m hoping when I go in that there is nothing wrong with me surgery wrong with me. It’s 2:34AM and I work up from a sleep and start feeling this.