Surroundings becoming weird and fast/intense/loud

[123que]

I first experienced this weird sensation when i was a child and had a bad fever/illness in bed. Suddenly my entire surroundings in my bedroom became very intense and everything around me became fast and almost louder in my mind, although they weren't in reality.

Ever since then i sometimes (about once every few months) experience this odd sensation and it can become a bit worrying and strange.

The whole room seems to have a new feeling to it- everything im doing whether it be walking or typing seems to intensify and become louder yet the actions are very exaggerated and almost speed up (only perceived this way). I find it very difficult to explain fully but i'm worried it's some early signs of a neurological condition or something?

It usually only onsets when i'm alone and have a lot of silence for a while...?

Does you know what this could be, please?

[Tedd12]

It happens to me every few months, normally when im concentrating on something. Whenever i get it i normally go and talk to someone and it goes away. Is it some kind of condition of what?

[benji579]

Yeah, I can somewhat relate to that. I feel like it could be more likely to happen if i heavily concentrate on something for long periods of time in complete silence. Its just , thankfully , i dont do that that often lol

[Tpig1228]

i have read that it may be an episode of Depersonalization/derealization the definition does not match perfectly but its the best i found.

[bradora]

i have this to an extent, what i have is called derealisation, its more a sideeffect of drugs, but essentially your world grows and becomes something thats familiar but unreachable, like its a movie, i sometimes get everything going loud but usually i cant hear anything, look up derealisation and have a see if you relate :)

[Akira727]

I had these my whole life 2-3 per year. When I was a kid it felt like a deep feeling of awareness. Some times it felt like a dangerous thing and other times an exciting ride. I just had the biggest episode ever where thing were so loud and fast I couldn’t take it. So I talked to someone and when I talk to someone it always fades away. I talked 2-3 years ago with a spiritual teacher about this and said it’s a conscious connection with another dimension. Spiritual teachers say they can travel subconsciously to another dimension. Well this is the conscious  one so you are in the in the in between. That is why everything seem faster and louder cause in other dimensions things are actually different. In reality I don’t know what is this thing but whatever it is when it gets scary I find that it fades away when I talk to someone. Other times I just enjoy it cause it feels I am more aware than ever! Take care ;)

[Anhel_MF]

I know its been years since this post was made. My husband  has the exact same feeling. We've been together for 7 years now and he has episodes on very regular bases, probably once a week. He has always tried to explain them to me, but never really got how intense they were to him. For the last two month he's been having episodes almost every day, so I decided to search on google and found this.
After all this time... does anyone knows what this is???

[Hudyweiss]

I've just spent two hours reading through this thread and I just want to add my own experiences, many which I've seen here already but a couple no one has mentioned.

I'm 17 now and I've been having these episodes since I was around 5-8 years old. I cant remember the first time i experienced it but i know it was a pretty constant thing throughout my childhood and at some points i experienced it weekly or monthly. They have slowed down and I've only had two since I was 15, the last being around six months ago. The episodes used to last from 5-30 minutes but in the last few years none were longer than two minutes and the last one I was able to get rid of in 20 seconds by concentrating reallly hard on distracting myself.

The main symptoms are hard to describe but it's mostly an intense and fast feeling. I feel like time is moving very quickly and all sounds are much more intense, I can hear very small sounds loudly like people breathing or turning a page. The description of your thoughts screaming at you everything you are doing that I've seen here is so spot on it's scary. It feels like I'm narrating my own thoughts and actions in caps lock or with a megaphone but all inside my mind. My entire body usually feels tense and super aware of all sensations. I haven't seen anyone mention this, but I usually get these during tests in school or when I'm studying and so I'm often holding a pen or pencil and it always feels like I holding on super tight to the pencil like I'm angry but even harder to the point I think my fingers might snap. I also feel like I'm writing super hard and I might rip the paper. The entire time I know that this is not actually the case and sometimes I try to physically hold on the pencil with less force, which sometimes results in me holding the pencil so lightly  I'm about to drop it and it still feels like I'm holding on super tight.
My jaw is also tensed up and sometimes I feel like I'm biting into a sponge or styrofoam with my back teeth. Sometimes I also get a metallic taste in my mouth.

Until I found this thread I don't think I realized that this always happened when everything was quiet but thinking back it happened a lot during tests or while I was reading a book in a quiet place. I never had a name for this when it happened and I also never told anyone about it. For some reason I never thought of sharing this I dont know why. I was never scared when it happened only a bit intrigued and for a while when I was about 12 I thought it could be a sign of me gaining superpower that I needed to learn how to control.

Any help in figuring out what this is would be much appreciated, just for some more context, I do have anxiety and I experience panic attacks pretty often, this is very dissimilar in all aspects. I also had a very high fever as a child (104) but I dont associate this with showing up with or right after the fever though I suppose it did begin sometime after, I don't see any connection though.