Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: When Reality Loses Its Proportions

You look down at your hands. They’re gigantic—swollen to three times their normal size, fingers like sausages, impossibly huge. You look at the room around you. It’s shrinking. The walls are closing in. The ceiling is descending. Everything is becoming tiny while you expand to fill the space. Or wait—are you shrinking? The room is growing massive. The doorway has become a cathedral entrance. Your hands are doll-sized. You are small, impossibly small, while the world balloons around you. ...

January 16, 2025 · 11 min · Rafiul Alam