Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), or micropsia:
Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), or micropsia is a disorienting neurological condition which affects human visual perception.
Symptoms:
1. Impaired visual perception
2. Disorientation
3. Tiny vision
4. Inability to interpret
5. Size nonrecognition patient perceive humans, parts of humans, animals, and inanimate objects as substantially smaller than in reality.
Patient suffering from Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) perceived appears far away or extremely close at the same time. For example, a cow may appear the size of a goat, or a normal car may look shrunk to toy. Because of this we also call this condition as Lilliput sight or Lilliputian hallucinations, named after the small people in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels Tales.
The condition is in terms of perception only, the mechanics and kinetics of the eyes are not affected, only the brain's interpretation of information wrongly passed from the eyes leads to this funny condition.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), or micropsia is a disorienting neurological condition which affects human visual perception.
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| Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) |
Symptoms:
1. Impaired visual perception
2. Disorientation
3. Tiny vision
4. Inability to interpret
5. Size nonrecognition patient perceive humans, parts of humans, animals, and inanimate objects as substantially smaller than in reality.
Patient suffering from Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) perceived appears far away or extremely close at the same time. For example, a cow may appear the size of a goat, or a normal car may look shrunk to toy. Because of this we also call this condition as Lilliput sight or Lilliputian hallucinations, named after the small people in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels Tales.
The condition is in terms of perception only, the mechanics and kinetics of the eyes are not affected, only the brain's interpretation of information wrongly passed from the eyes leads to this funny condition.
