Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: The First Case of Arbitrary, Reproducible, Early Childhood Aiws-like Visual Sensations in a Meditation Setting

Alice in the wonderland syndrome (AIWS) was named after the description by Lewis Carroll in his novel. It was in 1955 when John Todd, a psychiatrist, this entity described for the first time. Todd described it as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” of Lewis Carroll. The author Carroll suffered from heavy migraine attacks. The Alicein-Wonderland-Syndrome is a bewildering state of attacks which affect the visual perception. AIWS is a neurological form of attacks which concern the brain and cause a perception disturbance. The patients describe visual, auditive and tactile hallucinations and perception disturbances. The causes of the AIWS are not exactly known yet. Cases of migraine, brain tumours, depression episodes, epilepsy, delirium, psychiatric drugs, ischemic stroke, EBV, mycoplasma infection and malarial infections correlate with attacks of AIWS. Neuroimaging studies show disturbances of brain regions including the temporoparietal junction, of the temporal region and the occipital region as a typical localisation of the visual road.


Introduction
Alice in the wonderland syndrome (AIWS) was named after the description by Lewis Carroll in his novel. It was in 1955 when John Todd, a psychiatrist, this entity described for the first time. Todd described it as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" of Lewis Carroll.
The author Carroll suffered from heavy migraine attacks. The Alicein-Wonderland-Syndrome is a bewildering state of attacks which affect the visual perception. AIWS is a neurological form of attacks which concern the brain and cause a perception disturbance.
The patients describe visual, auditive and tactile hallucinations and perception disturbances. The causes of the AIWS are not exactly known yet. Cases of migraine, brain tumours, depression episodes, epilepsy, delirium, psychiatric drugs, ischemic stroke, EBV, mycoplasma infection and malarial infections correlate with attacks of AIWS. Neuroimaging studies show disturbances of brain regions including the temporoparietal junction, of the temporal region and the occipital region as a typical localisation of the visual road.

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Age-Related Chronological Personal Retrospective Description (67 y old Californian, USA, e-mail interview setting).
The individual chronological report was described by a 67-yearold man who contacted me from California, USA, in early June 2020.
An e-mail interview was analyzed and described afterwards as follows: Fever before the age of 9. The people who talked to me sounded as if they were talking very fast. I felt like I was standing on my head. I was with my grandmother and on her red sofa. I found out later that I was not there, but in my own house.
Age 9, evening watching TV lying down. The visual perception was like looking through the wrong end of binoculars. Everything was pushed far away. lasted only a short time.
Age 15, during the night drive. The same visual perception as at age 9 had to be run over because of the distortion, Lasted a few minutes.
Age 21, Out during daytime meditation. As I relaxed more, the visual perception as at the age of 9 happened spontaneously. inside of me for a few minutes. What I found out was that I could only go as deep into meditation as I did at 21 because the old fear would return. Get stuck there. In the following years I tried to break through this barrier of fear, but I couldn't. What happened was that it was more difficult to become normal again. It took longer for the wrong end of binocular vision to return to normal. I don't see them as seizures. But nothing unusual happens before the early effects.
Nothing unusual before the ones I initiated. Towards the end of my AIWS experience, I did not mention that I met a man who could address AIWS at will even during mediation. We did this once at the same time in the same room where we were facing each other and were able to connect with each other within the experience. Furthermore, recent articles describe AIWS seizures thereafter ventriculoatrial shunting surgery in hydrocephalus post-operative and in patients with brain tumor, especially glioblastoma. Recent publications describe the curious aspect of AIWS seizures, which constantly correspond to physical abuse [2][3][4]. In these publications, two older women, aged 57 and 61, describe their terrible experiences of sexual abuse and have continuously correlated AIWS attacks after many years [2,3,5]. These case studies shed light on aspects of physical and sexual abuse by describing the entity that appeared many years after this unfamiliar experience of two older women analyzing their experiences as children [3]. These reasonable and strange descriptions and beautiful descriptions of two older women from the United States and the United Kingdom should be supported by further cases and research. The subject is very sensitive, very curious and should be analysed with other cases [6,7]. In our chronological individual case report, a 67-yearold man describes in detail his childhood experience before the age of 9 with vision problems in the form of AIWS vision impairment and physical abuse of the father. The patient described these experiences together in the correlation. Finally, this report has shed light on another case of physical abuse and AIWS-like vision disorders. Surprisingly, AIWS sensations could be arbitrarily induced by himself later, especially between the ages of 20 to 40, through meditation. After this age of 40 the visual experience and AIWS like sensations have been finished and were not described further in this patient. The Californian patient never were ill before, nor took any medications or drugs. Important in this patient is the arbitrary initiation of AIWS like sensations and is therefore the first case in world literature and to date, never has been found this entitiy or has been published. Fact is, AIWS like visual sensations are reproducible in a concentrated meditation setting.