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This syndrome can affect multiple senses, including vision, touch, and hearing. It can also cause losing sense of time. Time may seem to pass faster or slower than you believe. Your sense of measurements around you can be affected as well. You may feel larger or smaller than you actually are.. You may also find that the place you’re in - or the surrounding furniture - seems to shift and feel further away or closer than it actually is. For example, a child with this symptom may see their mother right next to them when she’s on the other side of the room. Some patients also have hallucinations which can lead to distorted sense of reality.
Luckily, this case is rarely diagnosed. According to The Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology, between the years 1955 and 2015, only 169 cases of patients with AIWS have been reported in the literature; most of them are ≤18 years old. Although this syndrome can affect people at any age, the most common reports are of children, and most of them grow out of it before adulthood. It is also reported that episodes of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome are most active at night. While symptoms can appear at any time, most commonly, a person experiences them close to the time they generally go to bed.