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by rem_2007 on March 16th, 2009

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Does anyone ever get the strange feeling of being very big or small inside your body? It is hard to describe and it happens when my eyes are closed but it kind of feels like I am very small inside my body which feels very huge and solid. I f

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  • by Erin_K3550 on February 4th, 2011

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    i have the same/similar feeling when i am lying down with my eyes closed sometimes, it has happened to me on and off since i was a kid. I feel incredibly,imppossibly small and huge at the same exact time, for some reason it always brings to mind a grain of sand. it is a very uncomfortable feeling and when i open my eyes i am fine but as soon as i close them again it comes right back, i usually have to get up and walk around for a bit before it will stop

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  • by joncjb on April 28th, 2011

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    Ive had experienses almost similar to these since early childhood ... Mostly while lying in bed. The sensation of getting big and small at the same time was always accompanied by a vision (or hallucination, whaterver you decide to call it) while having my eyes closed (and sometimes even with eyes open for a few moments, as juxtaposed on whatever i was looking at by then).

    The vision is hard to describe, but ill try anyway. It seemed as if i was looking at a far horizon (the whole vision is in greyscale) of a surreal inner landscape of myself. The ground and sky of the landscape where somehow visually identical but different in my sensation.
    Alsow i had a feeling as if i, myself was the landscape (no separarion of subject and object). There was also a feeling of allertness and a subtle fear.
    My hole attention then was drawn to the center of the horizon as a tiny wobbling something was emerging and getting closer at enormous speed, but simultanously taking an eternety to reach me. I also was that meanacing object.
    While the object startet to grow and come closer i started to feel more and more tiny. And at the same time also huge since, as i said, i was also the now gigantic wobbl-thing.
    This thing was somehow like a giant natrium ball, when put into water, boiling and changing all the time. The whole experience was very physical and there was also a special taste, smell, and sound to it. But all of them totally contradictory in form and essence.

    The roar of silence, the taste of nothing, the smell of spirit.
    I remember being affraid and fascinated during and after these experiences and noticed, since they have been comming and disapearing periodically during my whole life -the last was yesterday and the one before that, maybe half a year a go- that they allways come in times of deep structural changes in my psyche and therefore complete life experience.

    These experiences are now for me very dear friends and i enjoy them and try not to run away from them, but to experience them with all of my attention.

    The last one was really strong as i felt also getting somehow getting fatter (my fingers felt like big sausages) and inmenselly heavy like a rock.
    I was sitting outside at a cafe and desided to meditate because i was very excited since i was going to meet friend of mine whom i had not seen for a long time and i had to wait for half an our or so till her arrival.
    She had just told me on the phone, that she was in her 7th month pregnant. The last time i had seen her was four years ago and at that time we had been sort of a couple, so i was baffled and happy for her of course.
    After meditating and having my sausagefingersupertranscendentallyconcreteabstractiontrip she finally arrived and there was the same love radiating out of both of us and towards us. Although we had changed there was a sence of infinity and the aknowledgement that real love and friendship never die as reflections of our own endlessness, beyond time, space and form.

    I hope to have encouraged you to be open to these experiences your having or have had and might have again.

    Whish you all a fullfilled life in loving ralation to your-self and all there is, abundance, clarity, centerdness, health, sincerity, joy, kindness, compassion, meaning, holyness and last but not least PEACE.

    JOn

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  • by soultheory on February 3rd, 2011

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    Holy shit, I didn't even know this existed lmfao.

    I have the same weird-ass feeling but in a different way.
    The way it is with me is I think of this really really small ball or something like hair but focus on it, or think of the hair falling on a knife and being split. Other times the feeling comes when I think of a black metal ball that's really huge and I'm standing in front of it.

    LOL it's so fucking weird.

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  • by Mike_K787 on September 28th, 2010

    Mike_K787

    Last Year I went through alot of Personal Development work, releasing alot of baggage from my past. Each time I had a major shift (changes in my head and how I was thinking), i felt as if I was shrinking inside of myself. My fingers felt HUGE, and my consciousness felt tiny inside my head. And viewing out everything seemed so far away and LARGE (like those horror movies where they zoom in and pan out at the same time!)My personal belief is that it is connected with Neurological change, as I have experienced it on a few occasions, always tied into changes in the way I am thinking and how I percieve myself and life.

    It could be percieved in a more spiritual way or a combination of both, this isn't the same experience on the link, but I think you will find in interesting.

    http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html

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  • by makisupapoliceman on August 10th, 2010

    makisupapoliceman

    I just wanted to let you know that this happens to me sometimes. I can't help with what it is, but it makes me feel very strange, and I hate it. Opening my eyes, yawning, or actually getting up and doing something for a little usually helps.

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  • by ashesofgray on June 9th, 2010

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    I've been thinking of the same exact thing actually... For me, its like I'm seeing a small dot in the middle of me that is "me" while everything around "me" is my body. It's a weird feeling, and I think it has to do with something else, like derealization, depersonalization, or something.

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