Sometimes, when I am talking to someone - usually when I am being lectured - the person seems to look fine until something strange begins to happen; The person seems to get smaller and smaller - or more precisely, it seems as though my field of optical awareness (which is usually something like 5-10 degrees in a circle in the direction you look at) gets much larger, effectively making the person seem smaller by making him/her take up a smaller fraction of the field.
Once this happens, if I ignore it, it goes away within a few minutes, but if I pay attention to it, by concentrating on how small things look, and visualizing them becoming smaller, this feeling stays (i have held it for about 10 minutes, and then got bored).
When this occurs, besides the region of optical awareness getting bigger, my depth perception changes, and becomes more sensitive. What i mean, is that everything seems to be farther away then normal, which is especially noticeable if I try to walk - it feels as though my feet are soo far away, even though I have no problem walking. By more sensitive, I mean that I feel the difference between the distances of various objects from me.
All in all, it feels very cool, and I feel very focused and tranquil - almost as if time seems to slow down, but not really. (I still feel 1 second per second, but it seems that if need be, I would be able to act and react faster). I find that it would be very interesting to play games or sports using this mode of vision/mental state, and would like to know more about it.
Is there any name for it?
Has anyone else felt this way?
Is it possible to control, sustain, and etc, for any period of time.
And any other information would by nice.
The closest thing i found was objective vertigo;
from wiki:
"The dolly zoom is commonly used by filmmakers to represent the sensation of vertigo, a "falling away from oneself feeling", feeling of unreality"
Not very similiar to dolly zooming....but "falling away from oneself feeling" seems to get pretty close.
its not a problem, and i don't feel bad at all when it happens. My perception is perfectly fine, if not well above average - i play racquetball, ping pong, pool, tennis, and have no problems with perception.
I haven't taken, nor will ever take non medical drugs.
and my peripheral vision isn't changing...since this effect has been observed by me many years already, and it occurs, and then goes away. Everything returns to normal.
I'm just interested in finding out more about it so that perhaps I can learn what exactly causes it and if I can turn it on and off at will.
Sorry, but i'm not looking for anything philosophic, or religious, or spiritual in any matter. I'm looking for either a biological explanation, or a psychological explanation.
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