What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
6. Migraines
Because so many people with AWS also suffer from debilitating headaches, some physicians consider AWS to be nothing more than an extreme migraine symptom. In particular, they consider the visual disturbances to be auras. Typical auras appear as halos around lights, flashes of light, blurry spots, or zigzag shapes in the field of vision.
Although the Red Queen does want to chop off her head, Alice never complains of head pain. The author Lewis Carroll, however, was a confirmed migraine sufferer. In his journals he describes his headaches as “bilious,” vomit-inducing, and causing visual distortions. It is possible that his experiences were inspiration for those of Alice in Wonderland.
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