Have you ever experienced a bizarre "Hyperspace" ?

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sorry, but i don't know what word to use to describe my experience, other than a "hyperspace".

before i had episodes of very severe sensory overload without warning, extreme magnification.
when i was an elementary school student i remember clearly when i would wake up from sleep.
but suddenly, without warning, everything was so very extremely loud!! i could hear everything.

for example, i could hear the sound of my hair on my head, and my feet as i walked on carpet.
what i mean by hair is movement of my hair, rubbing on each other, that sound was magnified.
it was as loud as a jet engine! booming! screeching into my ears! it was very awful, very scary!

when i tried to stand up from the bed and walk on the carpet, my toes touching carpet, boom!
the sound was very loud! i could hear my feet's skin touching on the carpet, scraping! boom!
i was alone in my room, sleeping quietly, but there was no silence, only the terrible loudness!

when i tried to walk, a single step, felt magnified by 1000, a single step felt like i moved warp.
i felt like i could move to the other side of the room in one step. like space/time compression.
when i moved my head, or my arm, the distance and rate of movement felt magnified greatly.
and always with the extreme severe awful loudness like a rock concert speaker on full power.

what was this experience?? it later disappeared when i became an adult, but i still remember.
did anybody ever experience this? i was a child, i never take drugs, and i was fully conscious.
i am still wondering what happened, i want to finally know, and if it is connected to aspergers?

Not to that extreme, but I do have sensory issues sometimes - especially with hearing.. I don't get the ultra-magnified jet engine loud sort of hearing, but I do hear every little thing sometimes and it gets really annoying - especially when I'm trying to sleep and even with earplugs in I can hear every car drive by outside alllll niiiiight looooong.

In some of the books I've read on AS, there are descriptions of people having all sorts of wild sensory issues, including hearing/vision/touch etc. Some people apparently see glowing flares around certain bright colours etc.

Chances are pretty good that your hearing, sense of space/time etc experiences are all ASD related and not the result of some other neurological condition or being under the influence of drugs etc. There's a massive spectrum of possible sensory issues we can have, sounds like you've just identified some of yours is all.

I experienced sound magnification when I was a child, but not that extreme. Sounds that were already loud, like traffic noises, were magnified to a loud frightening roar that filled up the inside of my head. It was very scary. I would run and hide my face in a corner and cry and my parents couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. I outgrew it, to some extent, when I was in elementary school.

i have experienced this once, but visually rather then audio.
i woke up late at night and for some reason stood up and walked to the centre of my room. there i kneeled on the floor and looked at the seam beween two pieces of my carpet; it was magnivied extremely, it was as wide as a step on a stair, and the length was to such an extreme i saw it warp and curl almost into a circle around me, up over my head and back the other side.
i never really think about this, but it was very strange indeed. i also still do not know why i got out of bed, i dont remember anything else being magnified, just the seam...

I also had a strange experience when I was 21. It was profound and changed how I see things. I heard drug users describe things that sound similar, but I never did drugs, rarely drank, and never even tried cigarettes. I was always paranoid about harming my brain.
The thing I remember most was the colours. Everything was incredibly beautiful. The fabric on the back of the bus seat I was sitting behind was amazing. I was not feeling my body. I just felt light and full of joy. I literally had to hold myself back from hugging complete strangers when I walked through the shopping centre. When I looked at them, they looked like a part of me, like we were all connected, but they sort of had a shadow over them, but I knew the real them was in there behind it. Like they were sleep walking.
At home I looked across the yard at a rock, and felt like I could just reach out and touch it, and it was a part of me.
I don't recall anything about difference in how things sounded, so I don't know if it was related to your experience. But I did feel like I was not so confined by my body, like I was beyond my physical confines.

There are really no words to describe it.

^ Confirmed. Some drugs can have those visual effects. Others the emotional ones, but I haven't ever tried the one I'm thinking of - I only know it from others' descriptions.

I don't recall any experiences with ultra-sharp hearing as a child. I did (and still do) sometimes hear a tone in my ears like the tone they play in hearing tests or a TV test pattern. It's not tinnitus, because I have that too. It comes on suddenly and lasts for about a minute, then fades out.

I tend to have the opposite thing with spatial relations--like the Hitchcockian thing where the hallway gets longer and longer the harder you try to reach the end. Sometimes I feel like the ground is bouncing up and down under me, especially if I've been rushing around a lot.

Sounds like a (thankfully mild) case of Seratonin syndrome to me. Where you on any medications?

goldfish21, thank you for your reply. The situation of so called "sensory overload" is one of the obvious symptoms that was described. I think we have a similar experience, except my case lasted shorter and was extremely intense. While your case lasted longer but less intense compared to mine. There must be different ranges of duration and intensity in these sensory overloads. Yet the same sensory overload seems to be happening.

Thank you for telling me the contents in some of the books. I hope to read a complete book on ASD soon. So far i have just investigated much information on the net and in youtube.

Marybird, thank you for your reply. Yes it seems that above normal auditory/sound/hearing sensation is common to us. When you describe it as "loud frightening roar that filled up the inside of my head. It was very scary." Your words are exactly what i felt. Then later you also outgrew it. My cases happened primarily during elementary school, much less in junior high school, and hardly anything in senior high school. Now as an adult it has not happened. I do have some very mild "dizzyness" spells when my visual and hearing perception is a bit off, but nothing so extreme and bizarre like in the past. The major occurence during young age in childhood seems to be a common situation to us.

I've been having this almost permanently for years on a much smaller scale.

izzeme, thank you for your reply. I read your experience that you described closely, it sounds almost exactly like me. My visual magnification aspect was when i took a step, as i moved forward, that feeling of forward movement of my body was magnified. I know i only took one step, but my sensation was that i was already on the other side of the room, and i could see the wardrobe closet on the other side of the room up close in front of my face, like i was standing right in front of it, but i had only just taken one step. I intellectually knew i had taken just one step, which was not enough to reach the other side of the room. I know the wardrobe was far from me. But I could already see it up close. My sensation and perception was that i was already there, on the other side of the room staring close up to the wardrobe closet. A one centimeter step, felt like movement of ten meters instantly to the other side. Like being in the two different positions of the room instantaneously. Like a "warp speed" or something. Its hard to put in words..

Its like looking through a telescope, but inside your room. The telescope is meant to see far away things like stars and planets, but when you use it inside a room, the thing that is only 5 meters away, seems like its right in front of your face.

Your sensation of the sudden movement of things, the seam in the carpet suddenly being around you, as if your eyes were already down into the seam, and suddenness of it, sounds eerily similar. The level of extreme intensity seems similar as well.

How old were you when it happened? And did you grow out of it?

BlackSabre7 thank you for your reply. I have that kind of attitude to drugs. I have never smoked a cigarette ever. I have never tried marijuana ever, despite everyone around me inviting me to do it. I have never done any other drugs whatsoever. It might be arrogant of me to say, but i think drug users are weak. I refuse to be enslaved to external substances, except for food and water, well i love fruit juices so..

Thank you for describing that experience. Very interesting indeed! In my case i had always been alone by myself, in my room when my experiences happened. During elementary i was an extreme recluse, stayed inside my room all day, never went outside, never met or saw anyone. Except my mom, when she made my food, and when i had to use the toilet. I was satisfied to be in my room, reading encyclopedias and maps. It would have been interesting, though very very scary to experience what i experienced in a large crowd in a mall. The sensory overload level might be off the scale!

I am wondering, did you feel any sudden temperature change on your body? like a sudden heat or sudden cold? I had another weird experience, but no sensory overload and no magnification. It was very different. I could feel a ball of moving coldness, it started in the base of my spinal cord and rose up, into the base of my neck and into my skull cavity. The closest description i can say is "coolness" or "icy cold" that rises. Anyway once it moved into my skull i felt the same kind of universal, wonderful beauty and peace around me, similar to what you describe. It sounds crazy, but i felt i knew in that sudden moment what "The Universe" really was, like i knew in that short moment, the secret of all existence. I was so sure and at peace. Then the coldness slowly faded out, and i felt deteriorated or lesser than the moment before. I cannot explain it. In all cases no drugs, no medicine, nothing.

I never took medications at the time, and I have never taken drugs. I have always been drug free

I read about LSD in my encyclopedia when i was a child, so back then i thought somehow my body had made its own natural LSD inside

But now, several decades later, i read about AS, and i am thinking it has probably something to do with that.

Mindsigh, thank your for your reply. I can say that i have had none of those experiences you described. I am wondering, do you feel any disorientation or a lack of balance? the ground bouncing up and down, if it includes loss of balance, or sense of disorientation, then it could be connected to the ear tone ringing you described. The inside of the ear is connected to balance. I'm not sure about all the details. but a famous inner ear balance disorder is called "Vertigo". Its ironic you mention Hitchcock because he made a movie on that.

Geekonychus, thank you for your reply. No, i wasn't taking any medications whatsoever. I was and am totally drug free.

At that time, i was just a kid, so i thought i had an acid trip without any acid. I thought my body somehow made its own natural LSD. i had no idea what was going on.