Making myself dizzy as a child.

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I use to do this alot as a child. I had to do it when my mom was not watching because for some reason she never let me do it. I would just keep on spinning until I would fall down and then just stare at the spinning ceiling. I was also pressing my fist on my eyes as strong as I could and watch all the colors and paterns. I was pretending I was going into a different dimension and the further away I was going, the closest to the other dimension I was getting(Always chickened out and bale out before switching dimension...)

As a young adult, I discovered alchool and drugs. Whatever I use, it was always to the maximum effect as possible. I don't do that anymore (spinning and heavy use of substance) but looking back, what I did as an adult is completely for the same reason I was making myself dizzy as a child.

I do the two things that you did as a child, but I don't pretend that I'm going to another dimension in the process. I used to spin a lot more than now, though. Now, I just spin sometimes. When I was little, I thought that everybody else could see the colors when pressing my eyes, and I got mad at my mom for not seeing them. Hehehe

I did that too.

That's why I lived on the swingset as a child. I used the motion of the swing to make myself dizzy.

Other people don't see those colors??? I don't have to press on my eyes, I see them just by closing my eyes.

I thought everyone liked to spin as a child too.

When I was around 3-4 years old I would to try to go inside pictures. They were paintings or prints of landscape scenes we had in the house. I would lie down below the picture and concentrate really hard on going to the place in the picture. I tried to get my mom to do it with me. She didn't want to but I would insist until she would lie down with me and pretend to do it too. I knew she didn't really believe in it and I thought that was what stopped us from being able to go.

I too liked to spin as a child and experience the dizzyness! As well as pressing hard on my eyes to see the kaleidoscope like colour effect. I just thought every kid did that... The more and more I learn, the more it all makes sense about who I am.

I'm sure every kids have done this, same with swings. I had to learn this from someone. I guess is the intensity and frequency of it that differ from one to an other. I was probably doing it alot because my mom was getting really mad when she caught me doing it. I didnt understand why I wasnt allowed to make myself dizzy? It was a fun feeling to me.

Wait, what? Everyone doesn't see colors when pressing their eyes?

I was also a spinner. I loved the dizzy feeling afterwards. My mum always told me not to do it, because I'd make myself sick. I never got sick spinning, because I liked doing so much. My little sister joined me many times.

My sister and I also hung upside down on the couches, looking at the light spots that the lamps projected onto the ceiling.

No, no, no, I meant that other people couldn't see exactly what I saw when I pressed my OWN eyes.

I used to try doing that but as I got older I got really acute motion sickness. This makes me think of that thing in the diagnosis thing where they talk about spinning objects - now I have a lot of stims that revolve around that, but spinning chairs now makes me get really sick. I used to do it A LOT when I was a kid though.

On drugs, I can't stand alcohol but I like pot (lol an autistic toker lol). Wish it was legal.

I so loved to spin as a child. I imagine that I still would if it didn't make me sick. I am nearly 60. and I still swing on swings as often as possible. I face toward the sun and squish my eyes shut to see the patterns and colors. Another thing that felt similar to the emotional state I reached in spinning was jumping and doing 'sits" on the trampoline. No flips or anything. Just rhythmical sit , stand up, sit, stand up. for hours and hours and hour. Sometimes I would go into another world. Other times I would just feel everything flowing out, leaving me with a relaxing empty [not in a bad way] feeling.

I used to spin a lot. And because of this thread, I just did it again. weeee.

I liked spinning when I was a kid too.

My parents would make me stop.

I have a swivel chair now at my computer, and live alone now.

Yes. Sometimes the chair MUST spin...with me sitting on it.

I can't believe I'm admitting to this...

I used to always spin in spiny chairs, until I ended up with a bloody nose...