Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: The Case of the Elongating Straws

Accurately interpreting visual stimuli requires a complicated interplay between the eye, visual pathways and cortical pathways. The temporal lobe is responsible for object recognition and the parietal lobe is responsible for motion. Vision requires the integration of information from all cortical areas (temporal, parietal, occipital).

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS) describes a set of visual and somatosensory symptoms characterized by a distortion in perception of the environment, time or self in contrast to hallucinations or illusions.