Who has never read
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
?
In this Lewis Carroll story, Alice is sometimes giant, sometimes tiny.
The characters who revolve around her also have varying sizes.
These modifications of the visual perception of space, of objects, of his body and / or that of others, which are part of what is called "metamorphopsias", did not come out of the imagination of the author: suffering from migraine with ophthalmic aura, Lewis Carroll would have lived this strange experience!
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As explained by Prof. Anne Ducros, neurologist (CHU Montpellier) and Prof. Fabrice Bartolomei, head of the epileptology and cerebral rhythmology department at the Timone hospital (Marseille),
“when this type of manifestation occurs by seizures that are repeated over time, it is suggestive of a neurological condition: a migraine with aura or epilepsy ”
.
But if the visual deformations persist, the attack of one eye (sometimes both) is to be feared.
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