Syndrome named for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Protagonist, 10 year-old Alice, experiences changes in body size and perception as she travels through Wonderland. First described by Lippman in 1952. Literary name given by Todd in 1955.Complex symptoms which are frightening to those affected:
Bizarre perceptual distortions (metamorphopsia)
Micropsia: objects or persons seem too small
Macropsia: objects or persons seem too large
Distorted distance of objects
Objects may appear elongated or swollen
Achromatopsia: disappearance of colour...

A. Shaw