How come sometimes when you close your eyes to sleep and try to imagine something, your imagination takes what you imagine way out of proportion?

Question

For example, if you try to imagine a person, the person is never proportional, they’d be really tall or really wide.

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Answer 1

Sounds like Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, which is known to sometimes coincide with sleep onset. (Personally I’ve only ever experienced it applying to my own body—getting very large or very small.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome