Charles Dodgson and Alice in Wonderland syndrome

Abstract

The University of Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (1832–98) is better known as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865. In the book, Dodgson describes how a girl called Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a Wonderland, where she meets numerous fantastic creatures and experiences a host of peculiar perceptual distortions—among them the Cheshire cat, who keeps appearing and disappearing; her own body, which grows larger and smaller; and the King's gardeners and soldiers, who look oblong and flat.