Is it normal to feel like the room is spinning when you close your eyes?

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Ever since I was a kid I would occasionally have these moments right before bed when I would close my eyes and it felt like my eyes were zooming from left to right really fast and the room was spinning. No matter if I shook my head or opened my eyes, once I closed them it would start again. I would always have to get up and do something and eventually it would go away.

As I got older I found out about vertigo, and actually started having that happen when I would have a really long bender - but these were totally different (btw the vertigo was different from the 'spins' as well). So yeah, 3 different things, 2 I can understand, but 1 I have never been able to get. WebMD didn't have any ideas either (just said it was vertigo which I know it wasn't). Anyway... :P Just wondering if this is normal or if I have been secretly taken away in the night by ALiEnS!!!!

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  • Rachel888
    13 years ago

    Nope, not aliens, garden gnomes.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    I have this soooo normal?

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals
    10 years ago

    I used to have it from drinking booze but I'm tolerant now so I no longer get this feeling.

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  • memyselfandi007
    10 years ago

    positional vertigo. i have that condition

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  • StandingBY
    12 years ago

    So what's it called?

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  • takeiteasy12
    13 years ago

    Normal. I use to have that but grew out of it..

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  • dot_r_loser
    13 years ago

    Alien Aliens Aliens

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  • DannyKanes
    13 years ago

    Aliens

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