WEIRD SCIENCE

Man who became a giant overnight

WOULD you like to be a few inches taller?

A 64-year-old man from the Netherlands developed a condition overnight whereby he perceived everyone – and everything – to be tiny.

Despite being of average build, in his mind he’d become a giant.

Doctors reported he would buy extra-large clothes and would avoid doors and corridors for fear he wouldn’t fit through them. However, brain scans revealed he’d suffered a stroke, resulting in significant damage to the regions of the brain involved in spatial awareness and leaving him in a permanently ‘shrunken’ world.