Something like that kept happening when I was 8-9 years old. The closest I can explain is with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome . I kept feeling like Gulliver as either in Lilliput land or in giant land. It filled me with dread and I felt that I couldn't talk. When opening my mouth I felt the motions really slow and it took forever to create words.

Rarely, now in my adulthood I start feeling similar but I realize what is happening and I can control how the objects turn big /small.

I've had this as a kid when I had a fever, and also get it reliably as an adult when I'm exhausted and too warm and trying to sleep. I have to get up and cool down and do something calming like staring out the window for a while, which usually does the trick.

My one and only chance to use a card imprinter was on a train from London to York. It was the first time that I realized why the embossing exist

I know a variant of this about a Romanian but the important thing is the reflexive: "One ball got lost and one got broken" or as a word for word translation: "One ball lost itself, the other one broke itself"

So the end was probably supposed to be "I'm sorry I can't show you anything because one ball broke in no time, and later another one simply disappeared."

I just realized that the author of the comment you point to is also the author of the FA. Wanted to point it out to others.

Interesting. I didn't make the connection. Or, well, I guess I did.

One small mistake at the end: x = $1.25 y = $3.75