There are many reasons why a patient may walk like stepping on cotton with dizziness symptoms. If a patient suddenly develops these symptoms, it is considered to be caused by acute cerebrovascular disease. When the patient has a lesion in the thalamus or internal capsule, the patient may experience a deep sensory disturbance, which may manifest as dizziness and a feeling of walking like stepping on cotton. However, the patient may also have abnormal movement of the limbs, or numbness of the limbs. The symptoms of walking like stepping on cotton with dizziness may also be caused by elevated blood pressure, so attention should be paid to blood pressure measurement. Patients with walking like stepping on cotton and dizziness should also consider spinal cord consumption, subacute joint degeneration of the spinal cord, or diabetes mellitus and peripheral neuropathy, and be treated with high doses of neurotrophic drugs such as vitamin B12 and methylcobalamin.