Anyone else “feel” thunderstorms?

[OhDear2200]

Or am I just odd?

Had some thunderstorms last couple of days and they make me feel odd. My ears feel funny and I feel like my heart is racing. This is not from fear it’s more of a feeling as a result of the storm.

Am I imagining this or do others feel it too?

I can feel tense and get headaches with stormy weather think might be to do with the low pressure?

Change of pressure. I always get a nosebleed before thunder and lightning.

Yeah, I have headaches before a thunderstorm or heavy convectional rain, it's the air pressure

Me and dd get nosebleeds and I always get pain in my knuckles and wrists prior to a thunderstorm.

Hmmm - pressure would make sense - my ears are going crazy and now and there has been lightning.

I get pressure headaches in the run-up to a thunderstorm. They usually go away once the storm has started.

Yep, really common, I can normally tell hours if not a day before a storm is brewing (feel a bit tense and squashed) and often know exactly when it's about to start pouring down (get a feeling like an elastic being released a few minutes before)

I fee like everything goes still and silent, and you can feel the electricity in the air. I LOVE it, and when there is a good thunderstorm I always try to sit outside (under shelter, like a gazebo) if I can, and just watch the lightning in the sky. I find it beautiful and so peaceful

Me too, the pressure headaches and knowing if it's going to rain. Not all rain makes my headache, but I still know if it's going to rain.

Yes, I can feel a storm coming. It's oppressive. I often get a migraine. My DM reacts the same.

When it breaks I feel amazing. When my garden wasn't overlooked I ran out one night in nothing but shoes and danced around in the thunderstorm. It was exhilarating.

I shared this with my childminder, who also liked storms, and it turned out she'd done it too. So probably not that unusual.

Horses get excited in thunderstorms. They rush about with their tails up and streaming.

I love a thunderstorm, but they give me headaches!

I get a weird sensation, like the smell of a burnt match, but it’s inside my head rather than a smell.

Sounds really weird now that I write it down.

Yes, my hair tingles, I get little tingles all over but especially my head and my ears get hot.
Freeeeak!!

Yeah, I get a throbby headaches before storms.

And a weird thing... I sometimes think things sound different just before a storm, like a car in the distance has a different sound to normal (sorry, it's hard to describe but I used to hear a distinct sound of cars that only seemed to happen before storms!)

Yes, my mood changes to one of restlessness, headache etc, which goes the minute it starts.
I also now when it's going to lighten after the thunder, scares dh witless.
Have you been on the witches thread? Not saying you're a witch I don't know you, but very interesting topics and discussion.

Yes I get a feeling of pressure in my chest during a thunderstorm.

OP, do you feel energised and a bit edgy or the opposite.
You sound more witchy every post I read. grin]

So I’m not the only one!

Interestingly I also love thunderstorms.

Romany - definitely energised I can’t not not watch the storm so last night I had to get up at 2.30 to watch it

I feel them in the air. I think most people do. There is a certain tightness in the atmosphere.

Oh Dear, Oh Dear
Do you feel powerful like you could do anything, if so you are one hell of a witch and that's great.

Not sure.

But they make me feel very excited and happy. I love them.

I can feel the pressure and tension in the air, often as a headache. I can smell it too - a tinny electrical taint to the air. I’m always glad when the storm breaks, because the tension eases.

I get the smell thing too and the alteration in sound quality. That'll be caused by the effects of increased pressure on the eardrum.

This is interesting. I'm glad other people have the same reaction, those no one else has admitted naked cavorting during a rainstorm. In my teens I had sex in a huge rhododendron bush during a thunderstorm. God we got filthy! Drenched and muddy with it.

I can feel it and smell it too. And once in Paris before a severe storm the pressure was so bad I actually couldn't see until the storm broke. That has never happened again, but it was very scary while it lasted.