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What just happened to me!?

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2wombraiders · 13/02/2023 10:43

I’m prepared to be told I’m mentally unwell and need to see a doctor (last resort) but I’m certain I just entered a time glitch.

I was driving into the countryside to collect my daughter from a sleepover and everything felt like it was really slow. I pulled over as I thought it was the car. I looked up and saw a Concorde flying above me. The type that were a common sight in the 90s and before. I’m 100% it was a Concorde and not a similar looking plane as I grew up near air fields and ports and watched them daily.

The car that was driving behind me had vanished. There was no where for it to go as we were on a very narrow country lane and over taking would have been very difficult. Even the birds were moving slower, like they were hovering not gliding.
I got back in the car and after 10 minutes or so everything was back to normal. I arrived late to collect my daughter so I’m not sure what happened with the time as I set off early. I saw the car behind me as I was pulling into the driveway of the house I was going to.

My husband thinks I’m pranking him, my best friend laughed and said I clearly drank too much last night (I didn’t), I’m confident I didn’t faint or black out so I don’t know what the explanation is.
I’ve Googled this specific place to see if there is anything ‘wrong’ but I can’t find any stories and no mention of Concorde sights. Ive seen a few stories of time stopping still for people but I’m sceptical about this sort of stuff. I just can’t shake the creepiness of it! Has this happened to anyone else?

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Mylittlepea · 14/02/2023 18:17

No advice to offer but I love stuff like this. I’ve experienced a sense of something else beyond the ordinary, not driving but out walking. Hard to explain so I won’t even try, but very strange.

Of course do get your car checked, me & DH once went very drowsy in the car whilst on a shortish daytime journey and struggled to stay awake, we had the windows wide open on the motorway to get air in the car. Turned out all the filters were blocked and no air coming in. Scary really.

keep us updated!

wooo69 · 14/02/2023 18:17

BellePeppa · 13/02/2023 11:36

I’ve got no explanation but I don’t think you’re imagining it as such, it could be some sort of ‘strange phenomena’ that has no explanation. I’ll always remember a strange incident back in the 80s when I was lying in bed and felt the weight of someone on top of me but there was no one there. It was dark but there was definitely no real person there (two dogs in the house would most certainly have alerted me to intruders). I felt really weird for days after (not violated but a weird otherness feeling). Even now I sometimes look back on it and wonder what it was.

This has happened to me in a hotel, I had got out of the shower and laid on the bed with a towel over me. DH went in the shower and I could hear the water and from the sounds he was in the bathroom.
I felt a weight on top of me but no one was there, I was unable to push it off me or scream for help even though I was trying.

mamabear715 · 14/02/2023 18:29

Totally agree with you, @2wombraiders
We don't know everything, & anyone who pretends that they do is a fool.
What an experience.. but I guess once was enough! I'm assuming you'll be giving that road a miss from now on, but if you do find anything else out, I, for one, would love to hear it.
Thanks for sharing.

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OhCrumbsWhereNow · 14/02/2023 18:31

Are you on any medication?

My father was having a lot of incredibly vivid hallucinations last year - which included a pair of Japanese men who would come and sit down on the sofa in the sitting room (my father has no Japanese friends and lives in a very small village in the back end of nowhere).

He ended up with the hospital investigating him for a type of dementia that has hallucinations. Then he stopped taking a drug he was on and not had a single one since.

MrsCooper84 · 14/02/2023 18:33

MattDillonsEyebrows · 13/02/2023 11:44

Love all the arrogance of the 'scientists' on these threads!

'oh you MUST have fallen asleep at the wheel' Really? for 20 minutes???

'you MUST be having a seizure!' - Again, a seizure lasting 20 minutes would surely be a medical emergency!

Whilst I don't deny that the OP should get checked out medically in order to rule things out, there are so many incidences of things like this happening. As PP have said Bold St in Liverpool is renowned for it, is everyone who experiences it having a seizure?

And someone has reported a similar thing happening on the same lane, I imagine we'll be told they MUST be lying! But to what purpose?

It is possible that things happen in this world that can't be explained with science. And do you honestly believe that all the people who experience anything in the supernatural is either lying or dumb enough to believe things that aren't there?

OP, I have no explanation, and its wise to get checked out but it's also possible that your brains isn't playing tricks on you and that you experienced something that is currently unexplainable.

Absolutely!
”What feels like 10 minutes can actually be just 10 seconds…..” - she was 20 minutes late!

OP - I don’t have an explanation but I’ve had moments myself which make me question the “mumbo jumbo” - keep us posted. Hope you’re ok xx

Mi1920 · 14/02/2023 18:37

Oo I saw a story about this..

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/unidentified-flying-object-space-lemmington-26225148.amp

could it be similar time?

Bubble08080 · 14/02/2023 18:37

Sounds like a time glitch (apparently time doesn’t really exist anyway lol long story) u switched dimensions or timelines.. google third dimension versus fifth dimension spiritual.. these are the main 2 dimensions but apparently there are others but we are all living in mainly either 3d or 5d but switch depending on our energetic vibration (which is determined by a number of different factors).. time feels like it moves much quicker in 5d & most people live in 3d.. u can’t physically see the dimensions it is all energetic. Everything including people have an energetic frequency (explains why we can be massively attracted or repelled by some people)

It’s the kind of thing I don’t normally talk about to most people.. .. don’t go to Doctor lol x

Newwardrobe · 14/02/2023 18:38

The magnetic force of an MRI machine always makes me feel weird , as if I'm not really there and am moving slowly. I had to ask a colleague if I was walking in slow motion once.

TheTruthWillSetYouFreeMaybe · 14/02/2023 18:41

About 4 years ago. I know I left house to walk to work. Popped into a shop on edge of town. I have to walk thru the town and shopping mall and out the other side to get to the office. I remember suddenly standing outside the office. No idea how I arrived - no recollection of walking thru the town and out the other side. No recollection of walking up the steps to get to our building and for several moments I had no idea where I was. Didn’t recognise anything. Felt totally ‘out of it’. Had to look around a while til I got my brain back ! It was really scary and I just assumed it was cos I was going thru a stressful time and , luckily, nothing like it since.

CrazyLadie · 14/02/2023 18:41

Scaevola · 13/02/2023 11:06

Sometimes epileptic seizures are accompanied by hallucinations.

It is very common for those with epilepsy to remember nothing of their seizures

You need to see a doctor as a matter of some priority.

And it would be prudent to avoid driving until potential medical causes have been either found or excluded

This!!! My friend is epileptic but she doesn't have the kind of fits you would normally associate with epilepsy. She has no recollection of having a fit and doesn't even know she has had one if sitting down cause she is in the same position after the fact

RachaelN · 14/02/2023 18:44

This could be an absence seizure. If it happens again I would definitely go to your doctor.

LpPp · 14/02/2023 18:44

My daughter has absent seizures and this is exactly the sort of thing that happens. Afterwards she has no idea about it. No
side effects, no exhaustion, no palpitations like she has after a ‘proper’ seizure. People who don’t know her well usually don’t even notice.

personally, I don’t disbelieve that it could be a strange phenomenon… but I’d check for a medical reason first.

River82 · 14/02/2023 18:46

Could this be a stroke? I would see a doctor.

Waspy82 · 14/02/2023 18:48

www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/complex-partial-seizure

I have epilepsy which I was not aware of for several years and was actually diagnosed with migraines to start with as these can cause weird hallucination type experiences
but after seeing neurologist I was diagnosed with complex partial seizures
you do not have actual fits on the floor but it alters your sensory awareness and I experience weird auras that are like an altered sense of reality
if it happens again I would def see a dr just to be checked

lieselotte · 14/02/2023 18:54

Yes the Bold St thing is interesting (and doesn't surprise me at all for that street).

Although I don't believe in the paranormal, I do think that there is perhaps a way that things are naturally recorded, and sometimes when conditions are right, they are replayed. That could explain the van in the Bold St example and Concorde in the OP's example.

My parents are and were not the sort of people who believe(d) in ghosts at all, but they both report seeing a woman in a grey hood walk across our lounge. It was more than once and they both saw the same thing. That's what makes me think natural recordings are possible.

A year or so ago DH and I were out for a walk along a disused railway path and we got to bridge where there were a bunch of kids playing True by Spandau Ballet on an old style ghetto blaster. We joked that we were in a time slip :)

JarByTheDoor · 14/02/2023 18:55

wooo69 · 14/02/2023 18:17

This has happened to me in a hotel, I had got out of the shower and laid on the bed with a towel over me. DH went in the shower and I could hear the water and from the sounds he was in the bathroom.
I felt a weight on top of me but no one was there, I was unable to push it off me or scream for help even though I was trying.

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That's sleep paralysis.

Your brain started the process of falling asleep, but the paralysis mechanism, the thing that stops you physically acting out all of your dreams, kicked in a bit too early, before the rest of your brain went into sleep mode. In order to make sense of the sensation, you perceive it as a weight holding you down. It's really common and nothing to worry about. There's a lot of interesting mythology that's grown up around sleep paralysis, because it's natural for the not-quite-asleep brain to attribute the sensations of not being able to move, speak or consciously control your breathing to some sort of being that's stopping you moving, breathing or talking. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_hag

Nain5 · 14/02/2023 18:57

How interesting. I don't think you are mentally unwell just because there is no scientific proof currently for unusual events doesn't mean they haven't happened. I read a very interesting account in a autobiography by the Tyneside writer Catherine Cookson a very down to earth lady. Cookson and her husband were staying in holiday rental in the countryside. One day they went for a walk and came upon a small settlement of cottages, they were people working in their gardens and children playing etc. but they seemed unaware of Cookson and her husband, in addition their clothes seemed a little outdated. It struck the Cooksons as so odd that the next day they walked to the same place. They discovered the same place with the cottages derelict, gardens very over grown, no people and the place look deserted. Two people with the same medical symptoms and having a seizure at the same time, highly unlikely. Strange things happen but that doesn't mean you are ill or going mad ,life just isn't always what it seems. I don't believe in time travel but do believe time can slip out of place for a while. The other possibility is replay of past event as in the Stone Tape theory. You have had unique experience.

Fluffmum · 14/02/2023 18:57

My Dh suffers from trans global amnesia he loses time. Maybe you had one

LemonDrizzles · 14/02/2023 19:14

Boom supersonic testing perhaps?

Launching soon I hear

comedycentral · 14/02/2023 19:22

I've experienced real-world hallucinations during PTSD. I can still see what I saw now if I think about it, it was very real and vivid. Have you experienced anything life changing or stressful which could cause temporary psychosis or anything?

Somethingneedstochange78 · 14/02/2023 19:22

Look up if there have been any concord crashes in that area. I never used to believe in ghosts until I saw one at our old house when I was in bed. A disabled man used to live there died in hospital. But I described what I had seen to a neighbour and he said that was Burt (not real name)

Boysnana · 14/02/2023 19:24

Could be a seizure of some type. Try not to worry unless it happens again. Most of all take care

ReneBumsWombats · 14/02/2023 19:25

wooo69 · 14/02/2023 18:17

This has happened to me in a hotel, I had got out of the shower and laid on the bed with a towel over me. DH went in the shower and I could hear the water and from the sounds he was in the bathroom.
I felt a weight on top of me but no one was there, I was unable to push it off me or scream for help even though I was trying.

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Sleep paralysis. Hallucinations and the feeling of someone sitting on you or on the bed are very common (you'll see classical paintings of demons sitting on people while they sleep, as this was sometimes thought to be the cause) and you can easily doze off without realising. Nobody knows exactly what causes the hallucinations, but in essence you have partly woken up and the mechanism that freezes you in your sleep to stop you sleepwalking hasn't lifted yet.

It's very scary and weird if you don't know what it is, but it's not at all unusual.

Mamarama2u2 · 14/02/2023 19:25

Not sure about the concord or missing car but with regards to everything moving slowly look up Alice in Wonderland syndrome! Things can appear far away, things can slow down or you can feel big in a room of tiny things. My son has it and it comes on usually when he’s overtired. Both my parents had it also. I’ve never experienced it though

JarByTheDoor · 14/02/2023 19:26

JarByTheDoor · 14/02/2023 18:55

That's sleep paralysis.

Your brain started the process of falling asleep, but the paralysis mechanism, the thing that stops you physically acting out all of your dreams, kicked in a bit too early, before the rest of your brain went into sleep mode. In order to make sense of the sensation, you perceive it as a weight holding you down. It's really common and nothing to worry about. There's a lot of interesting mythology that's grown up around sleep paralysis, because it's natural for the not-quite-asleep brain to attribute the sensations of not being able to move, speak or consciously control your breathing to some sort of being that's stopping you moving, breathing or talking. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_hag

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@BellePeppa I meant to tag you in this too.