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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?

OP posts:
Lostthewilltolive1970 · 14/02/2023 19:26

AutumnScream · 13/02/2023 10:47

How weird! Everyone will be along in a minute to tell you you're having a stroke. But theres a certain station in Liverpool and one specific area every single time i walk through it i feel like everything slows right down, all my movements slow right down and everything goes into slow mo its most peculiar. Only in one particular area once i get through that part everyone speeds up to normal again.

Out of curiosity, which station?

MrsPetty · 14/02/2023 19:26

Sorry to be a nerd but it’s just science - Space time continuum / quantum entanglement …

Copy and pasted from google -

In physics, spacetime is a mathematical model that combines the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional manifold. Spacetime diagrams can be used to visualize relativistic effects, such as why different observers perceive differently where and when events occur

‘Quantum entanglement is a bizarre, counterintuitive phenomenon that explains how two subatomic particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space. Despite their vast separation, a change induced in one will affect the other.’

I’ve experienced it first hand. I actually quite enjoyed it 😂 but that’s because my ExH was a science geek and had previously explained it to me…before I understood it, I thought I was in need of a doctor too.

Kerfuffler · 14/02/2023 19:27

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)

The only fatal Concorde flight was in France.

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BookWar0m · 14/02/2023 19:30

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.

@BellePeppa I read this in a book about sleep, here is a link I found after a quick google search. Not exactly sure if the source but it explains it much better than what I remember from the book.

www.matherhospital.org/wellness-at-mather/diseases-conditions/sound-asleep-but-wide-awake/#:~:text=Have%20you%20ever%20lain%20in,than%20you'd%20probably%20think.

Bbq1 · 14/02/2023 19:30

AutumnScream · 13/02/2023 10:47

How weird! Everyone will be along in a minute to tell you you're having a stroke. But theres a certain station in Liverpool and one specific area every single time i walk through it i feel like everything slows right down, all my movements slow right down and everything goes into slow mo its most peculiar. Only in one particular area once i get through that part everyone speeds up to normal again.

Ooh @AutumnScream please tell me which station that is as I live in Liverpool and travel by train quite a lot.

ReneBumsWombats · 14/02/2023 19:31

MrsPetty · 14/02/2023 19:26

Sorry to be a nerd but it’s just science - Space time continuum / quantum entanglement …

Copy and pasted from google -

In physics, spacetime is a mathematical model that combines the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional manifold. Spacetime diagrams can be used to visualize relativistic effects, such as why different observers perceive differently where and when events occur

‘Quantum entanglement is a bizarre, counterintuitive phenomenon that explains how two subatomic particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space. Despite their vast separation, a change induced in one will affect the other.’

I’ve experienced it first hand. I actually quite enjoyed it 😂 but that’s because my ExH was a science geek and had previously explained it to me…before I understood it, I thought I was in need of a doctor too.

What does this mean in real terms for OP's experience? Which subatomic particles were causing the effect and how? I don't see how this explains what she experienced.

Lovely13 · 14/02/2023 19:32

It could be a long-distant memory triggered by something. I had a bizarre almost out-of-body experience when one of my children was very young. We were holding hands, walking in the rain, him with an umbrella. In an instant, I had swapped places with him and was holding my mum’s hand. It felt completely real. Mum died when I was a child, and I believe it was a similar circumstance that triggered the experience. It shook me up and I’ve never forgotten it.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/02/2023 19:32

Is the place near any ley lines, OP? They are associated with weird happenings.

nannykatherine · 14/02/2023 19:33

Me too
i would go and get a check up tbh

Sketcher01 · 14/02/2023 19:40

I’ve never lost time OP, but I have definitely felt a ‘presence’ when driving.

I’m not religious, but I can only describe it as feeling that someone, or something, was watching over me and was guiding me.

its happened twice and on both occasions it happened when I was driving on local, normally deserted, narrow country lanes that I knew like the back of my hand where I grew up. I wasn’t speeding or anything but I felt the strongest urge that I just HAD to slow down. Everything felt in slow motion.

The first time, a huge deer crossed the road in front of me. If I’d have hit it at the speed I’d been going (though not speeding or being reckless) I’d have likely killed us both.

The second time I rounded a corner (now at a snails pace) and a whole family was walking up the lane in the opposite direction, not even single file, when they must have heard me coming.

Both times it felt absolutely extraordinary. Calm yet hugely invigorating at the same time. I can’t quite describe it. I can only say that ‘something’ definitely happened and now, 20 years on, I’ve never gone against any really strong gut feelings. Weirdly I’ve only experienced this intensity whilst driving - or I would t have posted.

I like to think it was my grandma, long since passed away. But, as I say, I’m not religious or have any idea of what happens after death. It just felt personal, somehow.

nannykatherine · 14/02/2023 19:41

2wombraiders · 13/02/2023 15:29

Very plausible point Paperghost, it was definitely the recognisable sound of a Concorde booming above me but as many of you said it could be a different plane built to look similar. I saw it from underneath not a side profile and the shape was identical.
The link of the military plane on fight radar is very possibly the one I saw thank you for that, maybe I’m not unstable after all!

The explanation for the other car behind you is that it too stopped to look at the military plane as it was unusual ..

Isinglass20 · 14/02/2023 19:44

MattDillonseyebrows

Here here! In particular Bold street, just too many people have reported. And many other places in L’pool …

vonmints · 14/02/2023 19:45

i had a really similar experience about 2 and half years ago! i’m no stranger to mental health issues so I’ve always assumed it was something to do with that, but it’s still one of those things i’ve never quite shaken!

Tokyopirate · 14/02/2023 19:49

I've had things like this happen to me before, I am not a believer of conspiracy theories or the woo but there are many occurrences in my life where I just can't explain how or why something happened. It's such a strange feeling when it happens, I call them time glitches, I lost two hours before just out of nowhere, I was getting my daughter ready to go up for a bath and bed then boom, it was two hours later. I asked my ExH where daughter was and he said he had bathed her and put her to bed and I asked "what was I doing?" and he said he doesn't know he assumed I had left the house to go to the shop or something. I went to check on her and she was fine just those two hours were gone out of nowhere. I think it's quite a common phenomenon if you look online but most will claim "alien abduction" or a "glitch in the matrix/parallel world" style thing where as I don't believe that, it's just an unexplained occurrence that has to have some explanation in science.

Cersai · 14/02/2023 19:49

Definitely have yourself checked by a doctor on a priority basis. And yes I wouldn’t drive till checked out .

Unmarriedhousewife · 14/02/2023 19:52

A few years ago now I was walking home from town along a usually busy road. Very suddenly everything went silent, there was no cars, birds other people etc and the atmosphere just felt so strange, even walking past the primary school was silent. The sky didn't look right and I genuinely thought the world was ending. It took me about 5 minutes to get home and everything felt normal again. Later on a school mum posted on Facebook almost the exact same description, same time and same area asking if anyone else had experienced the same

Cararua12 · 14/02/2023 19:55

It could be a simple partial seizure you might of had and be conscious but had a feeling of a strange sensation There is many different types of seizures. You should talk to your Gp.

methodbehindmymadness · 14/02/2023 19:58

Hi have you ever read about derealisation. Ive experienced this where i have been in a place which I go to frequently and it feels like im somewhere else outside of everything , have a read maybe this,www.verywellhealth.com/derealization-5096820#SnippetTab

JarByTheDoor · 14/02/2023 20:01

Tokyopirate · 14/02/2023 19:49

I've had things like this happen to me before, I am not a believer of conspiracy theories or the woo but there are many occurrences in my life where I just can't explain how or why something happened. It's such a strange feeling when it happens, I call them time glitches, I lost two hours before just out of nowhere, I was getting my daughter ready to go up for a bath and bed then boom, it was two hours later. I asked my ExH where daughter was and he said he had bathed her and put her to bed and I asked "what was I doing?" and he said he doesn't know he assumed I had left the house to go to the shop or something. I went to check on her and she was fine just those two hours were gone out of nowhere. I think it's quite a common phenomenon if you look online but most will claim "alien abduction" or a "glitch in the matrix/parallel world" style thing where as I don't believe that, it's just an unexplained occurrence that has to have some explanation in science.

Agree, I think it's usually more likely that some kind of little glitch happened somewhere within the bizarre and inordinately-complex meat-computer that evolved over thousands of millennia in a variety of different environments and which is trying to filter and synthesise multiple streams of information into a coherent and useful mental model of the universe, than that the laws of physics as we've determined them to be through experimentation and mathematics have been temporarily suspended.

Mandyjack · 14/02/2023 20:11

Do you have epilepsy by any chance?

TennisMum75 · 14/02/2023 20:11

A glitch in the matrix?!

ellamar1 · 14/02/2023 20:14

I was sat in euston station very early one morning it was deserted and I saw a man with a dog walk past to the platform. There was no way out without passing me and within the space of 5-10 minutes I saw the same man and dog take the same route to the platform 5 times.

JennyDarlingRIP · 14/02/2023 20:17

Similar happened to DM while driving, later she became more confused, turned out she had a really severe UTI and the confusion is not common in older people (she wasn't that old at the time)

MrsPetty · 14/02/2023 20:18

@ReneBumsWombats I really wish that I could give more user friendly, layman’s explanation but I can’t - hence I quoted Google. I asked the same question as you when I experienced it and my exH explained it fully in a sort of understandable way, but that was several years back and I don’t remember the exact science. If he wasn’t such a dick, I’d ask him. Einstein called it ‘Spooky action at a distance’. Anyone who understands physics better than I do can probably explain it to her ….

Eowyn78 · 14/02/2023 20:20

I have heard of such stories before. I even read about a couple who walked into a tavern and it was as if they walked in the past. It seemed like it was a period from the Civil War. They return to the same tavern the next day and it was in the modern day.

Personally, I believe in glitches in the time-space continuum. I often wonder if 'ghosts' are simply some sort of imprint in time. But I have an active imagination and think such tales/ experiences would make for a great novel.

But you probably should get checked out by the doctor, just in case it was a seizure of some nature.

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