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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:
CambsAlways · 14/02/2023 22:18

I’d of said some sort of seizure but I’ve heard of strange things happening before to some people similar to this but my first port of call would be contacting the dr

JosieJasper · 14/02/2023 22:25

Look up temporal lobe epilepsy and go and see your doctor even if just to rule it out.

Blue03 · 14/02/2023 22:25

It was Michael Burke 😁

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Museya15 · 14/02/2023 22:26

I remember a woman at work telling me a similar time leap situation that happened to her and her husband when honeymooning in Scotland. It completely freaked me out as she was so matter of fact about it but I absolutely believed them.

Logicalreasoning · 14/02/2023 22:26

This tYpe of thing has happened to me several times, luckily I don’t drive and it’s always as a passenger and always whilst we are travelling through country roads... I’ve not told anyone in case they think I’m more crazy than they do already.. DP has seen me look puzzled when it’s happened and I’ve just said I thought I saw something... glad I’m not the only one 😱

Blue03 · 14/02/2023 22:26

Blue03 · 14/02/2023 22:25

It was Michael Burke 😁

@Sporty2022

sentientpuddle · 14/02/2023 22:27

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.

@MrsPetty I remember your post in another 'glitch' thread!
It was so interesting!

LikeTearsInRain · 14/02/2023 22:28

100% definitely not a seizure or medical thing seeing as someone else had a similar experience in the locale. Have you looked up ley lines and any mineral deposits in the area?

Gandalfsthong · 14/02/2023 22:29

Google time slip and prepare to go down a weird rabbit hole….

Queenbee77 · 14/02/2023 22:29

#MsDastardley# OMG...yes please. I am a huge fan of his and if only you could save him that would be awesome. Sigh

Rachpen · 14/02/2023 22:30

Please get seen. I have episodes of intense deja vu that could be described similarly. I have epilepsy and do get physical presenting seizures as well. Sometimes the intense visions lead to a physical seizure, other times they just end.

Logicalreasoning · 14/02/2023 22:31

Sporty2022 · 14/02/2023 21:54

Has anyone had dejavu? You’re in a situation that you’ve never been in before , but you feel something very familiar about it?

Far too often for my liking... worse bit is I’ve had several times where i feel I’ve been in the same deja vu more than once 😔

sentientpuddle · 14/02/2023 22:32

JarByTheDoor · 14/02/2023 20:01

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.

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Hear hear!

Hushabyelullaby · 14/02/2023 22:33

You’re not anywhere near Liverpool are you?

www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_unexplained/2982837-Time-slips

THEDEACON · 14/02/2023 22:36

Sounds like a hallucination You need to see a doctor to investigate you for stroke / epilepsy /non epileptic seizure /brain injury or tumour

xJoy · 14/02/2023 22:40

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

I do not have epilepsy although my mother does and another relative. I've had not seizures but sensations where everything is changing in size. Like suddenly I'm so tiny that a grain of sand is a bolder or that I'm inside a clock and each cog is so huge, or the reverse, I'm so huge compared to the furniture around me. Sounds weird. They are like 'flashes' in my head, like thoughts, but not quite. Can't explain it.

sentientpuddle · 14/02/2023 22:41

Sporty2022 · 14/02/2023 21:54

Has anyone had dejavu? You’re in a situation that you’ve never been in before , but you feel something very familiar about it?

Intense déjà vu is a classic symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy. It may be linked to hormones & menstrual cycle (catamenial) and may be accompanied by physical symptoms such as salivating, nausea, an inability to swallow food in your mouth, if talking the need to stop, a feeling of 'head rush', racing heart.
It may last only seconds but feelings of confusion and trouble with words may persist a bit longer.

sentientpuddle · 14/02/2023 22:42

LikeTearsInRain · 14/02/2023 22:28

100% definitely not a seizure or medical thing seeing as someone else had a similar experience in the locale. Have you looked up ley lines and any mineral deposits in the area?

You 100% cannot make this conclusion. To a total stranger, on an anonymous forum, off the back of what they have posted.

MrsPetty · 14/02/2023 22:49

@sentientpuddle awh thanks. I find it really interesting too. Having been subjected to it for decades 😂 I like it much better since the science of it was explained to me. Even though I don’t fully understand it, my ex totally did and he completely eradicated any fear I had surrounding whacked out events.

letitcomedown · 14/02/2023 22:49

Had something like this as a young teenage (12 or 13) with 2 other friends. We stumbled upon a strange cluster of old houses at the edge of some woods we knew pretty well that we'd not seen before. There was a young man/older teenager in really old fashioned clothing chopping wood, no cars, no electricity, smoke from the chimneys. The young lad spoke to us with a really country accent which wasn't usual for the parts. We felt uncomfortable and left, only later did we realize we couldn't hear the noise from the nearby motorway or hear any planes (it was on a busy route into Heathrow and you could always hear plans).

We could never find it again, and couldn't find it on a map. Still don't know if it really happened or not or if we just got lost and it was a set of coincidences.

Mumtofourandnomore · 14/02/2023 22:54

I have not RTFT but I saw you were near Surrey. I live near Farnborough airport and have often seen military flights doing practices etc. I used to work very near the end of the runway and the vibrations from jets could set car alarms off so it’s possible the aircraft could’ve slowed down birds and make them look slower I guess ?

I think you lost half an hour because you parked your car up and walked into a field…….

I’m an accountant though so no doubt more logical and less creative !

HonestFeedback · 14/02/2023 23:00

I would think it's most likely epilepsy. Happened to a friend of mine, she just felt a bit weird sometimes, but when it happened in front of other people they saw her completely blanking out for several minutes.

sentientpuddle · 14/02/2023 23:01

Apart from the possible medical/physical/environmental (and logical) reasons for the OP's experience suggested by PPs, other suggestions might be a wee bit less likely whilst still plausible, but are still interesting to add to this thread to illustrate why these strange experiences usually have perfectly logical explanations.

PP have talked about sleep paralysis, dissociation, kidney issues causing an inability to eliminate toxins from the body causing psychiatric symptoms, carbon monoxide toxicity, lead paint in old houses, infrasound etc...
The environmental factors can explain why weird things can happen to groups of people at the same time, or to more than one person at separate times, before you factor in the power of suggestion and mass hysteria.

Yet so many people are still stating 'time slip' as though it were fact!

I'm not closed minded, and I don't understand a lot of the physics, I do understand much more of the human biology, but I will never understand leaping straight for a fantastical explanation before considering what is logical, and in many cases, already very well understood.
To me that is closed minded, it's anti-science, which fundamentally is about understanding.

'What is Occam's razor simple explanation?
Occam's razor (also known as the 'law of parsimony') is a philosophical tool for 'shaving off' unlikely explanations. Essentially, when faced with competing explanations for the same phenomenon, the simplest is likely the correct one.'

sentientpuddle · 14/02/2023 23:05

ButterBastardBeans · 14/02/2023 21:44

I had this twice. The first time I was pubescent and I think that was partly why. I developed a loud buzzing sensation in my head. I was standing in the front garden of our family home and the air turned thick and warm as if I was looking through swirly water at the view. The view should have been the house but the house was gone and instead, the land was as it was before the row of houses were built in 1956/58. The row of trees across the field that I knew to be mature, was small. Barely a hedgerow and it was all just agricultural land.

I was able to take in every detail. I was totally aware I was looking at the land in times gone by and made a mental note of where all the fence lines were. I looked down as I was interested to see what the ground was like that I was standing on and with that, it all went back to normal.

The second time I was stressed to fuck. I was heading to an interview but I got lost and had no map. This was 1997.

I was driving down a country lane in Herefordshire and the land rover started making a deep thrumming sound in the engine. I slowed down and was aware of the warm day/swirly thing again and the road was gone. I was on a really really rough track that was mostly grass and the surrounding countryside was ancient with no telegraph poles or pylons. I trundled along at a snail pace taking all of this in. I was aware it was another episode like the previous one as I had the same feeling in my head. I reached the end of the track and suddenly I was back on the modern road surface, the engine sound was normal and I was sweating and felt terrible.

I got to the interview but the boss was so weird I didn't want the job.

I have had the start of the same sort of episodes twice since with the head buzzing but they never developed and it hasn't happened for years now.

Sensation of buzzing in your head suggests unusual electrical activity in the brain. It's possible that you experienced seizures.

sentientpuddle · 14/02/2023 23:11

ButterBastardBeans · 14/02/2023 21:44

I had this twice. The first time I was pubescent and I think that was partly why. I developed a loud buzzing sensation in my head. I was standing in the front garden of our family home and the air turned thick and warm as if I was looking through swirly water at the view. The view should have been the house but the house was gone and instead, the land was as it was before the row of houses were built in 1956/58. The row of trees across the field that I knew to be mature, was small. Barely a hedgerow and it was all just agricultural land.

I was able to take in every detail. I was totally aware I was looking at the land in times gone by and made a mental note of where all the fence lines were. I looked down as I was interested to see what the ground was like that I was standing on and with that, it all went back to normal.

The second time I was stressed to fuck. I was heading to an interview but I got lost and had no map. This was 1997.

I was driving down a country lane in Herefordshire and the land rover started making a deep thrumming sound in the engine. I slowed down and was aware of the warm day/swirly thing again and the road was gone. I was on a really really rough track that was mostly grass and the surrounding countryside was ancient with no telegraph poles or pylons. I trundled along at a snail pace taking all of this in. I was aware it was another episode like the previous one as I had the same feeling in my head. I reached the end of the track and suddenly I was back on the modern road surface, the engine sound was normal and I was sweating and felt terrible.

I got to the interview but the boss was so weird I didn't want the job.

I have had the start of the same sort of episodes twice since with the head buzzing but they never developed and it hasn't happened for years now.

Sorry to quote you twice!
2 things stand out. The first time you say you were pubescent - seizures can be triggered by hormonal imbalances (look up catamenial epilepsy) and the second time you say you were stressed to fuck. Stress can definitely trigger seizures.
It doesn't mean you have epilepsy. Seizures can be isolated occurrences. Be glad it hasn't happened since! But be aware of it, saying you feel head buzzing which doesn't progress to an episode like the ones you describe could be what's called an aura.