What just happened to me!?

[2wombraiders]

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?

All those of you happy to put this down to the supernatural - would you be saying the same thing if the OP regularly drove on the route your children use to walk home from school?

This is a real thing with potential real consequences. If the OP is serious about what happened, you’re all encouraging her to take real risks which could lead to someone being badly hurt.

Don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but:
www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/articles/Near%20sleep%20experiences.html
excerpt: "A few people experience brief dream states during microsleep episodes - microsleep with REM - MWR. This could be related to hypnogogia and it may be indicative of a sleep disorder or severe sleep deprivation. Either way, it could produce paranormal reports even though the witness appears, and believes themselves to be, fully awake and alert."

You what now?!

It’s not a reach and not motivated by anything else. I was posting from personal experience of a stressful situation resulting in a similar feeling. If the OP was going through a particularly stressful time in her life, stress could have been the trigger for what happened. Not suggesting in any way that that’s an excuse not to get herself checked out medically at the first opportunity - as evidenced in my other posts.

You’ve never experienced a family member with dementia then? I begged for help from the GP with getting my dads license taken away before he killed himself and other people, they didn’t want to know.

This. My friend has short absences but she can walk & talk through them. It's only afterwards she realises what's happened. I've known her long enough now that I can tell when it's happening.

Woo explanation- time slip
Non woo explanation- aura migraine.

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Tell us more!

If that's the case, OP, then I think the chances of two such paranormal events is extremely unlikely.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4638144-to-think-im-not-mental?page=5

Just managed to find it - you're very welcome 😂

Can’t help op but I’ve been listening to ‘uncanny’ the podcast series by BBC R4 which delves into paranormal things. Would recommend for those interested in it! Xx

Don't want to scare you OP, but a friend got checked out after an experience like this. Turned out she had a brain tumour.

Are you on any kind of medication. I take a prescription drug called Mirtazapine and if I have a break or change dose, I feel really weird, like literally detached/dissassociated from reality. It's like I'm in a dream state. It is very very unsettling/frightening and can last for a few hours.

I had a weird experience on a bus in Liverpool as a teenager. I was visiting a friend at university and we were getting the bus back to his halls.

We missed our stop by miles and it was as if we'd both fallen asleep but we were absolutely sure we hadn't.

Ended up a long way from where we needed to be. I remember the driver was lovely telling us where we needed to go. I think we'd gone to the last stop!
It was like we'd both lost about half an hour of our lives!

@MattDillonsEyebrows

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

I don’t see any arrogance, merely people making logical assumptions/reasoned suggestions.

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?

Of course things happen that can’t yet be explained with science. There was a time when, for example, cancer couldn’t be explained with science.

it's also possible that… you experienced something that is currently unexplainable.

That may be true, but it doesn’t mean it was ‘supernatural’ phenomenon, simply because no explanation yet exists.

I’m not having a go at you but there is still so much that we don’t currently understand about our – very complex – brains and science doesn’t currently have explanations for, but it amazes me that in this modern age, when faced with something that is currently unexplainable many people will still immediately jump to ‘oh it must be supernatural, and all the ‘scientists’ pooh-poohing our beliefs are closed minded’.
I understand why many people throughout human history held supernatural beliefs, when we didn’t have science.

Science is not the enemy of the wondrous and magical, science is about understanding.

My DS had this in when he was in primary school, apparently it's really common in young children. For him he had visual distortion that everything would turn upside down or peoples heads would shrink down which he found very funny, sometimes he would be sick afterwards. It probably only lasted a year and seemed more common when he was tired. His dad's family suffer badly with migraine headaches but I get migraine aura only without the headache.

Honestly, talk about dramatic!! I’m pretty sure that someone can’t have a 20 minute seizure while driving and not have crashed. Same with falling asleep.

But I imagine what happened was that it was a very loud military plane that made your brain go a bit funny. Like when my washing machine is spinning and I’m in a certain spot in my bathroom. And you made a mistake with the time and read too much into it because you were already feeling weird?

I love a time slip thread and I’m quite woo but I’d always look for rational explanations first.

Please see a doctor

There is £1000 fine for drivers not self reporting to DVLA that they have been medically advised not to drive. GP’s or any other medics are only duty bound to report to DVLA if they have advised the patient to stop driving and they become aware that they have not done so. At which point the patient would receive a fine for not reporting it themselves.

From GMC’s own website:

The drivers themselves are legally responsible for telling the DVLA about any such condition or treatment. Doctors should therefore alert patients to conditions and treatments that might affect their ability to drive and remind them of their duty to tell the appropriate agency. Doctors may, however, need to make a decision about whether to disclose relevant information without consent to the DVLA or in the public interest if a patient is unfit to drive and they become aware that they continue to do so.

If you know whereabouts you pulled the car over, you could check one of those apps that shows you a map of flight paths for a particular time period, and what type of aircraft it was?

Thats ridiculously unlikely. I hope the op doesn’t have health anxiety because if you told me that I’d be terrified for months.

Ooh,you experienced a glitch in the matrix!
There's loads of these type of stories and peoples experiences on YT.Have a listen to 'Raven Reads'.She narrates a lot of glitch in the matrix true stories.

OP, this might’ve been the plane that you heard and saw…

www.radarbox.com/data/flights/rrr825

That’s the path it flew this morning, and this is what it looks like.

Very loud and Concorde like!

@DotAndCarryOne2 I apologise then, I mistakenly read your post in the context of others recommending pursuing other explanations rather than an option that may affect their ability to drive.

I’m just gobsmacked that people would try and deter someone seeking medical attention for their own entertainment purposes.

Have you checked your Google maps (it’s always running generally) to see what it thinks you were doing / where you were / how long for during that time?

i find it really fascinating OP!

I came to say this. I have had this since I was a child and was my first thought when I read the post.

Closely linked to migraines - if you have them op? For me time stands still and goes in slow motion - usually split second. But I have read it can last longer.