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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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larchforest · 13/02/2023 13:58

Something similar happened to me once - not in a car though, but walking down the street in an old market town. Freaks you out, doesn't it?

It felt like I'd gone into another dimension. And since scientists still can't calculate how many dimensions there are... well, it makes you think. An alternate reality maybe, I don't know.

Pardon44 · 13/02/2023 14:01

I have auras. You can get them with or without migraines. I have had a similar experience of time slowing down. I sometimes get odd smells or visual disturbance. I have even had changes in language like someone suddenly turned the channel to Spanish.

WeAreTheHeroes · 13/02/2023 14:02

2wombraiders · 13/02/2023 12:04

This is exactly what I’m thinking mattdillonseyebrows, thank you. I appreciate the health concerns but I was fully aware of my surroundings and knew it was really happening. I will speak to a doctor but I’m confident it wasn’t a seizure. Sometimes situations have other explanations that aren’t always health or mental related.
I wasn’t driving when it happened.
when I felt a lag I pulled over as I thought my car was having trouble. The noise of the Concorde made me think my engine was damaged. I got out of the car immediately and stood on the field, looked around, the car was gone, looked up and there was a Concorde explaining the noise I thought was my engine. After it flew past I sat in my car but I wasn’t driving until everything felt normal again. Then the car reappeared as I arrived at the house.

It categorically wasn't Concorde. None of them are flying.

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

Spooky & paranormal
EmmaEmerald · 13/02/2023 14:05

2wombraiders · 13/02/2023 11:27

Someone on the Facebook group has come forward having a similar experience on the same country lane.
I definitely wouldn’t have fallen asleep after 9 hours sleep, I will struggle to sleep tonight because I’m so refreshed.
I’ll bare in mind the seizure points but as this has happened to someone else I’m more inclined to believe it was real.
thanks for the links to other threads and places this has happened in, I didn’t realise it was so common but it’s definitely got my sceptical self reconsidering!

Must be a test flight as pp said

they have been wanting to bring it back for ages.

ItchyBillco · 13/02/2023 14:09

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.

Oh, you’re pretty sure are you? That’s ok then. Neurologist, are you?

sentientpuddle · 13/02/2023 14:10

MushMonster · 13/02/2023 12:24

You need to go to the doctor, I think, because you mention a time lapse, though I think maybe you stopped and came out of the car for longer than you recall? But
I have been driving while supersonic army airplanes passed ahead and oh! It was weird, very weird feeling. At first I felt it, then heard it (well, I think, I am not even sure!) and it freaked me out, then finally saw it just above me. If I had not seen that plane, I would have been really unsettled.
But no feeling of time lapsed came with it.
If what you describe actually happened, the other car got freaked out too and stopped out of your sight.
But you could have been hallucinating and you better have it checked.

This is one of the most interesting responses so far!
There are plenty of neurological / psychological symptoms due to very real conditions that DO currently have explanations, as already mentioned by PP incl. dissociation, sleep paralysis, waking dreams etc.

And external factors can affect brain function. Think of infrasound – so interesting!
Or that more recent phenomenon of entire groups of people experiencing physical and psychological symptoms which were thought to be due to deliberate infliction of electromagnetic hypersensitivity by governments in various parts of the world to sabotage research/intelligence. (I can’t find any links, maybe I’m not using the right search terms but maybe someone else will know what I’m on about).

It's entirely possible that there WAS a plane overhead and the radiofrequency produced by it led to disturbances in OPs brain and did produce a very real physical experience.

It’s incredible that so many posters are saying ‘yes, it was a time slip.’
No way to say this without sounding sneery & snobby – I’m really not a snob – but I thought the majority of MNers were educated & intelligent.

And not to shit on those who’ve experienced the Bold Street phenomenon or similar, there can be explanations for this sort of collective mass experience, such as infrasound.

Mirabai · 13/02/2023 14:11

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.

She pulled over?

TheMatriarchy · 13/02/2023 14:13

Sounds like a type of absence seizure, in my first aid training we learned that what is commonly thought of déjà vu is actually a type of absence seizure.

ChildminderMum · 13/02/2023 14:15

Sounds very scary to have had some kind of hallucination or seizure while driving. You were lucky it wasn't a busy road.

I would definitely see your doctor.

JessicaFletcherscrewnecksweater · 13/02/2023 14:16

Cousin developed absence seizures in her 30s, lasted seconds and were followed by confusion and lethargy. Doctors weren’t sure and didn’t send her for an EEG, put it down to anxiety and hormones. 🙄

It happened a few times, all with a weird feeling beforehand. She lost track of time but had no realisation that she’d done so. Thought like you that it was a strange phenomenon. They were largely unwitnessed.

They eventually developed into auditory and visual hallucinations (extremely real to her) and then she eventually had a tonic-clonic seizure.

It took a year or so for the seizures to develop and she was finally diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy. She was late 30s, no family history, no prior seizures. She did have a small lesion on brain but it’s benign and just monitored.

So yeah, I personally don’t believe in the woo bollocks that some posters on here seem so committed to. I’d recommend seeing a doctor.

DotAndCarryOne2 · 13/02/2023 14:16

Iwantabloodypizza · 13/02/2023 13:30

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.

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Lots of misinformation out there. Drivers are required to self report if they are advised to stop driving because of a medical condition or are diagnosed with a ‘notifiable’ condition requiring DVLA to determine if they are still fit to drive, and possibly restrict their licence. GP’s and other medics are only duty bound to report patients themselves if they have advised them to stop driving and become aware that they haven’t, or suspect they haven’t made DVLA aware of a notifiable condition.

My mum has dementia and I had similar difficulties to yourself. Dementia is a notifiable condition and when we alerted DVLA they wrote to her doctor, who advised she was still fit to drive, much to my amazement because I really considered her to be a hazard on the road. I asked her GP to review it, but they considered the matter closed because in the meantime the DVLA had re issued her licence for two years. Her insurance company increased the premiums substantially when we notified them of the dementia diagnosis and in the end that’s what took her off the road, thankfully.

tootiredtoocare · 13/02/2023 14:20

I'm not dismissing anything, because, Who knows? I've read stories like that before. But, as someone who does have seizures, there are different types of them and partial seizures are weird. You can be fully aware of yourself, but seeing/hearing things that don't add up. I once watched part of Eastenders like I was on the set for about 3 minutes, then suddenly was back sitting on my sofa. It can be a one off thing, and may never happen again, so don't panic, but it might just be worth getting checked, just in case. (Secretly, I really hope it was a weird time travel thing 😂 I love that stuff!)

Runsonvegetables · 13/02/2023 14:22

look up derealisation OP and see if any of it sounds familiar. Are you stressed or anxious at the minute.

ThisWOMANWontWheesht · 13/02/2023 14:22

The plane will have been a Eurofighter Typhoon (according to DS, an RAF engineer). They're Concorde shaped... or appear so from the bottom, at any rate.

Those saying she can't have slept without crashing, she could have; think about sleepwalking - people don't randomly bump around like Roombas, they can see and pay attention to their surroundings. Ditto during sleep paralysis.

OP, seriously, get yourself checked out.

DotAndCarryOne2 · 13/02/2023 14:24

thinkfast · 13/02/2023 13:35

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.

Well if the OP’s experience is in any way stress related, this is really going to help isn’t it ? There are many simpler and more common conditions that may be responsible, but yes, let’s rule them out on a public forum and go straight to brain tumour !!

pompomdaisy · 13/02/2023 14:25

There are planes that are surveillance aircraft that are that shape but are stealth like. I saw one once in the Lakes. Didn't hear it but looked up and it was above me

aSpanielintheworks · 13/02/2023 14:27

My first thought is a focal seizure - dd has had a handful of them, she doesn't lose consciousness, she's aware of everyone around her but if they speak to her it just sounds like noise. They last seconds, but she reports seeing all kinds of things when she comes out of it. And she feels different emotions too, she says she feels scared, not of the episode itself, just a feeling of being scared and not knowing what of. Does that sound similar?

Fraaahnces · 13/02/2023 14:36

There are fighter jets with noses shaped like Concordes. Wonder if that might be what you saw. They can ping off really fast too.

CharlotteRose90 · 13/02/2023 14:37

My friend had these little daydreams all the time as she called them she was epileptic. I’m sorry but you need to take this seriously. You didn’t see a Concorde flying as none of them are flight worthy and they are grounded. You have a child and you don’t think it’s worth looking in to. Get yourself checked today before you get behind a wheel again. What if the next time you get one your child’s in the car or you hurt someone else. Beyond selfish.

sentientpuddle · 13/02/2023 14:38

SpringsOut · 13/02/2023 13:00

Time lapse is a massive alarm bell for a seizure.

I have absence seizures. I don’t lose consciousness. Early on, I used to get a deafening rush of sound in my ears before they started. Similar to fighter plane flying low.

You should at least check it out with your GP.

This is interesting, as a PP said your brain may have tried to make sense of the sound by causing you to hallucinate a plane

lordloveadog · 13/02/2023 14:40

The other person who said on fb they had a similar experience on the same lane - what did they describe?

DotAndCarryOne2 · 13/02/2023 14:40

Cornettoninja · 13/02/2023 13:55

@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.

Thanks. I was referring to ongoing stress in the OP’s life, not the stress of that particular moment, but re-reading that post, I agree I could have worded it a bit clearer. I remember clearly the feeling that came over me when we got DH’s diagnosis. It came after weeks of stress going through tests and biopsies and by the time we got to the surgery I felt as though my head would explode. As the reality of the situation and the doctors’ words hit me, the best way I could describe it was as if time was slowing down and bringing us both into sharp focus - a bit like they do with special effects in movies for dramatic emphasis. DH said later that he had more or less the same experience. That’s what made me identify with the OP’s description and linking it with a build up stress triggering the odd feeling.

Peanutlicious · 13/02/2023 14:42

Dissociation? Think that's how it's spelt
Can feel like you have left your body and time has gone weird

Susanmartha · 13/02/2023 14:44

Winnet · 13/02/2023 13:11

Given the news of unidentified "objects" in Earths skies at the moment, you can expect to see an increase in reports of experiences as described by the OP. Particularly if you are near any kind of military installation.

I'm also reading discussions about the increase in the amount of people unexpectedly suffering from tinnitus since around the turn of the year. Some people are suggesting a link.

Have you got a link to the tinnitus phenomenon? I've had tinnitus on and off since the beginning of the year, I thought that maybe it was an after effect of Covid which I had in December, my GP suggested it was anxiety linked, but I'm interested if there maybe other reasons, even if they are a bit woo......

Catoneverychair · 13/02/2023 14:46

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