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?

There's so much random
shit on MN today. I think I'll be off from her for half term.

It's possible the combination of location and possible some sort of plane and sound tiggered something in two witnesses brains.

It's still worth the OP getting checked out to rule anything sinister out - and to made aware of any signs to keep eye out for.

Time slips are a known phenomenon and many seem to have no real explanation.

It is entirely possible (probable) this was neurological in nature.

I had some very similar experiences with silent migraines between 2017 and 2019 (after which they settled into classic migraines)

My brain was reassembling events in the wrong order and including things that did not happen. You have to remember that our only version of reality is the one served to us by our brain - so this mangled version is as real to you as your normal reality would be. The only way to tell is to measure it against other people's accounts and external factors.

For example: you arrived late with the same car following you. This would indicate you may have left late.

I don't know about epilepsy and seizures, but with migraines the actual disruption in the brain starts hours before noticeable migraine symptoms (although you do learn to spot signs with experience). Confusion about time and being massively early or late to things was something I did quite a lot before I got them under control. Auditory hallucinations were also very common. My poor brain would scramble to assemble everything into a coherent story and frequently got things wrong.

I'm not saying that a time slip or other non medical explanation couldn't have happened, but maybe start by ruling out something neurological.

I’ve had tinnitus since then! Mostly noticeable at night

My mum has had severe tinnitus for years, and thinks it's got worse since her last covid jab. But also, she often tells the story of her seeing something unexplained in the sky near her house when she was younger, and is certain that's when her tinnitus started. She is the most down to earth person in the world, but this is something she's always had on her mind....

Apologies to the posters who thought my comment was overly alarmist. I'm sure it's nothing, but the point I was trying to make was that the OP really ought to be checked over by a dr. All the posters saying glitch in the matrix etc aren't really helping the OP.

In my friend's case she had 2 symptoms - back pain that she put down to having a bad back (but turned out to be tumour pressing on a nerve) and an episode similar to the one the OP described. Thankfully she got checked out quickly and was therefore treated successfully.

Bold Street is famous for it.

Well if the car was still behind you they would have been in some kind of time slip thing too. And also been late. Or maybe you left later then you thought. And maybe the plane did actually pass over you. It would create a change of behaviour in the birds if it had.

Central? Bold St is famous for time slips.

You probably fell asleep after you pulled over.

People zone out while driving quite commonly but still manage not to crash - usually while motorway driving, but there's no reason that it couldn't happen during a normal drive. It's meant to be similar as to how people who are sleepwalking manage to navigate around furniture, stairs and objects in the home without injuring themselves. You're not using a conscious/verbal type part of your brain to assess danger nor operate the vehicle, unless you're somewhere unfamiliar or complicated for example.

Obviously it would not be recommended to do this but it's a well known phenomenon.

I do want to believe in time slips, but I think I would check for actual planes in the location at the time and if nothing, look at a medical investigation.

When my anxiety gets bad I get dissociation, and that makes it feel like the world is slowing down, it's very odd!

People zone out while driving quite commonly but still manage not to crash

I don’t think it’s quite the same thing as happened to the OP, but I’m sure lots of people, myself included, have had experiences where, after arriving at their destination, they have no memory of a large part of the journey. I’ve experienced it most on familiar journeys and I wonder whether some kind of ‘autopilot’ kicks in when you know the route well.

Interesting if that’s what it was. I’ll have to google it as it’s an experience I’ve never forgotten but would be good to have an answer 🙂

Not a time slip exactly as I witnessed something as it was happening many many miles away from where I was sat in my living room on my sofa.
I told Dh and he looked at me strangely then it was announced on the news that the thing I had seen had happened at exactly the time I said it happened

Even years later when there was a documentary about people trying to pin point where exactly the issue arose that caused this incident I knew and said where it was.

DH said to watch the programme to find out. I couldn’t possibly know.

I knew because I had been there when it happened. And I was correct.

There are a fair few people who have experienced something similar.

I don’t think it is a medical issue. Or there is something wrong with a person.

No idea why it happens but then I dont think we know what is or isn’t possible.

I have yet to come up with a logical or even illogical reason other than a time slip with regards to dh’s phone.

Back in 2016 we had just had our old house fully renovated. We had got rid of our old furniture and in the living room at the time was only a sofa which was new, a tv and a cupboard the tv was stood on.

DH and I were sat on the sofa looking at our phones. Dh got up to go make us both a cup of coffee.
I looked up when he was walking to the kitchen and noticed he had left his phone in the thick arm of the sofa

A few minutes later he returned with coffees and asked where his phone was
I looked to the sofa arm but it wasn’t there.
We looked every where. I rang dh’s phone hoping to hear a ring or a buzz but the call wouldn’t go through.
We up turned the sofa. I bag my hand down the bit where things can slip.
The phone was no where. He had to get a new phone.

2018 I come downstairs to find a phone on the living room floor.

Clicking it on I realise it was dh’s lost phone.
It was still charged.

No phone battery lasts years even if the phone is on and you aren’t using it.

Would love to know anyones explanation logical or not as to what happened.

This sounds like when I used to have seizures, not the hallucinations (although common with seizures) but the time going missing. It could have been an absence seizure where you completely zoned out. Or just very intense daydreaming!

I know it’s been said above but could be a focal seizure

This reminds me of a thread on here years ago in which a poster described how she’d been driving along a country lane and suddenly a small spitfire type plane flew very low across the lane ahead of her and disappeared over the trees at the side of the road, on a trajectory that suggested it would crash into the adjacent field.

The poster pulled over in alarm, and ran over to where she could see into the field - no sign of the plane or a crash. She checked the papers for days afterwards, looking for news of a crash or even details of an air show or vintage aircraft event, but there was nothing.

I’ve never driven there before so it’s an unfamiliar road, my husband usually does the pick up/ drop off and he’s the type that would find another explanation for a real alien standing before him.
I was paying 100% attention to make sure I didn’t crash/get lost. No stress or anxiety going on in my life. I definitely pulled over as I didn’t want to continue driving if my car was about to die and trap the car behind me from being able to pass. The noise and shock could have startled me yes but it didn’t make me fall asleep or lose awareness of what was happening. I didn’t feel any different physically in myself. Maybe the eeriness of still and calm made me over think the slowness. I’ll speak to a doctor but I’m confident there’s nothing going on mentally or neurologically. Realistically none of us know if we’re conscience or in reality at any point in time if there are no witnesses!
There have been 2 more people comment that it’s a strange stretch of road, and one of them said they once saw a helicopter hovering with no pilot or sign of people anywhere. Of course it could all be crap but it’s a very quiet and small village where everyone knows everyone well so they wouldn’t gain much from telling stories.

My explanation would be that the plane was either a new commercial jet being tested or it was military. The RAF have loads of bases in the countryside. I assume that something about the shape of the Concorde helped with its speed, so modern high speed air liners would need to be the same shape.

With the time slowing down feeling, I wonder if it was the effect of low frequency sound from the plane? Its been shown to produce all kinds of effects in people and is the reason behind many "hauntings"

It happened to be once- I was driving on a fast road when suddenly I cound hear a loud low pulsing sound. It made me feel really odd and slow. I thought I was having a stroke. It turns out my niece had opened a back window a bit and it was the air buffeting around.

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!

Cannot believe someone posters will cling to a paranormal explanation over something actually logical and likely.

@2wombraiders The RAF has several planes which are quite pointy at the front, the typhoon for e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon

As far as I can tell none of the 20 Concordes are still flying, 18 are in museums or similar, one was lost in flight and one broken up for parts then scrapped.

I'd guess it was either a developmental aircraft or possibly a scale model. I can't find a reference to the altitude of the aircraft but taking a model as the first explanation, it would be relatively easy to mistake a low-ish flying model as a higher altitude aircraft.

Military planes are commonly tested "secretly" (as secret as they can be given there's always someone with a camera and so much tracking of objects through radar and satellites) for years before they are officially made public. So it's perfectly plausible that you saw a military test aircraft.

Even if Concordes were still flying, unless you’re near Heathrow (not many country lanes there) you wouldn’t see one.