When did your world go quiet?

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inspired by a tiktok trend recently, just thought it might be an interesting thread. I’m a regular poster not a journalist or anything like that (MNHQ can verify!).

When did your world go quiet? Basically, what was a time you got a fright and time seemed to stop or go quiet?

mine was I was on my horse and he decided to rear up, over concrete ground, and I felt him wobble back. As soon as I felt that first tilt backwards everything sort of went quiet and it was like an out of body experience (not a good one!). I couldn’t hear anyone around. I just remember the last thing I thought was along the lines of this is it im about to die and it was like everything was in slow motion. Luckily it was all ok but that split second was easily the scariest moment of my life and my world completely stopped.

So, when did your world go quiet?

@NeverDropYourMooncup well done on it being EX

Recent holiday when DH was holding dd (4) in the villa pool so she could practice her kicking etc. My back was turned when I heard my mum shout my DH name. He'd walked too far towards the deep end, slipped down the metre long ledge on the pool floor straight into the deep end (2.3m deep) holding dd.

He had 2-3m to cover to get dd to the edge of the pool where I could grab her - using only his legs as he had to hold her 17kg weight up with both hands. Time slowed down more than I've ever known it to, he was gulping down loads of water as isn't a strong swimmer anyway, but even worse that he had an impossible task.

I couldn't speak to him for about 24 hours as was in such shock and conflicted with feeling furious he'd walked that far but also so bloody grateful he'd performed a fucking miracle to keep holding her up. I tried it with a beach ball (zero weight) a few days later and couldn't do it at all, and I'm a good swimmer. Terrifying.

Pulling out of a junction, but then stalling the car so it halted in the path of a HGV. I couldn't re-start it in time to move out of the way. Thankfully the window was down and I could put my hand out to signal the HGV driver to stop. Thankfully he did just in time.

It lasted seconds but I felt like eternity and I was convinced me and the kids were going to die. Everything moved so slowly and all the sound disappeared.

I'm a really confident and experienced driver but it shook me for weeks. J was very ill when I got home from the shock of it.

So sorry to others for their traumas and loss.

I eas tubing in a river, the current pulled me to the side down a narrow rocky tributary and I started being sucked through the tube and under in the direction of the underwater sluice gate. I had to get my legs in the water to gain any control over the movement, which meant I was suddenly getting sucked down even faster by my feet. I grabbed the gate trying to pull myself up and just about managed. Then I climbed across rocks to shout to the people I was with. The "leader" thought it was really funny, yet oddly resisted the offer to jump in himself and used a stick to haul the tube out of the water.

I have never quite shaken the feeling of heaving with all my strength on my arms to pull myself up, while my feet were being dragged down. I was and am really crystal clear, if I let go of the rails there was no surviving it.

Also skydiving, when I realized I'd misjudged the ground in a dusk jump; no time to flare more than an inch, I was anticipating the pain long before a bang and then the parachute dragging me backwards right up the field in the strong wind. Really shouldn't have jumped that day.

The children and dog hiding did it for me. Well done for getting out. Hope you are all safe and things are going well for you x

When I watched a car coming towards me, it was going to hit my drivers door. I heard the bang, and I could see white. All white with smoke. I’d honestly thought I had died and I was in heaven.
My head was in the air bag.
My world went quiet.

Going to cross the road on a one way street and stupidly looking the wrong way, stepping out as a bus came past and as I turned my head to look, it's wing mirror grazing the air in front of my nose. Time stopped and everything felt slo-mo

When I arrived at the hospital early to collect my husband after what I thought was a standard procedure. He was having a heart stent. My dad had one a few years back and it all felt very matter of fact. Anyway, a call came to my mobile from hubbys phone. It wasn't him but a nurse on coronary intensive care to say he'd had a cardiac arrest during procedure and was quite poorly. They thought I was at home and asked if someone could bring me to the hospital. For 10 mins at least I went into a type of shock that saw time stand still. Then I cried hysterically for the same. After this I somehow got my shit together and went to see him. It all turned out okay in the end. Forever grateful. I am so sorry for the horrendous losses of others on this thread

Driving at 60mph when a car travelling in the opposite direction pulled in to my lane to overtake the van in front of him. I had nowhere to go - DH said I did a half-gasp and tightly closed my eyes for a second. Felt like it lasted ages.

Suffering pancreatitis and in intensive care. It was towards the end of visiting and I just remember feeling my heart beating so loudly and feeling so so scared. Everything went quiet and I squeezed the hand I was holding as hard as I could (it was my dads hand and I apparently freaked him out).
I'd taken a turn, heart rate, bp and temp sky rocketed and I lost consciousness. Was very surprised to wake up a few days later.

Scary stuff!

What happened?!

When my depressed DD attempted to drink bleach. The seconds it took for me to knock it out of her hand seemed to last for ever.
She's much better now.

@bloodywhitecat i am so sorry for your loss xxx

When I got a piece of meat stuck and started choking, while living on my own. There was no feeling of calm, just sheer panic as I tried everything I could think of to dislodge it.

Slamming myself backwards into the wall did it in the end, but my vision was closing in as it came out so I would say I was very lucky. It would have been a few days until I'd have been found otherwise

When I found out about the affair.
When my daughter was diagnosed.

It's true it affects your hearing sense first

This is horrendous. Please tell me the perpetrators are all in prison.

I can not even begin to imagine how awful this was for you.

Time stood still when we got told when ds was in utero he wasn't compatible with life. Then again when I had to leave him behind at the hospital 😭 to everyone on this thread

When I rolled my car it definitely felt like it was happening in slow motion and it was absolutely terrifying.

The moment my dad died. You know you sometimes see a drop of water in slow motion and you see it hit a surface and splash up in a sort of crown shape? Well I watched a tear from my eye do that. Fall very slowly and hit the bed and splash up. All in slow motion. It was a really odd thing and I often think of it.

Ive had the opposite. Time going super fast. I was in labour with dd2. I needed an emergency C section but it was the middle of a Sunday night and someone else was in the only theatre. I had to wait about 3 hours. I would swear I saw the hands of the clock going round, super fast. But that may have been the gas and air.

I dived into a pool in Morocco and it was so cold there was a moment when time hung there and I thought "This is so cold I could die down here". Then it broke and I resurfaced. It was a proper traumatic (unprocessed) moment and I had to get a colleague to sort it out for me as I would pack my bags to go swimming and end up not going. Once I processed the memory all was back to normal.

This thread is heartbreaking.

My 1st one was when I went for a private scan on 20th May 2020 and them scanning me and I said there is nothing there, and suddenly this wee blob appeared on the screen and I said "oh there it is" with extreme relief but then minutes later they said there wasn't a heartbeat. They tried all types of things but there wasn't one.

So my time stood still before they found the "blob" after I was numb.

When I was 17 and my mum told me my dad was having an affair. I was in the garden trying to hang the washing on the line and the ground seemed to be moving up and down under me.

When DS was 20 months snd had a seizure, on phone to A&E thinking he might be dying.

When DD escaped out of a building age 18 months and I couldn't find her, the sick feeling of checking every possible hiding place inside and then slowly moving towards the door out onto the main road.

Life is so precious.

I work in a little pub in a little village, mostly old men who come in at the same times and order the same drinks, all very gentile and calm.

One night we had an incident between 2 younger customers- there was a scuffle (no biggy, we get them from time to time), one of them left out of a side exit and the other pulled out a knife and went to chase after him.

It was at that point that time stood still and I saw EVERYTHING all at once. I saw the knife come out, I saw 3 off duty colleagues run at him to stop him, I saw the knife an inch from one of them as he struggled, I saw his route out to follow the other chap and every customer who stood in his way. I managed to pull 2 of them behind the bar before running out to call the police.
It must’ve been 3 seconds at most but I remember thinking ‘how fascinating that I can see all this’.
I am incredibly lucky to have so few on these moments in my sheltered little world but I think about this moment often and how those thoughts were so clear and simultaneous. The human brain is incredible really.