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?

I ran out in front of a car when I was 12. I remember time standing still as the car approached me. Then nothing for several hours, I woke up in hospital having a head x ray.

Fortunately I wasn’t seriously hurt, just a bit bashed about and concussed. My friends who witnessed it told me I seemed fully conscious throughout (and swearing) but I don’t remember any of that.

Also when I was on holiday and my very ill friend’s wife texted me and asked me to call. The world went very still and quiet and calm. And then I called her and she told me what I already knew to be true.

💐 to all the posters here sharing their sad experiences.

When my brother called me to tell me he had found mum at the bottom of the stairs... I asked if she was ok and he went silent. I collapsed shouting 'no' onto the floor but I don't remember much else of that day really.

And when my little boy, born at 25 weeks died in my arms at 3 weeks old. Again I don't remember a lot else of that evening.

When I had a message from my mums work to ask if she was ok as she hadn’t checked in for work that day.

I knew instantly it wasn’t going to be good. Longest bloody drive home from work ever knowing she had gone.

Not sure this post has gone quite as you expected OP! 😍

Remembered another one...

When my Father raped me continuously aged 12..I would suck my thumb and time would literally stand still...I would be transported to another place and not even feel like I was actually in my body at all.
But reading this thread, whilst utterly heartbreaking, aren't we amazing?

All this trauma but we are all still here x

Much love to all of you, I'll never meet you but we all get to share our stories xxx

@MsTSwift hope DC is OK! Similar for me, except I fell in too, and as I was under the water I didn't know when I'd get my head out whether I would find her, if she'd sunk, or been taken by the current. Horrendous.

Luckily she was right next to me and had miraculously kept her head out of the water.

It felt like I was under the water for hours when it probably was half a second. I couldn't sleep for weeks afterwards and would start crying at random times just reliving that feeling of absolute dread.

When my dad died. I was 15 and honestly knew it was coming, but at 15 you never believe something like that could really really happen. That this hard life shit is real, and there’s no escape hatch. One minute I was the dramatic lead in my drama and the next it was no joke. Life as I knew it was gone. Absolutely gone. With kid brothers and a distraught mother. I honestly think I’m still grieving the sudden loss of of that carefree confidence of life more than 20 years later. Kids in my position need support. I see how vulnerable they are, even if they won’t admit it (me).

My abusive ex hanged himself from the stairs , while I was in the house, because he realised he couldn't convince me to stay with him after I finally found the strength to end it.

I walked out of a room to the landing and knew something was wrong. It was eerily quiet and it felt like everything was taking time to process. I saw the knotted cable around the spindle and slowly realised the situation.

Then the craziness of it all kicked in at a speed and panic that was such a completely opposite extreme. Never felt like that again, thankfully. Hope I never do.

@PaisleyP I don't know what to say but I want you to know I read your post and am so deeply sorry for what you went through and probably still are. It sounds savage. 🌺

Like many others, a car accident. It was on an isolated country road in the middle of nowhere so it was quiet but in the moments after the crash it was eerily so. I managed to extricate myself but couldn't walk so was just lying there in the grass in this complete silence wondering what the fuck I was going to do next. Then it seemed like no time before there was screaming and shouting, sirens and helicopters and I'd gone from total silence to overwhelming noise in an instant. It can't have been that quick of course, but it's how I remember it.

When I lost my dc for a few min, I had been chatting at my brothers house at the door. I had visions of him being snatched and taken away in a car, I was just screaming his name and running up and down the street.

Like many others I had some really calm thoughts and one disturbing one was ’he was ’my more challenging child anyway’ 😔 I assume it was my brain trying to square the possible calamity to come

I sobbed my heart out when it turned out he’d snuck into my brothers house to play with his cousin (was during covid distancing). I can still feel the fear rising when I think about it.

When I realised I'd been spiked with something during a night out. My heart was pounding and it felt like my brain was flooded with a million thoughts all at once. I blacked out and when I came to it felt like a really long time had passed but in reality it had probably been less than half an hour.

Fortunately my friend realised something was wrong and had followed me to the bathroom so I wasn't alone. She said my lips turned blue and I was completely incoherent. I've never been so scared in my whole life.

Twice both horrific the first time my abuser raped me aged 11 I went into like a out of body experience couldn’t feel or hear anything think it was my mind trying to protect myself,
second time doctors working in my son in resus similar feeling all quiet everything slow luckily he pulled through

@yougotthelook I’m so sorry 💐

@yougotthelook I’m so so sorry. My heart just broke for you.

I hope that reptile got his comeuppance. I hope you have found peace and happiness. Xxxxxxx

As a teenager seeing a young boy being pulled out after drowning, his dads scream was like nothing I've heard before and never want to hear again.

Over 20 years ago and the picture is still very clear in my mind.

A car bomb went off in my town, there was the initial noiseof the bomb then everything seemed to go quite. I had been blown backwards and it sounded like all the air was being sucked into a vortex. Then it went very quiet and a

Sorry bit of a glitch,
It went very quite and time stopped, then all hell broke loose.

When the consultant told me I had a mass on my left ovary. I’d gone without anyone with me, thinking it was nothing. I had to pay for the car park and drive home. I was completely numb. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, nearly 10 years ago. I’m doing well.

When my father came to tell me that the doctor said my mother had only two weeks to live. Total shock as unexpected news.

When I looked at my EXDH phone and realised he had been having an affair. Never forgot the whoosh feeling as my heart felt like it stopped , then crashed to my feet .

When I got caught up in a terrorist attack - when I realised what was happening and genuinely believed I was about to die at the hands of a terrorist everything went completely silent and still and I felt as though my spirit was leaving my body.

When my baby was born not breathing. It was the longest few minutes of my life. It seemed much longer. She was resuscitated successfully. But it definitely wasn’t like the “it’s a girl” joyous moments on the telly. Just whipped away quick trying to get her breathing….

Sat breastfeeding my 48hour old newborn when my phone beeped with a text from dp, he had gone upstairs to try and kill himself.

Read every post. So sorry everyone 😢

When my sister nearly died and was in a coma after a car accident and the same week my kitten died in a freak accident, I felt like I couldn't breathe and life was falling apart

When I thought it was a good idea to go to a nearly deserted bedouin camp in Dahab to purchase weed. As I sat on a rug with 3 burly men in the empty, dark courtyard, being served tea while the transaction took place, I suddenly realised how easy it would be for me to never be seen again. It was nearly 30 years ago but I remember how silent everything suddenly went, and how my wits were suddenly very sharp.