Ever felt physical sparky/ lightning bolt feelings?

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I’m wondering how common this is, and interested in hearing about other people’s experiences.
Have you ever encountered a person (whether you fancy them or not!)with whom you’ve experienced a proper physical sensation like an electric shock when they’re nearby, you brush against them?! Like the lightning bolt we always talk about romantically, but have you felt this really physically through your body?
I know on all the tv dating shows etc people talk about ‘the spark’, but have you felt the spark like a proper surge of electricity powering through your body? how did it turn out ?
I’m not talking nylon static here!

You mean lust?

I don’t know if I do mean lust, unless that’s how everyone experiences it. To my mind lust is more rational, you see a person and you really want to take them to bed , you’re overwhelmed with all the hormones/ pheremones or whatever.
With lust there’d probably be sexual attraction first? You see your ‘type’ and the body goes with it. I guess I’m talking about something more random, it may not be someone you’re initially attracted to or falls into the parameters of your normal type?

Pheromones (can’t spell 😄)

My uncle purchased one of those robotic sex dolls. He instantly felt very lusty towards it, but when he turned it on it started buffering up for a software upgrade. It said "Log out of all other programmes. Do not switch off. Update. Press Enter to continue"

After 15 minutes it was displaying only 21% complete. So he decided to plug in the vacuum cleaner and use that while he was waiting. Unfortunately, there was a split in the lead and a bare wire was sticking out. The oil he had put to one side from the robotic doll (by then buffered up to 46%) dripped onto the bare wire and sent a current through the vacuum cleaner and killed him.

Does that count.

Omg yes. Was asked for a dance on a night out by a stranger.. I did dance but refused to give my number as I was married..
Marriage broke up very soon after.. I managed to track down the medium dark handsome stranger.. We had a great fling for about 6 weeks. Very much sex based! No regrets. Gave me the confidence to get back on the horse so to speak!
Sparks absolutely flew!

My first serious boyfriend aged 16 ahh young love.

Yep!

Yes, felt this with dh. Like a electricity between us. A real magnetism. I'm not the kind of person to think someone likes me, but I felt sure that the feeling had to be mutual because it was so strong. Luckily I was right!

Do you think this feeling only happens if it's mutual or do you think knot can be one sided?

Yes!! And I married him.

That feeling is still there 10 years down the line.

Yes a weird physical sensation - not just attraction or lust. Sadly it was just the once and it was a man I met in a nightclub on his stag night. Lol. Clearly nothing happened but I can remember him 30 years later.

Yes. With two people.

With the first my knees literally went weak and I felt a jolt through my body when I saw my first ‘lust’. It was pure attraction. I still feel a bit breathless when I think about him and that’s nearly 30 years ago.

The second with now DH but it wasn’t the first time I saw him. It was after our friendship had grown and I suddenly realised I’d fallen for him. Nearly 20 years later and he can still make me feel like that.

Yep.

We both felt it. We both ignored it. It was torture as we had very professional roles. Couldn't look at him sometimes. We were totally incompatible on every other way.

Yes. I'm not with him now.

@gogogoji ime this is a mutual feeling, but I guess it doesn’t work that way for everyone?
often it must go unsaid!

Yes, and thought it meant we were destined to be together forever. But we were completely incompatible in every other way and he was actually a bit of a narcissist.

Yes, just once, when much younger, on holiday. I just happened to look up and made accidental eye contact with a complete stranger and had a physical jolt like an electric shock. Spent a pleasant couple of weeks...It was very, very strange and I've never had it since!
It was 30 or so years ago and I remember the moment very clearly.

I was only thinking about this earlier today. The first person i fell in love with - first date he drove me back to my house and put his hand on my knee and bang, electric. I wasn't sure i even fancied him at that point. He ended up being a knob though. Never happened with anyone else since sadly.

Yes, with DH. Such a cliche, but our eyes met across a dance floor and I’ve never felt a jolt like it. He said the exact same thing. Never happened to either of us before. He has driven me crazy at times and he’s had to do a lot of work over the years within our relationship, but that initial spark was unreal.

Yes. A few years ago. I returned to work after some time off and whilst I was away a new colleague had started. I was at the desk when he walked in, I looked up and saw him and was transfixed - the same happened to him as he stopped in his tracks and was unable to speak, we just stared at each other for ages. Whenever we bumped in to each other he would lose the ability to speak and I had the bolt of lightning. Completely not my usual type but the feeling was insane - definitely a chemical reaction!

Yes. Completely inappropriate but intense relationship years ago, pre DH. I honestly thought I'd had an electric shock the first time we were intimate.

Yes, with DP. We’d been friends on and off for nearly 20 years and always fancied the pants off each other but we met up again after a long hiatus (during which we’d both been married to, and split up with, other people) and the minute we saw each other it was full on thunderbolts, nothing but us in the world type thing. It was totally overwhelming and I’ve never felt anything like it before or since (including with exH, or with now DP previously). It lasted months and months and months and although it’s now moved into something more comfortable and familiar, we still have a ridiculous, electric attraction 2 years on. Just got engaged!

This has only happened to me once. We were friends for a few months and then went on a weekend away with a group of friends. We were sharing a (big) room with the group and we’d gone on a long walk during the day and were just resting/napping back at the hotel before going out for the night, and he was playing me music on his nano (yes it was in the dark ages). He wanted to play a certain song for me and put it on and reached across the gap between the two beds to hand me the headphones and our hands touched. And I just felt all warm and squishy inside 😂 It was the weirdest thing. Never felt anything like that before and certainly not towards a friend.

We got together that night (I don’t mean sex, just that we both admitted we sorta noticed the other for the first time and decided to start dating). That was 15 years ago. Marriage, 2 dc, a dog and a house later, he’s downstairs sorting the recycling now and still makes me feel warm and squishy. 😂

Some of these are just lovely 🥰

Yes, I’ve experienced an actual electric shock feeling (more than just static) when I touched someone I was very attracted to. It was years ago and we were teenagers. He was a few years older than me so it was a bit forbidden but we were friends. I reached out and touched his arm when he walked down a corridor and it was a proper electric shock which he felt too. We just stared at each other afterwards. It was never to be between us but we have kept in touch and 20 odd years later I still remember that feeling.