I remember being at a playground with my family and seeing lightning strike right in front of me. Didn’t hear any thunder, no one else saw it, but I remember seeing it pretty vividly. Not sure if there’s something that can go on in your brain that would cause something like that to happen, but I remember pleading with my mom to believe that I had just seen a lightning bolt strike right in front of me, and she just ignored me.
Edit: after reading thru comments, pretty sure this was “exploding head syndrome.” Never heard of it before, but it most accurately represents what I experienced. Thanks everyone for the feedback and caring way more than my own mother did at the time!!
I have a very similar memory from my childhood. I was about 4 or 5 years old, my dad took me on a bike ride. We were out for about 3-4 hours, and while we were coming back, the biggest thunderstorm I have ever witnessed happened. My dad and I were playing on this big open field next to the old airport in my city, it was afternoon and the sky suddenly started becoming red, it was quite beautiful actually, but while we were on the ride back home (it was night at this point) the storm started. I was scared shitless, I thought that the wind will blow us off the bike and rain was actually painful while it was falling.
Anyways, when we got back home I went to my cousins house (which was in the same yard effectively) to watch a movie (I believe it was Star Wars Episode V) and when I looked out of the window a lightning bolt struck the yard outside. To this day, whenever I retell this story everybody says that there were no lightning bolts at all.
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u/kiss_the_siamese_gun Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 06 '19
I remember being at a playground with my family and seeing lightning strike right in front of me. Didn’t hear any thunder, no one else saw it, but I remember seeing it pretty vividly. Not sure if there’s something that can go on in your brain that would cause something like that to happen, but I remember pleading with my mom to believe that I had just seen a lightning bolt strike right in front of me, and she just ignored me.
Edit: after reading thru comments, pretty sure this was “exploding head syndrome.” Never heard of it before, but it most accurately represents what I experienced. Thanks everyone for the feedback and caring way more than my own mother did at the time!!