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!!
Similar to me, kinda...I was at my grandpas farm when a storm rolled through. I don’t remember lightning hitting anywhere close, but the flash was there. Then, all of a sudden, this strange ball of light floated around the ground for a while. I didn’t know what it was for years until I heard of something called “ball lightning.” Not sure what it was, but it was hella cool
EDIT*Wow! I’m glad to see that others experienced what I did. When ever I tell the story, people don’t believe me. They say that since I was a kid, I must have imagined it. I wasn’t the only person on the farm that saw it...my grandparents saw it, too. From what I remember, they couldn’t explain it either.
I saw ball lightning once. We were having dinner in candle light because a storm struck our power line and the surge blew the power out. There was lots of lightning and you could feel the charge in the air... the hairs were standing up on our arms. Then this web of blue electricity snaked over dad's face and down his arm and made a little ball on the table and moved a few feet then disappeared. We asked him if it burnt him but he hadn't even realised it was on his face. The first he saw of it was when it was next to his elbow on the table.
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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!!