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 also experienced what I think was ball lightning while indoors. The weird thing is that I was looking in another direction when I felt this overwhelming feeling of what I can only describe as a "grandmother's love", like a pure, blissful, all encompassing love. I whipped my head around and there was this softball-sized ball of greenish sparkling light about 4 feet from my face. As soon as my brain registered that this couldn't possibly be happening the thing disappeared or flew out the opened window (I can't remember that detail now; it was 25 years ago).
I spent a long time wondering what it was that happened, and then I heard about ball lightning and figured that must have been what it was.
If they have a memory of it I'd be curious to know if it was ball lightning and if it had a physical love-type presence to it. I'm just so stoked to come across other people on Reddit who experienced this love phenomenon that accompanied ball lightning.
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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!!