Alright, although I'm agnostic, I don't quickly point fingers and say that something "paranormal" happened, but man: I just had something very strange happen, which sparked an even weirder sensation in me.
It's a little past 23:00, and I decided to go and have a look at the two windows in our basement, as I often do before I go to bed.
I do this pretty much only during spring and summer, because it's the time when bigger insects, mice or frogs tend to fall down the roster and land on a pile of leaves before the window glass, where one can pick them up and put them in the yard again, which I happily do.
This time, it was a cute little youngster frog again.
While I was clearing stuff out of the way to open the window and get the youngster frog, I was kinda talking, or thinking, "out loud" to myself about how I'd go on about continuing with my new hobby (sewing) and what parts and materials I'd soon order to increase the quality of the pouches I was experimenting with.
As I was doing this, I opened the window, managed to have the little frog jump into the box I held before him, put a lid on it, set him aside and closed the window.
While I was returning the items I cleared from before the window in order to open it, I was still deeply "focused" on my little self-talk session, when I reflectively looked toward our little storage room that's connected to our basement; I like to close the door whenever I'm there sewing, I don't know, it simply feels better.
The door was half open - somebody must've left it - and I saw some kind of flash, a "bolt of light"(?) flashing up slightly behind the door; I instantly froze as if something had "caught" me; I felt like I had trespassed someone's territory, and that I had to move very quick.
As I stood there, I instantly got goosebumps All. Over. My. Body, tip-to-toe, and my heart started pumping, it was wild, and I even started tearing up, and while it all unfolded, I was like: Yo, wtf?! What. The. Fuck is this shit?
I felt some kind of "mild dread"(?) creeping up on me; I grabbed the frog and hauled my butt out of the basement Mucho Pronto, went outside, free'd the little frog and sat down for a bit.
It's almost an hour later and the goosebumps still keep flaring up, I keep tearing up and I don't fucking know why?
I went down with the sole intention to check on little insects or animals in need, while rambling aloud about my plans in regards to sewing stuff, and I returned a goosebumpy- and sobbing pile of shit, how?!
It's not even that it was something "out of the corner of my eye", because I was directly standing face-first towards the opening of said room, and saw it with "both" eyes, like wtf?!
I like to think that some synapses or nerves in my brain / eyes "overreacted", causing me to "see" said "spark", but how can this cause such an instant and "primal" level of fear?
It felt a second like I wasn't the hunter anymore, but prey.
Not knowing where that spark came from taps into the (primal) fear of the unknown and all your imagination. So I think it's normal to have intense fear when something unexpected like this happens. You enter survival mode since you literally don't know what's going to happen next. But only you know if that was what you felt or if it was something else.
Is there no possible explanation for that spark? A dying light bulb or something?
Funnily, I also sometimes see sudden sparks of light but I dismissed them as some sort of HPPD[1] after I realized nothing is causing them so it's probably just me seeing them. I dismissed them since they are ~mostly_harmless and thus don't really bother me; it's more that I am intrigued by them.
I also see visual snow and floaters regularly, apparently another HPPD syndrom, but that has always been the case, unlike the sparks of light ↩
Sounds like glitches in the Matrix. If you or Fabs go missing, I'm going to assume you got unplugged and are now fighting the good fight in some dystopian real world.
I can see @Fabs going Cypher
Maybe that's what already happened. We did go a while with any Fabs, recently.
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No. The room was dark, only the basement light was on, and I stood under it.
If that room hadn't been dark, I probably wouldn't have noticed it, and no, it couldn't have been a reflection of something else, since there is nothing to reflect off of in there.
TheWildHustle saw an alien spaceship while serving in the US Air Force.
It wasn't just him, a group of about 8 people saw it.
Funniest part is, TheWildHustle isn't really interested in aliens.
The freaks around him said "Holy shit, WTF, did you see that?"
Hustle said "Yeah I saw it. Who gives a Fuck, we better be sober enough to drive the truck tomorrow, because I ain't loadin missiles all Saturday night."
lmao
Scientific Explanations:Scientific Explanations:
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As much as I dislike it, I was talking aloud...
wow that's incredible. It doesn't seem to match any paranormal archetypes that I'm aware of...but it is very interesting you say you felt you trespassed someone's territory. If I were you, I would pay close attention to my dreams for a little while.
Well, yep, trespassing in my own house, quite a feat to achieve... 😆
I didn't dream anything weird tonight, but I'll keep that door shut again.
I don't have any insight, but you have inspired me to check our window wells for creatures who have fallen down. My Italian grandmother would say that was Saint Francis of Assisi thanking you.
Hah, well it better be either something rationally explainable, or something positive.
What did you see?
As I've said, a bolt or flash of bright white light, it happened very fast but was enough to send my body into primal alert.
Like something inside your eyes?
Or something that you actually say with your eyes?
I thought that might be the case, but it was partly behind the door, and thus, "out there", no?
Im not sure since I didnt see it.
But it could have been electric current in your eye.
Or a floaty that just caught the light in the right way.
Wow what a tale. Thanks for sharing.
It better be the last one.
I'm thinking it was some kind of unexplained static discharge that looks like lightning, but who knows, it could be the kind of Seizure that Travolta had in Phenomenon.
Let us know when you start levitating shit.
Wow feel the vibes!
Basement frog, sewing plans, and a paranormal disco—life’s wild
What is this
This is totally absurd
Take it easy man!
I can confirm, there isn't any bad soul on the Earth. I'm not sure about Good ones. The next time you see the flash, be brave and talk to the good lady, may be from 2200 BC!
You know, I always shit on those "ghost hunters" whenever they do seem to get a reaction, but choose to run off instead of taking charge, now I know why.
Your anecdote is chilling. Something like this happened to me when I was a child. When I was 8 years old, I had moved to a house near the beach. It happened to me the first time I entered what was going to be my room in that house.
Did it continue?
Could be some electrical components malfunctioning in that room?
Or actual cosmic rays passing through your eyeballs. According to an interview with an astronaut I saw recently it becomes more frequent as one gets further from the earth and our shielding atmosphere/magnetic fields, but can still happen on earth.
No, not possible.
Can we feel when we're being watched? If so, how?
Hm, goosebumps All over your skin and the feeling of being "prey" to something?
But how does one sense them?
Subconscious part of your brain scanning the periphery of your vision for faces and shapes? Electromagnetism?
Paranoia?
It's no secret that people can sense when they're being watched [by other people], the same senses will catch up on the above as well, I think.
Begging the question.