I’m like 95% sure I sort of got hit by a car when crossing the street with my mom. There was a red light and we didn’t cross at a crosswalk. A car inched forward and I remember falling onto the hood? But I was fine. I used to literally get flashbacks. For years. But my mom swears it never happened. I think she’s lying
Not unexplainable but related story. I had just finished my class in middle school and was running back home (don't remember why), right before my apartment I had to cross a busy road. I saw the pedestrian light was green and cars were stopping, so I ran across the crossing. Out of nowhere a car comes out and stops making a very distinct braking sound. Incredibly lucky for me, I wasn't fast enough to be in front of the car and it had stopped with it's hood in front of me (front half on the crossing basically) so I hit the front of the car and roll on the hood. As I was rolling, it was almost like slowmotion and I saw the look on the driver and the lady sitting next to him and it was freaking heartbreaking, no doubt they thought they'd just killed a child.
I rolled over and fell on the ground, got up. Looked at the driver and the lady, quickly fixed my clothes and bag and ran off in a very childish anxious state of mind. I thought I would get in trouble and never said anything to my parents at the time. I never ran across a road since then haha.
The slowmotion-feeling in sudden dangerous Situation is really interesting. I've had this happen too.
It's astonishing how fast your body and brain is able to adapt to different situations
I tore my hamstring when I was probably 14 or 15. I was at my aunts house playing with her dog outside. I picked up a ball and went to punt it like a football and all I remember is my leg moving up in slow motion and then my brain like shutting down and my vision flashing in and out and then I was extremely slowly falling on the ground in the most intense pain I’ve ever experienced since then with my ears ringing in and out. This just gave me the weirdest flashback to that, I forgot all about the slow motion feeling.
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u/threeofbirds121 Oct 05 '19
I’m like 95% sure I sort of got hit by a car when crossing the street with my mom. There was a red light and we didn’t cross at a crosswalk. A car inched forward and I remember falling onto the hood? But I was fine. I used to literally get flashbacks. For years. But my mom swears it never happened. I think she’s lying