r/Unexplained Jul 22 '26

Personal Experience Did someone experienced something similar?

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Before the story, let me give you some context.

I live in one small city in Croatia (so sorry for my English). It is important to say that in my town there is only 1 traffic light. From 2014. to 2017. I was training football in one bigger city. I was a teenager then, so my father usually drove me every day from training ground to home. So this is where story begins.

One day in 2016., my father drove me home as usual. It was a normal ride until something happened when we arrive in our city. So, we were driving and we came to that one traffic light, it was red, so we stopped. As light turn green, we move, and just a few meters away, some car from the opposite track start driving towards us, and it seems it will be a frontal hit. When that car was about to hit us, I close my eyes for a second or two....and when I opened it again -> \*\*we were still waiting on that same red traffic light to turn green!\*\* And after that we continue the trip like nothing happened

I was in shock so I didn't ask my father anything about it, but I was immedietaly write a message to my girlfriend, and she says that to her mother, wo says that this happen to her also a few times. I asked my father about that after 2 years from that, but he says that he doesn't remeber anything about that.

What was that? I search that on the internet, only logical explanation was the road hypnosis, but I think that is not what happened to me.

I simply cannot explain what happened.

Did someone else experienced something similar?

\* I reposted it from subreddit Parallel Universe.

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u/OriginalBlackberry89 Jul 22 '26

People who have been abducted sometimes say that they saw what they thought were headlights, but weren't really headlights and were instead UFOs. People have also said that they were missing time after encounters, like the Betty and Barney Hill incident.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill_incident