Originally posted by maddale
so if anybody else has had similar experiences i would really like to know
I've had a similar experience - of sorts. One night I was walking home from the train, along a "semi-rural" street (houses, incl. mine, to left and
fields + woods to right). I spotted something a few yards up ahead, and when I came up to it I saw a pretty strange creature: think a dung beetle
(about the size of a football if including its "ball"), walking on its "hind legs" (i.e. the wrong way for such a beetle), and having the head of
a mouse of some kind. No, I'm not joking - a mouse-headed giant dung beetle, with the wrong feet walking, pushing the dung ball along the pavement. I
was, however, slightly drunk at the time, but as soon I reached home I was struck by the thought that I hadn't reacted to the mouse-beetle at all.
That is, I was still not upset/surprised of the creature itself, only by the fact that I hadn't reacted to it as I encountered it.