reply to post by SunflowerStar
There are other accounts on ATS of entire carloads of people experiencing strange time slip type events while on a drive.
There is an incident I will not relate here in full detail that involved myself and about five to eight (not sure of the exact count) of my fellow
students out of a class of about 25 in 1980. Those of us who were among the small group experienced a very huge slip of apocalyptic character that
the rest of the class did not. The rest of the class including our teacher experienced a mere lightning strike on the building that caused a flicker
of the lights that lasted about a second. Those of us in the small subgroup experienced a protracted event of an entirely different nature that ended
with the sensation of the normal classroom and the rest of our classmates materializing around us in place of a destroyed version we had been in. So
yes, I think it is possible for a group to be affected by a time slip or whatever these things are, if they truly do exist and aren't some kind of
brain glitch combined with mass hysteria in the case of more than one person. And yes, I will always hold out the possibility that this latter case
is true. In the absence of concrete evidence and hard scientific facts, I'm willing to entertain all reasonable possiblities, from the Fortean to
the mundane.
Contrary to what some people might think, I do not WANT anything in my life to be paranormal nor extraordinary. But if something APPEARS to be so, I
want to examine it and hopefully discern the TRUTH, even if it is mundane and even if it exposes a weakness of mind or character or any other human
frailty that would logically and reasonably account as the true cause. From what I've seen of True American's contributions to ATS, I think he is
on the same page as me about that.
As I am a bit haunted by that experience so many years ago, this thread holds my interest because I am wondering if something similar is playing out
on a much greater scale with some of us being like that small subgroup of my fellow students over thirty years ago.
I don't know how many of you are old enough to remember the 1980's, but then, as now, there was a very common feeling of impending doom and fear
among people due to the Cold War and threat of mutual annihilation with the Soviet Union. If the Internet had been around then, I think there would
have been many discussion threads like we see now, of people feeling something of great magnitude is taking place and people are feeling strange, but
nobody knows what or why. And against it all, a backdrop of pessimism and fear about the future on a multinational scale. However, I do not remember
any talk or personal experience of weird sounds and rumbles and strange physical sensations like we have now.