Did you happen to see any rain or lightning in the hours leading up to or after your experience?
None. It was middle of summer and we hadn't had rain in a while before that and it was sunny the next day, but it was a cool front that came with the clouds as I remember that's why we were hanging out outside as it had been upper 90's then that day was low 80's so it was nice.
However I've seen summer lightning with no rain and only moderate clouds many times. So a passing cloud that eventually discharged lightning is definitely a possibility.
At the time though we freaked out, never seen it that dark in the country except for a new moon during storms (I think that's what it is, when the moon is completely dark for a few days). Even then you can still see right in front of you even though its dark. We literally were walking blind and bumped into the side of a white painted house. It was crazy. Never had an experience like that since.
I've been in caves several times and have rooms in my basement with no widows, so with the door closed down there its basically pitch black at night, and that's what this was like. Plenty enough light to see (full moon just overcast) and then just blackness out of nowhere.
Also, it went dead quite as all the crickets, frogs, and locusts shup up completely during the blackout. Forgot to mention that before.
I've had a couple of experiences where I couldn't tell a dream from reality even after I woke up.
I literally wasn't sure if that was the case, was the whole thing a dream that I thought was real? But my friend remembered it as well, where we had been earlier that night, the conversation we had in the car just before seeing it (which I also recall because he was going through a separation and it was the first time we had discussed it being official and him probably moving out). So he 100% remembered exactly what I was talking about when I mentioned the dream to him. The first part happened for sure.
These kind of dreams have gotten much more rare and less vivid as I age, but still in my early 20s I had a dream that I'm certain saved me from a home invasion.
That's pretty crazy! I'm on a beta blocker for migraine prevention and it causes vivid dreams, nightmares, and hallucinations (right after waking up). So I've had tons of crazy dreams and weird experiences in the middle of the night. Never one like yours though! Sounds like a great plot for an episode of Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits!
My frozen trance dream could very well just be a side-effect dream, but it was at least partially based on a memory and reality as I'm not the only one who experienced the first part of it, but the fact we both vividly remember the night, it is super eerie that neither of us remembers anything that happened after that, and that I had a dream that we were stuck in some kind of long trance years after it happened. Super weird.
IDK if you were in the middle of nowhere when this happened, but clouds blocking the moon don't cause pitch blackness anywhere I've been.
On a farm surrounded by crops and cattle and other farms, and a gravel road miles long with no street lights. Pretty much middle of nowhere. Miles away from a small town, about an hour away from the closest city. There was also a minuteman less than a mile away until the late-ish 90's. This would have been at least a few years after it was decommissioned. No lights after it was filled in. An air base was about 15-ish miles away.
But yea that's why I considered sharing as I consider it at the very least paranormal or some kind of super uncommon phenomenon. Bumping into a white wall that I couldn't see from 6' away was crazy. We were fucking terrified until the moonlight returned.
electrical phenomena like static or devices not working is a very common report from people who claim to have had close encounters with UFOs.
Yea no cellphones back then and the power was on inside the house, so no clue if anything electronic stopped outside but there wasn't anything out there that was on, but when we turned on the light inside I remember saying something like "dude..." and he said "your hair is fucking wild" and then we both freaked out all over again. It was genuinely crazy.
I once took some melatonin to help me sleep and as soon as I feel asleep I started his horrific lucid dream nightmare that I could not wake up from no matter how hard I tried, and it lasted pretty much the whole night.
Yea I deal with basically this same thing at least once or twice a month. Was 2-3 times a week when I started the med. It sucks. Sometimes I can get myself awake enough to turn on lights and then go sit in the living room with the TV on. It takes at least 30 minutes to kick myself out of it, otherwise going back to sleep just resumes the dream or it'll turn even worse sometimes.
The worst is dreaming that you went to the living room but then the crazy shit follows you there and you realize you either never actually got out of bed or you fell asleep on the couch too soon and it continued.
None. It was middle of summer and we hadn't had rain in a while before that and it was sunny the next day, but it was a cool front that came with the clouds as I remember that's why we were hanging out outside as it had been upper 90's then that day was low 80's so it was nice.
However I've seen summer lightning with no rain and only moderate clouds many times. So a passing cloud that eventually discharged lightning is definitely a possibility.
At the time though we freaked out, never seen it that dark in the country except for a new moon during storms (I think that's what it is, when the moon is completely dark for a few days). Even then you can still see right in front of you even though its dark. We literally were walking blind and bumped into the side of a white painted house. It was crazy. Never had an experience like that since.
I've been in caves several times and have rooms in my basement with no widows, so with the door closed down there its basically pitch black at night, and that's what this was like. Plenty enough light to see (full moon just overcast) and then just blackness out of nowhere.
Also, it went dead quite as all the crickets, frogs, and locusts shup up completely during the blackout. Forgot to mention that before.
I literally wasn't sure if that was the case, was the whole thing a dream that I thought was real? But my friend remembered it as well, where we had been earlier that night, the conversation we had in the car just before seeing it (which I also recall because he was going through a separation and it was the first time we had discussed it being official and him probably moving out). So he 100% remembered exactly what I was talking about when I mentioned the dream to him. The first part happened for sure.
That's pretty crazy! I'm on a beta blocker for migraine prevention and it causes vivid dreams, nightmares, and hallucinations (right after waking up). So I've had tons of crazy dreams and weird experiences in the middle of the night. Never one like yours though! Sounds like a great plot for an episode of Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits!
My frozen trance dream could very well just be a side-effect dream, but it was at least partially based on a memory and reality as I'm not the only one who experienced the first part of it, but the fact we both vividly remember the night, it is super eerie that neither of us remembers anything that happened after that, and that I had a dream that we were stuck in some kind of long trance years after it happened. Super weird.
On a farm surrounded by crops and cattle and other farms, and a gravel road miles long with no street lights. Pretty much middle of nowhere. Miles away from a small town, about an hour away from the closest city. There was also a minuteman less than a mile away until the late-ish 90's. This would have been at least a few years after it was decommissioned. No lights after it was filled in. An air base was about 15-ish miles away.
But yea that's why I considered sharing as I consider it at the very least paranormal or some kind of super uncommon phenomenon. Bumping into a white wall that I couldn't see from 6' away was crazy. We were fucking terrified until the moonlight returned.
Yea no cellphones back then and the power was on inside the house, so no clue if anything electronic stopped outside but there wasn't anything out there that was on, but when we turned on the light inside I remember saying something like "dude..." and he said "your hair is fucking wild" and then we both freaked out all over again. It was genuinely crazy.
Yea I deal with basically this same thing at least once or twice a month. Was 2-3 times a week when I started the med. It sucks. Sometimes I can get myself awake enough to turn on lights and then go sit in the living room with the TV on. It takes at least 30 minutes to kick myself out of it, otherwise going back to sleep just resumes the dream or it'll turn even worse sometimes.
The worst is dreaming that you went to the living room but then the crazy shit follows you there and you realize you either never actually got out of bed or you fell asleep on the couch too soon and it continued.