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Bright Flashes Of Light!

Welcome biscuitmoon. Thank you for sharing your experience. It seems you're not alone in experiencing flashes of light indoors. It'll be interesting to see whether they're generally associated with usual 'haunting' patterns or whether they share other characteristics.
 
Just to say I enjoyed reading through your experiences! Some really special reassuring ones as well :) Great that you kept a record ... any more?

Sollywos x

Actually,yes,I didn't copy and paste all of the ones I've recorded
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One from work
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Also, a few years ago in a previous job (as a cleaner),I was there on my own - no one else could get in as I had a set of keys and had locked the front door.The office staff weren't due in for a couple of hours.Yet I heard my name being called whilst upstairs. No radio on,no one outside,my phone hadn't gone off. Not long after,I saw a dark shadow going across the hall. I promptly went downstairs,made a drink and went outside for a smoke. Proper spooked me up.

Also working in a pub,we wouldn't go upstairs to the store room on our own,someone had hung themselves up there a year or so previous and we always felt a presence up there.
 
Thanks Grumpyoldwoman!

By the way I note you have already got your degree ... maybe you could help me out with homework if you happen to be in the library! :) [see my sign in thingy lol]

Sollywos x
 
Just happened to be reading the following, and thought it might be of interest to one or more persons checking in here:

Having studied the languages of the American Indians (which
were often referred to as ‘primitive’), Whorf discovered a seeming
paradox – a ‘primitive’ language is much better equipped than
a ‘sophisticated and well-developed’ one to deal with physical
science. Some languages, Whorf believes, are closer to reality; their
concepts are a more accurate reflection of the world we know. For
example, when we look at a surface in everchanging undulating
motions, we say ‘see that wave’, but a wave cannot exist by itself.
Some languages do not have a word for ‘a wave’; they are closer
to reality in this respect. Hopi say walalata, ‘plural waving occurs’.


Another example of more accurate (scientific)
reflection of reality is in verbs without subjects that give a better
understanding of certain aspects, for example, ‘flash (occurred)’.
We are constantly reading into nature fictional entities, simply
because our verbs must have substantives in front of them.
We have to say ‘It flashed’ or ‘A light flashed’, setting up an
actor, ‘it’ or ‘light’, to perform what we call an action, ‘to
flash’. Yet the flashing and the light are one and the same!
The Hopi language reports the flash with a simple verb, rehpi:
‘flash (occurred)’… Undoubtedly modern science, strongly
reflecting western Indo-European tongues, often does as we
all do, sees actions and forces where it sometimes might be
better to see states. (Whorf 1956)


According to the conceptions of modern physics, the contrast
of particle and field of vibrations is more fundamental in the
world of nature than such contrasts as space and time, or
past, present, and future, which are the sort of contrasts that
our language imposes upon us. The Hopi aspect-contrast…
being obligatory upon their verb forms, practically forces
the Hopi to notice and observe vibratory phenomena, and
furthermore encourages them to find names for and to classify
such phenomena. (Whorf 1956)


In his paper ‘A linguistic consideration of thinking in primitive
communities’, Whorf provides a very convincing argument that socalled
‘primitive’ communities are, in fact, far from being inferior
to ‘civilized’ societies in their mental functioning, but rather show
a higher and more complex level of rational thinking. At the end
of the article the author concludes that ‘English compared to Hopi
is like a bludgeon to a rapier’. (Whorf 1956)


from Autism and the Edges of the Known World - Sensitivities, Language, and Constructed Reality (Olga Bogdashina, 2010)
 
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Sid, is it possible "your" Libriarian had just accepted an explanation that made some sort of sense to her ,thus stopping her having to entertain the idea that there was something amis with her view of the universe?

Or may be she knows something about electricians and Plasma balls that we don't!
All I know is that she "explained" the event (my visual, and heard event) as having been reported to the College (Library Computer Suite) by students previously. Her "explanation" as such, was just her - or perhaps the Colleges loose theory as to "Oh, it's happened before" explanation, but not any sensible reason for it.
 
Thanks Grumpyoldwoman!

By the way I note you have already got your degree ... maybe you could help me out with homework if you happen to be in the library! :) [see my sign in thingy lol]

Sollywos x

Can't help - I'm no lady,see,roflmao
 
Can't help - I'm no lady,see,roflmao

My friends would say I'm no lady either! A year or two back in a spirit of adventure I joined a dating site, good for a laugh if nothing else (and that's just reading the profiles never mind any actual dates!). Anyway this blokey starts writing to me he sounded totally not my type the more his e-mails revealed, but not wanting to hurt his feelings I was trying to let him down gradually however he persisted. He then tells me that he's a minor member of the aristocracy (from what I found out he was actually telling the truth lol). When I shared this gem with my collegues they fell about laughing saying 'lady plus my real name sounded more like a porn star or a brand of stockings' and advised against getting myself hooked up! (But oh the temptation to be able to turn up at the school reunion with said title.)

Sollywos x
 
Welcome Biscuitmoon! I too had a similar experience.

It was October 2002 and my wife and I had just brought my firstborn son home from the hospital. She was holding him in her arms and we were looking down at him, oohing and aahing in admiration at how cute he was, when we both saw an incredibly bright white flash that seemed to eminate from just above his head. We both looked at each other and simultaneously said "did you see that"?

It only ever happened that once. Although not particularly religious, we always interpreted it as being something spiritual in nature, as if that was the moment his "soul" was entering his body.
 
Wow living-daylights that was an amazing thing to happen! Has your firstborn shown any signs of being particularly spiritual and or psychic?

Sollywos x
 
Sid, is it possible "your" Libriarian had just accepted an explanation that made some sort of sense to her ,thus stopping her having to entertain the idea that there was something amis with her view of the universe?

Or may be she knows something about electricians and Plasma balls that we don't!
"Oops," just caught up with your quote 'Eyespy.' The Librarian only gave my experience some validation that "it" (the anomaly) was not the first time that it had been seen and that other students had had the same sort of experience at some previous points in time. It wasn't her own personal view, or thoughts on what had been experienced by students, only the coincidental nature from the alterations that were underway in the room above the library would be what you might call any definite link to the anomaly.
 
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Yes! I love this!! It's so valuable when you keep a written record of events!xxx
Hi 'Biscuitmoon:'

I only have an unwritten record of some very strange events that have 'popped' up at various stages over my lifetime, apart from a few events of other recorded written significance.

One of my first experience's was when I lay seriously ill in Hospital at the age of about eight years old - I was put into an isolation unit with many constantly crying babies all around me, I was succumbing to severe septicaemia.

I must have been getting to the critical (life or death) stage of my illness. I remember suddenly opening my eyes up to a very tall brightly lit window full of sunlight (which actually was the Hospital window directly to the left of my bed). I remember looking directly into what I interpreted as being the Sun itself, then having unforgettably mixed experiences firstly of inner warmth, then overwhelming light and I suppose what I can only explain as an overwhelming feeling of being loved (that's what it felt like purely from memory).

From that point on I made a sudden recovery.

I did have similar problems over many years after that, (also coupled with some odd experiences) but that's when Antibiotics hadn't been long around and were first being applied to patients, and that saved my life on that, and subsequent occasions.
 
Welcome Biscuitmoon! I too had a similar experience.

It was October 2002 and my wife and I had just brought my firstborn son home from the hospital. She was holding him in her arms and we were looking down at him, oohing and aahing in admiration at how cute he was, when we both saw an incredibly bright white flash that seemed to eminate from just above his head. We both looked at each other and simultaneously said "did you see that"?

It only ever happened that once. Although not particularly religious, we always interpreted it as being something spiritual in nature, as if that was the moment his "soul" was entering his body.
Just curious ~ "living daylights:' Only, I've noticed that you have used the term "emanate?" Did you mean that the light above him had emerged from your son's head, as you have also written that "his soul was entering his body? [from: Quote]
 
Hello all,

This was going to the subject of (rather bizzarely) something else I was going to share.

Around summer 2009, my friend and I decided to take a midnight stroll down to a rather well known ruin near Witney in Oxfordshire called Minster Lovell Hall and try some EVP experiments as he had just got a new digital recorder and wanted to try it out.

After leaving the recorder in a nook in the Great Hall section, we decided to walk around. Now, if anybody is familiar with this place, you'll know there is a river that runs right past the ruin and the other side of said river is a dense and not easily accessible wood.

As we were walking the bank, out of nowhere we both saw a giant flash of light emanate from the wood opposite, exactly like a camera flash but far, far more powerful and with no focal point. It illuminated the massive wooded area across the river for a split second. There are no roads behind this so it can't have been car lights or anything.

Unless someone had swam across the river or hiked round the back way at near midnight, to take a photo in the middle of the woods with an immensely powerful flash, I can't think what this could have been. It's really puzzled me for years.
 
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Hello all,

This was going to the subject of (rather bizzarely) something else I was going to share.

Around summer 2009, my friend and I decided to take a midnight stroll down to a rather well know ruin near Witney in Oxfordshire called Minster Lovell Hall and try some EVP experiments as he had just got a new digital recorder and wanted to try it out.

After leaving the recorder in a nook in the Great Hall section, we decided to walk around. Now, if anybody is familiar with this place, you'll know there is a river that runs right past the ruin and the other side of said river is a dense and not easily accessible wood.

As we were walking the bank, out of nowhere we both saw a giant flash of light emanate from the wood opposite, exactly like a camera flash but far, far more powerful and with no focal point. It illuminated the massive wooded area across the river for a split second. There are no roads behind this so it can't have been car lights or anything. Unless someone had swam across the river or hiked round the back way at near midnight, to take a photo in the middle of the woods with an immensely powerful flash, I can't think what this could have been. It's really puzzled me for years.

Hi 'Mr Spagooter:'
Well... I've got a possible theory as to what you might have spotted. "Or rather, it might have spotted you." It could well have been a poacher up to no good at that time of night - or a gamekeeper lurking in woods, probably with a very powerful Super Bright LED type of Searchlight/Spotlight. Say one of 7,000 lumens would have given out a very knock-out bright flash?
 
Hi 'Mr Spagooter:'
Well... I've got a possible theory as to what you might have spotted. "Or rather, it might have spotted you." It could well have been a poacher up to no good at that time of night - or a gamekeeper lurking in woods, probably with a very powerful Super Bright LED type of Searchlight/Spotlight. Say one of 7,000 lumens would have given out a very knock-out bright flash?

It's definitely plausible. However, given the distance away from us (around 75m-100m) that this light seemed to come from, I doubt we could have been seen by anyone, so no-one would know we were there. And then again would any potential poacher/s want to draw attention to themselves by flashing a light? The light itself was immensely powerful, way beyond the capability of any light somebody could carry with them (that I know of). I would say it was akin to a strobe light in retrospect.

All the best!
 
exactly like a camera flash but far, far more powerful and with no focal point
This rather reminds me of my experience back in the 1980s, in some ways https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...-of-light-at-night-ever-experienced-it.55474/

The looong duration was felt by both of us...not impressionistic, it was as actual as far as we could tell. Really >very< frightning at the time...and closing our eyes in reflex only reduced the brightness, not eliminated it.
 
This rather reminds me of my experience back in the 1980s, in some ways https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...-of-light-at-night-ever-experienced-it.55474/

The looong duration was felt by both of us...not impressionistic, it was as actual as far as we could tell. Really >very< frightning at the time...and closing our eyes in reflex only reduced the brightness, not eliminated it.

I've just read through this, it sounds terrifying and at the same time absolutely fascinating, though I can't think of any logical explanation for what this could have been. The mind boggles.
 
Wow living-daylights that was an amazing thing to happen! Has your firstborn shown any signs of being particularly spiritual and or psychic?

Sollywos x

I'm afraid not Sollywos, though I vaguely recall him having an "invisible" friend when he was little.

Just curious ~ "living daylights:' Only, I've noticed that you have used the term "emanate?" Did you mean that the light above him had emerged from your son's head, as you have also written that "his soul was entering his body?

No Sid, just my sloppy English! The flash originated from a point just above his head.

exactly like a camera flash but far, far more powerful and with no focal point

Mr Spagooter : This is a great description of the flash we saw too!

On an unrelated note, while we lived in this house we often used to see incredibly bright flashes in the sky out over the North Sea. Definitely not lightning. It was as if the entire sky was lit up for a fraction of a second. It always occurred during early evening as the sun was setting. The only possible explanation I have been able to find is that it could have been an "Iridium Flare", caused by the sun reflecting off one of the "Iridium" constellation of satellites.
 
A long time ago when I lived in a council house I used to work on cars in the back garden to earn some extra money, one night I was awoken by bright flashes through the curtains but by the time I got to the window all I could see was darkness. Found out later it was my neighbors taking photo's to show the council I was running a buisness from a council house. sorry not very Fortean.
 
Hi everyone, I used to post on these forums as Soul_Doubt but it doesn't seem to be possible to reactivate my old account *EDIT* - a very kind mod has merged my accounts!

Anyway, I wanted to log in to post on the glitch in the matrix reddit thread but as I was waiting for my new account to be activated I happened across this thread.

The same thing happened to me a few months back in our caravan. I was woken up by a monumentally intense bright flash of light. It was like a nuclear bomb going off right in my face for a split second and almost accompanied by a silent "boom", if that makes sense.

I was suddenly wide awake and vaguely pulled the curtains back by my bed. Nothing. Silence. The caravan park is *very* quiet with lots of rules and security - that's why we picked it.

I didn't have any after effects - no "purple haze", or anything like that.

I put my head back down and went back to sleep pretty quickly. I didn't think of the experience as being paranormal or anything - just a bit strange. Probably hypnagogic (though it woke me up - I was fast asleep - and I've never experienced any sleep disorders before or since).

It did make a big enough impression on me to remember it when I woke up "properly" in the morning. I told my wife about it and asked if she'd noticed anything (she hadn't).

Didn't think anything more of it until I was listening to The Unexplained With Howard Hughes podcast (an excellent podcast by the way) a few weeks back at the start of this lockdown.

He was interviewing an American guy who documents UFO sightings. Howard asked him whether there were any recent trends in phenomena and the interviewee said they'd received a wave of reports of people being woken up from their sleep in recent months by blinding flashes of light.

Weird!!

Thanks for reading.
 
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Very occasionally I've experienced a distant storm where you get a big lightning flash but maybe no thunder accompanying it, or a very distant almost unnoticeable rumble. The lightning flash can still be very bright though, may only occur the once & you end up wondering why it doesn't amount to more.

Hasn't happened to me in years though.

And not saying yours wasn't a UFO!
 
And not saying yours wasn't a UFO!

Ha, I definitely don't think mine was a UFO experience, nor do I think all or possibly any of the people who contacted the American investigator experienced a UFO either.

But it is a strange phenomenon, especially if there really has been a spike of people reporting this in recent months, as the guy said.

Is it to do with the electronic devices we use before going to bed? But they've been around for 10 years plus now, not just the last few months. Is it some kind of collective psychic pre-cog trauma at the impending coronavirus crisis? ;)

As for lightning, no, it was a calm and still night. Initially I thought someone must have shone a very powerful torch on my face through the crack in our curtains (which would have been creepy enough in itself at 2 or 3 in the morning). But I pulled the curtains back almost immediately and no one about, not a sound. And as I said, no "purple haze" or similar.

Guessing something sleep related. But strange if true that there's been a big spike in people experiencing this.
 
Ha, I definitely don't think mine was a UFO experience, nor do I think all or possibly any of the people who contacted the American investigator experienced a UFO either.

But it is a strange phenomenon, especially if there really has been a spike of people reporting this in recent months, as the guy said.

Is it to do with the electronic devices we use before going to bed? But they've been around for 10 years plus now, not just the last few months. Is it some kind of collective psychic pre-cog trauma at the impending coronavirus crisis? ;)

As for lightning, no, it was a calm and still night. Initially I thought someone must have shone a very powerful torch on my face through the crack in our curtains (which would have been creepy enough in itself at 2 or 3 in the morning). But I pulled the curtains back almost immediately and no one about, not a sound. And as I said, no "purple haze" or similar.

Guessing something sleep related. But strange if true that there's been a big spike in people experiencing this.
Thought this might throw a little bit more "light" (pun sort-of intended) on this phenomena...
http://inamidst.com/lights/earth
 
I experienced flashing lights in my vision. As it just seemed to be in the right eye, I took the precaution of going straight to Specsavers for a check up and they referred me immediately to the eye hospital. Turned out I had a detached retina. So often, there’s a reasonable explanation for flashing lights and I STRONGLY recommend an eye test as soon as possible.
 
You've actually reminded me I did have flashing lights in one of my eyes at work about 10 years ago. It started like a sort of shimmering in one corner, then spread across my whole eye. I couldn't concentrate at all, just a constant pulsating, flashing, glitchy shimmering of light. Kind of like being on acid (if you've ever done that - I did a couple of times in my youth).

I made up some excuse and went for a walk, hoping it would disappear (it did, after about half an hour). I was *very* stressed out in work at the time, and always put the experience down to stress.

As I say, this was about 10 years ago and I didn't experience anything else in the meantime. This recent one in the caravan was completely different. Just a single instantaneous blast of white light that woke me up.
 
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