I want to say there was at least a moment of not feeling totally aware of what was happening. Other than that....
I had a missing time incident once. Wife and I were returning home from a church function in the car, on a route that we took every day of the week. I had driven that way for so long, that I could nearly drive it in my sleep.
I see our exit coming up, and my body is already signaling and maneuvering the car onto the exit ramp. My wife is chatting about the event and mentions that we'll get home just in time for her favorite show. I'm listening, while watching the road.
As I ease down the off-ramp, I look around and notice that the landmarks are all wrong. It takes me a minute, but I finally figure out where we are. We're about eight miles west of our exit. The wife and I look at each other in stunned amazement. We can't figure out how we could have possibly wound up here, in what seemed like the blink of an eye.
I get us turned around and back on the freeway heading east, and notice the clock. It's about 15 minutes after the hour. Now, I know that we left the freeway at about a quarter 'til. We were on target to make it home in time before her show started.
This realization really makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Somehow, an entire half hour had elapsed between the time I entered "my" off-ramp, and when I got to the end of the "wrong" off-ramp.
I couldn't make sense of it, because even if we'd become so engrossed in conversation that I missed our ramp, it should have only taken 6 to 8 minutes for us to roll off the freeway 8 miles west.
Not only that - the section of freeway between our off-ramp and the ramp we got off on, rises steeply, and winds through miles of undeveloped hills. It then passes several off-ramps and landmarks that are totally familiar to my wife and I. We should have noticed immediately that we'd passed our exit.
Besides missing about a half hour of time, and 8 miles of space, my wife and I never experienced any other strangeness about this incident. No weird dreams, or anything like that.
If you’ve had any CAT scans or MRI’s since then, I’d inspect them with a fine toothed comb.
Very interesting.
“No weird dreams, or anything like that.”
I’ve had strange dreams (flying, disasters, monsters, etc.) most of my life. Not sure I could distinguish between the different ones but, I don’t recall any *abduction* type dreams.