Out of Pod Experience

So, it was 0400+ am and i thought it's just me and that i feel too cold, when i noticed a slight shaking.

That was odd ... but more odd was that weird sound that came in from the distance,
as if it was a huge and heavy car accelerating at speeds not usually meant for huge, heavy cars.

Sooo the growling got closer and suddenly i feel the waves coming in.

Earthquake waves are weird, oh my, so weird. I felt them going through my bed (how ??)
and then i felt them gowing through myself. Sine waves, not making any sense in my imagination,
because they seem to move stuff up and down ... but that would mean everything would collapse immediately.
I have no idea. I tried analyzing it for WHATEVER REASON, suppressing the urge to call someone i know
and waking everybody up.


So ... we had an earthquake somewhere, probably in the distance. I'm avoiding any news about it.
It was only 4.3 richter, but we in Austria don't actually feel a lot of earthquakes.
(we have around 1200 microquakes per year but nobody notices these. mostly.)

So ... the noise.

This noise. It was so ... i don't know. It came closer and closer and the waves just kept coming
and then i thought "this is it. i'm done" waiting for whatever to happen and kill me.

The noise really frightened me the most and stuck with me. Imagine hundred trucks coming right at you
at ten times the sound volume. It's like in the movies, when you see a nuke explode and hear the shockwave coming.


The earthquake stopped after around 10 seconds. These ten lousy seconds scared me so much,
i keep talking about it all day. I mention it all day. I don't even know why. It's just stuck.
I felt like i'm in a cage, here on the seventh floor were i live.

Seriously ... it was just ten seconds, but after two it was too long already and i felt like i'm trapped and i
will die, because there's no chance in hell (haha) that i could make it out of the building in time.
(i had no idea if the waves would get stronger ... the first thought is no-thought at all, just fear)


I'm writing this in the hope THAT THE ******* FEAR STOPS TELLING ME THAT
THE NEXT ONE COULD HAPPEN ANY MOMENT AND IT COULD BE STRONGER THAN BEFORE
AND THE GROWLING WILL EAT ME ALIVE and whatever ...


The tram passes by every minutes and every other tram makes huge growling noises and
every time i now wait for everything to start shaking ...




Somebody please tell me this stops. It's not only embarrassing for me to be so deeply afraid of this,
i don't even know why it's having so much influence on me. This is totally new for me.
It's not even my first earthquake, although the others, many years apart, were lighter.

I guess it's a combination of darkness (it was 0400am) and this noise combined with the shaking
that could have been too much for me to handle, but i don't know.


Thanks for your attention. Sorry if this is an incoherent posting,
but in between fear impulsess and crying i simply lose my train of thought.

Think of this in comparison, maybe earthquake ripples not so bad now?

No, this doesn't help.

Everybody has his own scale of **** he has to live with, things aren't comparable at all.
I already know that other people suffer more or less about things,
but that does not help at all and i believe it's bad for emotional health
to downplay ones own feelings just because other people have it worse.


Thus i made this stupid thread.

Not that i doubt your words,
because there's no reason to,
but if a lightning strikes one meter next to you ...

... you should be dead or pretty much burnt down ?


The laughter part i know from pain. I am quite good in dealing with pain, (comes with experience, i guess)
and i once had my fingers in between a door and ... what's the word for it ...
... well, when the door closes, it also closes the gap it opens when the door opens ...
... between door and wall ...
... and the door closed. lol


Anyhow ... can you tell me more situations when you started laughing, although it seems weird for you ?

This sounds interesting to me and i want to know more, so i can feel what's going on in your mind.

HAHAHAHAHA XD

I assume SHe Is Talking about something i do in small, closed rooms all by myself. ^_^

yep. even small changes like staying in hotel rooms/travel, or moving to a new place cause me to become somewhat retentive.

//to a lesser degree, stress reaction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_stress_reaction

I used to laugh before my mom or school principal gave me a spanking. Pretty weird. It's like an involuntary reaction, from being so scared and nervous.

I've felt maybe four small earthquakes, all small ones, and for some reason all in the middle of the night. On one level, I kind of enjoyed the sensation-- like being on a giant, really powerful vibrating massage table. But when I woke up enough to really think about it, they're pretty scary. You have no clues about whether a bigger one is on its way or not. At least with a hurricane or tornado, you get clues from what's going on with the weather. And with earthquakes, there's not much you can do about anyway.

I guess if you had pets, they could give you some clues. The animals all went inland before the big S.E. Asia tsunami. Maybe pet dogs, cats, fish or reptiles would detect something coming too.

To be honest, this is really normal.
I would have laughed too. I bet it was a hilarious thing to happen ! :D


I believe this to be a mental state of "I can't believe this is happening" on such a huge scale, that your brain has to laugh it off.

I had the same thought about this.

I knew this one. ^_^
Tbh, i still believe this is fake, or it was faked to kick him from job. ^_^



Thank you, that distracted me. ^_^


edit:

Now that i've watched it to the end ...

Zimmy, you haven't realized how much regret this man shows in his face ? ... lol

I've only experienced one earthquake and it was in 2011. It was the tiniest little quake (sounds a lot like yours to be honest), but everyone made a huge deal out of it. The good news is we got this hilarious image out of it:

http://ctrlzstudio.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Never-Forget-The-Great-East-Coast-Earthquake-of-2011-480x228.jpg