I'm the one who doesn't typically see ghosts but something just happened...

[WitchAndShaman]

Wands, I want you to be aware of one physical possibility. Not saying it is, but your just described a warning sign for a retinal tear. The reason I know this is my teen nephew has one and this is one of the warning signs we watch for in case it tries to get bigger. He sees a flash, just as you described. It may not be anything like this, but I need to at least throw this out there for you.

I know you’re not just an experienced mystic Debi but a dedicated Mom and wife and a practiced professional care giver. I will keep that point in mind. If I experience any other possible physical symptoms I will seek medical care.

 

[Debi]

I know you’re not just an experienced mystic Debi but a dedicated Mom and wife and a practiced professional care giver. I will keep that point in mind. If I experience any other possible physical symptoms I will seek medical care.

I'm just hoping for a nice, simple paranormal event in this case. No scare intended, but you know how I cover all possibles here. And thank you for the kind words, Wands.

 

[TexDanm]

Howdy from Texas. If I might ask, are there windows in your office and what was the weather like when you experienced the flash?

 

[WitchAndShaman]

Howdy from Texas. If I might ask, are there windows in your office and what was the weather like when you experienced the flash?

Hello Dan,

Windows - One to the direct left (about 10 feet away) of the dresser and corner described above as area of interest. This window has louvered shutters - the top half are always open and the bottom half are nearly always closed. The doors to the office is actually glass French doors with a larger window facing them about 12 feet away but down 1/2 flight. This window also has shutters but during the day they are open. However, light coming through this window cannot be cast nor reflected onto the dresser and walls of interest.

Weather - Pretty clear, no rain nor lightning for example.

 

[Lynne]

I’ve got a few minutes so I’m going to start...I apologize if I get interrupted as I’ll come back tonight and finish up.

This occurred last night at shortly after 5 PM Eastern. I was upstairs in my office which is both my office and my dressing area. The same closest which stores a bunch of personal “stuff” - like boxes of art, personal papers, and old LP records - is also where I keep my clothes hung. And more important to this event, my dresser is tucked in the corner of this room too.

So I was in my office doing something quick and menial - I literally don’t recall what it was - and saw a flash of light while I faced my dresser.

[Editing to pick up where I left off when interrupted during posting six hours ago]

Let me say first before I attempt to explain this away that this was unlike any other light I can remember seeing before. This light was very white; I don’t mean that it was especially “bright”, I mean “clean and crystal clear”. It appeared as something between a flash (short in duration - maybe 1 second) and a sweep (it appeared to move from left to right in front of me.). This light bathed everything which was in front of me including the top of the dresser, some loose articles on the dresser, along with a desk lamp on the dresser, and the wall immediate behind the top of the dresser which also includes a corner where two walls meet.

I have no idea what the source of this light was as it could not have come from behind me...I didn’t cast a shadow on the dresser nor the wall. The flash/sweep of light was uninterrupted and illuminated almost everything at once with just the very slightest delay of bathing the corner and then the second wall to my right.

So here are some of the sources which it could not reasonable have come from:
A. Window immediately behind me as I’m on the second story and the window faces the wall of my neighbor’s home. To send added or secondary light into that window would require someone stand on my neighbor’s roof and direct/reflect it into the window or a flying light source to park between our two houses.
B. Window in the stairwell because that window is between stories, faces my other neighbor’s house, and faces away from the street. More importantly, the way in which light enters that window, as it enters my office, it essentially bathes the walls on the opposite side of the room.
C. The wall, that light hits in point B above, is covered with framed art. But I’ve already tested with a flashlight to confirm that regardless of angle, any reflected light does not reflect onto the walls near to the dresser. Confirmed same is true relevant to light reflective go off of my laptop screen and external monitor.
D. None of the bulbs in the three lamps in my office have blown out. That includes the most likely culprit - the lamp atop my dresser.
E. Not likely to be a visual impairment- I don’t think, I hope not. The light really appeared to illuminate the small area in front of me. For example, the two walls and the corner where they meet were not equally lit - there was an unequal amount of light in those three points.
F. I confirmed there was nothing on my glasses nor was anything ajar about my lenses and frame.

I can’t explain where this bright light came from but it seemed to be originating in the two feet between me and the two walls I was facing.

Sorry I’m so late in replying to your post. It’s been a busy week. I don’t know what this anomaly is but I experienced something similar a few weeks ago. It was about 8 or 9 pm. Hubby and I were watching tv tog in the living room. The window drapes are heavy and closed. All of a sudden in the side of the room where our attention was not directed there was a brilliant flash of light. It was quick like a camera flash but in a horizontal shaped burst. I can’t recall if there was a noise. I should have written down the event. This occurred a second time a few nights later. I have no explanation. I’m glad you shared this.

 

[garnetsilver]

I have seen that brilliant flash too, but have always attributed it to my poor eye health. I had numerous episodes of inflammation in both eyes, and now am constantly seeing floaters, flashes of blue light and bursts of white light as well. Since it is not accompanied by any other activity, I generally feel it is safe to ignore. I do see an eye specialist once a year.

 

[TexDanm]

I also have experienced this extremely odd bright almost blue WHITE flash of light. Actually, I have had it happen three times over a period of about ten years. Like you, I have sought answers with no certain success but have a theory that may work in some of mine. There is a phenomenon called thermal lightning flashes that is a little like bigfoot sightings. Science just declares it to be heat lightning from thunderstorms that are too far away to hear the thunder. That is their pat answer and the end of any interest in actually studying the reports of it.

What I've seen is not a flash from a distant thunderstorm. It is just very different in its duration and the color is slightly different. Then too there were no thunderstorms anywhere within a hundred miles on at least two of the occasions and once it was in the late fall and cool. The flash is, to me, a little like a carbon arc or welding flash from arc welders. Intensely bright lasts a little longer than a lightning flash and as you pointed out leaves the impression that it didn't make shadows.

On one occasion it actually happened several times over about a five minute period. It actually was bright enough to wake me up. I thought at first that someone was in the bedroom with a bright flashlight when I first woke up. Then it was gone. It lasted long enough though to wake me and still be happening when I opened my eyes. I turned on the lamp beside the bed. There was nothing there. I turned to turn the lamp off thinking that maybe it was a car light that somehow shined into the bedroom window and I had just misinterpreted it. It happened again before I could turn the light out. The flash seemed to originate from outside but the light almost seemed to come from all around me at the same time somehow and not cause any shadows. Every corner of the room seemed to be bathed in the same white, almost blinding light.

That got me up and out of the bed. I grabbed a flashlight and went outside wondering if I had something going on out there. As I went to the front door it did it again and was the same effect in the living room through the windows faced in a different direction than the bedroom windows. I went out into my front yard looking around. I remember looking up at the night sky and seeing bright stars from horizon to horizon. They were the special bright that you have on a cool night where there is no heat rising anywhere to distort their pinpoint sharpness. Then it happened again. The entire sky flashed and everything was lit up just as it had been in the house. It was so bright that it totally washed out any light from street lights. After that, the show was over I guess. I sat on my porch for 15 minutes waiting but it didn't repeat.

First of this massively bright light was made with not even a whisper of sound. The second odd thing about it to me was that even though I describe it as almost blindingly bright, it left none of the after images that that sort of bright flash normally leaves. A flash from a camera leaves an image etched onto your retina that takes a little while to fade. This didn't do that.

I wonder if this isn't something like the Saint Elmo's Fire or lightning balls except on a larger scale and a shorter duration. If the flash was indeed from "all directions" that sort of uniform brightness would leave not after image on your retina since it illuminated EVERYTHING with the same brightness and would make no shadows. I believe that it is a little as if you were bathed in light to the point of actually being immersed in it somehow.

Maybe it is some form of atmospheric charge that is then triggered and the light is coming from each individual molecule all at the same time. the light from each is tiny but the accumulative effect would be massive. My only other thought is as Deb mentioned, some sort of retinal occurrence that sort of whited out the entire retina surface at the same time. I have experienced this sort of thing a couple of times in a reverse sense where it just went black.

Your retina is a little like the old tube TVs that took a second to warm up before the picture forms and came into focus. It isn't instant on or instant off. In my blackout experiences, it was caused by pain. BLINDING pain is a real thing. You are there and conscious but the world just fades to black and you are blind. This is actually caused by your brain shutting down and then "rebooting" over and over as you are fighting and near to losing consciousness but note going out and staying out. The experience is a little like sleep paralysis and scary as hell.

If your brain can black out your percieved vision I see no reason that it couldn't white it out for an instant. ??? in no case did I sense, see or perceive any paranormal activity. Maybe it is just a poorly understood and rare natural sort of occurrence. LOL, all of this is purely conjecture. and of no certain factual information and is just my effort to unscrew an inscrutable happening.

 

[Debi]

Wands...was this localized? Or was the entire room lit by it?

 

[WitchAndShaman]

Wands...was this localized? Or was the entire room lit by it?

Debi, I had my back to 80% of the room so I don’t really know. The approximate 20% of the room I was facing was lit. But I could see the articles in front of me clearly - I could see edges of all objects for example to - there was no washing out of my vision - it was crystal clear for that instant.

A flash from a camera leaves an image etched onto your retina that takes a little while to fade. This didn't do that.

Agreed Dan - this flash was quick, not blinding but instead maybe “revealing”, and did not leave any residual visual effect - just a instant of light then my vision immediately returned to normal.

 

[Debi]

The reason I asked is kind of far fetched, but when I saw my UFO, at the very end of this there was a light flash that lit up the entire area so bright it was like 3 suns hitting all at once. It didn't blind me...just lit the place up for a moment in a light I had not seen the likes of before. Just doing a comparison here. It was a very bright "clear" type of light.