Most surreal moments of your life

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IronDuke

Ancient Mariner
Well, as the title suggests, what are the most surreal moments of your lives you'd care to share?

For me it was this:
Watching a Power Point slide show of pictures from the Third Reich, from the rise of the Nazis in 1933, the Reichstag fire, the Holocaust, and other war crimes. All the while, Beethoven's "Für Elise" was playing silently in the background.
 
Congratulations on your 1,000th post, ID.

Hmmm...my entire life has been one trippy experience :bigsmile:

Seriously, though, I would say going to Alton Towers a few years ago.  I hadn't really been on any major rollercoasters before, and Nemesis (one of the 'Big Three' in the park) was the first ride I hopped on.  The wait was unbearable, but the adrenalin rush was beyond anything I've ever felt in my life.  Ahhh, you can't beat a shitload of G's at an insane speed for getting the blood flowing... :innocent:
 
Hmm, this is a tough one for me, but out of all the "surreal" stuff that happens to me on a daily basis, I'd have to say meeting 6 girls with the same name in a three year span is rather surreal, not to mention the other 3 with the same name I met prior to those 6... People, please be varied when naming your daughters!!!
 
Well I'll be damned, that was #1000. I didn't even notice that my post count was getting close. It only took three years or so! Yay!

By the way, Mav, the .jpg comment made me snort tea out of my nose. Ass.
 
Indeed Silky, 'kin hilarious stuff Mav, well done. And on topic, I have a boring life, nothing surreal happens to me :P
 
Hunlord said:
I have a boring life, nothing surreal happens to me :P
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I was just thinking along the same lines - there must of been something surely. :huh: Pfft! I'm off to watch Spooks.
 
Anyway... back on topic.

One (of many) surreal moments of my life happened in the Forces when we did once a mixed assault course, meaning that various combat groups were doing the course together at the same time, in full combat gear, with rifle, helmet and all that happy crap you're supposed to carry onto the field. A little help is alway welcome and, once I got out of a 7-foot deep pit, I helped a few other troops to get out, grabbing their rifle and pulling them out of the pit.

Then arrived this little female soldier, all tiny and frail-looking. As she arrived on my side of the pit, I grabbed her gun and pulled her out, holding her arm. As soon as she was out and on her feet, she ripped her rifle from my hand and punched me with incredible force in the stomach with the butt of it. Then she brought me down with a violent and impressively powerful hit -- still with the butt of her rifle -- on the head (lucky I had my helmet on!). As I was still on the ground trying to recover from this rather unexpected and extremely violent attack, I heard her say in a little girly voice: "Thanks, but I don't need any help from some bastard macho man to do this assault course." Then she proceeded to the next obstacle...


Ah well, maybe this isn't surreal. Women, eh?  :blink:
 
I had a seminar with a group of about 30 people on a small island in the North Sea a bit more than a year ago. The island is a fairly popular tourist goal, so there were several hundred people there apart from us. It was the last evening and we had a little grill party, complete with beer, wine and so on. We were happily partying among ourselves when there appeared a group of 14-year-olds. They kept being noisy and asked for cigarettes or beer, which none of us were ready to give them. I was sitting at a wall along with two or three others. The whole pack approached us and took a very threatening semicircular position. Then, the leader, who was in the centre, took the word.
"Alright, alright. Capitals!"
Everybody was staring at him. I replied first.
"What?"
"Capitals! I name five countries and you name their capitals. Then you name five countries and I name their capitals. If I win, I get a fag. If you win, you get what you want."
"So will you piss off if I win?"
"Yes."
"OK, I'll do it." (At that point, I already got some considerable support from others of my group because I was well-known to be a nerd about useless knowledge)
"Alright, I'll start. Central African Republic."
He didn't even finish talking when I answered: "Bangui."
Only once before did I ever look into such a shocked face. He continued. "Sudan."
"Karthoum."
"Uh... Kazakhstan."
"Astana."
"Equatorial Guinea."
I didn't know that one. Nevertheless, the guy said: "Well, actually, you're the winner. I usually win at these first three ones, I didn't expect you to know those."
I got a fag from somebody else and gave it to him, he gave me some of his Vodka-Orange mix and we continued a little, just for fun. Finally, the pack left and I heard the leader saying loudly to his peers. "That was the best opponent I ever had!"
As soon as they were out of sight, the whole group cheered for me. To me, that was pretty much the most bizarre moment I ever experienced.
 
Perun said:
...(At that point, I already got some considerable support from others of my group because I was well-known to be a nerd about useless knowledge)
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Hehe, so your knowledge is not as useless as they thought...at least to bring you the most bizarre moment of your life  :)
Maverick said:
Ah well, maybe this isn't surreal. Women, eh?  :blink:
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Maverick, your anecdote was fun too. By the way, didn´t you notice a protuberance between her thighs?  :bigsmile:
 
Albie said:
Pfft! I'm off to watch Spooks.
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I just watched that and it was fantastic.  I really enjoyed the last series but this one seems to be even better, even if the storylines are extremely far-fetched.

On topic, I would say that I have really surreal moments about once or twice a week where I awake from a dream and think that the events are actually happening.  Then I forget what was in the dream about five seconds later.
 
IronDuke said:
All the while, Beethoven's "Für Elise" was playing silently in the background.
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Silently? Then how did you hear it?
I've always suspected it Duke, and now I know: you're seriously disturbed. :P

Most surreal moment ... hmm ... well, my top 4 were all due to the effects of LSD. So I'm not sure the moment itself was surreal, but my brain sure was. Nonetheless, the weirdest of those happened like this:

I was jamming with a group of people (only one of whom I actually knew, the others I had just met). We were all tripping on acid. We were out at a farm in the middle of nowhere; the ground was covered with a dense fog, so much you couldn't see the actual ground under it. The sky was cloudy; no stars or moon visible. Looking out the window, with the aid of the drugs, it looked like an alien landscape.

At some point, we all switched to instruments other than our main instruments. For example, I'm a bassist and I wound up on keyboards. In the middle of an extended 30-minute jam, we somehow segued into the Moody Blues song "Nights In White Satin". Upon talking about it later, we confirmed that none of us actually knew the song or had attempted to play it before. And yet, we nailed it. Perfectly. On instruments we weren't even good at playing. Unbelieveable. It actually spooked the bejeezus out of us.

Well, it sounded perfect to our ears at least. But again I suspect that was due to the massive amount of hallucinogens we had ingested.
 
It took me a while to select the most surreal story that happened to me but here it is.
Several years ago I started a field trip in French Guyana (i.e. tropical region in South America, close to Brazil).

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I wound up working in a tiny Indian village (Wayana ethnic group) where there was no running water nor electricity and no doctor, police and TV etc... A somewhat isolated and peaceful place one would think. And it was. Since there is no road in this kind of place there is no car and you only travel using pirogue along the numerous rivers. My work was going on quietly (I had a small team with me) and we really enjoyed the place as well as the locals' reception. Since only one could speak French (the Chief’s daughter actually) communicating wasn’t always easy but all in all we had great times.

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One day, early in the morning, I was awakened by very loud music that was played all across the village. It was extremely strange and uncomfortable not only because it was rap and techno shit but mainly because it was so unexpected in that place… Finally I was explained that the youngs were back from the closest town where they were studying. They couldn’t afford to come back home every week but they managed to go back home from time to time. These young people use electricity (when available) and listen to music on radio etc… They had carried rap and techno music with them from school. I have nothing against this idea. No one can live in a bubble. At the time I was surprised because I didn’t think about such a situation.

I must say that I loved every minute I spent with these guys in their village lost in the Amazonian forest. Good luck.
 
This actually reminds me of another surreal moment...

I was visiting some people in the Gambia, West Africa, while on holiday down there. We were in a typical straw hut and everything was as it probably had been for centuries in a typical African hut. Everything suspened in time, somehow. We were enjoying some of the traditional tea you find down there and I turned my head towards one corner (if that can be called a corner) of the hut that I hadn't paid attention to before. And I saw on the primitive wall a picture quite similar to this one:

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I did find it quite surreal at the time, and even now when I remember this event...
 
It was the stomach, not the balls. I though you had some knowledge in biology.  :P
 
Well my surreal moment happend when I was at school back in the late 80's, it was early in the morning, my then boyfriend was walking me to my firts class, we were slowy walking across a bridge, when all of the sudden it starts to shake!! I look down thinking something crash into the bridge, but nothing, it keeps shaking!! I turn around looking for my boyfriend but he is no where to be found! then I see the doors of the building start close and I run and get into the building and get inside the first classroom w/ an open door, when I get in everyone was already under their desk with their hands on top of their heads and so I follow suit and get under a desk.....and who do I see under the desk next to mine? yup my boyfriend.
At that moment I knew 2 things:
1) There was an earthquake going on! &
2) I would never put my life in my boyfriend's hands. ever!!
 
SandraD said:
2) I would never put my life in my boyfriends hands. ever!!
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Beware of your boyfriend's hands! You never know what they are susceptible of doing! :smartarse:
 
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