Something super freaky happened to me today!!! Someone explain please????

Question

I have no idea what happened or why. Nothing like that has ever happened before. I drove someone to their destination about an hour ago and was driving back home. I stopped at the stoplight, everything was normal. I was singing a song playing on the radio when suddenly I felt my car going backwards. I was stopped at the light on a flat road and it felt so scary. i saw the car behind me, and felt like my car was going to crash into them. Both of my feet were pressing on the breaks as heard as possible, the car was in the drive mode NOT REVERSE and it was going backwards. I was panicking and didn't know what to do, every thing inside of me turned up side down. After about 20 seconds everything went back to normal and I realized that my car didn't move at all.

I'm so freaked out, is the another explanation or should I she a mental doctor?

Anyone had anything like that happen to them? I just don't know how to explain this

Answer 1

I have had this happen when I am not paying attention when I am parked or I am waiting for a light, as you were today.  The person next to me started to move backwards or forward which eerily made me feel as if I was moving forward.   I have "slammed" on my brakes when my foot was already on it or began pumping on it because it felt as if the brakes were failing.....only to realize I was sitting in a parked car and the person next to me was moving.   Usually, I find that it happens if the car next to me is bigger or if it s a truck and has my whole periphial view obscured.    It is a weird feeling isn't it?    Creeps me out every time.    

Hope this helps.  I don't think this will be the last time you experience this.

***Edited to add:

Danbig!!!!   Yeah, the car wash does that to me alot!!!!   I totally agree!!!!

Answer 2

i have had this experience when other traffic have been reversing or going forward but i have been stationary and its quite freaky, you actually do feel like you are going backwards it also could be somthing to have ckecked out with a cat scan if you experience this again - orhave other odd sensory experieces or blurred vision sometimes not wanting to scare you there can be strange experiences if their is a problem with the brain - but if this is a first dont worry about it just that motion thing when another vehicle is moving and you are stationary there will be a scientific explanation..Its a bit like if you are on a carrasell and all the other horses are moving up and down and it feals like your horse is moving up and down too but its not.

Answer 3

You were in the car wash

Answer 4

Its was nothing. it was either u were tired to death or may be u hallucinated. i even feel like falling off a gr8 cliff smtms when i m walking or sth but usually i m really tired at those times. Keep up ur spirits

Answer 5

I get this feeling sometimes.. but it doesn't usually last for 30 seconds.

None of us are doctors.. I mean, apparently this is common, but if it keeps happening, just go get it checked out. Even if it is inner ear issues, that typically not a big deal.

Chillax, k? : )

Answer 6

This has happened to me quit a few times throught my life, maybe 5 or 6 times. One time I was even in the back seat behind the driver. Ever time I swore the car was moving backwards though it was not. I do not have a history of mental illness or anything for that matter. I do not know why it happens but am pretty sure it normal. You should not worry about it.

Answer 7

that happens alot when a car goes back or forward itmay look like you were going that way to

Answer 8

This is some kind of sensory conflict that you experienced soon after stopping. I think it has something to do with the fluids in your inner ear which help give the body balance and equilibrium.

Chances are that you previously went over a steeply banked road or a pothole which set your ears off balance.. or you might have some other ear condition which is offsetting your sense of balance.

Answer 9

Are you sure a car or truck next to you didn't drift forward? This can create the illusion that it is you, not them who is moving, especially when your mind is on something else.

Answer 10

I have had that happen to me but it was because of those spinner wheels or someone else's car was moving and I felt like I was moving. It was one of those optical illusions for me.

If you don't think that is the case with you maybe you have an inner ear problem.

Answer 11

the only times I had that experience was when I was stationary and the car next to me was moving. A car in drive could go backwards a bit it you are not giving it any gas. No need to panic.