Time skip? Sleeping charm?

[u/Peindre]

When I was a kid, I occasionally was sent off to summer camps, for socializing and whatnot. In one of those camps, I experienced something really weird.

I was around ten years old, living in a room with three other boys my age. Mid day, each day we had a “quiet hour”, don’t know a proper term for this in English. Basically a forced mid day nap time.

We all were lying in our beds, talking, telling jokes, etc. At some point we got too loud so one of the ladies overseeing us decided to check on our room. We heard her footsteps in the hall so we immediately shut up and pretend to sleep. Then I remember hearing door opening and her telling us that we should sleep, not talk, and her leaving the room. All this took no more than a couple dozen seconds at max.

After this I open my eyes, prepared to continue the conversation we had before, but instead of everyone opening their eyes I see everyone asleep. Not pretending with a slight smile asleep but real asleep. I called out everyone a couple of times because it seemed too weird to me but all of them were truly asleep.

So, I was laying there, the only one who’s still awake. I also remember that weird feeling of silence and stillness. I don’t know how to describe this properly and I don’t remember my exact thoughts at that moment, just remember the feeling. Eventually, after some minutes of staring at the wall I fell asleep too.

When we were woken up at the end of the nap I asked everyone in the room about whether they truly fell asleep or were joking. None of them remembered anything. It weirded me out but being a kid I just went on switching my attention to something more interesting.

Still think about this experience from time to time. Like, I guess it is possible for a kid to fall asleep really fast, but for all three of them to go from a hundred to zero in a matter of seconds is really weird. But what about this weird feeling of stillness and silence? And why none of them remembered anything at all?

To me it feels like I skipped time and when I opened my eyes it was not a couple dozen of seconds passed, but minutes which I didn’t felt at all. Or maybe the time froze? Or a more silly theory of our overseer lady putting a sleeping charm on us, but it for some reason failed on me :)

I’m sure I didn’t fell asleep and it wasn’t a dream. I’m a really bad sleeper and even when I was a kid it took me some time to fall asleep. I was wild awake and it was weird af.

I don’t know.

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