Did you think to see a doctor right away...or were you trying to figure things out by yourself a t first?
Or what?
Your gfriend must have wondered what the wtf happened to you on the other line.
In 1972 when I was 19, I was working for the local cable TV and in a windowless concrete block building at the base of a tower 525ft tall. I showed TV shows on the local cable channel from 5-9 at night while I attended the local junior college during the day.
During times of bad weather, my boss, the chief engineer for the cable company would watch the storms from the window of his home in town. He could easily see that tower from miles and miles away. Storms often meant after hours work for him to restore cable service.
This particular night, he and his wife watched at they would later say, the largest bolt of lightening they'd ever seen struck the massive tower. The wife turned to my boss and excitedly told Gilbert to get out to that tower RIGHT NOW, OH MY GOD THAT BOY IS DEAD !!!
Gilbert left his house so hurriedly, he forgot his keys to the heavy industrial metal door that was the only entrance and exit to the concrete block building at the base of the tower.
10 minutes later when he arrived, I awoke to Gilbert frantically BEATING on the metal door. I was confused, wondered why I went to sleep talking on the phone and almost didn't open the door because I thought some crazy person surely must be out there beating on it. But then I heard Gilbert YELLING my name.
When I opened the door, Gilbert was wide eyed and had a look of amazement on his face. He told me about him and his wife witnessing the immense lightening bolt hit the tower and I told him I had just woke up after going to sleep talking to my girlfriend on the phone.
I was still confused when shortly thereafter, my girlfriend and her mother showed up. Jan said the phone suddenly went dead while we were talking. That wasn't unusual during storms back in the day. What was unusual was the feeling of dread and that something was very wrong that Jan had. Jan had made her mother go with her to check on me. That whole part was pretty strange to me.
Anyway, Gilbert surmised that electricity from that lightening strike had gotten into the phone line and knocked me out. Gilbert insisted I go to the emergency room that night to get checked out.
The emergency doc could find nothing wrong with me. No busted eardrum or anything. He checked my eyes, hearing and monitored my speech and how I carried myself. Nothing was wrong that he could find.
The next day when I got to the tower to start work, the president of the local cable company was there with some lawyers and they asked for a deposition which I gave them. I'd already asked my parents if we should sue the cable company and mom and dad said no since nothing was found wrong with me. So I gave the deposition. I told them what happened as best I could ... except I didn't tell them about the strange dream I had when I fell asleep while talking on the telephone. That "dream" was such a profound experience, I could not speak with anyone about it for about 3yrs.
I noticed too when I arrived at the tower for my evening shift, that sometime during the day and right after the incident the night before, the phone company had come out, taken down and dug up and reinstalled all the phone wiring and ground wires.
The local cable company and TELCO was covering their bums LoL.
The cable president and my boss both told me several times that day that if another big storm came up while I was working, to lock up and get out of there. And not to worry, I'd still be paid.
