Hello Gnu,

I had an interesting experience yesterday morning that I can't seem to make any sense of. I was laying in bed with my girlfriend in that half-asleep state since I'd just laid back down after using the restroom. After an indeterminable amount of time, I experienced an intense flashing light (white light) in my minds eye that immediately shocked me awake. My girlfriend woke up besides me noticing my sudden movement, and when I told her what happened, she rationalized that it must have been the sun poking from behind the blinds. I tried telling her it couldn't have been that; my eyes were watering slightly as if it had been a strong light that I looked into. I brushed it off and went back into that strange in-between until some time later my girlfriend jerked up and said "stop that!" Her sudden movement had frightened me awake, and when I asked her what, she asked me to stop taking pictures of her (something I like to do when she doesn't realize it lol). This time I was completely innocent, and it appears she accused me of taking a picture of her sleeping because she saw what she thought was the flash from my camera phone on her closed eyes.

There you have it. Two mysterious flashes of light in two separate individuals. I spoke to her about it later that day and she was just as stumped as me about it.

Anybody think they may be able to speculate on what was going on here?