Scary event that happened to you?

[Fei-Hung]

I have shit tons of these stories, but I'm in London visiting family. Might share a story a day or something until I've got them all out of my system.

Here is a quick one which is a bit funny too.

When I was 12 I went to Tanzania for holidays. My moms family is from there and we were staying at her parents house. I remember my mom putting me to sleep and telling me she will close the wooden shutters, pull the mosquito net down and switch the light off. I remember waking up about 2-3 hours later and I couldn't see anything. It was literally pitch black to the extent I couldn't see my hands that I was waving in front of my face. I started to panic more and look around for any form of light and when I couldn't see anything I realised I had gone blind. When the reality set in, I started screaming for my mom.

Within a minute everyone in the family came bursting through the door like it were a drug bust, panicking thinking the worst. Turns out I hadn't gone blind. I was a kid from a modern world with Street lamps, 24/7 electricity and I had just experienced my first blackout in a third world country where the house had wooden window shutters.