The First Time You Had Your Mind Blown...

[Mrsoupcup]

The first Spiderman was freaking sweet.

 

[HerrBobo]

That twist in Bioshock well...shocked me. I was just staring at the screen listening to everything to the point where my mom came in and asked what was up.

Another time was at the end of this book series called The Bartimaues Trilogy. It was one of those things where I knew it was gonna happen but I didn't wanna believe it and I was finishing up the book during quiet time so I when I finished I screamed "Oh man I knew it I frickin knew it" while standing up in my seat.

These.

Other than those, reading Prey and Sphere, both by Michael Crichton, were the closest things I've ever come to having my mind blown
(except for the ending to Prey... it shook me back to reality after reading the entire book in one sitting).

Sphere is a great book.

Indeed. Rest in peace, Michael Crichton.

WTF?! Is he dead???!!

 

[DoW Lowen]

Fight Club and Saw I.

Damn when I saw the words "first time" and "blown" in the title I was getting a bit excited.

 

[Skarvey]

SLC Punk and American History X will change your world.
As for books, I'd reccomend the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "Don't Panic" are words I live my life by.

 

[Sarcastic Chimp]

Unlikely the first but one of the most memorable: His Dark Materials, especially the third book, just so much vision centered around religious and spiritual imagery packed into that book.

The second one changed my perceptions...unfortuantly I was 9 when I read them so it didnt take much to alter them lol
Watching The Matrix Reloaded when 10.. "Dad why can he fly?"

 

[DiaSol]

I personally loved the books of Skilgannon the damned/lost
I can't remember what the ACTUAL series name is
but the books are awesome

I that the one about the swords of night and day? Its by Gemmel?

I do believe it is my friend

All i can say is...HELL YEAH... its was part of the Drenai saga by David Gemmell, and swords of the Night and Day and Echoes of a Great Song blew me away. Its awesome to find other people who have read David Gemmell, i was beginning to think i was the only who did

 

[bmf185]

A Perfect Day for Bananafish (ha, get it? You probably don't. That's okay.)
A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time
My first metal/hardcore show

 

[TaborMallory]

That twist in Bioshock well...shocked me. I was just staring at the screen listening to everything to the point where my mom came in and asked what was up.

Another time was at the end of this book series called The Bartimaues Trilogy. It was one of those things where I knew it was gonna happen but I didn't wanna believe it and I was finishing up the book during quiet time so I when I finished I screamed "Oh man I knew it I frickin knew it" while standing up in my seat.

These.

Other than those, reading Prey and Sphere, both by Michael Crichton, were the closest things I've ever come to having my mind blown
(except for the ending to Prey... it shook me back to reality after reading the entire book in one sitting).

Sphere is a great book.

Indeed. Rest in peace, Michael Crichton.

WTF?! Is he dead???!!

Sadly, yes. He kicked the bucket last year.

 

[DiaSol]

still not as gd as Echoes of a Great Song but waylander the assassin is still pretty awesome

 

[HerrBobo]

That twist in Bioshock well...shocked me. I was just staring at the screen listening to everything to the point where my mom came in and asked what was up.

Another time was at the end of this book series called The Bartimaues Trilogy. It was one of those things where I knew it was gonna happen but I didn't wanna believe it and I was finishing up the book during quiet time so I when I finished I screamed "Oh man I knew it I frickin knew it" while standing up in my seat.

These.

Other than those, reading Prey and Sphere, both by Michael Crichton, were the closest things I've ever come to having my mind blown
(except for the ending to Prey... it shook me back to reality after reading the entire book in one sitting).

Sphere is a great book.

Indeed. Rest in peace, Michael Crichton.

WTF?! Is he dead???!!

Sadly, yes. He kicked the bucket last year.

Well, that is sad news. Love many of his books. Went through a big phase of reading them 10 years agao.

 

[Goldeneye1989]

I personally loved the books of Skilgannon the damned/lost
I can't remember what the ACTUAL series name is
but the books are awesome

EVERYTHING FROM DAVID GEMMEL is fantastic, and it's White Wolf, and The swords of day and night

it's a mix up between Druss, Skilgamon, or the Rigante novels or the Reacher series by Lee Child

 

[sokka14]

not my first time, but my most vivid was the first LOTR. just blew me away.

 

[Inverse Skies]

I'm pretty sure that would have been a few years ago when I read It for the first time, the scene where they go down into the sewers to fight It and you find out what It really is... absolutely unbelievable stuff.

 

[Stakhanov]

The Beach by Alex Garland. One hell of a book, still not fully sure what it is about and I have read it 5 times.

Seconded. I read and reread that book continuously for months after I got it. Fantastic stuff. Second place goes to 'American Psycho.' read it cover to cover the night before an exam; just couldn't stop. Failed the exam, barely noticed.
Honourable mentions to: Milan Kundera's 'Immortality,' the Usual Suspects, the Lord Of The Rings (book), and the original Star Wars trilogy.

The first time I read Gibson was pretty stunning too.

 

[theSovietConnection]

I can't really recall the first time I had my mind blown, but the most recent one I remember would be the first time I saw ship-to-ship fighting in the new Battlestar Galactica series.

For books, it would have to be when I read World War Z by Max Brooks, solely because of how he takes such a ridiculous concept and makes it seem so totally real.

 

[theSovietConnection]

Disregard, double-post.

 

[Wildrow12]

First time I had my mind blown?

I was 12 years old and I had been pushed into taking Judo classes (though I now appreciate
those lessons as an adult).

It was my first day and I was watching our instructor demonstrate some techniques. He then
brought out one of his star pupils.

HER.

She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen (up to that point). Her skill, her power, her looks, her very presence....I didn't know, I couldn't have known that there was something so amazing in the whole of creation.

I was in a haze for a good week before I got my head together again.

Yeah, that was the first time I had my mind blown.

 

[Hedberger]

I don't remember the first time but i do remember last it happened, the movie was Dr. Strangelove. Usually when i watch a movie i'm half asleep especially if it's late but this time it didn't matter that it was 1 am i just couldn't pull my eyes from it. After i saw it trough i began to watch it again and slowly fell asleep to the sothing voice of Lionel Mandrake.

 

[Hithlain]

in the sad sense, "5 people you meet in heaven". I cried... and then I thought a little and I was like, yeah. That's how death should be.

That and "A short history of death". What's with death and mind-blowingness?

 

[InvisibleMilk]

I never believed that peoples jaws could drop, and said person could have no will or strength to return that jaw to its closed state, until the whipping scene in Passion of the Christ.

It was horrifyingly mind blowing.

Can I say I am actually, completely, terrified to watch that movie.
I don't hate Jesus or anything, but everything i've heard about the reactions.

Makes me shiver while I type this.