Been tracking this for about three years now using NOAA's Kp index data alongside the missing time reports I've collected from this forum and a couple of others. The correlation is genuinely striking - not perfect, but statistically significant enough that I'd expect someone with actual funding to have written a proper paper on it by now. Nobody has, which is either suspicious or just boring institutional cowardice, take your pick.
My working theory is that elevated solar activity disrupts whatever perceptual or temporal anchoring mechanism the brain uses to track elapsed time, which makes people MORE susceptible to whatever's already happening rather than causing the events directly. Like a weakened signal making interference worse.
Would be interested to know if anyone here kept records of the dates their experiences occurred. Even rough dates would be useful. If we can cross-reference enough accounts against the Kp index I reckon we'd have something worth publishing on here properly. Has anyone else actually tried mapping this out or am I the only one sad enough to spend my evenings on spreadsheets about it?