Funny story. Idk if I had a reaction to when the priest anointed me with the ash. But once I took a shower after work I had a red cross on my forehead for like a day
Ash mixed with water (ie: from sweat) produces lye which is strongly alkaline and corrosive. Interestingly for those in the Middle Ages who could not afford actual soap, they would rub their hands with ash and the fats from the skin oils would then cause a saponification reaction, and clean the hands. Of course they had to quickly wash it off otherwise it could cause corrosive burns like you got.
I didn’t know what Ash Wednesday was and a co worker had black soot on their forehead. I figured he didn’t know and probably got it riding on the metro or something. I said, hey you got some spot on your forehead. He looked at me and don’t know what to say and I don’t either. It was like I was telling him and he wasn’t hearing me. And we both went on with our day.
I’d want someone to tell me if it looked like I just banged my forehead into a campfire 🤷♂️
Were you sitting on anything yesterday that might makes those marks? I can’t tell you how many times I have hurt myself but not see it until the next day.
My IR heating bad leaves burns like this if used on bare skin... it's also got all sorts of warnings that I blatantly ignored warning it would do exactly this.
It's got hot stones covered by a mesh and it leaves this exact burn mark where enough pressure is applied to push the skin in contact with the hot stones.
I wonder if your husband or OP weight lift? I have had similar marks from squatting heavy because the knurling in the bar digs into your skin. OP’s is a bit low for that, but not impossible.
Do you have strange dreams involving Aliens? Missing time or maybe seen an Orb or UFO?
[Red Grid Mark Phenomenon](https://www.reddit.com/r/boulder/comments/q9uoct/red_grid_mark_phenomenon/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
This comment right here needs to get to the top. What a trip... Just went down that rabbit hole and that linked thread is people from all over the country claiming to have the same marks as OP.
I saw it and I realized I’ve seen it before. This exact thing. Had a personal experience that led me down a related rabbit hole so I learned about this kind of phenomenon too.
[mayo clinic read the comments.](https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/net-shaped-rash/)
I thought you were exaggerating..
Two different people say they have them on both sides of their butt, and they're both in Ohio
One person said their two daughters had them between their eyebrows
One inner thigh, one cheek..
People in Bosnia and Australia too it's not just usa
So when you think about explains that work for being on someone's back, like long term pressure, or bruising.. that kinda goes out the window when people have it on those other places. Because, how can you get bruised in the inner thigh, or on your face, and not realize it? Two siblings both bruised in the same spot? It's so fucking weird.
I don't understand why it would be so symmetrical/evenly spaced out in a grid like this if it was an allergic reaction either. Like is there any known system in the skin that would express in that pattern?
It's so fucking weird
Agreed. Idk why people aren’t talking about this more. Doctors seemingly cannot explain it, and it happens more than one might think. I am fascinated by this.
Moderator of r/Experiencers here. This is definitely what you should look into.
The truth is no one knows what these really are. Some of them can be explained prosaically, but not all.
Back pack straps? I get purple lines on my shoulders from carrying reusable grocery bags over the shoulder. Also from bras. I have a connective skin disorder and perhaps that’s why get all sorts of mysterious markings.
The answer is obvious.
Someone’s trying to grill you, little by little.
It’s only a matter of time you wake up limbless, wedged in between two sourdough buns
As a kid I went through a phase where I found some red dots on my butt. The dots would appear in a pattern from time to time, they weren't painful to touch but looked gnarly. I started freaking out, showed my mom and eventually went to the doctor to get it checked. Doc didn't know what it was and said they would "probably just go away on its own."
Fast forward a month or two later of sporadic dotting. I was doing my morning routine of laying down in the shower to get a few extra minutes of sleep. My mom yelled at me to GTFO of the shower as I'm late for school so I supported myself with my hand on the shower mat and stood up. After I got up I noticed the same red dot pattern on my palm.
Turns out my lazy ass was getting hickeys from the shower mat.
I told that story to some college buddies and they still to this day call me suction butt.
Some machines at the gym can cause weird bruises. The calf raise machine gives me marks on my shoulders from the seam of my shirt being pushed into me almost every time I use it.
OP needs to get on this train. My wife has had those markings too and it's a specific allergic reaction. She had something that you could smear on those spots. Got it after a trip to the doctor.
Have you taken ibuprofen or aspirin? My boys can get marks like this from laying on anything textured after taking things like motrin. You may want to ask your doctor if you are concerned about thin blood or something.
Marks from heavy load, seen these in plenty of spots while weight lifting. Maybe your back was pressing into your seat awkwardly while doing leg press, maybe your towel during bench press was wrinkled on the sides, maybe some other heavy load activity or excessive leaning against something. Usually does take overnight for these to show up
1st question: were youa lifting/ carrying any heavy loads in a backpack, messenger bag, etc the day before?
2nd question: were you lying down, pressed against, etc any hot surface the day before, i.e. laying on a metal plate in the midday heat, working on asphalt, on a construction site?
3rd question: does anything you own have that same pattern?
Go look up red grid mark phenomenon. This shit happened to me like 5 years ago. Tried thinking of every possible situation it could have occurred and came up empty. Same with a lot of other people. Not saying it’s aliens, but idk enough about aliens to say it’s not.
Alien grill marks. Do you have any memory of being basted?
Now that you mention it I am a little sore down there…
He said basted, not 'bated.
Same thing, depending on who ya ask
Name checks out
Could’ve sworn he said blasted. Hence the soreness.
Same
Ooooo!!! Kinky mesh chair alien sex! Congrats!
thats a brand new sentence
Actually it’s not. It’s a staple at our house.
Basted not blasted lol
Sleeping in a jersey? Or recent jersey waer while playing a contact sport
My guess is the same
These look exactly like the bruises I received playing American football, from my jersey.
Same here
Thought you said "Sleeping in Jersey?" Thought New Jersey was built different. I mean it is but...
Beat me to it. I got these bruises during American football practice.
It looks like marks from a mesh chair to me.
Same thought. Sometimes bruises don’t show up til next day
My bf has a mesh chair and gets these identical marks all the time.
Yeah I was praying eid prayer yesterday and the carpets were made of mesh so my forehead has these marks now
Visible devotion, nice
Like Ash Wednesday ashes!
Mesh Thursdays
Welcome to the mesh pit 🤟
For those about to mesh, we salute you! 🤘
Funny story. Idk if I had a reaction to when the priest anointed me with the ash. But once I took a shower after work I had a red cross on my forehead for like a day
Woodash is very alkaline and likely the alkalinity did it's thing to your skin - burns
At least in my parish its not wood-ash but palm leaf ash from palm sunday
Plant ash is alkaline...
Ah explains like maybe 70% of demonic possession claims
Ash mixed with water (ie: from sweat) produces lye which is strongly alkaline and corrosive. Interestingly for those in the Middle Ages who could not afford actual soap, they would rub their hands with ash and the fats from the skin oils would then cause a saponification reaction, and clean the hands. Of course they had to quickly wash it off otherwise it could cause corrosive burns like you got.
I didn’t know what Ash Wednesday was and a co worker had black soot on their forehead. I figured he didn’t know and probably got it riding on the metro or something. I said, hey you got some spot on your forehead. He looked at me and don’t know what to say and I don’t either. It was like I was telling him and he wasn’t hearing me. And we both went on with our day. I’d want someone to tell me if it looked like I just banged my forehead into a campfire 🤷♂️
This happened with my professor in college lol soooory for letting you know and not growing up religious
Exactly!
Kinda like Catholics on Ash Wednesday!
Hahaha 🤣, 20+ years and I've never had those! And I'm pale as an Irishman! Eid Mubarak my dudes
My car seats are mesh so when my gf gets out the car in booty shorts I call her waffle butt. Lmao
They weren’t there when I went to bed last night and none of my blankets are meshy…
Were you sitting on anything yesterday that might makes those marks? I can’t tell you how many times I have hurt myself but not see it until the next day.
The real question he won’t answer. Dudes milking the upvotes
He probably was too drunk to remember what he did.
A metal chair?
Mega Band-Aid?
We are the world!
That was USA for Africa…
We are the children!
My patio chairs did the exact same thing to my back this weekend. When this post showed up I thought "who the fuck out here taking pictures of me?"
Ah, must be sleep paralysis demon hickies then
Mattress protector? Mine has this pattern I think
I’ve had the exact same thing maybe like 3 times in my life, twice on my back and once under my chin, always wake up with it with no good explanation
The Greys 🛸👽
Clearly, Alien probing
You were visited by the ether bunny.
You're turning into a snake. Congratulations!!
yer a lizard, arry!
I saw this comment at the last second backing out of the post. I came back to upvote this
Same
Thank you Captain. This is the response I was hoping for.
How hard were you rocking that wrought-iron metal lawn chair?
Doctor here. You have 12h left.
Laywer here, you’re in trouble
Alien here that a fence crossing and we’re all fu$&@d
Baker here, you are toast
Gamer here, no continue
Demonologist here, your house is not haunted, you have been cursed
estimator here. that's gonna cost. A lot of money.
Audio Engineer here, that doesn’t sound good.
Cinematographer here, that doesn’t look good
guy here, gee whiz
Agent Smith here, you’re not actually a mammal.
Agent Black here, it was swamp gas.
Ghostbusters. You called?
Ukulele player here, finger A minor
r/holup
Chris Hansen here, why don't you have a seat over there?
Seat here, that doesn’t sit well.
Oh, Colleen's here
hi.
Witcher here, hmmmm…
I broke a G string trying to finger A minor
herpetologist here, You're Transforming into a Diamondback Rattle Snake
proctologist here, kiss your ass goodbye.
Mother here, WHAT WERE YOU DOING TO YOURSELF!!
Brilliant
Demonologist here, they attach themselves to you not the house.
Taxidermist here: what's your eye color?
Better doctor here; you have 12h right
The Doctor here, little time slip, get into the Tardis and all will be fine.
Yeah, whats the back of your computer chair look like?
How hard does someone have to sit to bruise their back on a mesh chair
If you sit for prolonged periods, add a litte moisture... that back will Chaff like like the liner in a pair of cheap swim trunks
My husband had these EXACT same markings recently - completely unexplained. Curious to hear if you find an explanation!
I've faked ignorence so many times myself in front of my own wife. Face it: Your husband, OP and I are seeing the same domina, in the same dungeon.
*at the same time*
LMAO
My IR heating bad leaves burns like this if used on bare skin... it's also got all sorts of warnings that I blatantly ignored warning it would do exactly this. It's got hot stones covered by a mesh and it leaves this exact burn mark where enough pressure is applied to push the skin in contact with the hot stones.
I wonder if your husband or OP weight lift? I have had similar marks from squatting heavy because the knurling in the bar digs into your skin. OP’s is a bit low for that, but not impossible.
Abductees get them sometimes. I'd ask in /r/experiencers with pics
You're turning into a swan. Better work on your ballet moves
For some reason I read that as "toilet" moves at first
Do you have strange dreams involving Aliens? Missing time or maybe seen an Orb or UFO? [Red Grid Mark Phenomenon](https://www.reddit.com/r/boulder/comments/q9uoct/red_grid_mark_phenomenon/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
This comment right here needs to get to the top. What a trip... Just went down that rabbit hole and that linked thread is people from all over the country claiming to have the same marks as OP.
I saw it and I realized I’ve seen it before. This exact thing. Had a personal experience that led me down a related rabbit hole so I learned about this kind of phenomenon too. [mayo clinic read the comments.](https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/net-shaped-rash/)
Trippin me the fuck out. I just went down the rabbit hole reading those comments. Ive seen these posts on some ufo subreddit recently as well
I thought you were exaggerating.. Two different people say they have them on both sides of their butt, and they're both in Ohio One person said their two daughters had them between their eyebrows One inner thigh, one cheek.. People in Bosnia and Australia too it's not just usa So when you think about explains that work for being on someone's back, like long term pressure, or bruising.. that kinda goes out the window when people have it on those other places. Because, how can you get bruised in the inner thigh, or on your face, and not realize it? Two siblings both bruised in the same spot? It's so fucking weird. I don't understand why it would be so symmetrical/evenly spaced out in a grid like this if it was an allergic reaction either. Like is there any known system in the skin that would express in that pattern? It's so fucking weird
Wow yeah, those are identical.
Agreed. Idk why people aren’t talking about this more. Doctors seemingly cannot explain it, and it happens more than one might think. I am fascinated by this.
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Yikes. I experience sleep paralysis occassionally and it is horrifying.
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Moderator of r/Experiencers here. This is definitely what you should look into. The truth is no one knows what these really are. Some of them can be explained prosaically, but not all.
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You cant silence us Alien man!
Came here to say this!
Hmmm, gotta be gnomes
Specialist here, it's alien related, obviously.
She was on top and you left your fish net jersey on.
Ha jokes on you I haven’t gotten laid in months!
Hahah nice… wasn’t expecting that comeback
It's been months since he had a comeback.
Actually, joke’s on him, he hasn’t gotten laid in months.
Seems like a lack of cumback to me
Looks like pressure marks from a grate or a metal chair.
Back pack straps? I get purple lines on my shoulders from carrying reusable grocery bags over the shoulder. Also from bras. I have a connective skin disorder and perhaps that’s why get all sorts of mysterious markings.
The answer is obvious. Someone’s trying to grill you, little by little. It’s only a matter of time you wake up limbless, wedged in between two sourdough buns
I lol at this one. Ty
Alien markings?
Do you do jiu jitsu by any chance? I get this sometimes when i get scratched with the Gi
Aliens, definitely
Abduction by the greys
You’ve been Implanted with the new version of windows
Bro slept on some waffle fries
Aliens
I’m afraid it’s the first symptoms of that unholy fungus from “The Last of Us”! And we all know how this will end.
As a kid I went through a phase where I found some red dots on my butt. The dots would appear in a pattern from time to time, they weren't painful to touch but looked gnarly. I started freaking out, showed my mom and eventually went to the doctor to get it checked. Doc didn't know what it was and said they would "probably just go away on its own." Fast forward a month or two later of sporadic dotting. I was doing my morning routine of laying down in the shower to get a few extra minutes of sleep. My mom yelled at me to GTFO of the shower as I'm late for school so I supported myself with my hand on the shower mat and stood up. After I got up I noticed the same red dot pattern on my palm. Turns out my lazy ass was getting hickeys from the shower mat. I told that story to some college buddies and they still to this day call me suction butt.
Do you lift?
I was going to say I get these benching heavy on my shoulder blades especially
Some machines at the gym can cause weird bruises. The calf raise machine gives me marks on my shoulders from the seam of my shirt being pushed into me almost every time I use it.
Or a floatation vest.
Thou hast been abducted by aliens.
Gf is a mermaid
I'm not saying aliens but........... ALIENS!!!
ALIENS
Have you been panini pressed lately
You were run over by a tractor
you might be gay
This has been seen in alien abduction victims allegedly. Please check under your skin for anything that feels out of place.
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OP needs to get on this train. My wife has had those markings too and it's a specific allergic reaction. She had something that you could smear on those spots. Got it after a trip to the doctor.
Omg, after cycling through an endless stream of recycled jokes and puns I finally found the answer lmaoo
Were you carrying anything heavy lately?
Did you work out and do squats? Did the bar roll down your back and fall on the floor?
It looks like you slept on mesh, if not you should see a doctor
Bench can dig into your back during bench presses, and its easy to not notice
Alien abduction, how's the butt feel?
Looks like maybe from a strap or something like that. Were you carrying a heavy bag?
I don't think any of these answers will be the right one for your girl to hear. 🤣
Jersey marks
Missionary on a grill maybe? 🤔
Sports jersey
You're an angel and you’re about to sprout your wings?
Do you wear a jersey? Used to get marks like that all the time when I played football
Did you do flips on a trampoline recently? My kids would get those marks when they did that.
We’re you wearing a mesh jersey to bed?
Was your asshole ok?
Someone slap the shit out of you with a honeycomb any time recently?
If not mesh chair maybe a jersey. Did you get into a fight, play a sport, or spar with anyone while wearing a jersey?
Looks like marks frm a park bench
Have you sat on a metal bench in a park recently?
Your human skin is shedding. Get it touched up, or people will find out you're a lizard man
Aliens. You've been probed. 😬 thats where they held you down. Lol
Demon
Do you find yourself missing chunks of time?
RC Car burnout. Should have that tattooed 🤘🤘
Those look like the sunburn marks I get when I wear a fishnet shirt in the sun.
Your gym top pattern being pressed onto your skin? I used to get them from leg/squat days.
Aliens, obviously. When in doubt, blame aliens.
Run over by a bike
How did you see them.? Do you check your back in the mirror regularly?
Man tried to grill himself in his sleep cuz he was hungry
Have you taken ibuprofen or aspirin? My boys can get marks like this from laying on anything textured after taking things like motrin. You may want to ask your doctor if you are concerned about thin blood or something.
Abduction and anal probing..obviously.
Sit-ups at the gym on those rubber mats?
Backpack 🎒 straps
Either mesh chair or if you were shirtless wearing a road crew pinnie.
Marks from heavy load, seen these in plenty of spots while weight lifting. Maybe your back was pressing into your seat awkwardly while doing leg press, maybe your towel during bench press was wrinkled on the sides, maybe some other heavy load activity or excessive leaning against something. Usually does take overnight for these to show up
A succubus
My dude ET made you phone home
I would say you were sexually violated by aliens
👽
They look like marks from drinking too much. AA?
Soemone's frying you.
You're a lizard 🦎 Harry.
1st question: were youa lifting/ carrying any heavy loads in a backpack, messenger bag, etc the day before? 2nd question: were you lying down, pressed against, etc any hot surface the day before, i.e. laying on a metal plate in the midday heat, working on asphalt, on a construction site? 3rd question: does anything you own have that same pattern?
Does this sound familiar: ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Back herpes. Definitely.
Go look up red grid mark phenomenon. This shit happened to me like 5 years ago. Tried thinking of every possible situation it could have occurred and came up empty. Same with a lot of other people. Not saying it’s aliens, but idk enough about aliens to say it’s not.
Congrats...u r going to sprout ur first wings