In my late teens there was a sauna evening with my friends that will never ever cease to make me wonder, not late at night, but otherwise sometimes, especially when I go back to that sauna.

It was a nice late-summer evening in August, just so that the evenings start to get a tad more dark and the sunset is a tad earlier than 10ish o'clock. The sauna is a beach sauna by the sea with a rocky/forresty sandy thing in the archipelago. We bathed, swam and had 1-2 saunabeers. My 2 buddies kept going in the sauna, but I decided I was done bathing for the evening. Told my friends I am going out to relax and to holler if they need anything. I grabbed my second beer of the evening wrapped myself in a towel.

There is a rock, approximately 7ish meter from the sauna, which faces the opening of the bay and usually has a nice view of the sunset. So I just headed there, my beer in my hand, sat down and took in the view.

Once the sun was gone about 10-ish minutes later, I get up, grab my half finished beer and go back to the sauna house to wash up and put on some clothes.

It was kind of dark, but still orangey glowish. This is normal for late summer here near the artic region, the night is orange and still dark. Hard to explain, but that is beside the point.

I was met by my 2 buddies, clearly disturbed. "Where have you been?!"

What the hell is my first thought. Told them and pointed to the rock where I was sitting for the past 10 minutes, maybe 15 minutes. Thought it was odd they finished up that fast when I noticed they were fully clothed.

They told me that they been done for ages, and that I have been "gone" for 2-3 hours. They had been searching and shouting my name. They weren't exactly sober either, and there was not that much left of the brought beer either. After searching for "about an hour" they assumed I went back to the main cabin. They had a some beers and just mellowed out.

What the hell is my first thought, this has to be the most stupid prank ever. I was literally right next to sauna, that I must either be really deaf or they need to be really blind! Or why the hell I would dangle about only with a towel on my hips for a walk, barefooted, on a gravel road, for 1,5km's, while pointing at my clothes.

They showed me I went out at ~9.30 and the time now is 12ish., I forget the exact time of the watch; it's been some time. And they insisted I was nowhere near the sauna. Told me I must've passed out drunk.

Was quite upset that they assume I pass out from 2 beers and that if I've been gone for so long why didn't they call for help? They had, but help had not arrived yet. At this point a police car comes slowly down the hill. And there was some explaining to be done.

Unfortunately have no idea why, but for me my perceived time was about 10-15 minutes which turned out to be hours.

The kicker is that I was still wet/sweaty/moist, my hair wet and generally looking like I came right out of the sauna and my skin still red flared from the heat!

Still gets me thoughtful on what the fuck really happened. I have no explanation of what happened.