I’m lucky to be alive after I was hit by lightning while playing a computer game on my sofa

A MAN had a miracle escape after being struck by lightning as he sat inside on his sofa during a thunderstorm.

The bolt blasted through Aidan Rowan’s living room window and hit him as he played a computer game.

He felt an excruciating burn on his arm and reckons he may have been knocked unconscious for a few seconds after the one-in-a-million frazzling.

Aidan, 33, was struck around 10.30pm last Monday while playing PS5 game Stray, in which gamers play as a cat.

He was taken to hospital by 32-year-old husband Aaron’s parents – and spent nearly seven hours there before being discharged.

Aidan, of Abingdon, Oxon, has been left with around 60 burn marks down his arm, a “starburst-like” mark near his palm, muscle damage and a burn on his foot.

He said: “There was a really loud cracking sound like thunder, then it just felt like someone dropped something really heavy over my entire body.

“It lasted a few seconds and then I just felt this burning on my arm which was so hot it almost felt cold.

“That’s the last time I play a cute cat game during a thunderstorm I think!”

Aidan, who is a blacksmith, said the doctors at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital felt “the marks are consistent with a lightning strike”.

Since being struck he bought a lottery ticket – thinking his luck may be in – but won just £6.

There is one in 1.2million chance of getting struck by lightning indoors or outdoors in the UK.