I've done all of those things. Seen lightning bolts and heard their thunder, have heard the hum of transformers or the whine of the lines themselves and arcing bolts of electricity from broken ones or Tesla coils. I've been electrocuted both from static electricity, and once when I was cleaning lint out from behind my washing machine.
You can see it. You can hear it. And you definitely can feel it. It fuckinf hurts!
...Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...