To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

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My doppelganger moment came when on holiday in Spain in my 20s. I'd nipped away from the beach to go to the loo and when I came back, my sister and friends told me how my Spanish doppelganger had appeared when I left... looking exactly like me except at least a decade older with a baby on her hip. She was gone of course by the time I got back.

I remember my first glitchy feeling... I was about 8 or 9 in the back of the car going to school. Suddenly I knew exactly what the next person I saw was going to look like, and there he was walking up the road; an unremarkable looking middle-aged man, and I was excitedly saying "I knew what was going to happen, I knew that man was going to be there and what he was going to look like!"... unremarkable to anyone else, this moment; but I remember it so clearly.

Myself, my sister and my mum all often have dreams that come true. Me and my mum have both had ones where my granny appears and tells us something that's going to happen to one of the family. My latest was when my aunt was ill. I dreamt I was in granny's house, she told me that my aunty was going to heaven but that shortly after that my aunt's adult grandchild was going to heaven too. This was v upsetting and in the dream I could see the awful grief of the immediate family but also feel the peace that it was meant to be this way. I wrote it all down when I woke and it all happened in that order, first my aunt and then within months her grandchild. I like to think how happy they are there together.

One of my first "dreams" was so funny and I really had no idea it was prophetic. We were 15 and had exchange students staying, my friend was having a teen holiday romance with this German student and she was "in love". I had a vivid dream and when I came into class the next morning my friend was later than I was. "Wait til you hear the stupid dream I had last night!" I said, "I dreamt that Rachel HATED Sven (names changed) but that he'd bought her a present of a necklace... and then when he gave it to her she dumped him and he was crying! How stupid is that... she totally loves him!"
Next thing, in walked Rachel and threw her schoolbag down saying dramatically, "I can't STAND Sven!". We couldn't believe it, and he hadn't done anything wrong, she had just went off him overnight. A few days later (they were only here for a week... things move fast when you're a teenager!) we were having a leaving disco for the Germans. Sven and Rachel went out to the stairs... he produced a silver necklace he had bought her! She couldn't live a lie any longer and dumped him... and he started crying!!

There have been so many dreams since then, too many to recount- from dreaming that my friend's goldfish has died, to dreaming that someone was going to have an affair who later did... lots of specific things that came true. But, I actually don't think this type of stuff is necessarily "woo"...time isn't actually linear anyway, we just usually experience it so, but it's all part of the space/time illusion. The nature of reality is certainly weird and I'd love to know more about it, but in the meantime reading the stories on these threads will do!

I was sun bathing in the garden as a teen and some sparrows started up a bit of a racket.
Not unusual, but I lazily opened my eyes and saw them hopping about in the gutter above my parents windows. There was 2 or 3 of them.

I shut my eyes again and kind of zoned out, and was imagining what they were chattering about. It sounded like they were arguing about how to dispose of a body. Overactive imagination, and too much midsummer murders probably...
Then there was a thud and the sparrows all stopped. They'd manoeuvred a dead bird out of a nest in the gutter and it had fallen to the ground.

My mum thought I was nuts when I told her .

I had a vivid dream as a small child about the person I would marry. I especially remember the outfit they were wearing - tuxedo, very fancy Fast forward 25+ years to PIL-to-be front room; there is a school portrait style photo of now DH in similar outfit, same hair, same smile. WOO.

@Longcovid21 was it Bobby Jean by Bruce Springsteen I think?

I was young,still in a cot and crawling.
I remember watching myself crawl into our lounge and my mum,auntie and cousin being flabbergasted at how I’d got out of the cot. Now,they have their guesses at how I’d managed it and they’re probably right but I just REMEMBER watching it happen from a different angle of the room to the doorway. I can still see what they were wearing and where they sat. So very odd

A few years ago an old school friend went viral when he got on a plane and sat next to his "twin".
I've seen this

No; they’re generally just walking by on the other side of the road or something. Not sure what I could say anyway: ‘hi, are you a glitch?’ 😀

I came on to say I have a glitch in the matrix moment just about every day, but I don't mean like these. Mine are just things like seeing a particular person walk past on the street, then a minute later seeing them walk past again (and no, I don't mean in the other direction; it's honestly like it's just happening for the first time). tbf @IntermittentParps this is more "glitch in the matrix" than a lot of the posts (inc my own!), I would class a lot of them more as "woo" but I am a massive fan of either kind of post when you see the same person twice to you ever try and speak to them??

I heard angels singing once. Ethereal song unlike anything I have ever heard, and it was level with my 1st floor window. I was so sure it was angels, I casually mentioned it to my DH and he was like "wtf are you on about?". After that I realised I didn't know why I'd casually assumed it was angels.

Got lost en route to Birmingham and it went very dark and suddenly felt very close, hard to describe just a horrible feeling of dread fell over me, DH and teenage DC. Turned out we had driven through the site of a huge Civil War battle. I think it was is Herefordshire or Worcestershire. It was really horrible.

Every time we go to Disneyland (annually) I see the "twins" of people I know. One year a family thought my DS was their DS as they looked so alike!

I do sometimes feel like there's some sort of blueprint for "people" and being somewhere where you see many people at the same time magnifies it.

A few years ago an old school friend went viral when he got on a plane and sat next to his "twin".

I thought of another one! Away on our honeymoon, I had an extremely vivid dream that me and my husband were sitting outside a cafe in Spain in a bit of a mood as our ‘punk rocker’ daughter with a shaved head and nose ring was being in a mood with us.
Except we didn’t have a daughter in real life.

A week after our honeymoon I did a pregnancy test and I was pregnant with a girl. Except for the shaved head and nose ring (although she isn’t a teen yet 😂) she looks exactly like the girl in my dream. I would’ve just got pregnant when I had the dream!

Adore all these stories. Fascinating...

I have two:

1. When I was a young teenager my mum and I were driving down a road in our home town and I said 'oh, there's the building where I had to walk up all the steps and it was so hot!' My mum asked what I meant and i recounted walking up all the steps in the block of flats, feeling really tired and heavy, and how when I got to the door, a tall man in a brown suit opened the door and smiled and gave me a glass of water, and he opened his window to cool me down and all these papers suddenly blew off his desk and all around the room.

My mum looked shocked and said 'but you can't possibly remember that, I was 8 months pregnant with you and it was ME climbing up all those stairs, because the lift was out of order!. Turns out she was visiting her uncle, who then died when I was a baby.

Second one not freaky but just a bit random: I went to Oxbridge and was at one of the smaller colleges. About 4 years after I left I was living in London and spent the day in the south bank area. During my day I saw a total of four people who had been in my very small year group at uni. All separately, all in the same tiny part of London. Felt like they had run out of extras that day and hoped I wouldn't notice

I have a few of these, but one really stands out. I have a 3 year old lb who has autism and is non verbal, he doesn’t use any speech to communicate at all, ever, and he also doesn’t make eye contact.

Just before Christmas I was buckling him in to his car seat in a bit of a rush, and talking to him as I went, like I always do, explaining I was strapping him in and we were going to go to the post Office Depot and collect a parcel quickly before we had to get back for the school run for my eldest. He looked me in the eyes and said clearly, “no mama, no today.” Then he looked away and continued playing with his fidget toy. It really really startled me, I’ve never heard him say a clear word never mind a small sentence! I stood there in shock for a couple of minutes, it was the first words he’d spoken, never mind a sentence! Anyway, I finished strapping him in and then got in the car, and it wouldn’t start. No idea what was going on but time was ticking and I decided to sack it off and go the next day, and we got out and went to the park before doing the school run.

I started to think I’d imagined him speaking, because despite much encouragement he didn’t say anything else Over the next couple of days (still hasn’t now, 2 months later.

It was only a couple of days later that I really got the shivers. On the day we he spoke, literally ten minutes after, a lorry crashed in to a car 10 minutes drive away, on the road we’d have been on, in probably the same place we’d have been. The people in the car were cut out of it and one person was critically injured.

Freaky.

My Dad died late at night in autumn 2020. The very next day at 9am the landline in my parents' house rang. It was an old friend of Dad's who he hadn't spoken to for a long time. He must have somehow known! Later when ringing relatives to let them know, my Dad's cousin said she'd thought of him out of the blue that night. I had visions of Dad flying round seeing all his friends and family ...

Two weeks ago I had a very vivid dream about an old school friend being pregnant with a baby girl and announcing her pregnancy on social media. I haven’t seen this woman in many years. The next morning after the dream, I was walking in a car park and I looked up to see her stood in front of me. I said ‘X it’s so weird that I have seen you today, i had a dream last night that you were expecting a baby girl!’
She laughed and said ‘that would raise some eyebrows as DP has had the snip’
Anyway…. two days later I discovered that my best friends Husband has been having an affair with this woman. No confirmation of pregnancy yet, but I am concerned that it may be coming.

@Powpw7654 - you were just part of a weird moment for me!

I keep coming back and reading a few more of these every day, and had just got to the page before your story. I remembered something weird that happened in new orleans, 25 years ago, and have just spent the last hour trying to google to see if my experience matched up with dates etc...

I stopped searching, came back to this thread, click to the next page... and find your story.