To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

@DameDoom you should contact Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies! I watched it for the first time the other day, and it is really good!

One day in 2003 I left my suitcase on a train and pressed the emergency assistance button on the platform. The voice on the other end advised me to wait on the platform as the train would soon be at the end of the line and would come back through the station I was at.

While waiting on the platform, I had a call on my mobile from a friend who lived in a different town. He asked me if I had left my suitcase on a train. I said yes and asked how he knew. He said he was sitting at home having his dinner when his landline phone had rang. He had picked it up and all he could hear was me talking to someone about losing my suitcase!

The even stranger thing was that my friend's landline number and mobile number were not listed on my mobile. Also, back in those days I never phoned him from my mobile as we only spoke occasionally on our landline phones. Therefore there was no way my mobile phone could connect to his landline so I couldn't even have accidentally called him that day.

I've never been able to figure out how this happened. Very weird!

This is a long one but I have no explanation for it.

This happened about 10yrs ago. I was driving from my house to a shopping centre and was driving along a motorway. I was doing 70mph in the left and had to change to the middle as the road split. Checked mirrors, motorway totally clear (which was odd in itself) but I still indicated and moved to the middle lane. Cancel indicator and there’s a red coupe type car alongside me in the right hand lane - and I mean matching my speed - it appeared from nowhere and was now moving to it’s left into my lane.

I slowed a little but the car is now really trying to move into my car. I should have braked or sounded my horn but as the road was still totally clear of traffic (just me and the ‘coupe’), I stupidly decided to swerve. Discovered you can’t actually swerve in an old car at 70mph, so I went in to a fish tail skid. The coupe slowed the accelerated and drove off.

I’m frantically trying to control the skid, but it’s impossible. One car passed to my left and I recall seeing the elderly female passenger staring at me open mouthed. The motorway on my side is still devoid of all other traffic.

I eventually lost control of my car, shot across the left lane, hitting the crash barrier nose on at around 60mph.

I’m sitting in the driver seat in stunned silence. I have no injuries and my car has the smallest of dents. It dawns on me I should phone someone to report what’s happened as my car now won’t start.

I look in my wing mirror and the motorway is still totally empty. I reach to the passenger footwell to get my phone and I am aware of a rumbling sound getting louder and louder. I sit up, glance again in my wing mirror and there is a wall of traffic thundering along without a break. We’re talking HGV’s, cement mixers, vans, cars and motorbikes. My car shuddered when the traffic went past with an audible ‘whumph’.

This accident happened on the M1, on a Friday at 11am. There were no other incidents that would have explained the lack of traffic. On a typical day that road is non-stop busy. From the moment I got on the M11 to the few minutes after my accident, it was as if a pause button had been pressed preventing all other traffic on it. So bizarre and I cannot explain it at all.

I saw an old friend for the first time in about 5 years. I said to her "I saw your dad's letter in the paper" (The Times, not a paper I regularly read - found on a train / in staff room type thing). She looked absolutely thrilled and text her dad to tell him as he'd been waiting for it to be published! Later, I remembered it wasn't her dad's letter I'd seen but the dad of another, completely unrelated friend from a different sphere in my life. Just a bit weird.

I had been dating a lovely man for less than a year when he went into hospital with suspected appendicitis- 6 weeks later, having had surgery and the discovery of a large tumour, he died after his first dose of chemo. His body was unable to cope with it. He’d supported me through a massive breakdown/ depressive period, and his death rocked me to the core.
A few days later I was still staying at my parents and was feeding mine and 3 other members of the family’s dogs. Suddenly, all 4 dogs started a very low but audible growl whilst looking at the same point in the room. This wasn’t normal for them at all - in fact they’d usually all be focused on their food. I genuinely believe that it was a goodbye from the other side.

When my son was a baby he liked Mam dummies. He would often wake in the night having lost his dummy. I would search high and low in the semi dark and eventfully give up and get a new one resolving to find the lost one in the morning. The thing is I never did. So many dummies went missing never to be found again. We've lived in the same house for 30 years and redecorated that same room many times putting new carpets in and I have never found any of the missing dummies. We actually thought the cat must be pinching them, taking them out of the cat-flap and burying them. 😂

saradegrey that’s incredible! How on earth did that happen?!

I was in the pub with some of my 'friends' (people I knew) and one girl was looking at me really strangely. So I just said "what are you thinking?' and everything went a blurry on the edges, and slo mo like and she said with (what you might imagine a fake demon voice) 'jealous' and then everything sort of swirled back to normal. And I looked around and everyone in our group was chatting away to each other.

For me, I felt like I had slipped out of time.

It was a horrible feeling, nothing about the encounter made me feel good and I went straight home.

zurala I’m exactly the same - every watch I’ve ever had always runs slow! And I know that often it’s not the battery because it still happens with brand new ones or ones where the battery has just been changed.

@Gargellen - intrigued by your user name. Have you been there? I have several times - beautiful place!!

Just thought of another one.

We'd been on holiday near Edinburgh. Took us maybe 3 hours to drive there (it's ~150 miles from my house to the hotel)

On the way back, we set off just after check out at the hotel, which was 12 noon. We didn't stop or get stuck in any heavy traffic on the way back, but we didn't get back to my house until almost 8pm. Wasn't driving particularly slowly, and the weather was absolutely lovely so wouldn't have accounted for it.

My car has a trip computer so I checked it when we eventually got back, and it showed we'd travelled over 300 miles. Also used almost a full tank of diesel (which normally does ~600 miles). Still have the car and noting else like it has happened, so it's not like it could have been a fault.

I genuinely have no idea why it took so long, or where the extra miles came from! It was so weird!

Honestly, if anyone has an explanation, I'd live to hear it!

This is funny. Read this thread the other day. Yesterday, I was typing on the computer when some quite big drops of water suddenly fell onto my hands and keyboard. No idea where they came from. No wetness above me on the ceiling or anything like that. Reading this thread again today and have seen a few posts about drops of water suddenly splashing on people 😲

The second episode I had like this I was under a lot of stress as I was on my way to an interview for a job I really wanted.

A road was closed and I had to try and find my way via unfamiliar roads.
I was hurtling along when suddenly I was aware that the road was no longer a road but a rough country road with grass growing up the middle. I had the ringing buzzing in my head so I knew I was having an episode of some sort. I just kept going even though I was bouncing about all over the place. Eventually I stopped as the track became so rough and overgrown that although I was in a Land Rover I thought I would break a diff or something. The sky and the air had the swirly heavy thing going on again as with my previous episodes.
I decided to turn the engine off, chill out and just accept I would miss the appointment for the interview and try and snap out of the episode I knew I was having. As I did that the road appeared under me, the hedges shrunk down to normal size and I was able to carry on. Quarter of a mile on was the main road and I made it just in time for the interview.
I retraced my steps but it was modern road the entire distance with neatly flailed hedges.

I was offered the job but the guy interviewing me asked me such strange questions, I knew I would never be able to work for him.
I believe I was seeing the road as it have been in the past for some reason.

Partner big Formula 1 fan, have watched almost every race for 8 years.

Just as the lights were about to go out on the Bahrain Grand Prix 2020 I left the room, taking my 6 week old baby with me, saying that something terrible was going to happen.

The odds of a crash in F1 are fairly high but I just had the strongest feeling that the baby shouldn’t see it.

(Also, as I was typing this said baby was watching Peppa Pig. Partner comes in and says, I hate this episode can you skip it? It skipped. Everyone was miles from the iPad.)

I have told this on on here before under a different name.
When I was younger I went through a period where I would get a buzzing sound in my head and momentarily I would see and be in a different dimension. Usually it was only momentary but on two occasions it seemed to last longer.

The first time I was standing outside our family home and the house and the row of houses it was in was gone. In it's place were the fields and trees as they had been before the houses were built.
As a PP has mentioned, the air seemed to be thick and hazy and what I was looking at was slightly swirly, almost as if under water. It was a warm day and I was able to take in that the row of trees I was used to seeing out of my bedroom window were immature by comparison and a hedge that I never knew had been there was intact separating two fields.
I looked down at my feet to see what the ground was like that I was standing on as I had been on the lawn at the front of our house and I was standing on rough meadow grass but as I looked up, it all seemed to return to modern day with a whoosh and the temperature dropped from the warm sunny day of my vision to how it had been just prior to whatever it chuffing well was that happened to me.

I was walking along with a shopping bag in my hand. I thought I was dropping the bag, so made movements to try and stop the falling...but in reality the bag was perfectly held in my hand. But my brain was registering this dropping and it was the oddest sensation when the bag didn't drop...everything paused for a second.

This is maybe more of a coincidence but it still gives me goosebumps. I used to be a carer & did the shopping for one lovely old couple. One day they were poorly so I didn’t have to go. At more or less the exact time I would have been at the butchers buying their chicken, a lorry crashed into the shop. A lady parked outside was killed & the butcher only escaped serious injury or death as he’d gone out the back. I would more or less certainly have been killed.

The post about the postcard has really spooked me. Presumably the children weren’t on the postcard when they bought it.

I remember when my brother & I were little - I was 6 I think so he would only have been 4. We lived in a village & used to go off all over the place on our own ( very different to now). My brother fell in a pond but luckily was ok. As he clambered out we heard chanting in the distance & ran like mad for home! I found out later that there had been an Abbey nearby. Still remember the sheer terror & how fast we ran!

After my mum died one of my DDs (young adult) who had been very close to her, had some really lovely dreams about her. In one of them she watched a younger version of my mum being reunited with my dad who died when I was a teenager. There was even a soundtrack-Clair de Lune. My mum absolutely loved classical music.

In my head, I think my mum wanted to show DD that she was reunited with the love of her life. I also like to think she added the sound track as it was a piece of music that she knew DD would recognise.

It was very comforting.

Doesn't happen as often now I'm older, but when I was in my teens-early 20s, I'd be listening to songs on the radio and towards the end of a song I'd get a feeling of what the next song should be and that song would start to play immediately after. It didn't happen after every song, only when I felt the next tune in my head/bones. Also there would be a song a really wanted to listen to, so I'd flick through a few different stations and quite often I'd find that song playing. It wasn't current music that was likely to be playing anyways, it was music a few years old.

I have posted about this before but it still gives me the chills. It was some years ago & one of the Scream movies was being advertised regularly on Channel 4. The ad would come on & at the exact same point every time, our tv would switch itself off. Must have happened at least half a dozen times. Needless to say, I didn’t go & watch that film!

@KaiKanWhenever what happens 9 months before New Year's Eve? Is it one of your birthdays?