To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

@AuntMasha

Sleep paralysis like that is absolutely terrifying, isn't it? I have episodes every month or two at the moment, with my last at the beginning of this week. Woke up to a man stood over my bed and I had the overwhelming feeling I was going to die. Screamed and screamed. My poor DP just kept squeezing me tighter telling me it was okay. DDog didn't even move, apart from to give me kisses after I stopped. I'm amazed neighbours haven't knocked yet to find out if I actually am being murdered!

When I was around 20, I saw my clone.

Mid-sized European city I'd never been to before. I was waiting for a bus. She was sitting in a tram that stopped. I spotted her through the window, she spotted me and we both just ... stared! She had the exact same face as myself, same hair colour (though a different cut). Couldn't see the rest of her as she was sitting in that tram.

Tram departed, I never spotted her again during that trip or elsewhere. But she definitely did see me, too, and was just as confused.

And, no, there is no way I could have a separated-at-birth twin sister: I grew up in a country village. The midwife who delivered me was my grandparents' neighbour. Our GP lived three doors down from us and was married to the nurse. Word would have got around. Everyone knows everything about everybody in that place.

Things like this make me smile because the Cosmic Joker is obviously having quite a laugh.

My husband died 8 years ago. He died in the May and I turned 40 in the December of the same year. My sister had bought me 3 40th helium balloons which were tied together. They were left downstairs in the kitchen. About two days later, I came home from the shops, went up to my bedroom and the three balloons (still tied together) were hovering just above the bed (on "my side"). I literally gasped with shock. The house was empty as kids were at school. I liked to think it was him wishing me a Happy Birthday but who knows!!

@WorstXmasEver Sorry if someone’s already said this, but it was probably one of those clocks that resets regularly according to satellite info. We had one in an office I worked in, and the first time I saw the hands spinning round like something from a nightmare I thought my heart was going to burst out of me! Got quite used to it (a bit 😂) eventually…

When we were in the early months of our relationship my husband had a vivid dream that we had married and had two daughters, one with gorgeous red hair. We now have two sons, but they both have long hair and one is a redhead.

I remembered another one! This happened years ago.
I dreamed one night that I was married to a man called Robert Ward - he looked almost exactly like my then-husbandbut there were slight physical differences. When I woke up, I told my husband about the dream and we laughed about it.
A few weeks later, we met up with a friend who worked as a chef near Newbury, and was back up north to see his parents. In the course of conversation, he said that he thought he'd seen H come into his restaurant a few weeks ago, with another woman, and went out there to have a look. The man he saw could have been H's twin, the resemblance was so close. Just to make sure, he checked the reservations, and the customer's name was Robert Ward. That one made us all feel a bit weird.

When Princess Kate was pregnant with Charlotte she went into the hospital to have her and my mum messaged to tell me (in excitement, massive royal fan) I replied saying but she already had the baby yesterday and her name is Charlotte. My mother replied saying no the baby has not been born yet and we don’t know the name. Which was correct. Next day the baby was born and called Charlotte…

"She said the dog invariably knew we were coming when we were still a good hour away. He would wait all excited by the front door or at a window - a thing he never did for anyone else"

I'm a bit like this when my DH is out walking the dog, the amount time they're out varies but I'll always get some kind of cosmic nod to get up and pop the kettle on about a minute before they walk back through the door. Maybe me and the dog are telepathic 🤔😆

I was working as a waitress and one lunchtime a man came in and sat at a table in my section. He ordered his lunch and when he finished I cleared his plates. As I lifted them, a fork fell off and he caught it and put it back on the plate.
The next day the same man came in again for lunch, he sat at the same table. He ordered the same food. (All this is fine, I think he was in town for business, found a restaurant & meal he liked, decided to play it safe etc)
BUT as I cleared his plates, the fork once again fell and he once again caught it. It was genuinely the exact same scene twice!!

He knew too though because he looked at me and said "didn't that happen yesterday?"

So we both witnessed the glitch

Omg same here with the simpsons.

And IMO animals retain some abilities that we (or most of us) have lost. Some can sense things that we (or most of us) can’t.

A sister and family who lived close to us for a very few years, had a dog we were very fond of - he’d stayed with us more than once when they were away.
She and family then moved a long way away, so we only saw them once a year.
She said the dog invariably knew we were coming when we were still a good hour away. He would wait all excited by the front door or at a window - a thing he never did for anyone else.

OK, this one is ‘woo’, but a niece’s dog refused absolutely to set a paw inside a major area of the big old property they’d moved into.

None of the rest of the family had sensed anything at all ‘off’, but since niece knew someone reputed to have ‘the gift’ (she didn’t do it for money) she asked her to take a look.
She said immediately that something tragic had happened there, and the person responsible was hanging around, out of guilt.
She asked him to leave, and presumably he left, since right after that, the dog was perfectly happy to enter that area.

I mislaid my new engagement ring.
Searched high up and low down. Nowhere to be found.
It had cost my now dh a lot ( for us ) and he did without a cheap car to save for it and buy it for me.
How could I tell him
Prayed to a lovely friend who had died that year.
Miraculously my ring appeared.
Beside the sink.
It had definitely not been there when I was looking earlier.

@TheLovelinessOfDemons

No! And I have tried unplugging it since and giving a command straight after and it doesn't work.

Spies, perhaps?

We live on a busy road so if we want to open the gates for a delivery or something, we shut the dogs in.
DH and I were walking up the garden towards the open gate. There was a trailer on our drive and as we approached it, we both saw one of our dogs come out of the bush by the drive and go around the front of the trailer.
We both looked at each other and said at the same time, "I thought we had shut the dogs in!"
I went around one side and he went around the other. No dog.

We checked on him and he was shut in with the other two.
It was definitely our dog as he has a very unusual collar of a make discontinued 20 odd years ago.
I think he wanted to be with us so much he had projected himself somehow.
I have had many many occurrences like these my entire life though. Some of them I have told on here.

In 2008, my then-boyfriend and I had a two-day stopover in Marseille. We took a taxi from the airport to our hotel in the Vieux Port area. On the short journey along the motorway, we passed a lot of open countryside, with views stretching far into the distance. At one point, we saw a quaint, old-fashioned grey village with a windmill at one end.

The taxi-driver was chatting away to us, so by the time I got a chance to ask for the name of the village, it was out of sight and he didn’t seem to know what I was talking about. Never mind. I noted the time, so I would know roughly how far the village was from our hotel. We reached the hotel 12 minutes later.

We spent the next day exploring Marseille, and decided to try to find the village on our second day. We had a look at a map and couldn’t see it. The hotel receptionist didn’t know of the village and neither did the taxi-driver who came to take us out. Never mind, if we drove along the motorway to the airport we’d see it again.

We were driven out of Marseille and it took us longer to get out of the city than I’d remembered, and the views were more industrial. We headed out into the countryside and there was no sign of the village. The taxi-driver must have thought we were quite mad, this English couple chasing imaginary windmills. My boyfriend got a bit annoyed with me, but admitted he’d seen the village and windmill too. We had to admit defeat and the driver dropped us off at an out of town shopping centre. We had quite a nice time there, as it happened, but I still wonder what on earth happened to that village.

I once got home to hear a bunch of people in my flat, all talking, laughing etc, almost like a party. I heard my OH shout hello and I said hello I'm just going to the loo. When I came out a minute later the flat was completely empty, OH wasn't home, no sign anyone had been there. I ended up going to the doctor to ask if I needed my head checked

Not long after my father died, I was talking on the phone to my sister who was then living on the other side of the world. I had recently given my siblings a photograph of our dad and during our conversation, my photo fell off the wall at the same time as my sister's did. I'm not sure that it was a sign from my father, or just freaky coincidence.

I also have one necklace that has disappeared regularly for long periods of time, sometimes for 6 months, always to reappear when I've given up hope. I've turned the place upside down over the years and it always turns up somewhere obvious.

Years ago in London DH and I both saw a huge passenger jet flying very low with smoke pouring out from it. We both gasped, certain we were about to witness an air disaster. Then at the same time, our perception of it changed and it appeared to be 4 fighter jets, with the smoke just being clouds behind it.

So weird that we both had the same optical illusion at the same time.

At a former job I noticed that one of my earrings had fallen out - I knew I'd been wearing it earlier so assumed it was at my desk. I was gutted as I really loved those earrings and they were quite expensive for me back then.... I sent an email round telling people it was missing in case they saw it on the floor somewhere. It was a large open plan office.

Time passed and we were having a sort out of files and archiving matters that had been closed previous. I was transferring paperwork from lever arch folders into paper folders to take up less room in storage. I opened one folder and my earring was sat on the top when I opened it! What a coincidence- obviously fell out when I was dealing with the file previously!

I was so chuffed I decided to send an email to the staff to tell them I'd found it - a dear secretary had told me she still looked on the way to and from work everyday in case it had fallen off on the way in to work - so I went to my sent items to revive the previous email by way of update .... and it was exactly a year to the day that I'd sent my previous email saying I'd lost!

I have racked my brains over the years for an explanation for this one but have never found one.

Similar to a couple of other poster’s experiences.

About 20 years ago. A glass of water on top of the old style TV in my bedroom suddenly went flying off the TV (it wasn’t near the edge) with such force it smashed on the carpeted floor.

It was honestly as if an unseen hand had swept it off the TV with enormous force. It was in a room with the doors and windows closed so no gust of wind.

Never thought of a logical explanation for it.