To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

@TheParadigmShift
But what sort of animal was it?

I too was hoping to see the Perseids one year and had gone up about 11p.m. to look through a north facing back bedroom window, expecting at least to see a few streaks of white light in the sky, if nothing more.

I live near the edge of town, near the top of a hill, and beyond my small back garden is a long rectangular field sloping up from left to right.

I saw no Perseid shower, but suddenly arcing just above the surface of the field and travelling swiftly and smoothly parallel to the incline was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It was the purest and brightest gold from head to tail and reminded me of an image I saw long ago in a medieval manuscript. I seemed to be aware of it for about four seconds before it vanished. That image has always stuck with me and I've never bothered to look for a Perseid shower since!

I was at school and I had a cancelled lesson (sixth form) and was sitting around. I suddenly got a feeling that I needed to go home right now, like right now so I left school and ran home. When I got home, my mum answered the door crying - my grandad had been found unconscious and later died. When I got up at 3am the next day to catch a flight to go to the funeral (happened v fast), I am sure, sure I heard his voice shouting “whos there?” I can still hear it now.

I get a lot of times where I think of something and then it happens, but this was the strongest “something is wrong” instinct I’ve ever had, I can’t even explain how powerful it was.

The exact time my grandmother died, a plate she had bought for my mum fell off the wall and smashed. It was a plate with the word ‘mother’ on it and a poem
Another time my mum was talking to her friend on the phone. At exactly the same time they both had the bulbs in their lamps explode.
When my grandfather died we all stayed over at his house the night before the funeral as it was miles away. Everyone was asleep and I heard someone come into the room and slowly walk around, stopping (perhaps to look at each person as we were all sleeping on the floor!) when it was my turn I didn’t open my eyes as I was too terrified. I just knew it was him. I could tell someone was standing close to me. I then heard them slowly walk away. He didn’t know I was pregnant at the time and I wonder if he was checking we were all alright before leaving.

@disconnected101 Thank you for your concern, genuinely, but no I have never had any comments about being spaced out and have had MRI and CT head scans (unrelated reason) and have never had any concerns raised along those lines.
It's more like I blink and an hour has passed. Odd, but less frequent than when I was a child thank goodness.

What do you mean like physically? 🤯…that is bizarre

@disconnected101 aaaaaggghhhh sorry, I didn't have my specs on and so didn't notice the blue text indicating a hyperlink!

How mad that I got the same link 😋

I've just come across another one. I'm reading Writing Fiction for Dummies (2009) and the bit on creating convincing "story worlds" has this:

Trust us on this — the epidemiology of bat diseases is not nearly as fascinating to your reader as it is to you.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

One evening I came home from work late and realised that my work pass, which I wear on a lanyard around my neck, was not in its holder and nowhere to be seen - had to ring out of hours at work to cancel it as it gives access to a large part of the building. The holder was a little loose so entirely plausible that it could have fallen out after I left work (need the pass to leave the building).

Next morning I retraced my steps looking for it - checked my car, checked the exact place I parked, checked the rest of the car park, walked the same path into work, checked if it had been handed in - nothing. I got a new pass.

About two months later I came into work to find the original pass on my desk. My colleague, who didn’t know about any of the above, had got out of her car that morning and immediately stepped on it on the ground. It’s a large busy five floor car park used solely by staff from my organisation. No way was it there all that time without me seeing it or anyone else seeing it and handing it in - and so odd that the one person who found it just happened to be someone I know very well and who is one of four people who work in my office.

I went to stay with my parents for new year, a couple of hours away. On the morning I was due to leave I couldn't find my reading glasses which are always kept in a green case. I had the case but it was empty.

We all looked for them everywhere. I had my everyday glasses on which are kept in a red case (red case was empty obviously) and we worked out I'd last worn the readers two days prior and had them on in their lounge.

Anyway, off I go home early last week wearing my normal glasses and took both cases back with me. I unpacked but left my travelling bag in my bedroom with the empty green case and a couple of magazines in it.

This morning, I told myself off for being too lazy to put the bag away. I emptied the bag and decided I may as well throw away the empty green case (after double checking it was still empty!).

I went into the kitchen and walked past the fruit bowl which I'd filled up on Tuesday. On top of the fruit was a green glasses case. Inside were my reading glasses.

I only have two cases, one red and one green. I have absolutely no idea how the second one appeared on top of fruit that I'd put in the bowl a week after coming home and with my glasses in. There I was, holding two green cases when I know I only had one. The red case is currently on my bedside table. I live alone.

My husband put these cheap sunglasses I’d bought for my son on him to go to the park, I’d told him not to as I was saving them for going on holiday and I didn’t want him to lose them at the park.
He lost them.

We went to the park and walked that area several times, not looking for them it’s just somewhere we go often so walk this route several times a week. About 2/3 weeks later I went with a friend, mentioned I was gutted my husband had lost these cute sunglasses I’d bought for my son just in conversation and on the way back they were on top of a meter box on someone’s house on the route home. So weird I’d only just mentioned them that day not really thinking much about them since they’d been lost!

[quote Alcemeg]@disconnected101
Did you mean to include a link to this?

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40956139[/quote]
@Alcemeg the link is there. It's in the word 'this' that's highlighted blue.
A neat little MN feature!
Is it a bit spooky that you picked the right link though, and not one of the others....?

I love these. Fascinating!

I was stressed on a course and trying to get a load of work done in a resources room quickly a man off my course came in and said "do you want some help?" I said yes and was really grateful. When it was done I said "thank you" and walked out the room to sit with my course mates. The guy joined us and I said again "thanks for helping me" he said I don't know what you are talking about I haven't been in the resources room....

A few I can remember. Lots of random items appearing/dissappearing that I can't remember.

When I was 6 or 7 I was riding my bike along the lane near our house. Very rural Welsh valleys, barely any cars. Idly daydreaming, I wondered what would happen if someone stopped and asked for directions. This had never happened, but I thought it would be fun to give someone directions, make me feel important. Imagined it may be to the animal sanctuary and went through the whole conversation in my head.
Car pulls up, couple ask for directions to the animal sanctuary.

Another time, 10 or 11 we were going to visit a family friend who lived down a winding track. Had a vivid vision of burned out fields. Went around a few bends and the field was all burned. We couldn't have seen it from the road and I'd never seen a burned field before.

When I was 20, I desperately needed to contact my best friend (major drama about something) but for some reason I didn't have her number. I think may have borrowed a phone as my mobile was dead. Trying to remember her number and made a best guess, while dialling was praying 'please be X, please be X' in my head. Lady answers, doesn't sound like my friend, I ask 'is this X?', she says yes who is this?
It wasn't my friend, just a random lady with the same name!

This is so timely as I had the weirdest experience just two nights ago.
I woke up needing the loo, looked at the clock and it said 02:38. I have a big clock with big bright digital numbers next to my bed. I remember thinking I have exactly 4 hrs left in bed as my alarm goes off at 6:29 and I always snooze it once. A ‘snooze’ is 9 minutes. I always get up at 6:38. As I walked to the toilet and had a wee I was thinking 2:38-6:38, 4 hrs left, lovely.
I got back into bed, turned round and looked at the clock and it said 02:37.
I was so shocked I felt shaky and couldn’t get back to sleep.
I know in a sleepy state it might have said 02:36 the first time and I misread it but I was so absolutely certain it had said 02:38. I swear it did.
I’m still convinced time went back a minute while I pee-ed.

I've told this one before!

Dh1 used to have a photo of himself, taken at a UK rock festival in the late 80s, in a nice frame. When we first started dating I took the piss a bit, because he really wasn't the sort of bloke to have framed photos of himself knocking about - he explained that his younger db had taken it, & his dm liked it so much she'd had several copies framed.

It is a lovely photo to be fair - he's clutching a can of cider & laughing at the camera, aged about 19. We didn't meet until 5 years after it was taken. I didn't even realise that we'd both attended the same festival; we both went separately to dozens of gigs in the late 80s & early 90s before we met.

Dh1 died unexpectedly at 31 in 2000.

The photo then moved house with me several times over the years, including throughout my 2nd marriage. It was always on display on a shelf somewhere. I've still got it. It's currently on a shelf in my study.

But it wasn't until a few years ago that the 2 teenage girls sitting on a blanket behind dh1 caught my eye. Backs to the camera, one with long red hair, one with spiky black hair...it's me & my then best mate. I recognise our t-shirts from because we'd bought them together at the festival, because our favourite band was playing that day.

But how I never noticed us in it for 20 odd years...?

Had a dream about a neighbour being underwater, lots of splashing and movement was really scary, could see him struggling. Next day found out he had drowned that night on a fishing trip. Hadn’t spoken to him for ages so had no idea he was away with his boat.

The only one to really stick with me was when I was about 6/7 I had a deathly fear of sleeping alone so would often sleep in mum and dads bed and they would put me in my own bed when they came up. I was in their bed one night reading the first Harry Potter, really needed a wee so put the book down and had my wee came back into the room and a couple were sitting in my mum and dads bed (can’t remember who they were, what they looked like) I just remember it terrified me I was standing in the doorway of my parents room staring at this couple, started screaming and ran downstairs where my parents were sat watching TV so they brought me back up to bed and nobody was there.
I don’t remember dozing off and I don’t think it was a dream as I have no memory of waking up but a very clear memory of walking in from the bathroom and just being frozen in the door way