To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

Couple of recent ones but there are many spanning the years.
Went to a local greasy spoon cafe, was the only customer in. The staff went downstairs to cook my order and I heard a cough behind me.
Spooked the shit out of me but I thought well someone else was here I obviously didn't see them, or they came in after while I was giving my order.
My food came up and I turned around sort of to point out to the staff there was another customer and there was no one there.

And just Monday I saw a man walking down a path that wasnt accessible.
Theres a factory at the end of my street, everyone in it wears hi viz. The gate was shut and locked, yet I clearly saw a man without hi viz walking through the locked gate and down like an alleyway (quite wide) and disappears into the mist. But I walked over a few minutes later and the gate was shut and locked, and crucially theres no wide alleyway beyond the gate.

a silly one, just been flicking through the tv there's an old episode of Peak Practice, the scene had Brookside's Billy Corkhill in it. I changed channel and the first face I saw was the actor who played his stepson Damon Grant. Oh I loved Brookside!

My daughter lost her sunglasses, looked everywhere for them. About 6 weeks later they were found in an outside pocket of her bag, which she had obviously searched(it wasn't a big pocket and she rarely used it) but not only were they in there- the pocket was unzipped and they could have easily fallen out at any time. Still can't work out how they got there.

One Saturday morning I went downstairs and something seemed ... off. Couldn't quite pinpoint why, but I felt like I couldn't relax. Suddenly, there were two sparrows in the room flying around the room, tweeting and trying to get out of the window. The house had been locked up all night including all windows and the only door to the attic was shut tight. We have a cat but he doesn't go out at night and had been shut in the living room, so he couldn't have brought them in and we don't have a chimney. I opened the window and they flew out, but couldn't figure out how on Earth two birds had got into a locked house. If there was a small gap in brickwork then maybe one bird may find a way in, but two at the same time? I checked all over the house and nothing had been left open anywhere. That was ten years ago and I still can't think where those two little sparrows came from!

When I was at university, I was sharing a room with my friend. Our beds were in the diagonally opposed corners. There was no central heating and we had an old fan heater at the end of my bed in front of the fire grate, well away from her bed. One night I woke up and my friend was white and shiny and looking very distressed but said nothing. I tried to comfort her. She then turned and disappeared and I woke up, shaken.

That was probably a night terror. All fine. Except I got up to go to the loo and knocked my lamp over with a bang. Looked round I checked I hadn’t disturbed her and she appeared fast asleep. I came back a minute later and she was bolt upright in bed, chatty as though she’d been awake for some time. She then proceeded to apologise for making a noise as she tripped over the heater when she got back into bed. No amount of telling her that it was I, who made the noise convinced her otherwise. I was pretty freaked out.

I had a very vivid dream once a couple of years ago in which I could fly. It involved throwing yourself violently towards the ground and just as you were about to hit, you swooped upwards. It was very important that you threw yourself towards the ground without any inhibition otherwise it wouldn't work.

For at least a month afterwards at the back of my mind was the absolute conviction that I could fly. I hadn't examined the thought consciously but in the part of my unconscious that affects my day to day thinking, that belief was definitely there.

It was only one day when something happened to 'break' my dream that I thought "well of course, I can fly!" and then had the very weird sensation of having to break down what was clearly a ridiculous unconscious conviction.

Not sure I've explained that very well, but I was fascinated that something I had experienced in a dream had the ability to affect my unconscious belief. The experience has made me think a lot more about the 'unexplained' experiences I've had over the years.

Although when I was a teenager I did teach myself lucid dreaming and was able to leave my body in a waking dream state and astral travel, so many some of my dream was remembering those experiences from 35 years ago!

Many years ago a group of 6 of us met up at a friend's house prior to going out. He put the half drunk mug of coffee on the draining board in the kitchen and we all left, having only been there for a couple of minutes.
Two hours later we came back from the pub (all sober I hasten to add) and found that the kitchen ceiling had fallen down - it was a hell of a mess. And his still half full cup of coffee was standing upright right on the top of the pile of rubble.
We never did figure out how on earth that could happen.

When we had a thread like this previously, someone posted about childhood "memories" of floating down the stairs, from top to bottom in one floaty step. This resonated really strongly with me.. some part of me remembers doing this too.

ARGGGGH i just cannot deal with the thought of freaky floaty ghost children 😭

Were your memories from before you were born? Like maybe you were in utero and going downstairs? I would love more detail about this!

@MrsTinyTeana I don't think it's de ja vu or temporal lobe epilepsy. My PhD son does have a scientific explanation for it which I can't begin to explain here, mostly because I don't understand it, but he, my dd and my dh all have this ability and I don't, I therefore believe it's been passed down through my dh's side of the family. I keep asking them to dream about winning lottery numbers but so far no luck lol.

Also, a few days after a friend committed suicide when we were all teenagers, I had an incredibly vivid dream where he appeared to me and asked if we were all angry at him. I said of course not and I hugged him - it felt so so real. He said it was strange being where he was. It was so bizarre because I knew I was in a dream and that I would wake up, so I made sure I told him that I loved him so much. I woke up terrified and sweating straight after at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep that night - I instantly got up and went for a walk to think deeply about it.

When I was a young child (5 or 6), I was in bed and my DM was sorting out Easter presents & an Easter hunt downstairs in the kitchen. She took down a ceramic cat that was high on a shelf and hid an egg in it before placing it back. She said I wandered downstairs bleary-eyed late at night after she had finished and told her that she shouldn't take the cat down or put anything in it again because it scared our real cat. When she asked how I knew the ceramic cat had been taken down, I said I had seen it in my mind.

Multiple times I've lost small things and they simply couldn't possibly logistically turn up in the places that they do.

A family friend crossed a road as a car screeched really fast round the corner and was about to hit her. She said she felt herself being slowly lifted in the air and gently placed on the other side of the road. She thought that she was in the process of dying and it was very peaceful, but when she 'landed' on the other side of the road, she was back into reality and everyone was going about their business normally without noticing anything. The car carried on screeching down the road. She was a very devout Christian.

I woke up one Sunday as normal but after a couple of hours I felt so utterly tired I went back to bed. Within minutes I fell into a deep sleep and dreamed about a ferry capsizing. The dream was so vivid it woke me up. I lay awake and I could hear screaming and smell diesel and petrol fumes. There was stuff floating in the dark and it was terrifying and yet I was awake by this time and looking at the bedroom ceiling.
I was really really freaked out. Within a few days the Herald Of Free Enterprise capsized and some of the images on the TV were exactly as they were in my dream.

This thread is great and a bit goose bump inducing!

We bought dd a Nintendo 3ds for Christmas when she was about 6. Dd put it down on the dining room table and when she went to play with it again it had disappeared. Searched the house high and low, literally everywhere. In the end, I reluctantly bought a replacement console. Getting ready for a holiday, I made a check list and put the replacement 3ds on the dresser by the front door. Turned around and the lost console was on the floor in the middle of the hallway. Both dd and dh denied putting it there and I would never have put it on the floor. Odd.

I had a dream about someone, who I hadn’t seen for years and wasn’t close to. She had mental health issues and I think massively denied who she was. A quirky, sensitive person trying to navigate the normal world. A couple of days later, I was told she’d died… about the same time as I dreamt about her.

I had ivf and I had the most overwhelming feeling that the 2 embryos, which didn’t take were those of my dead dog and the neighbours dog. He’d just put her down as he was moving countries. I had wanted to take her but was having ivf and couldn’t cope with an old dog. I didn’t know he’d put her down until after the embryos were implanted and I instinctively ‘knew’ he’d done it and felt the dog was now with me. That is beyond weird writing it down and I had never considered reincarnation as a concept. My brain still tells me I am correct and I’m not normally someone, who makes odd things up.

Not adding anything right now although I often see glitches!
Just following so I can make myself a coffee and enjoy this thread tomorrow

There are very few photos of my grandma and her siblings as children due to lack of money when they were growing up. There is one photo of my great aunt as a young child, and she's stood in front of a wall with writing on it. The only words that are clearly visible are what would later be the name of her husband and the name of her daughter.

I once had a vision almost, that I was called into the meeting room at work and I was told I was being made redundant. I had no reason to think this as as far as I knew, the company was doing okay.

The next day, I was called into the meeting room, and I was told I was being made redundant. My manager and the HR manager appeared shock by my reaction as I just said "oh, okay" as I felt completely prepared for it.

For many years I was under the impression that I couldn't have children.

I then fell pregnant with my oldest dd and she was born the same day of the week I was, the same month and 30 mins after my time of birth.

I have been pregnant 3 times now, 2 live births and a miscarriage and all of them were due on the 11th of the month by my own dates.

I've also thought things and it's came on the TV or I've saw someone etc.

I remember when planning my wedding to exdh I said I couldn't invite someone as she would be pregnant and moaning about it. Sure enough a month later she announced she was pregnant and moaned constantly during it.

I also didn't see my gran for 2 years before she died and I had a dream after she died where I said sorry for not coming to visit and she said it was fine and she forgave me.

This is a great thread.

I remember being particularly drawn to a book as a child. I think it was called the Red Shoes. It was about a girl who went through the walk in her bedroom and danced all night, then returned to bed exhausted before waking up. Or something like that .I knew that was what I was doing in a small way.