To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

[quote applecrumbleforteaagain]@VinylCafe we had this, they had been stuck for years in a duvet cover 🤦‍♀️[/quote]

Haha! We didn't have duvets then and it was 7 years after the socks went missing that they reappeared. We didn't have a lot of bed linens then so I can't imagine they would be caught up in pillowcases and not noticed.

I had a glitch in the matrix behind the sofa in my old flat.
One Saturday afternoon I decided to vacuum behind the sofa. I felt hot while doing it so took off my jumper. In taking off my jumper, my glasses caught in it and the plastic thread holding one lens in ( metal half frames) snapped.
Fortunately I fairly close to a major shopping centre where a Boots opticians was working into the evening.
I had to get there quickly before it shut at 7:00pm so forked out for a taxi ( as couldn't drive cos glasses broken)
I handed over my glasses for repair at Boots thankful that I had just got there in time. Then the alarm went off requiring an evacuation of the whole shopping centre. They wanted me to leave Boots but when I explained I was waiting on my glasses repair they evacuated me with staff, first to their "tea room" and then outside the rear of the centre.
The kind optician did stay late to fix my glasses once we were allowed back in but I have been early of vacuuming behind sofas ever since!

love this thread!

Love these and placemaking to read later

A couple of years ago my DM gave me my Christmas card. I opened it on the train coming home from visiting her. When I got home I couldn't find the card anywhere to put up. I knew I'd definitely put it back in my bag. Sadly a few months later my DM past away. The following Christmas I was really sad that I wouldn't be getting a card from DM that year and so wished I'd not lost the years before.
Not long after I went into the bedroom and there in the middle of the bed was the Christmas card my DM had given me the year before.
I was so pleased and actually thanked her. It was a very odd feeling.

Many years ago I was driving through a town near Windsor. (East Eton)
There were many armoured tanks and armed troops, soldiers on the High Street. Everyone was ushered off the street and shops emptied as panic filled the air.
I didn’t know what was happening so put on the car radio news. Nothing mentioned. National news, still nothing. I waited till the local paper came. Nothing mentioned. Thankfully my family were with me to witness. Nothing was ever mentioned. Hush hush! Perhaps a security issue.
It did happen, honestly.

@VinylCafe we had this, they had been stuck for years in a duvet cover 🤦‍♀️

[quote TotallyFineToday]@IntermittentParps I had exactly that same experience not that long ago. The same person passing, on the opposite side of the road passing twice in the same direction.
It was very confusing as I don’t drink, smoke or have lack of sleep and I am pretty lucid in my everyday life. Very strange [/quote]
Glad it's not just me!

My mum and I (both of us have these kinds of premonitions although neither of us are superstitious etc.

We were on hol staying in a house in the middle of nowhere. It was pitch black outside & we were taking advantage of the clear sky to look at the stars. After a while a car came along the road at a normal speed and my mum said 'what you do if that car came to a halt/came up here'. At that exact moment the car screeched to a halt. We ran screaming inside and bolted all the doors

My husband lost his glasses, he had them and put them down while he showered and we couldn't find them at all. He can't drive without them so turned the place upside down looking for them.

We also had a new cat that is mortally offended by a closed door and scratches constantly (this is relevant!) so we had looked on the internet and saw that putting tinfoil in front of the door may help as the cat doesn't like stepping on it.

While DH was looking for his glasses, I watched him pick up the foil and look underneath it (by this point nowhere seemed unreasonable to investigate), I stepped on the foil as I left the room to help with the search.

We'd just about given up looking when I went back upstairs and there they were - sitting in the middle of the foil on the floor!

@Kelly7889

I had a dream I was at a funeral, don't know whose, but saw the coffin, flowers and crowds of people crying, it was so real.
The next day FIL drooped dead while out cycling.

Years ago while at college I had a vivid dream about a blond curly haired boy with piercing blue eyes. Next morning a new boy started, looking exactly the same as the boy in my dreams. I sort of fell in love with him instantly☺

I have a few.

I dreamt about an ex I hadn't seen or spoken to for over 3 years. The next night he turned up unannounced on my doorstep to see if I wanted to try dating again, which unnerved me.

Met a friend for lunch and they brought their work colleague who I had never met before. He was on good form, great company and very jovial. When he went to the toilet I told my friend that him being so upbeat was impressive, particularly when he was so ill. My friend didn't have a clue what I was talking about, and said he was in good health. His colleague was admitted to hospital that week with a serious illness.

The one that sticks with me most as I really can't explain it. When I was 6 and at school a close family member talked to me (as their voice in my head iyswim) telling me they loved me, not to worry and to look after my Mum.
When I was collected from school that day my Mum told me the relative had died earlier that day. I remember it vividly as she got very angry with me when I laughed and said don't be silly and that they had spoken to me that day.

@ChargingBuck I realise the thread has moved on, but have you tried alcohol? Twice at the races I've found when I got a bit drunk I started picking winner's just by the names, no knowledge at all. I sobered up and the skill went again.

@IntermittentParps I had exactly that same experience not that long ago. The same person passing, on the opposite side of the road passing twice in the same direction.
It was very confusing as I don’t drink, smoke or have lack of sleep and I am pretty lucid in my everyday life. Very strange

Used to work in an office where strange things happened. There was one particular room with no furniture apart from a 4 drawer filing cabinet. Really heavy, full of files. On several occasions, overnight, this cabinet somehow moved across the room to block the door, meaning that there was only just enough room to squeeze inside the doorway and shove it out of the way. Really strange and no explanation for it whatsoever. Really freaked us out.

Oh things like this happen all the time. The most memorable happened when I was late teens, it was witnessed by my mum, brother and I. Mums false teeth were on the edge of w bath. She got out and dried, went to put them back in and they were gone. All three of us looked for them. In and out of the bathroom, her bedroom, even our bedrooms. There was no sign. Mum was getting more and more irate.

Then all of a sudden she went back in the bathroom and they were on the side of the bath!

I've just remembered another one. I've told this before on another thread, still baffles me.

My dm was Danish. She passed away in 2018 from cancer. When she knew she was terminal she joked with my stepdad that she'd let him know somehow when she got to Valhalla.

Now, back a couple of years before that she'd gone back to Denmark to visit her parents. Not long after that visit both her parents passed away in quick succession.

After mum died my stepdads phone pinged with a text. Important to note here that my stepdad is a technophobe, he doesn't have a smart phone. He has an ancient Nokia flip phone that doesn't group texts into chats by person, rather as separate entities by order of date as phones used to.

The text he received was an old one that had somehow resent itself to the top of the list. It was from my mum and was from when she went to visit her parents. It said:

"Have arrived safely. Mor and Far have collected me and we are going to get some food and settle in. Love you lots"

Make of that what you will.

This was years ago when I was in my 20’s I always wore my special jewellery when I went out for a night and every time I’d come home and put them all together on the same bracelet which I’d then put on top of the microwave in the kitchen, one day poof they were gone, we had searched everywhere even holding the microwave up in the air from the counter so we could check all around, I’d carry on looking in the exact same places for days until one day I just said out loud “look thats enough now you’ve taken something really special and I’d like it back please”. Next day pulled out the microwave and then they all were. I had only said this because there had been some other weird cases of things like clocks being moved and turning up in cupboards, and another time I came home from work to find my then partner as white as a sheet in the hallway, he said he had been upstairs hoovering when all he could describe was it was as if someone had screamed in his ear, he ran down the stairs as fast as he could and I had just found him in the aftermath. All very strange.

35DameDoom
Interesting as I had a similar experience in the mid90s (Oxfordshire)... except it was evening and I went (I'm old now) to investigate it.... Found out it was a mixture of 2 things...

1. A weird weather event that made the sky a hazy reflection
2. The thing reflected was a travelling funfair's ferris wheel doing a couple of trial runs... no noise but colourful flying saucer lights moving in a circular way.......

I plugged in my phone charger in an old hotel made sure the socket was on and phone was charging. All good went to sleep the next morning phone was partially charged and the wall socket had been switched off.

Following the deaths of my mum then step father 9 months later, I was alone in their house. I was staying there as I don't live near by and my siblings and I were going to sort through mums belongings.
The house phone rang. I didn't get to it in time. I did 1471. It was the their own number calling. Im not sure thats even possible but it freaked me out.....

In my own home, I had bought a bottle of vodka. It was on the side in the kitchen, unopened.
It disappeared. I checked the bin, the cupboards etc. Never found it. Definitely hadn't drunk it as it disappeared the day I bought it!!

I often hear things moving around in rooms I'm not in, go and look, only to find everything is as it should be.
I live alone, no pets. It doesn't freak me out anymore.

So. I was listening to the ‘Battersea Poltergeist’ BBC podcast one evening and it was really really scary. I wen to sleep and got woken up at 3am exactly, by my Sonos randomly switching itself on (never ever did that before) very loudly playing a song called... FEAR (by Ben howard)