To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

I often get deja vu. Some things that happen or conversations, I feel as though I dreamt about them years ago. I've always had it. It's a very strange feeling.

When I was 13, I used to walk through a small village to secondary school. I'd lived in the area all my life and knew it well. I lived in the next village though...about two miles away. One afternoon I'd been at school late finishing something and was alone walking home.

I spotted a new shop, just off the main street, down a little residential road. It appeared to be a junk shop and I LOVED those, so I detoured and visited it.

It was a typical junk shop...loads of stock in and out...books, toys, furniture all piled high and everything looked like it had been there for a long time. Outside there were tables with more stuff and hanging in the window, a pair of white ice skates. I browsed for a while whilst a smiling old lady who was in charge, watched me. Then I went home, planning to return with money the next day after school.

Well, I went straight to the shop the next day because there was no school that day but it was a weekday...maybe it was a strike or something...either way I was there by 10.00am and it was gone! The whole "shop" wasn't there. Nothing but a house. It was the same building but the shop and things weren't there.

It's impossible to think that it was just a house with a lot of stuff and it was all packed away between the day I went there because it was just so much stuff...and a big place too...right to the ceiling in places. There was no sign of it ever having been a shop at all...but it definitely was.

I inherited a diamond ring from my uncle. I wore it for his funeral.
I remember taking it off afterwards and putting it on the bedside table at the hotel we were staying overnight in.
We checked out of the hotel the next morning and I totally forgot I'd put it there. After a frantic phone call to the hotel later on that day I resigned myself to the fact that it was gone.
5 years later, I was sat on the sofa watching TV and felt like I was sat on something. I unzipped the bottom seat of the sofa and felt inside to feel what it was. It was the ring. I have no clue how it got there
Although I shouldn't be shocked because me, DH and 2 of our 3 children saw my uncle years after he'd died while we were on holiday. We were all on a coach in Florence and we were slowly driving by a famous viewpoint. He was stood there, plain as day watching us as we drove past. We all saw him. The holiday was paid for with money he'd left me.
Very woo but a good happy ending.

I think there must be a parallel universe where people say/write 'draw' instead of 'drawer' as though it's completely normal. Or worse - 'chester draws'
It's amazing how many people do!

This isn't a criticism by the way, just an observation 😁

My cousin and I used to love old comedy videos. He'd burn them on DVD for me.
It was before the time of googling immediately everything and I had been arguing that Richard Pryor was long since dead.

The next day I was at Waterloo and saw on the big screen that he had died that day. Freaked me out!!

I remember watching an event on live TV and the camera panned in on an audience member who was the absolute spit of me. I did a double-take, it was so eerie.

Many people (DH, for example) have umpteen lookalikes - celebrities, for example - whereas no one has ever commented that I look remotely like anyone else and I don't think I do either - except my doppelganger, who's evidently out there somewhere!

My grandfather was born in 1919, my mum in 1949 and me in 1979.

When DM was 19, GF was 49. When I was 19, GF would have been 79. When I turn 49, DM will be 79.

I too was born in 1979, my mum in 1949, and my grandfather in 1919. What's more, we were all born in the same month, 1 day apart from each other!

oh I have one!

I was listening to a song on youtube through my headphones. I suddenly made a very distinctive sound (very unusual sounding sneeze cough type episode) while still listening to the music, and about 2 seconds later I head the same sound I had just made play over the song. I thought I had imagined it so went back and listened again and it’s definitely there. It really freaked me out, it was just a simple music video with lyrics as the background- what are the chances of it having a random sneeze in it that sounds exactly like the sneeze I had just done? It sounded identical to mine and I’m almost certain it was although can’t explain how. I went back a few months later and the sound was still part of the video. It freaks me out even thinking about it and it used to be one of my favourite songs, not anymore.

Placemarking to read through properly, this is brilliant.

Except the spiders in the jam, which may haunt my nightmares

Once lost my engagement ring. We both tore the house apart, it was nowhere to be seen.

This was following multiple sightings of a shadow following me but I was a bit of a sceptic. I decided to shout out that I would like my ring back.

One day it appeared, on the edge of the ironing board I had put up in the morning....in the box...open as though as I were being proposed to.
I never put my ring in the box as we could find the box!! There was just no ring inside it

I used to work in places where I would need to respond to panic alarms. A member of staff would push the button in a random room when needed , and id be expected to drop what I was doing and look at a panel to see where it was, then run to intervene.

A few times I would then up at an incident and not even remember hearing the alarm. I assumed I was just on auto pilot, and had forgotten.
Then I had a couple of incidences where I somehow was already running before the alarm sounded.

Staff used to laugh at me because I'd be running down the corridor by myself to a random room but before I'd get there the alarm would be sounded. To start with I assumed I was picking up on things like raised voices in the distance

Really spookily though we had some incidences where I'd have no way of knowing a staff was about to hit the alarm because of the type of incident. People sort of just used to follow me running down corridors because I was so reliable in it

Before I left we had a major incident at work while I was off shift, I was at a far off restaurant and suddenly really distinctively heard the specific panic alarm. I thought it might be a fire alarm but no one else moved to it, then laughed it off as being obsessed with the job. When I got in for my next shift, I was pulled aside to explain a member of my staff had been seriously hurt so would have pulled the alarm at the same time I was at dinner

Sometimes I felt I was beginning to beginning to just merge with that ward

I nought a money wallet card for neice. Came to write it out, couldn't find it. I knew it was on the kitchen bench, searched for it, moved stuff, could not find it. Wrote neices card, delivered it and when I got back I found it on the bench. Said to dh that we could use it for nephew and girlfriend. Went to write it out, couldnt find it again. Totally vanished! Again!

I lost a debit card, and searched everywhere for it, but there was no sign of it, so I ordered a new one. A few weeks later, the new card disappeared, so I ordered another card. The latest card disappeared after about two weeks. Again I searched high and low, but nada.

Then, on the day I woke up determined to give up looking, and order another replacement, I got home from work, and it was the strangest thing. It was like a light bulb went off in my head, and I suddenly just knew where it was. I went straight to my bookcase, pulled one out (there are four, but I knew which crack to check), and there was my debit card! Only, it was the first debit card I'd lost (that I'd managed to take care of from it was issued, until a month before expiring).

Then, I suddenly realised, aha! Eureka! My card is stuck in the tumble dryer filter, bent around the back edge. And it was! Only, it was the second card I'd lost.

I still haven't found the third .

I went to university in a city many miles from home. One day I was on the bus and overheard the woman behind me giving directions to someone over the phone. The directions were to her childhood home and my ears pricked up when I clocked that she was describing the route to my parents' road, where I had grown up and still lived during university holidays.

When she finished her call I couldn't help but turn around and remark on the coincidence. Bizarrely enough, we didn't recognise each other, even though we had spent our entire childhoods living a few doors down from each other and were one year apart in age (we'd gone to different schools).

Turns out we were both going home to visit family that weekend so we travelled down together. We discovered that not only were we both doing the same degree at the same university, we both played the same musical instrument and had both dated the same boy in our teens!

I graduated shortly afterward and started work. A year later, guess who walked into the office as the most recent recruit?!

(I realise this sounds like she's a stalker, but it was pure coincidence. Not quite a glitch in the matrix, but it stays with me).

When I was a teenager and my dad's shoes went missing from the shoe rack in the hallway. He turned the house upside down looking for them. The next morning he opened the door to find his shoelaces on the doormat. The shoes have never been found, 3 decades on.

To this day he's insistent that I did it to spook him. I had nothing to do with it but can offer no other explanation as nobody else lived with us. It's still a bone of contention because he's convinced I'm lying and I'm mad he doesn't believe me!

Omg this thread is great.

Not really a matrix thing but still spooky, when my wife was having a emergency caesarean & I had no idea what was going on, I was left in a room in the hospital & I noticed that the hands on the clock on the wall was just spinning around like crazy. I got a video of it.

I always have odd feelings, when my grandad died in the early morning I woke up bang on the time he passed away. I instantly felt something was wrong, he died out of the blue but I just felt he had gone. My mum called me and told me he had died and I said I knew.

My Dh woke me in the middle of the night because I was screaming and clearly having a nightmare. Even awake I was beside myself, talking about the huge wave taking all the people away and smashing their houses. . Eventually we went back to sleep, and woke in the morning to the news of the Indonesian Tsunami. There have been numerous similar incidents.

When my Dad was younger he used to go to art classes. His drawings were mostly copies of photos from magazines and he'd draw them in different styles, usually pastels but he experimented. Most of his pictures were women but he did 2 drawings of little boys.
My favourite is one he did just using tiny dots in black pen. It's a little boy sat on a tyre. When I got my first house I asked if I could have it as I've always loved it. I've had it about 25 years and it's signed and dated 1992.
My son is 10. When he was about 3 we realised he's the absolute double of the boy in this picture that my Dad drew 15 years before he was born.
So many people have commented on it assuming it's a drawing of my son, until they realise the date is far too early.

The other picture also looks a lot like him too, not as obvious in the features, but he has the same strawberry blonde hair that my son has.

I'm constantly losing things and finding the where they shouldn't be, or realising it's a different time to what it should be but sadly I'm just a dizzy fucker with a sieve for a brain so any real glitches in the matrix would be lost on me as I'd just attribute them to general dizziness.

Nice reading about other people's though.

I was in Liverpool with my ex and had just gone to meet my aunt and uncle. They had annoyed me. When I walked back through the streets to the car park, there was the weirdest eerie feeling I've ever experienced, as if there was no air, just tension

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Were you in Toxteth?

A few years ago I went to a foreign city for the weekend with some friends to visit another friend who lived there. We were young & it was boozy with a pub crawl on both nights, our friend was keen that we had a good time. We took plenty of photos with a camera (before mobile phone cameras).
On our return and getting the photos developed, there was one of us in a bar with a woman sat next to us giving us the side-eye. She had medium length dark brown hair and a distinctive pointy nose with high cheekbones. In the photos of the next night, there was a similar photo of us but in a completely different bar in a different part of the city, but we were sat near to a painting… of the woman from the night before! Same face, same hair & almost exactly the same body position… and she was giving us the side-eye!! Very, very, creepy!
I should say that this was also years before people routinely tinkered with photos, back then you’d have been able to tell immediately if the photo was tampered with, and these are genuine. Very spooky.

What a lot of old bollocks!

(No, I didn't mean your post. I'm not doubting your memory or perception. Yours definitely happened. I just mean all the others )