To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

When my son was young he was obsessed with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I found out that the car was being displayed locally so took him along to see it and he was able to sit in it and have his photo taken.
I’d totally forgot about it and a couple of years ago I was walking my dog in the woods when I suddenly thought about it. No idea what triggered the memory but I decided that I’d look for the photo when I got home.
I promptly forgot to do that and just got on with my day.
A few hours later my son texted me, he was away visiting his girlfriend at university 300 miles away, and he asked me if I could text him the photo of him sitting in Chitty. He’d randomly thought about it, had been telling his girlfriend and wanted to show her the photo.

I’ve had ‘premonitions’, but they don’t always hit the mark…

On the last day of the summer holidays, I was wishing and wishing I didn’t have to go back to school next day. The idea of my school burning down came into my mind. I had no murderous intent. Just wanted the buildings destroyed so that I could stay at home.

The next morning we heard that overnight my little sister’s school had burned down. Which was of absolutely no use to me.

At university with a (very short-lived) boyfriend, I got the idea his mother would die. We weren’t talking about her, I didn’t know her, or anything about his family - we’d only just got together. The next day I was walking into his accommodation block when the public phone outside the ground floor entrance rang, so I answered it. This was in the seventies. Nobody had their own phone. The system was that if somebody from the outside world wanted to talk to a student, they rang the phone for their block until a random passerby picked it up and went in search of them.

The phone call was for him. To say his grandmother had died.

We went to the coast most weekends this summer for day trips,around 1.5 hrs away.On the way home no matter what time we decided to leave each time we saw the same motorbike waiting to pull out of a specific layby that we passed.

I love these threads.

One of my favourites from the past was a woman who said she saw the same person in a van pass by 5 minutes after the last time or something like that. There was a reason she knew they hadn't gone the other way. I hope she worked out the answer!

All the time, I also have a lot of deja vu moments, perhaps more than I should... I don’t question it, it will drive you nuts.

I have two.
The first one was when I went in my bag to get my phone and it wasn't there. I tipped my bag out, which didn't have a lot in it and thoroughly looked through it. The phone had completely disappeared. The next day I opened my bag to put something in it for work, and there was my phone!
There had been no one else in the house or had access to the house.
The second one was my dog disappearing in the house. I'd run a bath and normally he would be straight there drinking the water. I searched absolutely everywhere for him, I even looked in cupboards. Called him, rattled his bag of treats, everything and nothing, no sound, no appearance, nothing.
I went and had my bath and when I got out and dressed, I walked into the lounge and there he was, fast asleep on his bed!
Again, there was no one else in the house, no one had access to the house and all the doors and windows were locked as usual, so it's not like he could even have got out without me knowing.
To this day those two events baffle the life out of me and I still can't quite wrap my head round it all.

Oh thanks for starting this thread! Love this🍿

I have a couple. The first one was over 30 years ago In my early 20s house sharing , there was no central heating or electric shower so you had to put immersion heater on to have a shower. One morning I woke up , put immersion heater on , went downstairs and had breakfast then went to go upstairs and I noticed the back door was open. I then actually woke up and it had all been a dream. So I got up, put immersion heater on and went downstairs for breakfast and fook me the bloody back door was ajar.
The second time was a few years ago at work a month or so after a colleague had left the company. I walked out into the corridor and saw Phil, the bloke who had left, walking down the stairs. I assumed he was visiting, but I joked to my mate "Oh Phil's forgotten he's left and come into work." My mate was like " What the fu*k you on about?" I said that Phil had come downstairs, but she and another colleague assured me that nobody had come down the stairs. I had seen him as clear as day.

Christmas 2010 we were at a relative's house. I was given a pair of gold earrings. I lost them that day and after searching, we eventually figured they'd been thrown out with wrapping rubbish. We checked the rubbish as best we could, but we didn't find them.

October 2021 I was hoovering under my bed and it started rattling. I figured it was just a bit of rubbish. When I emptied the cylinder I saw something shiny. It was the missing earrings. Both of them. We've moved house since. No idea how they got here. Fucking weird!

[quote whatacarryon2018]@chimpandzee
I also had the same thing! I had my make up bag at work, brought it home and I took a lip balm out of it in the evening. It was gone in the morning. Never found it again.

Strangest one though was when I was 14, I went to a party with some friends. We got ready at mine and then I locked the door and we got the bus. I had to call another friend from the bus and at the time, I was the only one with a mobile. Later, her dad came to collect us to take us home. It was then I realised that I'd left my bag. I was a bit worked up because it had my house key and btcellnet (you know the one) phone in it.
Anyway, i got home and had to knock to get my mum to let me in. When I went into my room, the bag was on my bed, phone and keys inside it. I've never worked it out. [/quote]
Is there some sort of makeup/wash bag stealing pixie? I’ve had this too. On a train. Rarely take such bags but was travelling - was a wash bag with mix of makeup and (expensive!) creams etc. The whole bag disappeared into thin air. No one would have stolen it (a) because few people on train (b) I was with my DH and (c) the things in my bag were useless to anyone else - creams were opened etc.

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I had a friend at university who saw a similar ufo thing to OP with her mum.
They lived quite near Uxbridge and there's a RAF base there. It was a park in Uxbridge. I think a lot of these things are Drones or military equipment (why loads of sightings near Andover and places with military connections...even in US its the same)...

Army military aircraft can and do fly quite low. Weve had some fly over us. I assume they have to train this way.

(I have been on a flight that had to jettison fuel as they thought we might crash land due to landing gear issues or something ... that was terrifying. They flew really low... they managed to fix it.... we knew something was up but they didn't tell us until we landed and even then not details!

Years ago I was out shopping with dh and had this sudden, almighty feeling that something was wrong at home. Like a sense of impending doom. We left town and drove home (took about half an hour). Got in, walked into the lounge and the carpet was smoking! Id left a make-up mirror on the floor and the sun had been reflecting off it through the patio doors. It stunk and went into a weird gluey blob, then rock hard.

I was at a party and chatting to a gorgeous charming man... I then turned to somebody (tipsy), and said "I think I've just met the man I am going to marry!"
Of course I never heard from the charmer again - but I did end up marrying the guy I'd said that to!

As time goes on I get more and more convinced of time slips. And even simulation.
I've actually had 2 or 3 perhaps more events that would fit into the category.
One was so scary at the time that I get chills even thinking about it. I've told it on here before.
Driving on a rural road I distinctly see a car at a junction ahead about 200 metres away. I'm drawn to it because it has the side caved in as its been in a side collision crash. Then just as we get to it the car pulls out suddenly right into my lane and I have to swerve over the road to avoid hitting it. If I hadn't had seen the big dent I'd not have been paying attention to it at all and would have hit it. Just me and toddler DS in car.... Except there was no dent in the other car. The car wasn't damaged. I checked in my mirror when we stopped at the t-junction Shook me up no end.

I had one where DP and I went to a country pub. Except after we went we heard the pub was closed down for winter and not open. Even checked online. But we went there. We'd booked a table too over the phone. We both kept wondering if it just been another pub on the same road. We checked but couldn't find one. It was so puzzling.
We hadn't even stayed long. There'd been a horrible fight in the car park as we'd left too. Like it was being acted out. The whole place was so strange and a very odd vibe/odd clientele. I can't explain it at all. It was so real it can't be ghosts but then also it was closed down.

Several other incidents - and I think people think its fake memories....
An example is my friend and I definitely got in John Warboys cab. But we didn't accept the champagne and got dropped off together.. when we tell people no one believes us. But I expect he must have tried with thousands of women. It's not a false memory as we both have it. But then its so strange we do.

I quite often think things have happened already then they do happen. Not major international things. Just ordinary things. Like time shifting or being part of a game.
When my DS was born I looked into his eyes and knew something wasn't right. Took 10 years to diagnose he was Autistic. You can't tell by looking at him of course and we had no idea for many years ourselves. Except I very vividly remember looking at him in hospital after he was born and thinking it. I can recall the moment. I think very visually anyway and I often visualise events before they happen. I have to stop now as its freaking me out thinking about it!
(I also have a similar experience to the OP who found their way home in a strange city with no real explanation. It happened to me when I was doing Camp America aged 21.
I drove for 45 mins in windy countryside in a borrowed car following another colleagues car to an isolated house (owned by an American colleagues parents). There was a party. I didnt want to stay...so left after an hour or so. I'd only been in US for a few weeks.
Next thing I know I'm back at my own accommodation. No recollection of driving home or how I found my way. It was rural United states and pitch black 3am (stupid hey!). Literally no memory at all. (No drink/drugs etc). Freaky or good luck?

@TheChip

Another strange one, not so much a glitch, but odd connection of sorts. My son was playing with his friends outside of the house. As I'm watching, I say to my bf at the time "I think ill give x a £1 for the shop and ask him to get me milk" as soon as I said that, ds lifted his head up, stopped what he was doing and then ran into the house asking if he could go to the shop. It was as if I telepathically sent a message to him

She's the least woo person ever but often feels when something is wrong with any of us.

One of them is of being in my Auntie and Uncles back garden with my cousins and a huge aeroplane flew right over head, so low it was like standing at the end of. Runway and deafeningly loud. The nearest airport was Manchester over an hour away in the opposite direction.

I had an experience like that one morning while walking my sons to school. We were walking along the road towards the school, it’s a tree lined residential road and ahead of us what looked like a military plane flew very low seemingly just a little higher than the trees. It wasn’t a fighter plane, but was a deep khaki green colour, like a small passenger plane. I clearly remember stopping and saying oh my God, because it looked like it was going to crash land on or near to the school and I was just waiting for the explosion, I was shaking. Absolutely nothing happened and a few yards further along we reached a part of the road where we could see the direction it had been heading in and there was no sign of it in the sky.
We’re around 15 miles from an RAF base but it was far too low to be approaching there.

I lived in a small village in the scottish highlands for a year (about 500 residents) in that village there was 2 women, born in the same year, who shared the same first name. One was born with 1 kidney and the other was born with 3 😱

A few weeks ago I was thinking of a friend who I hadn't spoken too for months, how I must text her and make a plan to meet up soon. My phone pinged and it was her. Freaked me out so much!

Tavimama's story reminds me of the time that a friend and I treated ourselves to a nice lunch with our DSs who were both around 11 or 12 months old, so about 17 years ago. We walked to the restaurant and had a lovely lunch with a couple of glasses of wine, then got on the DLR to go home. In the same carriage with us was Orlando Bloom, the footballer with the buck teeth and the funny haircut (all shaved off except a rectangle at the front) and one other famous person who's name I've completely forgotten. They were sort of together, sitting in the same carriage section but with an empty seat between them. I firstly assumed that I was imagining things because of the wine, then I assumed that there was some sort of look-alike agency somewhere nearby.

TedImgoingmad were the horses all black? If so likely the Household Cavalry. I lived in central London towards St John's Wood and this was something I'd see several times a year, very early in the mornings