To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

I've lived in this house for nearly seven years.
One night l woke up in the wee small hours, l don't know if l actually did wake up, if this woke me up, or if l dreamed it.
There was a column of very bright, electric blue light next to my bed on the left hand side. It was about a foot in diameter and from the floor to the ceiling. I vaguely remember feeling some kind of 'energy', there may have been a faint humming or buzzing noise, but it didn't disturb me in any way at all.
The odd thing is, vivid and weird as it was, l didn't feel the need to investigate it or put the light on. I turned over and went back to sleep! Nothing like that has ever happened before or since. I've still no idea if l dreamed it or not.

Walking down the street with housemates discussing computer software and McAfee. Someone says “isn’t that someone from Cats” we say, no that McAfferty. Then we say, is Cats still going?

Turn the corner….and driving past is a huge lorry from Cats the Musical ‘Now on Tour’!!

Ds went through a phase of running away from me when he was 2, and one day slipped my hand and bolted out onto the road. There was a car coming that came to a sudden stop about a foot past where he was. Except that then the road was completely empty. And ds was standing in the middle staring down the road looking confused. That in itself was odd because every other time he ran he would just keep going.

The other incident was when he was little, I was painting his bedroom and he was in the hallway in his playpen where he could see me. While I had my back turned for a moment he climbed out for the first time, and toddled over and I had this stupid impulse to close the door before he could touch the wet paint. But I caught his fingers in the door and he started screaming. But when I opened the door, he was fine and giggling and definitely not looking like a child who had screamed a moment before.

I’m sure that mine were a combination of untreated post partum anxiety and a very vivid imagination but at the time it absolutely felt like a time shift.

Years ago I dropped a necklace down the back of our bed, weeks later it appeared on my bedside table. The bed at the time was a waterbed so you couldn’t move it at all. No explanation for the necklaces reappearance at all

In my flat on my own with TV on. Earlier I removed the spoon being used as an aerial and replaced it with a wire coat hanger. Next thing the spoon flies across the room of it’s own accord.
In my own room woke one morning to find my plants had fallen inwards onto a small chest of drawers. No draught and windows opened outwards.

In the 90s when I was in my early twenties, I was visiting my parents’ house. They’d gone to bed and I was the only one awake, sitting in the lounge reading. My parents had a thing about making sure all plugs were turned off before they went to bed as they were worried about fires. It was very quiet and suddenly the TV came on by itself. I thought they must have forgotten to switch it off properly and that it was on ‘standby’, reasoning that an electrical surge must have made it turn on. When I went over to check, not only was the plug switched off, but the telly was totally unplugged from the wall. I still can’t come up with an explanation for it!

Love this thread! Very interesting, wish I had something to add!

Stuff was always going missing, especially car keys.

For example I would leave my car keys on the mantlepiece in the lounge at night and they had gone in the morning. (A good job I had a spare set in my handbag in the bedroom !)

When I got into bed one night they were in the bed.
Another time when I came back from work they were on the rug in front of the fire.

It caused some friction as we were both wondering if the other was playing pranks.

After a while we both realised we had a poltergeist. Soon after that I got a promotion and moved so I don't know what happened.

I swear the sideboard in our hallway is a portal to another realm. Stuff gets put there and disappears within seconds

I went meteor spotting when I was a child with my dad and his astronomy group possibly during the Persieds or something. We were sat in a circle at night, in deckchairs but in sleeping bags, everyone noting what happened in their section of sky above us. There was a fireball and we all went "wow!" as no one could have missed that. But then there was a second fireball, only a bit smaller - amazing colours and bigger than my hand in the sky - that no one else apparently saw. Absolutely no one believed me! I was not a tiny child, probably a young teen and it was definitely there - clear as anything but no one else saw it despite us all staring at the sky!

I dreamed one night that I was married to someone that I vaguely knew through a hobby and woke up feeling so happy, only to turn over in bed to see my partner at the time. A couple of years after that we split up and I've now been married to the man in my dream for 15 years.

Just recently ! My big spoon for serving pasta etc just disappeared! It's NOWHERE to be seen

Turned not turn led.

My ex died, I was half asleep on the sofa and I felt him slide in behind me and snuggle up, cripes your cold, I said out loud. The person on the TV replied, you try walking for a week outside in the winter.
He had died exactly a week ago.

When my daughter was about 2, she had a helium balloon in the garden. I told her not to let go because it would float away. I was gardening and she let go and it floated up. I turned around and she was about to cry so I turned back to take my gardening gloves off etc and go to comfort her.
When I turn led back, she had the balloon back in her hand and stopped crying.
I saw it float off. What happened?!!! I will never know!

I have often had experiences like yours when something vanishes and then appears again in such an obvious place. I call it 'the pixies'!

When we were children we had a caravan. One night my little brother (must have been around 5) woke us all up screaming about a fire. He was inconsolable saying the walls had flames and our beds were burning. Took ages to settle him and stop the sobbing. The next night around one am we were woken to a pop and a fire had started in the kitchen area. We managed to get out and after running for help and 2 fire extinguishers fire was out we and spent the night in the car. Next morning went to survey the damage, there were burns all up the walls and when we lifted up our beds there were scorchmarks all underneath. Thank god we all made it out safely

The second time it was also a Monday morning, btw.

I walk my dog in a park with an outer part and then a sort of wiggly diamond shape inner path with a cross shaped path down the middle. There must be a woman who has an identical twin wearing identical clothes with an identical dog, as I always go counterclockwise and we will cross paths and then literally a few minutes later I'll see her coming towards me again! I once saw her head across the cross path before she reached me to greet a friend and I could hear them as I passed where the paths met (so they were a bit to my side then behind me) but then I swear seconds later she was approaching me from the front! I mean I'm looking at her - same bobble hat, same hair, same dog - and thinking there must be a time loop thing going on.
Though I've also had thing where I am looking high and low for something (yesterday it was a bottle of salad dressing), I do not have a big kitchen but could not find it anywhere so give up. Next morning I come downstairs and it is literally the first thing I see front and centre.

I went into work one Monday morning, my boss told me a funny story about what her dog had done in the park on Sunday. A couple of weeks later, I went into work and my boss told me a funny story about what her dog had done in the park on Sunday. Exactly the same story. At the time I thought maybe she had invented the story but forgotten she had told me it or something like that (she was slightly odd). I never thought until now it could have been a glitch in the Matrix.

Not really a glitchy thing just a bit strange. Years ago I was visiting Stonehenge early in the morning. We were wandering around admiring it and I removed my lipbalm tin from my jacket pocket to apply some and noticed that it was all melted! It was freezing cold out, so not as if I was somewhere hot that caused it to melt as I've had that happen before. Odd.