To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

Am so freaked out by the poster whose uncle changed suddenly like a new soap cast member!

Four years ago we moved house and, after doing some decorating, I asked DH to bring in the two over-mantel mirrors. They're identical except one's gold, one's silver, I'd worked out which rooms would suit which. He brought in two gold mirrors. We both know for a fact one was silver.

Nowhere near as strange as most of these but when DC3 was conceived I knew instantly that I was pregnant. We weren’t trying to conceive and I was on the pill but I knew with 100% certainty instantly.

"A more useful thing was that I would wake up and think "I hope my teacher is out sick today" or "I hope she changes the deadline for the homework because I haven't done it" and 9/10 times it would happen. Unfortunately that has also left me terrified of having any thoughts in case I make one come true that I didn’t want sad"

Speaking of having thoughts, I started my diary up again just after the start of the pandemic after not having written it for a year. The last entry I'd written before I'd stopped was saying (tongue in cheek) that I wished there'd be some sort of pandemic as there were too many cars on the roads, queues in shops and the swimming pool was too busy

Where to start. I went through a phase of being able to predict the football results despite knowing bugger all about football. I was always specific about the score line as well.

I have some very ‘odd’ childhood memories. 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.

That house house had a really odd vibe when I think back. Not haunted but just very weird and unnerving, It was a modern build house on a small holding, and I think my Uncles family were the only people who’d ever lived in it.

Another weird one. This spooks me when I think of it, I play a silly game with myself when I turn my car radio on and try guess the song before I put it on, I randomly thought 'flowers' by sweet female attitude, fuck me it was the one I'd thought of, not the new remix by Nathan Dawes but actually sweet female attitude! I bought a lottery ticket that week ! (Never won ) I've been doing this silly 'guess the song' since I've been driving. It's only happened the once.

I'd been NC with my dad for many years before he died. When the time came to clear out his house, my brother offered to get me a set of keys cut so that I could go there within him to get rid of some of the stuff as DB doesn't drive.

There were 6 keys on the bunch. He handed me my set, I put them on the ledge in the kitchen while we were cleaning / sorting things out, and they completely disappeared! No-one else could have come in and there was hardly any furniture left at that stage so they weren't caught up with anything else.

I guess dad didn't want me to have keys to his house then!

Knock at the door, went to answer it and there was an elderly man I had never seen before, he asked me if I had lived here long and did I know the previous residents as he was looking for them, I said I'm sorry I don't know anything about the previous owners and he looked very forlorn about that, my daughter came up behind me and said hello (nosey little thing she is) and then he left. Nothing out of the ordinary. My daughter said he was strange but she's little so she is about as tactful as a brick in the face but to be fair he was a little odd, but nothing I could put my finger on. A few seconds after I closed the door I hear a loud crash and look out to see the tree in a big pot by the door was tipped over and the planter cracked, I was livid and wondering why on earth he did it! I went back to check the ring camera footage and... it was 45 seconds of me and my daughter talking to no one, he wasn't there. And then the planter just falls over a little while after we close the door. I felt sick and hated living in that house afterwards, we moved eventually.

I had gone to Liverpool for the weekend with my partner. I don’t drink so was totally sober. He was drunk. We left the cavern club (we were being touristy) at 1.30 or 2 and our hotel was two streets away so at most a ten minute walk with a drunk. We didn’t get in until half three. We went straight there without stopping. It was all very strange.
I joke we were abducted by aliens but a glitch in the matrix might account for it

Love stuff like this.

Last week I drove to a place. Bin lorry on the corner of one street had to go around it. 10 mins later bin lorry middle of the main road had to go around it. Nothing weird, sometimes does happen on bin day.

Yesterday I drove to the shops, up the same way I went last week. Went same route to start with. Bin lorry exact spot on the corner of same street, i had to go around it, i thought haha this happened last week, 10 mins later on the main road, I swear on my life bin lorry EXACT same spot and I had to go around it.

Not sure if that's the kind of thing you mean, but it was v weird to me it wasn't even the same time as last week. It's like I was doing last week all over again.

A more useful thing was that I would wake up and think "I hope my teacher is out sick today" or "I hope she changes the deadline for the homework because I haven't done it" and 9/10 times it would happen. Unfortunately that has also left me terrified of having any thoughts in case I make one come true that I didn’t want

I moved to Italy, sadly had to leave my cats behind, they went to a good home but it broke my heart. I went back to the UK after nearly a year as I was selling my house. We decided to camp in the living room on the first night. I was awoken by a scratching noise, went to see what it was, and it was my favourite cat trying to get in. OMG I cried so much. He spent the entire night snuggled up next to me.

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I did something once that may well have looked like a Matrix glitch to the poor bugger in the pub garden.

I'd driven 30 miles to another town for a job interview. Didn't know the place very well. Found a carpark, went to pay, and realised I didn't have my purse. DAMN. Back in the car, drove through town, found a space where you could park for 30 minutes for free. Got out, dashed past the pub where the fella was enjoying a lunchtime pint in the sunshine - he'd have seen a stressed woman dashing past (going south to north)

Went into the bank and explained the situation and as I knew my account details &c, they were able to give me some cash for the parking meter.

Dashed back to car. Man saw me dashing back the way (north to south)

Got in car, drove back round to the car park, paid for a ticket. But with all the hoo-hah I was going to be late for my interview, so dashed back down the street (going north to south) past the poor man in the pub again. He must have thought there was a glitch in the Matrix that day, or that there was something wrong with his pint!

I once yawned and at the exact moment I opened my mouth to the exact moment I closed it the sound of a motorcycle revving sounded outside, for a solid moment my brain thought I had made that sound

Got covid, looking everywhere in the meds cupboard for some cold and flu, taking tuppaware of meds out and looking behind etc. Put it all back, then re-opened the cupboard and there was a pack staring at me right at the front. Totally wasn't there before

Just a coincidence, but I was reading one of those click-bait type lists "X-number of scenes you didn't know were improvised". It was an American site, so no link-up with British TV schedules.

One of them was about a scene from Fresh Prince of Bell-Air where Will does a speech to Uncle Phil about his crappy absentee father. I didn't know he'd improvised that scene, and thought how it showed what a good actor he really was. The guy who played Uncle Phil didn't know what he was going to say, and was struck by how powerful this emotional speech was.

Turned on the telly that evening, and it was that episode, and that scene.

Watching a film once when I was young and still living at my parent's house. In the days of big thick TVs where you would have ornaments on them they had a goblet shaped candle holder on theirs. For no reason, it jumped off the TV and landed on the floor - but not just falling over, it flew off in an arc and landed upside down

Mine is similar to yours, @NChgforMatrixThread.

I'm married to someone much younger and we now live abroad.

When clearing out in preparation for the move, I burned a whole stack of old diaries, but flicked through some of them to see if there was anything of interest (generally speaking, there wasn't!).

I thought it would be a laugh to see what I was doing on the same day back in 1997. Well, lo and behold: I'd written about a very vivid dream in which I'd been irresistibly attracted to a young scallywag, who was a little over 13 years old. (And no, I wasn't reading Adrian Mole!) His personality was very clear -- streetwise and funny, and sexy in a really laid-back way.

This dream was so intense and puzzling (I was in my 30s, and married, at the time) that I told my friend at work about it. She then went round telling everyone I was dreaming of sex with under-age boys!

Anyway, as you might have guessed, my now-husband would have been a little over 13 years old at the time of that dream.

I didn't burn that diary! I still have it in my desk drawer.

Finding this did make me wish I didn't have this habit of burning my diaries every few years. I'd give anything to know what I was doing on the day he was born!

These stories are so interesting, (to paraphrase badly) there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.