To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

I did that coat thing to a friend once, I was staying with my friend who at the time was a fairly hard up single mum. I couldn't drive or get myself anywhere so I couldn't do any shopping for her and she kept paying for things and wouldn't accept money back, so in the end I left a few coins and notes lying around her house. She is really forgetful and disorganised (like me) so she would 100% have assumed that it was her money she had left lying around randomly, but I hope it turned up at a useful time!

I thought I paid for my scan shop even got the lady to check thought I'd paid but completely blanked and walked out of the shop. Only realised when I checked my bank and went back. Security guard was so lovely. I still couldn't recall what I did.

Go back to the early 80s. In our village we had a small petrol station. Everyone local had a tab there and you’d pull up (on the road, no forecourt) and the owner would come out at fill the car up and you’d go in the office to sign the tab. This means that the owner knew everyone.
Friend, who was known in the village for his fancy car, pulled up and the garage owner was filling the car up. The garage phone rang and was answered by someone. The caller asked to speak to Mr L. Puzzled looks but they passed the phone to my friend Mr L__ who is in the office to sign the tab.
It was someone from his office who had pulled up his details, called the correct area code but had then put in the six digit payroll number, which was the number of the garage.

@TwittleBee

I love your magic coat. However the change happened to appear...

I will also bear that in mind if ever the opportunity to give someone a little unexpected 'pocket money'.

Its so great to be rummaging in a bag or pocket and suddenly feel the shape of a pound coin as a surprise.

Did you ever read a Dick King Smith story called The Queen's Nose?

There was also a book called Flossy Teacake's Fur coat (she puts it on and transforms temporarily into a grown woman - handy for concert trips and other adventures). No wonder I think coins and coats are a bit magical. Too much time reading as a child....

It's like the Magic Faraway Tree of the furniture world.

Be great if some stuff appeared too.

Maybe the great make up bag full of Bobbi Brown the pixies nicked from another poster earlier....

I certainly think the world has more aspects to it than we ordinarily experience. I'm pretty sure time isn't linear for starters. Just a hunch I can't give you the physics on that one

To quote the bard:

''And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.''

The year I turned 43, my mum tuned 73, I was born in 1973 and she was born in 1943.

This isn’t spooky though, that works for all age gaps if they’re in the same century.

For example, I was born in 1978 and my Mum in 1948. When I turn 48 she will be 78.

If my Mum were born in 1912 and me in 1932, I’d be 12 when she was 32.

If I was born in 1999 and my Mum in 1963 when I was 63 she’d be 99.

To the PP who has "lost" a whole year of memories: I have the same, friends would remind me of holidays we went on, parties we went to etc etc. I have always assumed it was the incredibly high dose of Prozac I was on at that time! My memory has always been brilliant apart from this one year (2009 - what was your year?).

sarahbop it was very odd, have no idea who the elderly couple were. They were in a maroon colour small boxy car, like a Reliant Robin but with 4 wheels instead of 3.

blueshoes I wish it were a simple case of the vehicle was in the blind spot except I’m ridiculously obsessive about checking mirrors (I’m not a quick glance and change lanes, I’m a check, check and check again for about a minute before I’m going to change lanes then I obsessively do it all again before moving over 😂). Deffo no vehicles at all behind me, nothing in the blind spot, road oddly 100% clear.

I took my brother to the new sweetie shop that had opened a few streets away, told him about the sweets I got the week before and how fat the shop keep was (I must of only been about 6 or 7 so forgive me), we looked for it but it just wasn’t there, he said I must of dreamed it but I’m certain I didn’t.

DS was reading out some pop quiz questions (it’s a game we have).

Just as he starts to read a question, the band who are the answer to his question, start playing on the radio. They’re not even a recent group. It was really weird.

@StarsAreWishes I suppose the children's centre maybe, when I hung my coat up to get DS weighed etc? Or perhaps it was my Mum, I know she said she used to have similar when she was struggling as a single mother - loose change would suddenly appear to her.

That aside, that's a lovely thing you do and it's an idea I shall also take on board if I am in that position to pay it forward

So her me out. I have had experiences like this as well. In islam we also believe in Jinn. It is quite believable that we are not the only creatures on the earth. There are animals, birds etc that we can see but there are also the ones who we can't see, and they share the same space with us. Normally they carry on with their lives and don't interact with ours but sometimes they either get fond of a person or dislike someones. And some times they tend to mess with us because they just want to.

I was banned from turning lights on / off when in a bad mood as I always blew them up, although sometimes they would blow up from me just going into the room and not actually touching the switches at all

I went to sleepover at a friend's house as a teen. Was wearing a new necklace, friend complimented me on it. I took it off at night to sleep.

Next day when my dad collected me we couldn't find it anywhere so I left and friend said she'd bring it to school when she found it.

I got home, went straight upstairs to my bedroom and the necklace was sitting on my dressing table chair. No explanation how it could possibly have got from friends house to mine.

@MarineBlue33 - no he was kissing me on the lips![ blush]
@BlankTimes - nope not me, never been in the sistine chapel.

When DS1 was little, money was pretty tight, we lived for the pennies and was very careful with out money.

What helped us get by was my magic coat. I've no idea how it happened but at least weekly I'd put my hands into the pockets there would be £2-£4 worth of loose change in there. It would be the amount that would help get us a bit more food shopping that week, so it was money I then went off and spent and it somehow refilled again before the next shopping trip.

DH thought I was mad so I made him keep check with me too and sure enough he was surprised too

When I was a 10, a friend who’d moved away the year before was coming to visit, we’d kept in touch as pen pals, it wasn’t long till he was due and we got a phone call, it was his mum saying they were running late, they’d be there soon. Once they arrived his mum apologised for them being late, my mum said it was fine thanks for phoning, his mum said they hadn’t phoned as they hadn’t been able to find our number…

@Pugsnotdrugs101 my Dad sent me text messages after he died. There was nothing actually in the message, it was blank, but I got three messages the same night from
"Dad Mobile". I was sleeping in a room with his ashes in it at the time (long story). At the time the messages were sent his phone was in a drawer at my Mums and out of charge.

I lived with my best friend in Edinburgh in a top floor flat.
I came home from work one day and was walking up the stairs reading a load of graffiti that had been added, it was big black arrows leading up the stairs to the flat opposite ours and read stuff like "get your heroin here" "a dealer lives here --->" etc.
I went in and asked her if shed seen it and said that the fella opposite was going to go nuts and wondered if he really was a dealer and who he had irritated. She went out to have a nose, came back in and asked me if I was taking the pee. She said there were no arrows, no graffiti and I must have imagined it. I went to go show her, and sure enough, nothing.

Following morning she left to go to work and I was still in the flat as working later, she came flying back into the kitchen and said that there was the exact graffiti I had described all over the stairwell inc the black arrows. She asked if I'd put it there myself and was I on a wind up (of course not!)
Sure enough the graffiti I had read all the way up the stairs that wasn't there at the time had materialised overnight. I have no explanation.