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To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

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bloomingheck1 · 12/01/2022 13:08

Hello,

I had a glitch in the matrix last night whilst dying my hair, I took the nozzle off the bottle and put it on the sink and then I mixed the dye etc and when I went to get the nozzle it was gone, I moved everything off the sink, looked on the floor but it was gone so I managed without and then once the hair dye was on I found the nozzle on the sink on top of something I'd moved and I swear it wasn't there before! Not a major event but it was a bit weird.

Do you have any glitch in the matrix stories? (Basically unexplained events)

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LemonPeonies · 12/01/2022 14:37

Placemarking for later. Love these so far!

HerRoyalHappiness · 12/01/2022 14:37

I was there*

HerRoyalHappiness · 12/01/2022 14:37

I was on a fairground ride with my mum and brother. My brothers restraint came loose and my mum had to hold him on the ride until they finally noticed and stopped it.
No one but me remembers me being there. They acknowledge it happened but swear I wasn't there. I was and I was crying, panicking about my brother . The only explanation I can think of is a glitch in the matrix. In my timeline I was their, in theirs I wasn't

Theforest · 12/01/2022 14:36

When I was a teenager in my bedroom, I was getting ready to go out and my curtains flew up into the air.

I remember running downstairs telling my parents but there was no explanation. No windows open. No bad weather. No naughty sibling there. Just weirdness.

forlornlorna · 12/01/2022 14:36

@IntermittentParps I get that. But I'm epileptic and it's a symptom. Freaks me out still

humblesims · 12/01/2022 14:35

I was listening to music in the car through Spotify. Arrived at home and unplugged by phone from the car, so it reverted back to the radio. The exact song I was listening to on Spotify picked up at exactly the same point on the radio. I double checked I had definitely unplugged the phone. I had. So weird

Once when I was out jogging with headphones in I stopped on the kerb before crossing a road to let a car by and it was blaring out the same tune at exactly the same point as what was in my headphones.

currering · 12/01/2022 14:35

Years ago I had a big thing for statement necklaces. I had a big black Perspex monstrosity that I was wearing one time when I visited my sister.
I was sat on her sofa mid chat when my necklace just broke on one side and slipped off my neck onto the floor. My DBIL saw me pick it up and we examined it to see where the break was and the chain seemed to be snapped at the front near the first Perspex stalactite.
He nipped to the kitchen to get some small pliers to fix it so I put it on the table. When we picked it back up it was completely fixed and nothing wrong with it! We couldn't believe it. Just had to laugh because we both knew we had seen it was broken.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 12/01/2022 14:33

There was a party that didn't happen and a Prime Minister didn't attend it, and then a bit later it turned out that the party had happened after all AND the Prime Minister had attended it but he hadn't realised that he had. Spooky.

Glamping1234 · 12/01/2022 14:33

Last year me and my husband were in the front room husband had a bottle of beer he must have left the lid on the counter in the kitchen (it's a kitchen dinning area). We heard a bottle top ping of the floor we went in and the bottle top was spinning in the middle of the floor it wasn't the type of distance that it would of just fell! Or even rolled especially with it been jaggers edges. We came to the conclusion it was obviously pushed by something Grin.

Lipsandlashes · 12/01/2022 14:28

I have another; my mum has a very old Hei-tiki necklace a friend bought her from New Zealand (it must be 55 years old). Anyway my mum gave it to me when I was TTC, as we had been having fertility treatment. I used to keep the Hei-tiki in my purse throughout my pregnancy as a protective symbol. After I had DD1 and was on maternity leave we decided to have a bit of a clear out and I got rid of old clothes/bags etc.
Several months ago I woke up in a cold sweat that I hasn't seen the Hei-Tiki for about 10 years and concluded that it had been thrown out in one of my old handbags. I was dreading having to tell my mum.
Just before Christmas I was looking for something in the drawer of my dressing table and opened it a bit wider than I usually would. Just casually lying there was the Hei-Tiki. I have definitely been through that drawer multiple times over the last 10 years.
Weirdest thing was when I told my mum the whole story she went a bit white and told me that she had also 'lost' the Hei-Tiki when her and my dad had gone on their honeymoon. She had turned the hotel room inside out looking for it and on the day they were due to fly home she found it sat on top of their passports in a drawer.

DickMabutt73962 · 12/01/2022 14:24

@butterpuffed

As a teenager there were several of us having a seance . Someone asked if there was a God. The wine glass shot off the table, shattered in mid air, and the pieces fell to the floor.

Still remember it to this day.

So...that's a 'no' then? 😈
MorningStarling · 12/01/2022 14:24

Once the sky didn't look right for a few seconds. It was a mixture of sunshine and clouds, the white fluffy kind. The best way I can describe it is they looked blocky or low-resolution. Like streaming services sometimes do when you fire up a video, the first few seconds are streaming at lower quality, say 360p, before the HD video kicks in.

At the time I thought it looked a little cartoony, like a sky in an early Playstation game. A good approximation of the sky, you could tell what it was supposed to be, just stuck in standard definition rather than being 4k.

Anyway after a few seconds it flicked over to "normal" sky again, presumably a server was being fired up or something.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 12/01/2022 14:24

Weve moved house quite a few times. Including internationally a few times. Every one of these moves has involved a certain. wardrobe. We bought it for our elder DD when she was born for baby clothes etc. Its being used for all sorts since then- toys, clothes, general storage etc. Emptied at every move.

We had our final move last year. As we were carrying it to the room we wanted it in, 3 pairs of baby socks and some mitts fell out...

DickMabutt73962 · 12/01/2022 14:21

@ShrillSiren

When we were at university, my now-husband put his glasses down on the bed. They fell down the side and were never seen again. We checked everywhere. There was nothing under the bed at all, they weren't caught up in the bedding, there were no gaps between the floorboards and the wall, they just vanished.
Between the mattress and frame. That's where all my stuff goes Grin
ElegantlyTouched · 12/01/2022 14:20

The other day I was near my toddler dd and saw her throw something then felt drops of liquid land on my foot. Sounds reasonable except there was no liquid near her, I had shoes and socks on and my shoes were dry, with nothing in the area to account for the feeling. It was v strange..

PGordino · 12/01/2022 14:17

I don’t know if this qualifies, but it was a pretty weird moment.

My godfather died about 30 years ago on his 53rd birthday. I missed seeing him by a matter of hours - I travelled up from London with a birthday card for him and reached the hospital only to be told he’d gone.

Just after Christmas, I decided to make yet another attempt to sort out the loft. Found an old bag with a card in it with my godfather’s name in my hand writing on it. It was the card I’d brought with me for him on that day I’d travelled up to see him.

It just felt particularly odd that I should find it on my own 53rd birthday.

419HLR · 12/01/2022 14:17

Had one a couple of weeks ago, was making myself a cup of tea then put the milk back in the fridge after using it. The doorbell rang so I answered it and when I came back to get my cup of tea the milk was beside my cup, thought it was weird but maybe I'd got distracted by the door and put it down instead of putting it away. Took it to the fridge, opened the door and there was the milk, i had 2 identical milks. We had definitely only bought one carton so I've no idea what happened.

butterpuffed · 12/01/2022 14:14

As a teenager there were several of us having a seance . Someone asked if there was a God. The wine glass shot off the table, shattered in mid air, and the pieces fell to the floor.

Still remember it to this day.

Lipsandlashes · 12/01/2022 14:12

I was listening to music in the car through Spotify. Arrived at home and unplugged by phone from the car, so it reverted back to the radio. The exact song I was listening to on Spotify picked up at exactly the same point on the radio. I double checked I had definitely unplugged the phone. I had. So weird.

IntermittentParps · 12/01/2022 14:10

@Vampirethriller

I was once on my own in my family home, family were all on holiday and only I had keys. I was making jam. I came to put it in jars and couldn't find half the lids, so I left the lidless jars in the pantry and went to bed. Got up in the morning and all the lidless jars now had lids screwed on tight and in every jar was a dead spider.
WHAT?!?

I came on to say I have a glitch in the matrix moment just about every day, but I don't mean like these. Mine are just things like seeing a particular person walk past on the street, then a minute later seeing them walk past again (and no, I don't mean in the other direction; it's honestly like it's just happening for the first time).

iheartredsquirrels · 12/01/2022 14:10

Dh and me regular finish each others sentences, and 'mind read' each other, could never get away with anything I shouldn't, because he would know and like wise with him.
It's sometimes spooky and unsettling in equal measures.

Vampirethriller · 12/01/2022 14:06

I was once on my own in my family home, family were all on holiday and only I had keys.
I was making jam. I came to put it in jars and couldn't find half the lids, so I left the lidless jars in the pantry and went to bed.
Got up in the morning and all the lidless jars now had lids screwed on tight and in every jar was a dead spider.

Tabbypawpaw · 12/01/2022 14:05

Nothing moving by itself or anything like that but about 15 years ago I was tidying my room and suddenly there was a loud pop in one ear followed by the sound of people talking. It was the strangest feeling, almost like hearing a conversation and then the people realise and move away. It faded to nothing. The voices were in my head if you know what I mean, rather than it being like overhearing people in the next room or next door.

ronswansonstache · 12/01/2022 13:59

@VinylCafe my DD's socks are always getting stuck in the rubber bit at the front of the drum. There's often one of a pair missing and I usually find them there, sopping wet as they don't get spun.

It's ALWAYS baby socks. Nothing else!

NChgforMatrixThread · 12/01/2022 13:57

Years ago I was at working talking to a colleague. He was a nice guy, but too young for me and not my type. In any event, he was leaving to move abroad the following month. I was divorced and 40 years old.

Whilst we were talking, I got what I can only describe as a vivid image in my mind. It was of myself and this colleague, we were married, with 2 children and living in a very hot place.

Fast forward 5 years and all of this came true. He stayed in England, a few months later we dated, then we got married and had 2 children when I was in my mid-forties. Then out of the blue he was offered a job in the middle east and we all moved there.

I know it's a coincidence, but it's really strange.

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