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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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StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 12/01/2022 13:50

Clearly Borrowers in these homes, gathering up things as soon as they're set down.

boireannach · 12/01/2022 13:50

The UFO ! The baby sock ! The disappearing glasses ! WOW. Love this stuff.

madisonbridges · 12/01/2022 13:47

My arm of my glasses had a loose screw and the arm came off. Screwed it back in but not tightly enough. I took them off at bedtime and put them on the bedside drawers. In the morning the glasses were there, but the screw had come out and was lying there next to them, but the arm had gone. I thought it must have fallen behind or inside the drawers. No. I emptied the drawers, looked under the bed, stripped the bed, lifted the mattress, pulled out all the furniture, checked the entire bedroom, even the opposite side of the room. But nothing. I never found the arm of the glasses. Now how could it have gone anywhere when the screw that kept it in the glasses was lying next to the main part of the glasses. It must have come have come apart on the bedside top. So where did it go? Freaky.

ShrillSiren · 12/01/2022 13:42

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.

VinylCafe · 12/01/2022 13:38

Many years ago when the DC were babies, their tiny socks would go missing in the washing machine - usually one of a pair. We were moving house 7 years later and I was doing one last load of laundry. When I was taking the wet clothes out of the machine, there were the missing baby socks! At first I thought they had gotten stuck somewhere in the machine for 7 years, then I remembered we got rid of the old washer and bought a new one the year before.

Anotherlovelybitofsquirrel · 12/01/2022 13:36

I love these!

Soubriquet · 12/01/2022 13:36

I had a piece of paper would some stuff written on it once.

Turned round to get something and woosh it was gone. This was years ago. Never did find it

DameDoom · 12/01/2022 13:35

Not a glitch but a weird UFO one.
1990, the early morning before an A level exam, my mum came into my bedroom and woke me up really urgently telling me to come outside. I went down and most of the residents of our street were all staring up at this bright, spinning rugby ball-shaped thing in the sky above our houses. It was massive and covering half the houses. I completely crapped myself and ran back inside while they all just stood there open -mouthed for ages.
Next day, my mum told me a police man had knocked on our door at lunchtime to tell her not to worry about what we’d seen - it was a police helicopter exercise.
I have never seen an enormous, spinning police helicopter before. It was totally silent too.
It was the talk of the street - neighbours phoned our local radio station and one called the newspaper but there was never anything written about it. Not so much as a jokey mention of local yokels getting themselves confused with ‘copters and UFOs.
I have trawled the internet to see if anything has been written about it - can’t find one single mention.
Still intrigues me today.

Nosnogginginthekitchen · 12/01/2022 13:30

Lots but pretty much all explained by ADHD and object permanence issues.

errnerrcallnernnernnern · 12/01/2022 13:30

I saw my desk chair (non-wheely) move 1 foot forward by its own accord.

So creepy

Herestoyoucolinrobinson · 12/01/2022 13:28

I don't have any but I love reading them 😂

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