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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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airedailleurs · 17/01/2022 12:20

When I was about 6 or 7 (so over 50 years ago) we were staying with my nana in Liverpool and went to the local park. Somehow I lost my watch (a cheap Timex one) in the park, but when we were walking back to her house a few minutes later I found a £5 note on the pavement that was more than enough to pay for a new watch.

Dearblossom · 17/01/2022 11:41

@AlizeeEasy

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
Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
StarsAreWishes · 17/01/2022 11:17

@HeadfirstForHalos

This might seem a bit random and boring but it really freaked me out at the time, it still does to be honest. I was watching TV one Saturday with my DH and DD (16) and the masked singer came on. It's not something we watch and I was going to switch channels but the start showed that Duck was in this episode, so I said to my DH I'd quite like to watch this one as Duck was Skin from Skunk Anansie, a band we both liked back in the day. I clearly remembered having seen clips from it when she took her head piece off and you could see that it was Skin, so thought it was a repeat. Well it wasn't a repeat, I looked online and it was the first time this episode had been on. I even looked on Twitter where people were trying to guess who the characters were including Duck. Well, she gets voted out and removes the headpiece exactly as I had seen and it was Skin. Totally freaked me out, even my very sensible DH was a bit weirded out by how I knew. I spent a lot of time looking online and there had been no leaks by the papers etc but there hadn't been. I had 100% seen it before. Still can't explain it.
@HeadfirstForHalos I had exactly the same.

I swear that before the show was first released they showed a clip as part of a montage of “new shows coming later this year” that showed Skin taking off the duck headpiece. I remember thinking at the time that the show looked interesting. But I was then very confused at all of the rest of the material that followed in later weeks build up which said that no one knew who the singers were.

I have to conclude that there was one short clip that was included in a montage by mistake. Maybe you saw the same clip?

Bollocks2Covid · 17/01/2022 09:59

@Indigofig

About 4 years ago there was a bad storm and I'm quite anxious anyway but I was trying to call my dp. He didn't answer but an older lady did, she said hello I said hello and I said sorry I'm after my husband let's call him Paul and she said why are you calling off my husband Paul's phone? I said no I'm calling off my phone trying to get hold of my partner Paul. We were both so freaked out by it. We hung up and called again and got each other. We could only assume there was a crossed wire with the storm, but the same name as we were both trying to get hold of our dh dp called Paul... Freaky. Dp called me soon after from the car and I told him the story, he was so shocked.

This also happened many years before when I was a teenager and listening to the radio on my Nokia, I picked up our land-line and heard my mums friend tell her on the phone that someone we knew had died.

Very weird

Oh I’ve had the phone weirdness a few times in the past. We had one of those massive cordless white phones with the long aerial that you pulled out when I was a kid and we used to be able to hear taxi drivers talking on their radios all the time. We’d also hear the same woman and I’ve no idea who she was, it was obviously a cross wire but it was someone we didn’t know so not a neighbour. I always remember picking it up one day and heading this woman discussing her child’s birthday party with someone really clearly. I could have gate crashed if I’d wanted.😂 I used to talk back to her but she couldn’t hear us.

Later on my parents set up a business from home and we had an old style fax/phone and I used to be able to hear a radio station on that. I’ll never forget picking it up one day and hearing Penny Lane by the Beatles!

The weirdest thing ever though was when I was listening to the radio on my 90’s Hi Fi in my bedroom one night when the police helicopter flew directly over my house, really low. The radio signal broke up and I could hear the men in the helicopter talking on my radio. That was weird as fuck on reflection.

Speaking of radio weirdness I was early for work one morning and parked my car where I always did and was listening to Heart FM when all of a sudden that broke up and I could hear a French radio station! Understandable if I lived on the South Coast as I believe it’s a very common occurrence there, but this was in North Wales!

AmericanHousewifefan · 17/01/2022 08:49

@AncientofMuMu

It's nowhere near as odd as some of the posts on here but when I was about 17/18, my dad went on a trip to Prague, he brought me a pair of beautiful earrings as a present when he came back. They were really unusual and my favourite pair - my dad was really happy when I told him this. I loved them and wore them all the time.

When he died (about 10 years later), I decided that I'd wear them at the funeral. I'd last worn them about a week earlier and had put them, as I always did, back in the box where I keep all my earrings.
There was only 1 of them in there.
I searched every where, I even opened the hoover bag and went through it, checked everywhere in the house when I came to move out a few months later (and again went through the hoover bag just in case I'd hoovered it up when I cleaned the rooms after the furniture had been taken out but I never found the earring. I've kept the one I have though. I don't really believe in ghosts or the afterlife but a teeny tiny part of me hopes that he's got the other one with him.

I'm not at all woo (and very late to this thread) but that just brought a tear to my eye. I hope it's true Smile
groovergirl · 17/01/2022 07:59

I'm Australian, and in October 2002 I was visiting Singapore for work. On the Friday morning I awoke to what I thought was a radio news bulletin: "A bomb has gone off in Bali and five Australians are dead." But the radio was off. I switched it on to hear the 8am news, but nothing was said about a bomb in Bali. I looked through the morning's papers, then hunted through the previous day's papers in case my brain had scrambled something I'd read. But there was nothing. So I dismissed the "bulletin" as a trick of REM sleep.

On the Sunday I awoke to a real news bulletin. Two bombs had gone off in Bali overnight and more than 200 people were dead, including 88 Australians.

It haunts me now that perhaps the cosmos was trying to give me urgent info and I ignored it. Had I taken it seriously I could have called the consulate in Denpasar and asked if they'd heard any warnings about terrorist activity. My call could have prompted them to ask the Bali police, and maybe everyone would have been super-vigilant that weekend. But I didn't do anything.

StopStartStop · 17/01/2022 07:41

I used to 'see' things. As a young woman, I saw myself with a child who was my daughter, but her hair was a different colour from mine, so I assumed I would be adopting. No, when she came along years later she had that hair. I 'saw' her washing up- a boy younger than her, tall with long blond hair, standing behind her with his arms around her waist - he loved her very much. He turned up too, tall, blond, loving and six months younger.

I used to be able to find things by calling to them and holding out my hand, which would then draw me towards whatever I was looking for. I told someone about this and he said 'Not all gifts are from God.' I shouldn't have believed him, it was such a useful gift! Also I later connected it with my dad being a dowser - he's never made a big thing of it but men he worked with did. Same thing.

I did out of body stuff daily from birth? until a bad 'trip' in my thirties. An unpleasant o-o-b not anything drug-related.

JustJustWhy · 17/01/2022 07:18

@custardbear

I kinda wish I'd never started reading these in bed, in the dark 😵
Doesn't bother me at all. Most of them can be explained.
custardbear · 17/01/2022 02:39

I kinda wish I'd never started reading these in bed, in the dark 😵

LAURAMINIMAQ88 · 17/01/2022 02:29

Oh I have another one, more spooky though, thinking about it makes me fucking scared.
We went with my partner to see horror at Cinema (can't remember the name of the movie) we were on our own, literally 2 people in the room and the Cinema room felt weird, cold too.I was very unsettled .
We didn't even finish watching the movie and I just wanted to go home.
The whole journey I felt we were followed by someone.
My partner has walked me back home, we were both walking towards my house when we both turned around and saw the weirderst creature ever, the cteature was about 3 maters high, all black and skinny (like a slanderman ?) It was walking towards the corner then dissapeared !?!??!
We were both standing there in silnece .
I keep thinking if this was even real.
We didn't smoke and drink that night.
Just fucking weird

LAURAMINIMAQ88 · 17/01/2022 02:03
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LAURAMINIMAQ88 · 17/01/2022 02:03

I had a dream about Michael Jackson doing few hours before the news came out to say he was dead . Super weird and makes me nervous thinking about it.

alexio · 17/01/2022 01:18

I was 15 at the time and living at home with my parents. I had went up to bed and I shut my eyes not yet asleep and I saw clear as anything me waking up the next morning to get ready for school, go into the bathroom, the house phone rings and my dad answers says a few things and then come into the bathroom and says to me 'that was your auntie on the phone, blank has died' it was like bleeped out the way he said it.

I woke up the next morning started getting ready for school and this all happened the exact same way, the same time and everything expect I found out who it was this time 😣🤷🏻‍♀️

Indigofig · 17/01/2022 01:06

About 4 years ago there was a bad storm and I'm quite anxious anyway but I was trying to call my dp. He didn't answer but an older lady did, she said hello I said hello and I said sorry I'm after my husband let's call him Paul and she said why are you calling off my husband Paul's phone? I said no I'm calling off my phone trying to get hold of my partner Paul. We were both so freaked out by it. We hung up and called again and got each other. We could only assume there was a crossed wire with the storm, but the same name as we were both trying to get hold of our dh dp called Paul... Freaky.
Dp called me soon after from the car and I told him the story, he was so shocked.

This also happened many years before when I was a teenager and listening to the radio on my Nokia, I picked up our land-line and heard my mums friend tell her on the phone that someone we knew had died.

Very weird

Lottiethelemming · 17/01/2022 00:46

In my second year of uni, I moved into a privately rented flat with a friend.

Her boyfriend was a drug dealer who the police were searching for and he stayed over most nights. This bit sounds dodgy but they used to listen to the same evil song on repeat. It really scared me.

One night, as I was sleeping, I felt my body rise from the ground as I was sleeping (I didn't have a bed at the time).

I heard loads of angry voices but I felt completely at peace floating above the floor. Slowly, the voices disappeared and I was lowered back down.

When I woke up the next day, I found out my friend and her boyfriend had been arrested on drug charges. There had been a raid on our flat. Doors broken, flat tipped upside down apart from my room, no lock.

I honestly believe I was 'kept safe' by the Lord. I moved out that day and took my friends fish who went on to live with my nan.

I can't explain it at all. I know it happened.

Friend and her drug dealer boyfriend had been storing huge amounts of cannabis in our flat. I assumed the smell came from our neighbours.

I read the police report, it said it was a 2 bedroom flat and only 2 occupants were present.

Smokeahontas · 17/01/2022 00:37

Every time I talk about my friends deceased partner with her, a lightbulb in my house explodes. I don’t mean just stops working, a bulb quite literally explodes. It’s not dodgy wiring or bulbs as they can be different rooms.

The same thing also happens to her sister. She had no prior knowledge of it happening to me & corroborated that it also happens to her.

BlankTimes · 17/01/2022 00:30

I'm not at all religious btw, although I do cry and feel overwhelmed every time I go in a church

Was it you in the Sistine Chapel?

airedailleurs · 17/01/2022 00:25

@Schlerp

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
Did you go via Bold Street? There are many weird timeslip anecdotes from there.
HobgoblinGold · 16/01/2022 23:41

Picture of my mum - glass shattered (with stickers on) and frame broken. Went away for a week, came back - all mended.

MarineBlue33 · 16/01/2022 23:39

@shouldhavebeen

In 1985 my best friend was staying the night at mine. We were both mid teens and had a couple of illegal drinks, it was a Friday night. She slept on a fold out bed on the floor next to my bed. We both awoke the next morning and started to talk about our dreams. We had both dreamt we were in the same place, our old school, not far from my house, the school was an old stately home more than 150 years old. We were in some sort of stable hiding from something and someone, I recall bombs being dropped. I can still see the door of the stable now, only half a door with planks of wood across it to keep it closed.

Also, around the same time I had a very weird dream that Jesus kissed me. We were outside a cave on a hill side near a white rock and he was there,holding my face kissing me. Woke up feeling very strange but very content and full of love. I'm not at all religious btw, although I do cry and feel overwhelmed every time I go in a church.

What kind of kissing? On the cheeks?
Iwanttobeinthesunshine · 16/01/2022 22:45

I shouldn’t be reading these before bed!

shouldhavebeen · 16/01/2022 22:42

In 1985 my best friend was staying the night at mine. We were both mid teens and had a couple of illegal drinks, it was a Friday night. She slept on a fold out bed on the floor next to my bed. We both awoke the next morning and started to talk about our dreams. We had both dreamt we were in the same place, our old school, not far from my house, the school was an old stately home more than 150 years old. We were in some sort of stable hiding from something and someone, I recall bombs being dropped. I can still see the door of the stable now, only half a door with planks of wood across it to keep it closed.

Also, around the same time I had a very weird dream that Jesus kissed me. We were outside a cave on a hill side near a white rock and he was there,holding my face kissing me. Woke up feeling very strange but very content and full of love. I'm not at all religious btw, although I do cry and feel overwhelmed every time I go in a church.

blueshoes · 16/01/2022 21:44

@StarsAreWishes

I have a completely repeatable glitch that happens several times a day.

We have a mirror which refuses to reflect me!

It’s a full length mirror mounted on the wall of our large square hallway opposite the kitchen door, so I pass it several times per day. If reflects everyone else, just not me.

We have come to the conclusion that maybe the mirror is slightly concave, and I am a few inches shorter than other family members, so must be a trick of how the light reflects/refracts.

If I stand in the kitchen doorway you can see the doorway and the room behind me, but not me. I don’t appear in the mirror at all until I have walked diagonally across the hall, and then you can see me just disappear from the edge of the mirror.

It is all completely repeatable, so we have experimented with it. We have tried having my husband or son stand exactly in my place (they are visible standing in the spot where I wasn’t), having one of them stand directly behind me (they are fully visible, I am not).

It’s a long running source of amusement now, primarily because the mirror was inherited from DH’s grandmother, who disapproved of me. So we joke that maybe she is passive-aggressive ignoring me from beyond the grave Grin (but seriously, if must just be a combination of my height with a flaw in the mirrors surface).

This defies the laws of physics.

You can test it with someone your height by dh or ds stooping down to your height.

Please report back.

halandpeeno · 16/01/2022 20:43

We lived in a basement flat when I was a student. It was THC old kitchens of a large house and still had the old range and York stone wine cellars at the back.
I never felt comfortable on my own their and always felt I was being watched.
One day I walked through to the kitchen and caught sight of a ball of light floating by the ceiling. As soon as I rounded the corner it exploded in a flash. I felt the explosion on my face. My housemate was walking into the room though the opposite door and was the bang made them duck behind the door frame.
To this day I have no clue what it was. We checked that none of the light bulbs had exploded, all the plug sockets were still working. Absolutely no idea.......

whymewhyme · 16/01/2022 20:10

Fuck me I'd of moved out within 5mins of seeing that!!!

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