To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

One evening when I was a student, in my room in Halls, waiting for my friends to come round so we could go out to the pub. It was pretty late and dark out by then and I wasn't sure if they were coming or not. Plus I was tired because I'd been up late the night before. So when it got past 10pm and they still weren't there I turned off my light and went to sleep.

Woke up the next morning, daylight, 7am-ish. Thought "oh well" and picked up a book I was partway through and read some more of it. Then thought I'd have another nap before going to get breakfast (7am pretty early in student world after all) and put my book back on the shelf and went back to sleep.

Woke up to the sound of knocking on my door: my friends coming to get me to go the pub. It was still the previous evening and it wasn't even 10pm yet. But my bookmark was still in the book at the point I thought I'd read up to.

I guess some combination of dreaming and altering existing memories when I was tired to fit with the dream or something. But it felt like I'd gone to sleep without saving the game and rebooted it from an earlier point!

I love this thread! I honestly have loads of these stories, but a few:

• my sister died in 2018. She was 21 and it was just horrible. A few weeks had passed and I met two of my friends after work for a glass of wine and catch up. On the way I'm thinking this is so unfair, she should be doing something nice this evening and she's gone. We get to the bar and sit down. There was a man playing gentle sort of modern folksy music and as soon as we sit down he changes it up and plays his cover of Believe by Cher. That was her favourite song. It felt really nice. Even my friend looked at me like that's weird.
• when I was a young child I had a bed with these four posts and little gold round bits that fastened at the top - a real typical little girls bed, and I had a special bracelet I got for my 8th birthday. One day I lost it. Couldn't find it anywhere, and a thought pops into my head 'it's down the post of my bed' so I unscrewed the top off the post and lo and behold....there's my bracelet.

I have things like this happening with annoying regularity. Things disappearing from where I put them, and not being able to find despite turning the place upside down, only for them to reappear in the original place days later.
Used to be able to tell people where their list items were, even if I’d never been in their home too.
Way too much deja vue for one person as well. Mostly doesn’t bother me, apart from when things I need there and then vanish, and only reappear later / after I shout for them to come back (and I live alone and it’s not things even the beagle would nick / move!)

Brilliant thread

@girlabouthome please tell me you bought the picture?!

@tedimgoingmad I saw something similar fairly nearby around the same time and I don't think we've seen a glitch. I was at the traffic lights at the junction of North Pole Rd and Wood Lane and a troop of horses and a few soldiers crossed in front of me at a full gallop. The lights had to be held while they streamed past. There were gun carriages being pulled by horses too, and although the riders were in dull greens, the leathers and brasses on the harnesses shone even in the fog. The sound of the hooves, iron wheels and clanking harnesses has always stayed with me.
I was told at the time that the Household Cavalry were using temporary stabling in the Maida Vale area while their normal home was being revamped. They used Wormwood Scrubs for exercise everyday while they were there. This would be December 1996 as I'd just started a new job on Wood Lane, and about 7.30/8am. Astounding sight, though, the entire cavalry galloping out of the fog in front of my tiny little Fiesta!

Went on holiday, home alarms set etc. At the time we had a Playmobil chunky plastic playhouse in the playroom (ie big and sturdy). Came home two weeks later. Nothing had been disturbed, everything exactly as it should be apart from the playhouse was in its place but completely upside down, kind of balanced precariously on the chimney and roof. That was about ten years ago now and we have never worked out why or how....

Cattenberg yes but until I googled Germanic town in desert I had never heard of such places

I have been having this dream since before I went to school and always the same set of scenes.

It definitely gave me the chills that such places existed. I fully expected to have my Google search come back with pictures of the Ruhr or pictures of the Sahara. Not an actual German town in the desert.

It makes me want to recognise the buildings but I don’t as in my dream they are more wooden and intricate

A few things have happened to me. I seem to attract this kind of thing.

The one that sticks with me is,

When I was in my early teens a friend and her family invited me along to Alton Towers.

We had been on the Log Flume and were waiting in the kiosk for our picture to show up.

It took me and my friend a while to find ours... When the photo loaded, my friend was on the ride but in my seat where I should have been was an old lady.

Not just old, but in old clothes from another era.

Sounds hilarious writing this out, but it's true and I think about it all the time.

I saw the "old hag" a few times when growing up - usually when I'm not feeling great.

My MIL died suddenly in June 2019, my poor FIL started to decline rapidly after this. He ended up in hospital and passed away in the Dec of 2019, almost exactly 6 months after my MIL died. He had died from a heart attack which was not the reason he was in hospital. We believe he did die of a broken heart, he couldn’t live without her.

My SIL called us early in the morning to let us know he had passed away, but strangely, the night before I had a dreamed that he and my MIL passed me in their car, they both looked at me as they drove past me and away down the road. Extremely vivid. I believe that she waited around for him and this was them leaving on their journey together. Needless to say it gave me shivers when I was then told hours later he had passed away. Was comforted to know they were together again though.

I saw a documentary about coincidence once. One story has stuck with me. A tradesman (let's call him John) worked for a small company (it may have been his own company). He worked in lots of different towns in his area doing whatever he did. I think he was a carpenter. Anyway one day he was walking down a street in a town where he had a job and there was a phonebox. The phone started to ring as he passed it and for some reason he decided to answer. Anyway it was Doris (name made up) from his office. Doris dealt with accounts. She had some query or other. John stopped Doris and said 'why are you phoning me on this number'. Doris was insistent she had dialled his mobile. John could not persuade her that it was in fact a random phone box on a high Street. Eventually Doris said - ah I actually dialled the payroll number.

A couple of years ago I was on the train passing through the countryside
Suddenly I saw an elderly man in one of the fields he was walking along a gravel path but the path and surrounding area of the field including him was devoid of any colour and was completely in black and white but I could still see the remainder of the surrounding fields in colour!
It was the weirdest thing and completely freaked me out.
Now to be fair I was quite hungover so I would say my mind wasn’t the sharpest that day

Oh, I just remembered one from when I was a kid - maybe 12 or 13.

It was not long before my birthday, and my mum had taken me to the next town over to get some clothes. I had chosen a baseball style top. A pinkish body section, and purple sleeves, and a large number on the front.
We got it home and mum said she would put it away for my birthday, which was in a few weeks.

On the day of my birthday, I opened my presents, but the top wasn't amongst them. I asked mum about it, but she was confused and denied all knowledge! I distinctly remember the top, and being excited to wear it.

At the time, I assumed mum had just misplaced it, and it would appear in due course. But it never did. Even when my parents packed up the house to move a few years later, the top was never found.

I had my first every experience of this about 2 weeks ago!

I had an empty squash bottle on the side in the kitchen. I was heading out to the supermarket, so I grabbed the bottle, and dropped it in our recycling bin outside on my way to the car. I very clearly remembered taking the bottle to the bin, because the bin in the other side of the house to where the car is, so I had to make a special trip.

When I returned from the supermarket, the bottle was back on the kitchen side, exactly as before.

What the hell?!?

I remember being at a house with two staircases,a grand one in the hallway and a small one from the kitchen,I was only allowed to use the “servant”stairs. My parents are adamant we never have had relatives or friends with this set up and we were never there

That was very kind @minmooch. Poor man.

Not a glitch for me but for an elderly gentleman.

I was sitting in a cafe on my own with a coffee. An elderly gentleman with a younger woman sat on another table fairly close. They both kept looking over at me. Eventually the woman came over and said that her father was convinced I was his (long passed) wife from when they were much younger. He had dementia. She asked would I mind if he could say hello. I joined them at their table and he held my hand and talked about some stories from when they first met and talked to me like I was his wife.

They left not long after, her father was calm and happy, and the daughter thanked me for playing along.

It was a very lovely moment really.

I have actually got loads but the most chilling one a few years ago my mum rang me and just said "Sarah s died" (not real name) I assumed she meant our family member who was young for and healthy for a split second until she said no my next door neighbour.
I've never forgotten that and thought how daft I was for assuming...fast foward to a couple of months ago mum rings me in tears..."Sarah's died" the family member had actually tragically died.
It was strange as it was like I'd already had that phone all years before.

Literally just had the 'missing object reappearing' thing.

One of the Christmas Lego boxes, which I couldn't find when packing up the Christmas Lego 2 weeks ago, has just appeared under the dining table...