To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

Right, this just happened and reminded me of this thread
On the 30th December I went to London to meet friends via train. Once arrived at the restaurant I noticed I couldn't find the earbuds case in my bag. For context, I have a reasonably small Kipling handbag ( 20x20cm) with a few pockets. On the way back I tried to track my steps to see if I've dropped the case anywhere, even went back to the platform I took the initial train from to see if I could find it. The day after I searched the bag and every pocket and eventually gave up, wrote an email to the rail lost property and forgot about it. This morning I am sitting in Costa waiting for my son to finish his club. Went into my bag to retrieve the new earphones I've bought and found the case I thought I've lost, in the main pocket of the bag!!!

My friend bought my daughter some gorgeous pyjamas from Florida, I wash my daughters clothes separate to ours and do it all in one day so nothing ever gets separated. Anyway I remember washing these pyjamas and putting them on the washing line and then into the basket ready to be put away. When I came to put the clothes in the drawers, the pants from these pyjamas were gone. Could not find them anywhere. Weeks later I was walking upstairs and these pyjama pants caught my eye on the hallway floor but I had my hands full so didn’t pick them up. I was home alone, when I came back downstairs they were gone again. This was 18 months ago and I have never seen them again. I always found it really strange!

May have posted these under a different username in the past. Possibly more 'woo' than matrix glitches, but....

1. I had a dream about visiting a house. On the upper floor was a long corridor with a door slightly tucked away. When I opened the door it led to a lift space, but one which extended sideways with a mezzanine level. The beams were in a strange almost stacked diamond arrangement.

1. Coming home late from work on an old overground train with heavy doors between the compartments. My stop was the final one, at the terminus. I was in the carriage behind the drivers cabin, sitting facing the front on the aisle seat of a bank of 6.

@Joni234 That’s a really creepy story! Did the funeral attendees have modern clothing?

Just switched on Radio 4 (Saturday Live) and they're doing a phone-in about this kind of thing

@Joni234 did you go to Uni of Leicester? That has a tall building and a park one side and cemetery the other

As for my personal experiences, I have a few but now I try to think of them it's difficult! The ones I remember may be more woo than glitchy perhaps but here goes

1. When I was younger I used to read a ton of magazines. As a young teen it was things like Mizz and Shout (any fellow early 00s teens remember them?!). Anyway, one day when I was about 12 I was walking through the canteen at school and in front if my eyes flashed an image of a magazine double page spread. I can still remember it now. The background was green, there was a blond model in the centre of the spread and it was a horoscope article. It was there for a second or two then disappeared. I bought a magazine a day or 2 later and the exact article was in it.
2. I often have dreams that make no sense at all and they later come true. I struggle to remember full details now but I had one about where I would now. I remember waking up and saying to my partner it's so weird, I dreamt that I was sitting looking at x view out of the window at work while someone told me y thing, but I wasn't at work (as in, when I dreamt it I didn't work there) and I have no idea who the person was. But the weird thing is I don't recognise it at all until the exact scenario plays out and I remember then dream. It's kind of like deja vu, except I remember actually having the dream about it.
3. I saw a UFO with a friend when I was a teen. We were standing outside bowling having a fag when we saw some strange light in the sky. The best way I can describe it is to imagine you're looking at a building with one light left on in a window. Now remove the building and you just have the "square of light in the window". This was more like a reflective type light though....I actually thought it was the sun glinting off something to begin with, but there was nothing it could have glinted from. Anyway, as we watched the square sort of compressed itself down so it was more like a thin line of light and then just disappeared. It was so weird! My friend swears she saw the same thing
4. I had the complete collection of Harry Potter books when I lived with my ex. We split up and when I left I was missing one (goblet of fire, if you're interested!). Couldn't find it anywhere, even after I moved and unpacked all my stuff. A couple of years later, in my new house I dropped something while sitting on my bed and when I looked underneath it to grab it, there, so close to the edge it was basically poking out was my missing HP book. Absolutely no idea how that one happened! Also in the same house was a number of spooky goings on. My toddler daughter had a book which played a tune when you opened it at the back page. Book was on her bookshelf when we got ready in the morning but when I returned from dropping her to nursery I opened the front door to hear the tune playing and went up to her room to see it lying open on her bedroom floor. She was a toddler at the time and wasn't allowed, or able to get, upstairs by herself so I don't know how that one happened!
5. Finally I also have a doppelganger who lives locally to me. Many years ago I went to a friend's house in the evening and he looked very confused and asked what I did to my hair. I had no idea what he was talking about but he said he had seen me earlier and my hair was red but I didn't wave at him when he waved at me! It definitely wasn't me. More recently my neighbour asked me if I had seen her earlier and when I asked where she had been she mentioned a place I hadn't been anywhere near that day. She was also very confused and said it looked like the absolute double of me and she wondered why I hadn't spoken to her. It again was definitely NOT me. I've never met this doppelganger but I would like to see how similar she really is!

Just remembered another weird one and this is very recent.

We’ve not long moved house and my child has started a new primary school. At the end of his first day he tells me excitedly that “James from my old school is in my class!”. After questioning him a lot it transpires that it is 100% true and James was indeed in his class but left at the end of year 1.

We’ve moved over 200miles away. Where we used to live were 5 primary schools. Where we live now are more schools. The chances of ‘James’ parents moving 200miles, to the same area as us and going to the same school and same class is a very very bizarre coincidence.

This story happened to my great grandfather in a remote part of Ireland. He was walking to the cattle byre at night to check on the cows, and suddenly a 7ft tall man, dressed in what my grandfather described as glass like clothing just appeared gliding beside him. At the byre, he turned to my grandfather and said " feed them well" and vanished into thin air. My grandfather always put it down to the fair folk, but to me it sounds more like an alien encounter.

I didn't experience this but my dad swears blind this happened to me.

I was intubated and in a coma for 5 days a few years back after life saving surgery. (To help my lungs heal) my dad came and sat by my bed in ICU everyday and just spoke to me.

Obviously in a coma you're conked. Non responsive just completely unconscious with a machine breathing for you.

He said on day 3 he was stoking my hair. He stopped all for 15 seconds and I literally lifted my arm up grabbed his arm and put it back on my head 🤣 he said he panicked and shouted (the nurse was literally turned around at this point as I always had someone next to my bed whether a nurse or doctor')

She never believed him!

Also I can vividly remember some of the outfits he wore, some one way conversations he had with me. Conversations he had with the doctors when I was asleep.

Not sure if a glitch in the matrix or I was just super subconsciously aware!

This is outing me to anyone who has seen my back & knows my choice of pets but still...
I was having a tattoo to commemorate my all my past fancy rats who have given me lots of love of the years.
Think characters like little dogs but you can carry them with you round the house in your jumper & have a really long tail.
We were listening to an 80s playlist on Spotify through my phone & were discussing 'that' Inxs video...
My phone was next to me on the table, I hadn't touched it, then 'Need You Tonight' came on...

I have always had a recurring dream. It is of a Bavarian looking town but it is surrounded by desert. In my dream I am during the day time out side the edges of town looking on to the backs of buildings or in the town with everyone going about their lives or it is evening time and I am in the town square where there is a cafe and I sit at one of the metal tables and there is music and dancing.

I have had this dream on and off since I was little. I told my mother about this strange town I would regularly dream about and was told I had a fanciful imagination.

A few years ago after I once again dreamed of the town I googled if such a place existed or if there was a logical explanation of why I kept dreaming about this strange town

It made me feel really weird that a place like I had dreamed about existed many years ago.

I sometimes wonder if our memories are passed down through our dna because I have both the different types of heritage that could place part of my family in that type of area

We were at my friend's sons birthday party just before Christmas. On the way my son said mummy we need to stop and buy a card for Anna (name changed). When I asked him why he said that although she doesn't know yet she is having a girl baby. We can tell her as a surprise for Christmas!
I told her and she laughed it off saying she didn't want any more . Christmas day a text message tells me she having an unexpected baby. 20 week scan today and it's a girl

When I was a teen I was desperate for a sibling, I would plead with my DM but it was always an adamant no. Her partner at the time had fertility issues too which made it unlikely it would ever happen. However one day she walked into my room with a positive pregnancy test and she was in total shock (but I was thrilled )

I was sorting out some drawers a couple of years ago and found an old phone of mine. On the phone was a text I had sent to my DM on Christmas eve saying ‘please have another baby’ (I have no idea why I sent the text as we live in the same house)

Anyway my sister was born exactly a year after I had sent the text on Christmas Eve

[quote TheVolturi]@TheLovelinessOfDemons[/quote]
Oh! Well there goes my rational explain.

@stupiduser yes - my birthday is late March!

@dontsaythj I know it's not "sorted out" as such (understatement) but maybe it was the "black President" bit which stayed in my mind.

@CurryWurstUndPommes Guantanamo is still operational. There are still prisoners held there without trial. In what way did Obama, "sort it out"?

My story:

I was living in university halls. I woke up suddenly very early one morning with my chest pounding and a horrible feeling of dread. I remembered that my room door wasn't locked and I felt compelled to do it immediately.

I had such a strong feeling of fear and something being wrong that I even tried to move quietly in my room as I got up from the bed. As I was doing so, I could hear footsteps approaching.

I turned the key in the lock as quietly as I could, and sat down on the bed staring at the door handle. The footsteps stopped directly outside my door.

I then saw the handle slowly turn. When they saw that it was locked, they turned around and left towards the stairs out of the building.

I have no idea who it was, what their intentions were. I did try to catch a glimpse of the person leaving once they were at the bottom of the stairs, but I didn't manage to see them.

I vividly remember the sense of dread and knowing that I had to lock the door as soon as I woke up.

Years ago my grandad had a picture of wild horses running away from a forest fire-it bugged him that it was painted on the ‘wrong’ side of the canvas
It was a lovely picture with a cheap plastic frame but was held onto the wall with wire on the back of it and a nail in the wall
Every couple of months it would fall off the wall-wire and nail both fine-we’d check every time
Within the hour,we’d get a call to say someone had died
I’ll never forget it falling off and the phone rang within the minute-our family dog had died
Again,it just seemed to lift itself off the wall,fell down undamaged and we got a call to say the neighbour had died
This happened many times over the years-people and animals

Believe it or not,as a child it was normal for this to happen and you’d just have to brace yourself for the phone to ring,which it would and we’d find out who’d died
My grandad ended up in a home and my fathers sister (I refuse to call that old bag my aunt) threw it in a skip along with everything else he owned so it’s lost forever now

On New Year's Day in 2020 I woke up having had a very vivid dream that by the end of the year everyone would be wearing a face covering of some kind because of a deadly disease in the air.

Also on 9.11.2001 I was on a remote beach in Corfu with a then boyfriend. There was a beach bar for locals so we wandered up to it, just at the moment that news was coming through from New York in the TV above the bar. The news was being read in Greek and the screen titles were in Greek so we didn't understand it and only had the pictures to go on.

Moments after, I turned to then boyfriend and apropos of nothing said "George Bush is going to create a prison in Cuba, torture all the suspects and not put them on trial".

He scoffed and told me I was being ridiculous.

I told him that a black president would come next and have to sort it all out.

When my gran died my sister & I were at home while our mum was at the funeral directors about 50 miles away. My sister & I were in my bedroom upstairs (only ones in the house) and we thought we heard the front door being closed, quite loudly too! We were a bit worried as the door hadn't been left open but we checked downstairs and no one was there. Anyway fast forward to my mum coming back from funeral directors and she started telling us about how she was sitting in a room and the door was left open, there was no windows in the room or a draught but randomly the door just slammed itself shut! Instantly me and my sister told mum about us hearing the door closing and it turns out it happened at the same time of day!

One evening in late August 1997 I went to bed early feeling really dizzy and unwell. No mobile phones, TV or radio. I slept fitfully and in the morning woke up and suddenly declared to my mum that I'd had a very odd dream about a princess who had died that night in a car in Paris.

Later that morning we learned the news about Diana.

This was all real but felt glitchy if that makes sense.

I’m in the U.K. and was in our local park cooking sausages on a camping stove for mine & friends children. We finished and I was carrying a leftover sausage in the frying pan to give to my sisters dog (lives near park).

The sun was low in the sky and it was a hazy summer’s evening. We walked around a tree and there were 30 or so Indian ladies dancing in a circle.

The sausage in the frying pan, hazy summers eve & the 30 dancing ladies plunged me into another dimension somehow - it was kind of beautiful.