Have you ever noticed a blip in the matrix?

[BethanyGilbert]

When I was at university we were driving through and unfamiliar part of town. We noticed a school child running and then when he stopped another child further along the road started. This then happened again with a third child. They were in school uniforms, not sports kits and they didn’t seem to interact with each other. My friend noticed it too and at the time we couldn’t stop laughing. Has anyone else got any stories similar? Blips in the matrix.

I do know on MN story about someone seeing their older selves and then their younger selves outside their childhood home!

Many years ago when I lived in Dublin I owned a green Cavalier estate. Sold it and thought no more of it until I was visiting deepest co. Galway and passed a private house where the same car was waiting to pull out of the driveway. What are the odds?

Today actually - walking out of the supermarket as a lady and her dog were walking in, then drive out of the car park and turned left, drive on for a bit and saw the same lady and dog walking down the pavement towards the supermarket. Was v weird!

While on holiday at Disney world, we boarded a ride and sat next to a couple.
The next day we went to a different park and boarded a ride to find ourselves sitting next to the same couple!!
Of all the rides, in all the parks, we chose the same one at the same time, spooky!

Blatant placemarking so I can read this with a coffee tomorrow

A few years ago, I was in my bedroom packing for a weekend away in the countryside. I remember trying to fit my heavy jacket in the bag (it was midwinter) then deciding I’d wear it instead. The (landline) rang. It was a wrong number, but the lady was nice, and I tried to help her figure out where she’d gone wrong with the number. She said something like ‘Oh Jenny, you’d lose your own head if it wasn’t screwed on!’ (about herself). I said ‘That’s funny, I’m a Jenny too!’

Ok, turns out her middle and last names matched mine as well. And that she lived in the same obscure tiny country town I was about to drive to in a couple of hours. Freakiest of all, she warned me that there was a big dangerous patch of black ice just at the turnoff from the highway.

You can believe I’ve never driven so carefully in my life. When someone with your exact name randomly calls and warns you of something, you tend to take notice! (and I couldn’t be less ‘woo’ if I tried)

I live in the far suburbs of Greater London and very rarely go in to central London any more. I got in a lift at Covent Garden which is usually madly busy and the only person who also got in there was my cousin who lived in Jersey and I had not seen for years.

Have to comment. I too have had a few of these experiences. The DeJa Vuis specifically make me want to comment. It turns out that I have Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE).

@origamiunicorn and @Atlasta,
your experiences resonate with me. I am not for one moment suggesting that you both, or loads of you have epilepsy but I just wanted to put this out there as one 'possible' reason for this 'phenomena' sometimes.
In TLE, DeJa Vuis themselves are considered a seizure/aura. Many folks do not know that they have epilepsy as seizures can be 'mild' like zoning out/day dreaming. Mine are simple partial seizures that look like fainting. I don't have tonic-clonic jerky seizures.

Not wanting to worry anyone, just putting this out there as food for thought

I must have been about 8/9 and my aunt took me, my sister and my cousins to see a live kid’s show on stage at Wembley. During the performance I saw my little 3yo cousin running down the aisle and climbing up the stairs onto the stage. I grabbed my aunt’s sleeve and said “quick, cousin is down there, go get her”. At which point my aunt looked at me like I was crazy, and leaned over to show me cousin sitting in her seat, laughing along to the show. I couldn’t believe it, I absolutely saw her down there!
That cousin is now a pretty famous singer/songwriter and appears on stage all over the world.

^Casander

Not so much spooky but definitely gut instinct.

I take part in a competitive sport, I've done it since I was a child and other than the usual nerves before I go in I'm usually pretty confident. One day I had been away for a few days at a competition and the last day I had the most awful nerves, I was sick, upset stomach, tearful, and I really, really didn't want to do it. My friends all thought I'd gone mad, especially being the last day and convinced me to do it.

I had a freak accident that couldn't have been predicted (ie wasn't down to my nerves) and broke my leg in 4 places and now I can no longer compete.
I genuinely think it was my subconscious screaming at me not to do it.^

I had a similar experience when I went in to labour with my second child. I'd had my first with no pain relief, 16hrs back to back labour so I wasn't afraid of the pain.
As soon as labour started for the 2nd time, I became very panicky, almost hysterical at times. The midwives dismissed me as a scared mum but I and my mum knew that wasn't the case.
My child became distressed and I was rushed in to theatre. Turns out the baby was well over 10lbs and had got stuck, he was resuscitated 3 times and was very very poorly.

I believe my body was telling me not to attempt Labour although I couldn't vocalise it I knew something was wrong

There was a girl at primary

I didn't have many friends generally, and she was a bit aloof I guess. One day she just started playing with me, and we played together quite a bit.

Easter holidays came and turns out we were together for a holiday club the whole two weeks. Became good friends, on the Friday 2 days before school started again it was all "bye, see you on monday" "come round mine for tea soon" etc. We had become really good friends

Monday at school she wasn't in, and she just never came back. No one ever mentioned she'd gone, on the first day the teacher was like "oh x is off today" and then never spoke of her again. None of the other pupils mentioned that she' just disappeared, it was about 2 years later when I said to someone "what happened to x" and they said "oh yeah, no idea"

She didn't say she was leaving. I often wondered if I'd completely made her up. It was so weird how no one seemed to even notice she'd gone and no one seemed to really remember her

I lived in a smallish community and she was never seen since

Logically as an adult, something must have happened and they must have had to move quickly. But it was really creepy as a child

origamiunicorn
I have a vivid memory of a 5 min stretch of a 45 min journey to work once to Manchester on the bus where everything and everyone appeared to just have the colour , calmness and happiness dial ramped up to to highest notch.. It’s was 22 years ago, I tried to repeat the morning so many times by doing the same things the night before and on the morning but it never occurred to be as beautiful ever again.

Your Duran Duran car moment sounds lovely, and just like it. A gorgeous matrix blip.

Where is this digital spy thread?

@A1203 let us know when your next bbq is!

Mine isn't exactly a glitch more strange but nice occurance about life/death

At my grandmother's funeral, during the Vicar's sermon, he was talking about her being remembered by "her children, her grandchildren... and indeed, her great grandchildren" the great gc part was said in an emphasised, knowing way and he turned to look at our family knowingly as he said this. We all turned to look at eachother bemused as my grandma had no grandchildren. He spoke about her great gc a few times as if they existed.

After the sermon as we walked through the cemetary and spoke about that being strange, the vicar must be confused, I said to my family as a joke 'oh by the way, I haven't told you yet, I am pregnant, I thought I would tell the Vicar first!'

I was young at the time and wasn't trying for a baby and didn't know I possibly could be pregnant. I also have health problems, which means it should be v difficult for me to get pregnant and had not long before been encouraged to freeze my eggs as I may need a full hysterectomy.

A few weeks later I was off work sick, feeling dizzy and generally fluey and my mum came to see me and asked if I might be pregnant I told her not to be stupid, of course I wasn't. She was very persostant about tjis and went and bought me a pregnancy test, which I laughed off. Later that night she called me and told me again to do the pregnancy test, which I did and low and behold I was pregnant. I thought it was a weird coincidence what the vicar had said, but to make things even stranger, my due date was exactly 9 months after my grandma passed to the day, which also happens to be DS birthday. I thought it was quite a nice message about new life after death but also sad she never got to meet my DC as she loved my OH and would have been v happy for us.

Was once passed by three identical cars in a row - all top of the range gleaming white 4x4s, so not exactly the most common of cars.

we passed a side road that was 'DH surname' Road, and on it, a pub called The 'DH Surname' Inn

Similar to that, I needed to get a bus from a railway station. The bus didn't go to my destination, but I got off at the nearest stop to walk the rest of the way. The closest stop was a road with my first name in it, not a common name (you can't get any souvenirs with my name printed on them)! We took a photo of it

My DS and cousin both fell pregnant at the same time and were both excited to have their DC together. DS and cousin spoke about their babies alot, discussing names, baby groups, nurseries, growing up together and how they would be more like siblings. Cousin had convinced herself she was having a boy and was going to call him Callum.

Sadly cousin suffered a miscarriage and DS pregnancy progressed and she gave birth to my darling neice. Cousin and DS sadly drifted apart.

From a very young age, my DN would laugh and smile at nothing. Would appear to be sharing her toys with someone and would look over your shoulder when you were talking or playing with her. She would chatter away in her bedroom to no one. When she began to talk and we asked her who she was talking to, she informed us matter of factly that it was her cousin Callum. My DN played with 'Callum' up until she was about 4. She insisted he sat at the table, joined her at nursery and came everywhere with us. One day she just stopped mentioning him.

My DN is 13 now and I tell her how she had an 'imaginery' friend called Callum when she was young. She doesn't remember. My DS and I are not too convinced he was 'imaginery!'

Wow

This thread reminded me of this story:portalsoflondon.com/2017/07/02/the-woolwich-anomaly/

@origamiunicorn

A very similar thing has happened to me too.
I was walking home from work one evening, my normal 30 minute route. It wasn't a particularly "nice evening" it was grey outside and everything seemed normal.

As I approached the subway which led onto the estate I lived on an overwhelming sense of peace and happiness came over me, it was almost euphoric and I remember tears filling my eyes and I couldn't believe how happy and "at one" I felt. Everything around me seemed the light up with colour and the sky swirled orange and grey. I'll never forget it. It kind of drifted off when it got to the end of the subway.
I told my mum about this a couple of nights ago funnily enough.
Anyone who saw me must've thought I was high as kite 🤣

Best thread for months. I have had psychic experiences but not blips in the Matrix yet..

Oh! Another one! But this one happened to my DH back when we were just starting to go out.

We were going for a night out in the big town. This involves a train journey with two stops.

DH started freaking out as we walked out of the station. He explained that he'd seen "the same girl 3 times on our journey into town at different places"

He first saw her walking down my road as we left my house. Then he'd seen her on the platform as the train stopped at the first station. He'd then seen her walk into the station at the big town as we left....

He was properly scared by this, he described her and then got annoyed at me when I started laughing, he had seen the triplets who lived a few doors down from me on the way home from their various jobs....

What an fascinating thread!
I was driving home late one night and passed two young females on the pavement opposite a well-lit garage. They were both tall, though of different heights and looked as though they were made of soft, stretched plastic. Their legs shocked me the most, as they tapered down to a very thin point towards their feet. They also had very long, lank blond hair, which draped down around their faces. They looked like CGI figures!

When I was working in a bar in Tenerife, a customer bought a drink that came to around 1000 pesatas and gave me a 10,000 note so I got his change and went to hand it to him.... at which point he opened his wallet and gave me a 10,000 note... again.
It's like it happened twice but to him it was like I knew what he was about to give me (It was an unusually large denomination note, think like the equivalent to a £100 note).
It's so hard to explain but I was like 'you just paid me' and he was like 'no I haven't'. I checked and there was no 10,000 note. It was definitely like a glitch in the matrix. So weird.
Hope that makes sense!

Ever since I was young, from around the age of 12, I seem to have seen 11:11 on the clock a lot. Mainly at night I'll stir and it will often be 11:11 but sometimes I'll glance at the clock during the day and it's 11:11.
I've never told anyone that. Dh would think I was ridiculous!