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Have you ever noticed a blip in the matrix?

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BethanyGilbert · 27/08/2019 11:51

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!

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RubbingHimSourly · 02/09/2019 02:51

Placeitymarkety.

Weston14 · 02/09/2019 04:36

@StillMedusa @Boobindoop @Clankboing I had a similar dream about a relative where she assured me she was dead but at peace. Nothing more than the mind playing tricks, I'm sure, but it made me feel very at peace Smile

Weston14 · 02/09/2019 04:40

@angell84 Bless her she sounds like a bit of a harmless weirdo, I'm not sure it's really a "glitch in the matrix". If she was South American like you say, maybe she meant she heard from your accent that you were English but it got lost in translation.

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user1497863568 · 02/09/2019 04:58

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When I was in the first year of secondary school people kept mistaking me for someone named Elizabeth. Eventually we ran into each other and just stared - we looked uncannily alike. Short, dark hair, olive skin, dark eyes and similar facial features. Same age.. she was born a few days earlier. Turns out her mum's maiden name was the same as my surname. I'm not sure if we ever figured out if we were actually cousins but we still like to think we are :)

Jesaminecollins · 02/09/2019 05:08

Well - what a hilarious day I have had. I don't know if it was a blip in the matrix but I have laughed until my ribs ached.

We decided to go for a drink at our local pub and I was in the ladies brushing my hair etc. when I could hear someone being violently sick in the men's toilets. When I left the toilet and said to the barmaid "Could someone look in the gents because someone sounds so ill I think they might need some help" Then suddenly out comes my husband it was him being sick - I couldn't believe my eyes he is rarely ill - it seems the meal we just had at a local restaurant (seafood dish) had made him ill. I felt fine so we can't complain because it might not have been that. Anyway I then started to laugh (a bit nasty I know) because I do have a dark sense of humour. He tells me not to be so horrible because he feels dreadful - I then drove him home and he spent the rest of the day in bed - happy sunday eh! lol

user1497863568 · 02/09/2019 05:35

My son claimed he heard a banshee which I put down to being just after halloween time and he had probably read something. Five minutes after he told me about it I got a call from my brother saying that the doctors could do nothing more for my mum and we should come say our goodbyes. She died 11 days later. We are Irish descent and I always thought it was hogwash but now not so sure.

A few weeks after her death my son claimed to have seen her at school. I was a bit dubious and asked if she was transparent/scary etc. He said no, she was just dressed in her usual clothes and standing in a corner of the school canteen (tuckshop) smiling at him. That floored me - I had never told my son that my mum used to volunteer one day a week at my school canteen when we were in primary . If was going to see her anywhere at school - that's where she would have been.

When my mum went into hospital with the final leg of her long-term illness (kidney disease) there was a jacarandah tree (magnificent, purple flowered tree) in full bloom just outside her window.Over the next few weeks it gradually lost it's flowers. In the afternoon before she died , there were just a few flowers left. The next morning, after she had died, when I went into collect her things there were no flowers left.

angell84 · 02/09/2019 05:36

@weston14.

No, because I was born in England.

But I grew up in a different country, and I do not have an English accent.

She looked at me weirdly and said, "yeah I HEARD that you were English" and she even kind of spluttered after she said that, like she had said something that ahe shouldn't have said.

She was a really weird one

Jesaminecollins · 02/09/2019 06:53

My Grandmother used to think if you had a bird in the house it was a sign of death - this is rubbish because I have had numerous birds in my house because I am a cat owner - I have also had numerous mice, voles (squealing) a siamese cat (not mine) who tried to steal my cats food and then decided to take a nap on my sofa lol

Anyway a few years ago one of my cats brought a robin into my house which flew around dropping lots of poop and red feathers everywhere - I opened windows hoping it would fly off but nope! in the end I threw a towel over it and put it outside - strangely enough nobody died so that is just superstitious nonsense imho

justfortoday4367 · 02/09/2019 08:55

When I was younger and still lived at home my sisters on separate occasions would see me not where I was. One occasion I was in the living room , my sister came down the stairs walked in and went white saying how are you here I’ve just walked past you going up the stairs. Or my other sister walked into the kitchen screamed as she swore I had just walked in the front room (i was washing up!) some 25 years later both of them are still freaked out by it!

Madcowdisease · 02/09/2019 09:04

I have several weird experiences. Most recently I was driving home on a road I know, I came to a roundabout where I needed the 2nd exit which I took and my friends in the car know I took this exit as they would of told me if I'd gone wrong, 5 minutes later we were a few miles down the road that is off the roundabouts 1st exit no recollection of getting there. We were sober and don't do drugs lol.

DrCoconut · 02/09/2019 09:43

Every time I hear the song crazy for you by let loose I'm reminded of the fact that I already knew it when it was played for the first time on British TV. I was at my friend's house and she was Confused when I said "ooh I like this song". I've since thought maybe it was a cover or something but that doesn't explain it because it was that version by that band that I knew. And well too so not as if I'd maybe heard it once on the radio or something before it was properly publicised. I was unaware that it was not already a popular song.

Catbrat · 02/09/2019 09:46

After reading this thread I'm starting to wonder about something that happened yesterday, usually I would put it down to my mind playing tricks but now I'm not so sure.
Was washing the pots, the skink is directly under the window that looks out in to the garden, trampoline is directly in my view, I saw my daughter bouncing, smiled and carried on with the pots, a second or two later I realized she wasn't even home, looked up and she wasn't there.
Probably my mind just expecting to see her as that scenario happened frequently, but was a bit weird!

Moomin8 · 02/09/2019 09:52

When dd2 was a baby, she was upstairs crying whilst I was simultaneously holding her. I was not the only one who witnessed this either. To say we were confused would be an understatement!

It never happened before or since.

bobstersmum · 02/09/2019 10:00

@DrCoconut I remember that song! Loved it, brings back so many memories, I was at school in the early 90s when that came out.

LittleMissMe99 · 02/09/2019 10:48

As a teenager, I had briefly spoken with a young man called Robin who was on holiday in my town. It was a passing 5 minute conversation. 7 months later I was stood at the bus stop, I turned to my friend and said "wouldn't it be weird if Robin stepped off the next bus?". The bus arrived....you can guess who stepped off

Oliversmumsarmy · 02/09/2019 11:39

I think I can clear this one up the song Crazy for You by Let Loose

It was released the year before but didn't make it so you could have heard it played once somewhere. Then it was re released the following year and it was more popular

DrCoconut · 02/09/2019 12:31

Cool. I have always wanted to get that cleared up. My logical head said there was a rational explanation but I'd never found it.

DrCoconut · 02/09/2019 12:31

@bobstersmum me too!

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 02/09/2019 13:22

I was doing some family history research and in particular was looking for a court case that my great grandmother had been involved in. I was standing in the archives surrounded by all these court records - hundreds of volumes - and said “I don’t know how on earth I’m going to find this” - I knew the month and year but there were thousands of cases to look through and no general index. I despairingly pulled a random volume off the shelf and looked inside - the book fell open right at the page with my great grandmother’s court case.

littletinybubbles · 02/09/2019 13:44

I have several weird experiences. Most recently I was driving home on a road I know, I came to a roundabout where I needed the 2nd exit which I took and my friends in the car know I took this exit as they would of told me if I'd gone wrong, 5 minutes later we were a few miles down the road that is off the roundabouts 1st exit no recollection of getting there. We were sober and don't do drugs lol

Do you think it’s more likely that
A. Some strange paranormal event happened that transported you to a different road for no reason

B. You took the wrong exit and no-one noticed.

I know what I’d put my money on....

commanderdalgleish · 02/09/2019 13:56

My Grandmother used to think if you had a bird in the house it was a sign of death - this is rubbish because I have had numerous birds in my house because I am a cat owner - I have also had numerous mice, voles (squealing) a siamese cat (not mine) who tried to steal my cats food and then decided to take a nap on my sofa lol

It's a sign of the bird's death I suppose

commanderdalgleish · 02/09/2019 13:56

Damn thought I had finally figured out how to quote then!

mrsw2 · 02/09/2019 14:03

Why do people 'placemark' can't they just watch the thread ?

DuchessChesh · 02/09/2019 14:36

A few years ago we lived in the country. Hubby had gone out to celebrate leaving his old job. I went to bed as usual. About 3 am I woke up to see my late father in law stood by the bed on my hubbies side. I blinked and he was gone, unsure if I had dreamed it. I looked at the clock, realised the time and hubby wasn't home. I wouldn't usually be concerned about him, he's a grown man, would often fall asleep downstairs, he had a taxi booked. I would usually just turn over and go back to sleep if I woke up and he wasn't in bed. Something made me call him. He was drunk and trying to walk the 5 miles home along country lanes and across fields having missed his taxi and unable to get another one. I told him to stay where he was and I jumped in the car to pick him up. It was raining heavily, he had no jacket and was soaked through when I eventually found him staggering down a dark lane. I always thought his dad was looking after him. He could have been knocked over, collapsed or died from exposure. Numpty obviously, but grateful to be woken up.

Zaphodsotherhead · 02/09/2019 15:57

Here's a link to the Fortean Times It Happened to Me pages.

Worth perusing, if you like this sort of thing.

forums.forteana.org/index.php?forums/it-happened-to-me.21/