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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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CasanovaFrankenstein · 02/09/2019 15:59

I dreamt (I think) Rutger Hauer died, months before he did. I saw an ad on Facebook for an event he was due to appear at and thought, oh no, they must have scheduled that ages in advance because he died last year. Then I looked it up and at that point he was still alive, I was really puzzled as I was convinced I had read various posts from people about it. I looked to see if it had been a hoax or misreported but couldn't see anything. Then when he died this year, when I read the posts I felt like I'd read them before. Can be explained in that it was all the people I'd expect to say things about his passing, but it was odd as I was so convinced, and such a realistic dream.

Cheeseoncrumpets · 02/09/2019 16:10

Its interesting that some posters have piled on here to accuse us of making up our stories. I can assure you that my story of over taking the same car several times from the first page, certainly isnt made up! It happened and left me feeling really unnerved for ages afterwards.

Oliversmumsarmy · 02/09/2019 16:35

Never used to believe in parallel universes or blips in time and space, always put it down to someone either being a bit drunk or just not paying attention but the more and more weird shit happens to me and things disappear in the words of Sherlock Holmes

Onceyou eliminatethe impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth

We have torn the house a part looking for the letter and cheque that disappeared Saturday.

Like dps phone and the suitcase and other minor things that have disappeared you know it must be somewhere but where is up for speculation and the only explanation we can come up with is our sofa is a portal to a parallel universe and if someone can find where the letter or the phone or the suitcase went then I would be willing to discount the theory but as that is the only possibility that we can come up with that hasn't been discounted then by reasons of deduction it has to be true

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spiderlight · 02/09/2019 16:40

Many years ago, I had flu - proper, bad, scary flu, with a temperature so high that my very level-headed and unflappable boyfriend was considering calling an ambulance. I was asleep on the sofa and I woke up briefly, said 'When Mike rings, tell him I'm not dead' and then went back to sleep again. A little while later, Mike, an ex from university with whom I'd stayed friendly but had had little contact with since he'd emigrated several years before, rang my home phone in a panic to ask if I was OK, saying he'd been walking down the street and had seen my reflection in a shop window so clearly that he'd run straight home to find my number. No idea why I'd 'appeared' to him and not someone closer, though!

Palmysterious · 02/09/2019 16:40

I find the idea of time slips/matrix stuff fascinating.

Have had several small glitchy things happen to me but the most weird was when I was a young teen still at school.

I glanced down to my hands resting on the desk while listening to the teacher and they had become the hands of a very old lady! All wrinkly with age spots on the skin, etc. But they were definitely ‘mine’.

This only lasted around five seconds and totally freaked me out.
I hope it’s a sign that I’ll live to a good age and, perhaps, one day I’ll look down and my hands will actually look like that......

fairydustandpixies · 02/09/2019 16:42

For ten years after I left home and up until my two DS were toddlers, my parents regularly heard me come in through the front door, walk up the stairs, go in the bathroom and then go to my old bedroom. Footsteps, doors opening and closing, taps on and off and so on.

My dad is absolutely not woo, this used to freak him out, especially after I'd had my boys. They 'knew' it was me and often peeped in my old room to see if I was there. I never was!

When I lived at home I used to hate the stairs and landing because I always felt there was someone behind me. Maybe it was me...

Iamneverfull · 02/09/2019 17:00

Not sure if this counts and it sounds ridiculous! We were driving the other day on a quiet road and I saw a Mr Bean car and as it got closer I looked at the driver and it was Mr Bean? It was very odd as it was he had the mannerisms and suit, the face was his as if he was still the same age. Both my partner and I looked at each other and asked if we saw, we've googled impersonators in that area but even in the UK none of them match up to what we saw! Very strange but I am sure just a very good and dedicated impersonator!

Drogosnextwife · 02/09/2019 17:16

@BooksAreMyOnlyFriends

For the past 8 years or so my mum sees 11.11 on the clock all the time. She says it happens constantly. Happens a lot when I'm with her (we spend a lot of time together as we do the same job) she regularly checks her phone and says, look 11.11 again! She's convinced that she is going to die at 11 mins past 11 😂

Dowser · 02/09/2019 19:25

When my chubby baby son was 6 months old and weighed what a year old weighed I referred to him as Lord podge
My friend said don’t do that
I had a friend and he was known by Podge Sinclair all his life even though his real name was David
So I got out of the habit and always called my son by his name

4o years later and A couple of weeks ago his name popped into my head
Podge Sinclair. It kept coming into my head.
I’d never even met the man
Picked up the local free paper and there was his obituary

Now that was weird. His nickname, real name all there.

Same thing happened with my lovely but very old doctor
His name popped into my head
Got the free paper and there was his obituary

Moomin8 · 02/09/2019 19:48

@Drogosnextwife 11.11 is well known to have some sort of significance in relation to the matrix. Its not generally regarded as a bad omen.

Orangepearl · 02/09/2019 19:57

May add that when I was younger (I didn’t know I was doing this) as I chatted to a person about the future I would see pictures like a film of how I imagined their future. Like ‘imagine if this happened how would you feel about this?

One in particular life turned out just how I thought. Unusual things you couldn’t guess. I find it embarrassing he must think I’m a witch!

Must be a scientific glitch!

Loopytiles · 02/09/2019 20:01

Sat outside a pub in Whitehall, London (hadn’t been drinking!), it went v cool and quiet and felt like was physically close to the 40s.

Could well be because am aware of the history with VE Day, Cenotaph etc.

Al2O3 · 02/09/2019 20:13

@Loopytiles

Sat outside a pub in Whitehall, London (hadn’t been drinking!), it went v cool and quiet and felt like was physically close to the 40s.

Haha, you alluding to BoJo standing on the steps of Downing Street exactly two hours ago, doing his Winston Churchill impression?

(Was the pub the Clarence?)

StrandedStarfish · 02/09/2019 20:18

I have always had a deep mistrust of freemasonry. My family think this is weird as Freemasonry has never touched my life.

The living history museum near us, have just rebuilt a Freemasons hall. I went in with a friend. As I stood on he balcony, I felt like I had been there before, and I had a feeling of standing there looking down at another friend. I felt I was suffocating.

The tour guide took me downstairs to get some air. As I stood, another visitor asked who the pictures were on the walls. The tour guide didn’t know, but I did. These were drawings of Freemasons from the 1920’s.

I cannot explain it.

Drogosnextwife · 02/09/2019 20:34

@Moomin8

I'll let her know, I'm sure she will be relieved Grin

RocketRacoonsFurryBalls · 02/09/2019 21:05

More of a coincidence really.

I have six names. When I was in New Zealand, I got chatting to a Scottish guy. He said his name was [third name]. I just knew his surname would be [fourth name], and it was.

We had fun comparing passports.

nespressowoo · 02/09/2019 21:06

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angell84 · 02/09/2019 21:12

I am in Liverpool . I must go for a walk down that time travel streer

CoolCarrie · 02/09/2019 21:17

When my son was about 5 he was in his bed and I went in to say good night, and suddenly “saw” him as a teenager wearing a Star Wars t shirt, now he is 16 , and looks just as I“saw “ him, even down to the same t shirt.

ginandbearit · 02/09/2019 21:17

cheeseoncrumpets Ive had exactly that experience.. Motorway driving , middle lane in free flowing traffic. Left hand lane was full and going slower, I passed an older Escort type van with an older chap driving , in builders overalls, window down, looking very relaxed and calm. I continued driving for another twenty or so minutes still in mid lane , still overtaking all in left lane, there had been no holdups, no left lane catching up with me ...and there he was again, same older van , same older chap toodling along...i had a very strange 'out of time 'feeling for a few seconds ..never saw him again as we were still moving at seperate speeds in different lanes ..most odd

coragreta · 02/09/2019 21:26

How do the 'it's all got a logical explanation' people explain the time lapse. Where you leave work at 5 drive 20mjnutes home and arrive at 8. People don't just forget 2hrs when driving a familiar route.

littletinybubbles · 03/09/2019 07:49

cheeseoncrumpets Ive had exactly that experience.. Motorway driving , middle lane in free flowing traffic. Left hand lane was full and going slower, I passed an older Escort type van with an older chap driving , in builders overalls, window down, looking very relaxed and calm. I continued driving for another twenty or so minutes still in mid lane , still overtaking all in left lane, there had been no holdups, no left lane catching up with me ...and there he was again, same older van , same older chap toodling along...i had a very strange 'out of time 'feeling for a few seconds ..never saw him again as we were still moving at seperate speeds in different lanes ..most odd

He pulled into the fast lane overtook you then went back to the slow lane. At which point you overtook him again. All the time you continued in the middle lane. That’s pretty simple surely!

Drogosnextwife · 03/09/2019 08:37

The one that pops I to my mind recently was when I was driving the kids home from softplay. Driving a long a normal one lane road but there are a couple of roundabouts and at each one, there is a double lane once you get trough the roundabout for about 300 yards, for cars to overtake the big trucks that travel the road. I got to the second roundabout and overtook a large truck infront of me. A middle aged man with greyish hair a red checked shirt driving, the truck was a name I recognised but can't remember it now. Got back to the single lane road, me now in front of the truck and came to the next roundabout. This roundabout takes you to join a motorway, I join the mororway and about 200 yards along, another truck with the same name, I pulled out to over take and it had the same guy driving. Now, there is absolutely no way to join that motorway any faster, I've been driving it for years and the only way onto it from the first road is to go round that roundabout. It was definitely the same guy, I started at him all the way past. Same shirt same hair, everything. Was a very surreal experience

GlitchyWitch · 03/09/2019 08:39

When I was about 10 my dad used to go to work on a moped although we also had a car for family outings.

One evening he was coming home down a country lane and fell off his moped - probably swerved to avoid a pheasant or something. Anyway he was unhurt but obviously the moped ended up on its side and when he picked it up the keys were no longer in the ignition; they’d fallen out in the course of the “crash”.

He ended up searching fruitlessly for ages before wheeling his moped a couple of miles to the nearest petrol station from where he phoned my mum to come and get him and where he could leave his moped overnight.

Next day we took the car to roughly where he’d had the prang and started searching the verge for his keys.

At some point I came across a largeish stone in the rough grass - about the size of an adult fist and it was very much IN the grass (you know when the grass has grown all around the sides of something) and for some reason I felt compelled to lift it up. It was ridiculous to think the keys would be under it but at the same time I knew - KNEW - they would be. I remember my heart leaping in excitement because we’d been getting ready to abandon the search and I knew mum and dad would be so relieved and they’d make a huge fuss of me for finding them!

And they were. Underneath a stone that had been in the same place for so long that when I moved it, it left a deep imprint in the grass and soil under it. It was literally as if they’d been placed there - like you’d hide spare keys under a rock in the garden.

I’m completely non- woo but that was really odd.

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