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!

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!

Yeah that's what I assumed as well. This happens to me all the time on motorways and I just always assumed the vehicle has overtaken me at some point and I'd not noticed - never occurred to me it was anything creepy.

Having said that there are a number of rather inexplicable stories on here - especially the time lapse ones.

@LoveMyDaughterT your post is very interesting.

A few weeks ago I was fast asleep when I heard my Dad shout my name so loudly that it made me jump up and I was so shaken that I was awake for the rest of the night. (We were around 9,000km apart at the time).

Four days later he was taken for emergency surgery to remove a cancerous tumour.

Another odd thing but I think actually not that uncommon is being able to 'feel' an earthquake about 24 hours before it happens.

If I come over all faint/dizzy for around 5 seconds and need to sit down, I sometimes say out loud there will be a high magnitude earthquake to the east tomorrow - and sure enough within 24 hours there is. I've started to try to fine tune it now, for example to say that I will only believe this is a thing if the magnitude is over 6 and if it is within 12 hours etc. But then there are so many times that you can feel sick/dizzy for no reason, is it really a coincidence instead?!

I think some governments around the world actually employ people who are very good at this. It must be an inner ear thing where people who are more sensitive to under earth movements & rumblings can pick it up.

Ooh here's one for you which has just popped into my head having read an article about Tutankhamun on the Graun this morning.

In about 2007 there was an exhibition of Tutankhamun stuff on at the O2 and I booked tickets because DS was mad on Egypt stuff at the time. I very distinctly remember the night before we went watching an item on The One Show, or a similar type of magazine programme, about the exhibition. When the item ended the presenters in the studio crossed over to a roving reporter who was live at the O2 with one of Tutankhamun's sarcophagi (I think he had a couple, one-inside-the-other like Russian dolls). It wasn't the one everyone knows with the blue and yellow striped crown, but this one:

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He was explaining he'd been granted exclusive access blah blah blah and was stating how exceedingly rare it was to have access to the sarcophagus outside of Egypt. So we were very excited to see it.

Exhibition came and went and as brilliant as it was, there was no sign of the sarcophagus. We did a bit of Googling and the sarcophagus was never meant to be part of the exhibition in the first place. But myself and DS both distinctly remember watching the bit about it on the One Show!

Must be King Tut's curse...

@BigusBumus
You know o get this exact feeling sometimes. I lay in bed and will read and then all of a sudden I feel like my thumbs are ginormous and I've growing to big for the room and bed. I have to close my eyes for s little while and wait for the weird feeling to wash away.

Never liked it

I was a passenger in a car in France, we were lost, and somehow ended up at the border going into Switzerland. We carried on driving, thinking we would explore, then came up to the same French border and crossed for a second time into Switzerland.

It was some Hogwarts type unmappable shit.

Not so much a blip necessarily but a really odd coincidence.

Some months ago I had a dream of being in a house which had a really strange loft. It extended along the side and top of the house - as I was standing looking, it was all to my right. Beams were at 45 degree angles stretching up and down and it was a huge space reaching way back.
(Hard to really describe it, other than there were lots of beams and it was massive).

We recently had a holiday where we spent a lot of time on beaches, and on one we got chatting to this guy and his son who was a similar age to my DD. He had a load of pets apparently, and DD was interested in seeing them, so we arranged to go and visit them at a later date.
Just got back from their house, which he was proudly showing us around. It's a split-level house on a steep hillside. He was particularly keen to show us the 'really interesting bit' - and that's where it gets odd. He opened a door in the hallway which lead into the loft space. It stretched up and down and all along one side of the house. Reaching really far back. It was the mirror image of the loft in my dream.
[fails to find 'woo' emoticon]

This has to be the weirdest “coincidence” that’s happened to me.
My best friend and I were driving to an evening aerobics class in the summer, it was twilight and the sun was setting when a meteor shot across the sky, we could see the flaming orange “tail” and it burnt out after about 4 seconds. I was so pleased to have seen one as it’s a once in a lifetime thing to see. After our class I looked on Twitter and other people had witnessed it too. Very cool.

About 8 years later best friend and I were driving home from a day out shopping and it suddenly started to snow, all the traffic ground to a standstill and we stopped alongside a beautiful country house which we were having a nosey at, and in one window what appeared to be a totally cloud like white woman wearing a bonnet appeared and we both saw it and did a little squeak of terror. It wasn’t a ghost but some strange condensation effect on the glass but it left us a little freaked out as it was so eerie and it looked just like a woman looking out.

The snow then stopped as suddenly as it started, I joked and said “that was weird- all we need is to see another meteor” and at that EXACT second a meteor shot through the sky- much faster than the first one years before but it was most definitely one- had the flaming tail and same colour.

Wooooooo! 👻

On Alice in Wonderland syndrome, I think I have it too –but as well as the 'feeling big/small' thing, there's an almost buzzing or gritty or woolly sensation in my head at the same time. VERY hard to describe, but does anyone know what I mean?

Vegan pretty much same stuff has happened to me quite a few times - will never know how it happens in our lifetime I think it’s something to do with physics! (I’m normally a matter of fact type!

@DarlingNikita - yes, I get those feelings in my head in the run-up to a migraine. I've tried and failed to explain them to umpteen neurologists - now I just label it 'the migraine feeling' and reach for my Imigran!

About 50% of these are people convinced the world has shifted rather than they drove the wrong way absent mindedly!

spiderlight, odd, because I don't get migraines

Or maybe Alice in Wonderland syndrome is in part very mild migraine symptoms...?

@littletinybubbles haven't you got another parade you can go and rain on? We get it, you're a skeptic and you don't believe in 'woo'

@Chunkers

I am 100% sure I saw the series ‘Manifest’ advertised years ago. Was at a friends house recently who has Sky TV (I don’t) and it was showing a preview. I said great, was hoping this would come on sometime. She asked what it was about and I explained the brief plot and in particular the twins when one had aged and the other didn’t.

There was a tv show a few years back called Les Revenants (it was French subtitled but then remade a year later in English with the title The Returned). The plot of that show was a bus crashed and killed a lot of school kids and they all returned 5 years later. The main character(s) were the twin girls. One had been in the bus so had not aged and was 14 but the other was 19. Perhaps you were thinking of that show as some of the plot does sound similar.

I have a few but only really feel comfortable sharing this one.

When my DD was 3 she done a mix of mornings and full days at nursery. My mum would collect her every Wednesday at lunchtime from nursery and watch her for me until I finished work at 5:30 (my aunt done the same thing on the Thursday).

This particular Wednesday morning I was getting her ready as normal to go to nursery and reminded her that gran would be picking her up at lunchtime. She looked me right in the eye and said, ‘no mummy (DB girlfriends name) is getting me today’. I confirmed that no it would be gran picking her up and thought no more of it as 3 year olds say random stuff like that all the time. She had met my brothers girlfriend a good few times but she hadn’t seen her in a couple of months. She had also never picked up DD from nursery or even looked after her.

Well later on that morning my uncle (who was already in poor health) had another stroke and my mum went to hospital with him. My brothers girlfriend did end up collecting DD from nursery that day as she was the only one available who could get there on time.

I never mentioned what DD said beforehand to anyone, I didn’t actually find out until I finished work and my mum called to tell me what had happened. Of course it could just be a coincidence but it did make me wonder.

BigusBumus - I had the same thing when I was young - so did my mother. It was very strange - you feel huge but everything feels far, far away! I was going to quote Alice in Wonderland syndrome too!

I had that a lot when I was a child too

One morning at work a couple of months back Weak by Skunk Anansie popped in to my head, totally randomly, hadn't heard it in years, and then it played on the radio. Complete coincidence but spun me out a little. Another time I was working, (in my job there's a lot of looking at street names) and I got to one street name that was the surname of someone very dear to me who died, not a common surname, I then saw the customer who lived at the address had the same first name as him, and at the same time, the song that was played at his funeral came on the radio. I text my mum straight away proper weirded out

@littletinybubbles not bored yet?

@DarlingNikita I know exactly what you mean - for me it happened whenever I had a fever as a child

We were on holiday in Denmark last month and we did a bit of driving. We heard the Killer's song "Are we human or are we dancers" 3 times during the week on different radio stations.
I commented on it as I really like that song and hadn't heard it on the radio for years.
Back home, leaving for work on my first day back and just as I drove out of my estate " are we human or are we dancers" came on the radio.
Great coincidence.

A couple of photos. One's a school photo of mine from sixth form, usual thing with a slightly side-on pose. Apart from uniform and colour technology, was almost freakily the same (same size, mount, scale/distance, hair length, smile, pose and light reflection) as one of my Mum's Mum from around the late 1940s, who died around a decade before I was born. I wouldn't have said I was that similar to her in most other years of my development but those 2 compared are undeniable.
The other I can think of was a photo when I was slightly younger. It is a Christmas one and I am sitting on the floor not looking at the camera because I am opening a present in my lap. When developed, it turns out I am right under a large painting and am wearing the same sort of clothes and hairstyle as the painted girl (black and cream, over-heavy kind of bun), who is looking down and bent slightly over, reading a letter. Posture again is a real mirror.

@ThanksForAllTheFish. Thanks for that! It was definitely a plane scenario I remember, but I now have two series to watch, found while looking for the returned! I didn’t see that coming...

@Chunkers If you like those series check out Glitch in Netflix too. It's not an exact remake but it's basically the Aussie version of The Returned

@Al2O3 LOL! Sound like my kind of supernatural experience