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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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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 05/09/2019 22:28

Not a glitch in the matrix, more a false memory. My daughter swears she can remember Matt Smith (Doctor Who coming into her school assembly and talking about the new serious coming up). She even remembers her friends asking him a question. She particularly re calls him saying. I used to go to this school and I remember those green curtains. I obviously can’t put the school but we live in Liverpool. On googling him it turns out he’s never lived or been to school here.
Turns out it never happened and none of her friends/class mates could remember it. Well of course they couldn’t it didn’t happen.

Another strange one... One night I dreAmt of Whitney Houston. She was in a hotel singing and dancing to her song.
I will always love you. It’s quite a calm and mellow song, well as you know. Anyone she singing it all remixed and upbeat. I woke up to the news that she had died.

I once saw my dads doppelgänger in the bed next to me. Back story, I always used to get in bed with my parents in the night and in the morning when my mum got up and went down. It was just me and my dad and I turned around and saw another one of my dad, and I remember saying as clear as day.
Daddy there’s a man here who has got the same face as you, and my dad said “Oh ignore him. He’ll go away in a minute.”.
I appreciate it could have been a dream or my imagination or maybe I’d seen something on TV about doppelgänger or twins even and now it’s hard or rather impossible to know if it was real or not.

Brilliant thread btw. Some excellent stories

PulyaSochsup · 06/09/2019 01:33

Babyspider, your father’s reaction speaks volumes. It sounds like he may have seen him before. It’s certainly a very calm reaction, but perhaps the best one under the circumstances.

He obviously didn’t want you to feel frightened.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 06/09/2019 02:48

Oh that does make a lot of sense @pulysochsup. I’ve never thought of it like that.

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 06/09/2019 02:50

Also my dad had an alcohol addiction and a few break downs when I was little. They say a doppelgänger can visit in times of illness, don’t they

GlitchyWitch · 06/09/2019 09:00

Alice In Wonderland syndrome is mentioned in Comfortably Numb isn’t it?

LadyFlumpalot · 06/09/2019 10:05

My washing basket was empty once. That was a weird glitch. The next day it was almost full again so the matrix had obviously righted itself again.

MorvaanReed · 06/09/2019 10:11

One night I dreamed about a friend who was, as far as I knew, completely healthy and uninjured walking through the door of a pub that I went to a lot and she didn't on crutches.

A couple of nights later it happened.

CarolineKate · 06/09/2019 10:17

The other day I was doing dishes and watched the postman go to my neighbours house. I kept watching because I wanted to see if he would walk across my grass (everyone does this and it annoys me). A bit of time went by and I thought wow he's taking ages there. Then I noticed him coming back from the other end of the street. I was so perplexed. Even if I looked down for a second he wouldn't have gone passed my house in time. It's like he went through a portal lol!!

Wishiweremorewitty · 06/09/2019 10:19

Been interesting reading this thread over the last few days. Some more woo than others but all interesting.
Well today I have something to add myself. So today i’m home alone. It’s my youngest first full day of pre-school and my eldest is at primary school. As i’m sorting the washing out to wash I hear a brief siren, kind of like a police car but not loud enough to be a real one more like a toy. Neither of my girls have a toy police car... or anything that sounds like that. I did check out the window and definitely no police cars outside and from my house I can see all the way down the road so if there had been one I would have seen it. Besides as I was looking out the window it happened again and it was definitely inside. Checked all through the girls rooms to see if I could find anything that couldn’t have made that sound and nothing. It’s not happened again since it happened (about 45mins ago) although it happened once before just after we moved in last year but I just thought it was my imagination then.
Very odd 🤔

herbsmokedchicken · 06/09/2019 13:49

Pure coincidence obvs but today someone loudly banged a door just as the YouTube video I was watching did a jump scare! Love when two unconnected noises happen at the exact same time but did scare me lol

JuneSpoon · 06/09/2019 13:59

LadyFlumpalot Grin

CircleofWillis · 06/09/2019 14:45

My daughter and I were in a department store while on holiday. After shopping for a while we had more items than we could carry so went to the front entrance to get a basket. A mother and child entered the store. The daughter was about 6 years older than mine.

My daughter called out to the child "Hello Emma!" and Emma said "Hi" in return. I was amazed and asked if the girl was from our home town (we were on holiday 200 miles from home). She wasn't, she was local and didn't recognize my daughter.

I asked my daughter how she knew the girl's name and she said she didn't know, she just did. The mother and I tried to work out how my daughter had known (name necklace, bag etc, mother calling out child's name, previous meeting on holiday, child appeared on tv) but none of the suggestions were valid.

We both just scratched our heads and parted deciding it was just a weirdly lucky guess.

GreenwoodLane · 06/09/2019 16:00

@LadyFlumpalot Grin

Howling with laughter here. I often have that problem.

badhairallthetime · 06/09/2019 17:18

I live in the house where I grew up - moved out in my 20s into a flat then did a council house swap with my Mum once I'd had my daughter and needed more space.

I also still have the same best friend that I've had since secondary school. Let's call her Susan.

About a year ago I had a dream that my best friend was in the kitchen of my house, and we were the age we are now. My friend has lovely long hair but in the dream she'd cut it short - sort of 80s undercut style type thing. In the dream we were talking about her new hair and I was reassuring her that it was really cool etc.

The evening of the day after I had the dream, called my Mum for a chat. She said "I had the strangest dream last night... I was in your kitchen but it was back when I lived there and you and Susan were there but you were teenagers. The funniest thing was... Susan had a really odd haircut! Short sort of like a bob, really short up the back of her head." Tbh I knew what she was going to say before she said it!

"Susan" also called me the next day to tell me that her Grandad had died (there was some other stuff in my version of the dream to do with Susans Mum and Aunty, trying to phone them but not being able to get through).

I didn't say anything to Mum as she's religious and would have been freaked out by it. But I've always been a bit "sensitive" to this type of thing, my dear Nan used to say that she thought she "had the gift". My DD is also sensitive. So I presume my Mum is too but because of religious beliefs it's suppressed.

Not sure how that can be random coincidence.

lyralalala · 06/09/2019 19:58

My only really weird one was about 8 years ago I had a really vivid dream in which I got phone call to say that DH had been injured in an accident at work. In the dream I went into meltdown and couldn’t think straight to deal with everything that I needed to do because of the children and getting to where he was (600 miles away) and I was just in bits. When I woke up I was actually crying and panicking still. So to calm myself I got a small bag together - just overnight clothes and a couple of essentials. I looked up trains, flights and driving instructions so I had a good idea which would be the quickest way and I finally sorted out my access to MIL’s family calendar so I knew when she, FIL and BIL were working (they all worked shifts so had a family calendar back from when DH’s Granny was getting looked after between them all).

I had some breakfast, did the school run and came home to a call saying DH had been badly injured at work and could I get there ASAP.

Coincidence I’m sure, but quite freaky.

lyralalala · 06/09/2019 20:01

When she was very little DD2 had a very creepy knack of predicting would die. I was brought up by my Grandparents so my aunts and uncles, and their friends, were all older than average. It became a bit of a running joke that she could smell it. 5 times in 2 years she said “Won’t it be sad when X dies” and within 2 days they’d be dead. Three of them completely unexpectedly.

My Nana used to say if she was an adult she’d be under suspicion! She seemed to grow out of it around 8ish.

RainbowAura · 06/09/2019 21:04

Read the whole thread. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned 'hive mind'? Had many similar experiences and put most down to this.

murmuration · 08/09/2019 15:20

I'd have tons about the house I currently live in - if I was the least bit woo, I'd be convinced it was haunted or had a poltergeist. Being fascinated by these things, I had always wondered how I'd react in such a situation. Apparently it's by figuring out how so many weird concincidences must have piled on top of each other and not be frightened at all. I must say I'm surprised!

But here's one, from elsewhere, I've never been able to figure out:

Where I used to work the office where three of us worked had a bookshelf with equipment and things on it next to door, on the side where the hinges are, so the door opened in front of it, if that makes sense. Anyway, it was really annoying, as if you weren't careful, you could push the door too hard when entering and it'd bang into the bookself and stuff would fall off. We always talked about how we really needed to move that shelf. One day I was coming into the office carrying a large item, and I leaned into the door to push it open wide enough that I could thread the item through. The door stopped at 90-degrees open and wouldn't budge. I finally managed to work the item into the room and went around the door, thinking instead of moving the shelf one of my officemates had found some way to rig the door so it couldn't open too far. What I found instead was the hinges on the door were clearly physically made such that they couldn't push pass 90-degrees. I opened and closed the door in confusion, and thought maybe someone had replaced the hinges, but I could see that the paint on the door frame covered the hinges in such a way that it had dried over them and had not been broken. I'd just been in there the day before - no one had painted! I have no clue how the hinges changed. None of my officemates could figure it out either. But at least things stopped falling off the shelf...

In the realm of coincidences, I grew up in the US and moved to the UK as an adult. Sometime before I was born, my parents had spent a few months in the UK, and when I said I was moving here, my Dad said, "Oh, I have a map for you!" and he gave me the AA map of the UK from many decades ago (not hugely useful, given its age, but better than nothing, and so I thanked him and took it). Anyway, you know how the AA maps have a close-up of some random part of the country? It happened to centre on the town I was moving to! How funny that the year they were there happened to show where their as-yet-unborn child would eventually move.

And similar to Medal's story: When I was at Uni, I phoned home one day and started chatting with my mother. We had a lovely chat, she asked about classes, and I asked about things at home, and it all went well until she asked if I'd gotten a chance to talk to my sister that week. I said , "I don't have a sister..." a little confusion later she says "Wrong Mom, huh?" Turns out I'd dailed the wrong number by one digit (saw in my phone bill later) - just so happened that family also had a daughter at the same Uni taking (at least some of) the same classes!

NoTheresa · 08/09/2019 16:04

Didn’t she have a different voice? How could you have thought it was your mother?Confused

GotToGoMyOwnWay · 09/09/2019 12:49

Fabulous thread! Thank you

Sconesat4 · 09/09/2019 19:54

Yes I'm absolutely enthralled.

RoyEastmannKodak · 09/09/2019 20:49

Could someone post the Fortean Times link again please? I can't find it now for looking

Zaphodsotherhead · 09/09/2019 22:43

forums.forteana.org/index.php?forums/it-happened-to-me.21/
There you go, Roy

Poetryinaction · 09/09/2019 23:43

I'm not sure if this is the same thing but on Christmas Day 2004 I went to go to bed before midnight at my mum's. I was 21. Before going to bed I said 'Sorry to say it but I have a really bad feeling about tomorrow. I feel like something terrible is going to happen'. My family thought I meant to them but I told them I thought it would be on a world scale, an enormous event. I was thinking more like 9/11, terrorism I think.
At 1am the tsunami hit, and we awoke to the news that hundreds of thousands of people had died.

Sconesat4 · 10/09/2019 07:33

I can see the Forteum Times is going to take over from MN for me! Fascinating stuff.

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