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!

Not me but my mum.
Back in like 2001 I walked into the livingroom and my mum was crying I asked what was up and she said she had no idea just a gut feeling.. 3 hours later we got a call my dad (her ex husband) had been mugged and was injured badly.
Then in 2015 my mum called me on a Tuesday night to tell me she didn’t think my dad was well she was worried something was wrong (she hadn’t spoken to him so I dismissed it)
Friday morning my brother found him dead from unexpected liver and kidney failure.

Then again at the start of last year my mum was crying on the phone to me for a full afternoon, no idea why she just felt awful, my gran was found dead the next day of a heart attack.. not even her mum it was my dads mum.

Many years ago a friend of my DM offered to take me out for the day with her Dcs as my siblings were both unwell and to give my mum a bit of a break. I begged and begged not to go although I adored my mums friend. This wasn't because I wanted to stay with my mum or siblings, but because I had a "bad feeling" about the trip. Sure enough on the way home we were involved in the most horrific crash (pre-seatbelt days) which resulted in life-changing injuries for both me and mum's friend's DS2. I've never experienced a "bad feeling" so strongly before or since.

A few weekends ago we had a barbecue party at our home which ran on well into the night. About 35 guests attended in total, with many staying overnight, some in tents pitched on the lawn.

Guests were arriving around 3pm. Just before they arrived we surveyed the scene. The flowers were all upright in their beds, crisp white linen adorned the tables, sparkling glasses set out next to bottles of wine, cider and beer arranged in rows like soldiers. The barbecue was well underway and by 8pm people had finished eating and were starting to drink more, then dancing, music and much laughter all round as the warm sun started to set. This was around 9pm.

Then it seemed that almost instantaneously it was 5am, the air was suddenly cool and damp, slightly chilled around us. There were bottles in the flower beds, some of which were snapped or bent. There were skewers littered everywhere, empty glasses on their side, even a mobile phone discarded on a table. I moved into the kitchen and a couple of guests were sitting at the table, deathly pale, holding their heads and groaning. Spirit bottles kept in the larder, previously full had been largely emptied of their contents.

It was as if we had lost several hours of our lives, with no memory of what had occurred during that time.

Placemarking

@Al2O3 are you kidding? Sounds like you all just got drunk!

My daughter and I had driven to visit a friend of mine at her home - I'd never been there before. We drove over in around an hour and a half, spent a pleasant day and drove back. DD and I were chatting on the way (which probably accounts for it) and suddenly found ourselves on a familar stretch of road close to home, without being able to remember the intervening (slightly confusing) drive. It had taken us about an hour.

We looked at one another and said 'we can't be here already...do you remember driving here?'

I assume that us chatting had made me more relaxed and I'd therefore driven faster on the way back, but it was noticeably odd.

I have a weird thing...

I'll be doing something or going somewhere and I 'just know' to take something i wouldn't usually need or want, or go a different route, or something.

Whenever i ignore the feeling i always wish i hadn't as i will have needed thre thing / should've gone the other way.

A1203, have you spoken to your friends about it since? I would love to hear what they experienced too.

I had this really obscure and not Main Stream song stuck in my head one day, kept singing it ect, walked dc to school and a car drove past playing the song, then went into local shop a few hours later also playing that song!

I had one of these just the other day. The walk from my house to the tube is 5 minutes on a straight path. I was heading there with my DD and a woman was walking in the opposite direction with a very loud, outrageous outfit on! Hence why we noticed her. She passed and we went to the station. The train was just pulling in and we got on. At the next stop we saw this same lady get off the train! There’s no other tube station near enough that she could have got to. She definitely didn’t turn round and pass us. We couldn’t figure it out.

A1203, have you spoken to your friends about it since? I would love to hear what they experienced too.

I suppose I could have added other people's experiences of that evening, so here goes. One of my closest friends recollected waking up not in their tent, but wrapped up in one of the table clothes on the lounge sofa. Another friend recollected around 2am all of their clothes falling away from their body. Two guests, who I knew had never met before, recalled actually waking up inside of each other.

A1203, thanks for answering, I wonder if it was something you weren’t supposed to see? Sounds ridiculous, but it’s as though your memory of it could almost have been wiped. I wondered whether everyone had experienced the same thing.

@PulyaSochsup

It was truly weird that's for sure. Some events of that evening were definitely not meant to be seen. One of the two guests that woke up 'inside each other' was actually married to another guest who woke up in the fuchsia beds. However, I now see this is not that unusual in fact, when looking at threads on the Relationships board.

Apparently there are now 20 minutes less an hour than there were 30 years ago. I can believe it.

What?!

@FrankiesKnuckle what did your dad see? Did he see himself?

A1203

Another one - or on going on is more deja vu but happens a lot where I'm mid conversation or doing something and I suddenly realise this whole situation has happened before down to the finest of detail! It freaks my husband out sometimes as I say what he is about to say ! I love all this spooky stuff

I think A1203 is joking people!

@ComtesseDeSpair those guys in your photo are definitely Agents!!

DH and I are big Stephen King fans so we tend to buy his books as soon as they come out and in hardback.

I'm a faster reader than DH so I often read them first. Years ago, one of his books came out and I avidly read the first few chapters.

That night, I dreamed the entire plot for the rest of the book. And like most King plots, weird shit happens that you can't predict.

''Twas most odd. And I've never done it with any other book...

Just checked the bookshelf and it wasn't even one of his famous ones...it was 'Insomnia'. Maybe it was just really predictable

Years ago we were in Italy on holiday
We are an immigrant family, partly from a certain area of Europe and partly from North Africa/Middle East so we have a certain look that is not common.

We were in a gift shop and I turned round to dgf and started to talk to him.

He looked at me then said something in Italian. I then saw another person who looked and was dressed exactly like my gf and we all became aware of people staring as these 2 men looked at each other.

Dgf ran out of the shop and other guy ran into the back of the shop.
Dgf said he thought it was a bad omen to see your doppelgänger.

Rest of the family went back to the shop and passed it regularly throughout the rest of the holiday to look in to catch a glimpse of the guy who looked exactly like dgf but he never appeared again.

I once took DD to the orthodontists and in the waiting room were 3 other women with their DCs... all 3 had short blonde hair, navy and white striped tops on and blue jeans...

I mean I suppose it was just fashionable at the time, but it was a bit odd, lol, me and DD were a bit put out they hadn’t told us there was a dress code.

About a month ago we were preparing to go on holiday to a place that is notoriously expensive (but a different country to what eventually happened) and in the lead up I had this very vivid dream that I was in a sweet shop with my kids and they bought pick n mixes, and when it came time to pay, the bill came to £87 and I was burning with the embarrassment of it all and couldn't bring myself to say I wasn't paying £87 for a ridiculously small amount of sweets. So I paid. And then I woke up and I was so pissed off I was awake for a couple of hours.

The next day I told DH and the kids and we all had a laugh about how it was such a silly dream.

Came back from holiday and came on here and read the thread with the OP whose husband paid £99 for sweets and I swear I felt dizzy reading it. I never posted on that thread as I would probably have been accused of making it up but I swear I am not. Reading the OP of that thread was just like in the dream.

In London a few years ago we were on the tube studying a map. An American guy asked where we were headed (madame tussauds) and he gave us some helpful directions for when we got off the train.

The next day we were eating our breakfast at our hotel in Wimbledon, and the same man appeared at our table and asked if we had enjoyed Madame Tussauds. We were all quite stunned. Total coincidence of course, but still very strange!

These are fab!