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!

I love this thread but it's so creepy!

A few years ago, for some inexplicable reason, I started regularly singing this Frank Sinatra song. DH asked me a few times why I was singing it. I had no idea. I have never been a Sinatra fan, I was always a bit of an Indie kid actually, so it was quite strange, but I thought nothing of it.

Anyway, about 5 months after I started singing this song, we moved into a new apartment block. The music in the lift was the same Sinatra song that I had been singing!

I always get a really odd reaction to these kind of threads. My eyes just fill with tears! I'm not crying exactly, but I feel weirdly emotional. Does anyone else get this?

Yes me! Not so much this thread but any ghost type stories. No control over it. So weird.

If the Earth isn't spinning as fast then days would be longer, not shorter. And we would have noticed as clocks are designed to move exactly as they do and it would have been observed if, supposing it used to get dark at, say, 9.30pm in midsummer on a certain day in a certain part of the UK, all of a sudden it didn't get dark will 9.31pm, or got dark at 9,29pm - never mind a difference of 20 minutes per hour! I think it is safe to say someone is having a laugh with you here.

My Dad would have loved this thread. He would always tell you that "they" had done - or concealed - this and that - he would have told all and sundry that there were 20 minutes less in an hour but "they" hadn't told the public (he always asserted that "they" had invented a matter transference machine like on Star Trek but for undisclosed reasons it wasn't in public use). Dad also had face blindness and was always seeing people who looked "EXACTLY like you, love!" He probably saw loads of dopplegangers of people during his life, probably they were as much physically alike as Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, ie one noticeable characteristic in common and BOOM! Identical twin (to Dad).

I lived a little village

I lived in a little village in my late 20s/30s.

There was a boarding school in the next village and the landlord and a few of the barmaids were amazed about how much I looked like a girl in the school who would come in the pub occasionally.

They tried to show me some photos they had of this girl as there had been a party at the pub and they had taken pictures. Every picture of this girl was of the back of her head or where she had turned her head.

A few months later I was in the pub on a Sunday with DP and some friends who had come up for the weekend. I had gone to the bar to get the drinks so I had a couple of pints in each hand and a bag of crisps in my mouth when this older man started to shout at me.

What was I doing in the pub, get back to school and he would deal with me later.

I would have explained myself if I had my mouth free.

Fortunately the landlord shouted over to him that I wasn't who he thought I was as he was getting very angry with me.

Always did want to meet this girl as I am from an immigrant mixed race family and I have a certain distinctive look and would have actually loved to know what her heritage was.

My OH has the eyes watering thing, but with scary things, Whenever we watch a scary movie, or discuss something scary his eyes stream. I always take the piss out of him saying he's crying cos he's scared, now I know it's a thing and he's not really a big wuss!

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. We watched the first couple of episodes. She asked why it had been pulled and I vaguely thought that it was because the flight MH370 had gone missing and it was inappropriate to show it at the time. Have since googled and it was only filmed recently??

@Chunkers Yes!! Me too! I swear I watched the first episode with my parents a few years ago. I haven't watched this one but described the first episode to them before it even aired

This is just pure coincidence I know but I like telling it...Years ago I got what looked like a birthday card delivered to my house in error. The number was right but street name nothing like it.. let’s say Jean Green, No 12 Apple Street”. However I knew the street was fairly close by so popped the card in my back to deliver it. But I have a terrible memory when it comes to posting things so carried it around for a few days.

One day I’d gone into a local card shop. As I was browsing two women were chatting to each other. One said she needed a card for Jean ..and that Jean had just moved to Apple Street! I was able to say “ Not Jean Green?” And she looked astounded! I then fished the card out of my bag and asked her if she’d mind giving it to Jean!

A few years ago, we were on a plane going on holiday to Cyprus.

About 2 hours into the flight, both my husband and I looked out the window and saw an amazing castle. We both commented on it and were wondering whereabouts we were as it was incredible.

It passed out of our line of sight and it was only a few minutes later that we realised we were 35,000ft in the air....

Placemarking

@Dollywops I'm flying to Cyprus in a couple of weeks, I'll be keeping a eye out for the floating castle in the sky!

@HopefulFor2020 - Thank goodness it’s not just me!

These oscillate between utterly made up and completely explainable...

Well I know mine isn't made-up.

Manifest was first aired over a year ago in the US so that solves that one

@tryingtobebetterallthetime Wed 28-Aug-19 01:08:01
The early morning of the day my aunt died I could have sworn I woke up and saw her standing at the foot of my bed looking at me. I did not know she had died until the next day when my Dad phoned me. She lived quite far away and I had not seen her in about 10 years. Very freaky, but not at all scary. I felt she was wishing me good things.

Not sure if this is a blip in the matrix or not but one night, my dog made the most awful noise and was up at the window looking in the back garden. I'd never heard her do it before or since. This was about 3.15am.

The following morning we got the call that my nan had died so we all went to my mums. when talking, my sisters dog had done pretty much the same at about 3.10am. My mum's dog had done it at about 3.20am.

When we checked the timings against the time difference (my nan was in another country) this all happened just after she passed.

I think it was my nan visiting us all before she moved on.

Manifest was first aired over a year ago in the US so that solves that one

In that case I've somehow been to the US and my only memory of it is watching the first episode of a TV show.

There was a 9 minute 'teaser' shown in August last year but I managed to explain the entire first episode

Not really the same but when I was in first year or so of secondary school, we had a budgie, it was blue, called Charlie, it lived in a dome cage in the kitchen, I used to hate cleaning it out but I did it, cutting up those sand paper sheet things to the right size and everything, but my mum insists that we never had one. So this is more to do with her memory than anything but it gives me rage when we talk about it.

I'm not especially woo although I've had many out of body experiences. I know some of it is down to the state of mind in the moments between wakefulness and sleep but it's still pretty freaky when it happens.

Anyway, I don't know if these would count as Matrix glitches:

First one, I had a long term house guest who could be very hard work (he was later diagnosed as Bi-Polar). My cat HATED him and would hiss whenever he went near her. Precisely ten minutes before he got home every day - and he didn't work the same hours each day - she would hide behind the bedroom curtains. Every single time.

On the doppelganger thing, DH is a dead ringer for a celebrity which has been quite entertaining over the years.

Lastly, an occasion which I thought might have been a glitch in he matrix (if such a term had existed back then) was when I went to see the film Rollerball which was an X. It was like a rite of passage in our town. It would be on at the local cinema on a Sunday night from time to time and, once you turned 18, you were almost obliged to go and see it. So off I went with some other fresh 18 year olds.

Afterwards I was saying to my older brother how shit it was (he'd already seen it of course). "There was this big match and then for the rest of the film they were going on about an upcoming big match but that big match never happened and it just ended in mid flow." Turned out the projectionist had played the spools in the wrong order!

I’m sure I told this story on here years ago, more coincidental than anything, but worth a repeat. About 15 years ago, in my first flat with Ex and I answered a call to the landline.

“Hi, is that you Jane? It’s Bob.”
“Hi, yes this is Jane, but I’m sorry I don’t know anyone called Bob, you must have dialled the wrong number.”
“Haha very funny Jane. It’s me! Your name’s Jane Smith right?”
“Yes, it is Jane Smith, but I’m really sorry, I honestly don’t know anyone called Bob 🤨”
Caller starts getting irate now.

“Look Jane, I don’t know why you’re being so funny with me. We’ve been dating long enough. You’re Jane Smith, from Orange town, and you know damn well it’s me. Why are you being like this?!”

“Actually Bob, yes, my name IS Jane Smith, but I don’t live in Orange town and never have, I live in Lemon village. (About 4 miles away) You really do have the wrong number, goodbye.”

The calls went on for weeks. Sometimes it was Bob, two or three times a female. Both absolutely insisting I was Jane Smith from Orange Town, they were really worried about my denying knowing them, as my voice was very obviously hers so why was I lying? Clearly it was a misdialled number but my goodness, that really took some explaining to my ex!

I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one who gets the watery eyes thing! I've had it since I was a kid but I've never asked anyone else if they get it before. It can be embarrassing

I know mine can all be explained by the fun police, but they certainly felt like glitches at the time. (I know they're coincidences...)

Once I was walking along the pavement and saw just the nose of a van poking out of a drive way. The rest was obscured by a hedge. I thought 'Wouldn't it be spooky if there was someone in that van and when I walked in front of it they started the engine to give me a fright?' Sure enough as I passed it the engine started and I jumped out of my skin.

Another time I was walking along a road when a car went passed the junction at the end of the road blaring 'Man I feel like a woman'. As they zoomed past I heard the Wa-oh-oh-oh riff, but distorted and warped, probably by the speed of the car. I thought, 'Wouldn't it be spooky if it went passed again and made the same noise?' A few seconds later it went passed again in the same direction, and the radio made the same distorted noise, the same part of the song.

My husband has a memory of laughing at his friend swinging on a rope swing, falling off and landing in a stream. Except when he mentioned it on a night out with his friends as adults they all said that it was DH who had fallen off the rope swing.

“There was a 9 minute 'teaser' shown in August last year but I managed to explain the entire first episode“

The trailer/teaser thing was pretty much the entire plot of the first episode though