To think I just witnessed a glitch in the matrix.

[PennyRa]

We had to go to 2 different shops for 2 different things. My child was being practically catatonic, which happens sometimes, so went about implementing therapy exercises to help.

This involves holding something manageable, taking it to the till, handing it over, giving the money, saying/signing yes and thank you for the receipt, and often requires extensive help and support. Point is, my child was looking very special.

When handing over the money both times my child said " The change will be X " and both times the 2 different cashiers in the 2 different shops replied with the exact same thing in the exact same tone " It is? It is! Well done mate. Aren't you good with numbers, you should be doing my job!" And my child responded the exact same way both times with a half smile while staring off into the middle distance.

I can't get across how identical the response sounded

I'm a little freaked out ngl.

Have they ever seen you with shopping tho? Maybe THEY are the real ones

Omg we've had a fancy Nike white trainer on the road next to ours for a week. It started on the floor, someone moved it to the wall post, then onto just the wall. It's currently under a melting 5 cm of snow. Thing is its one of those estates that it just itself, doesn't go anywhere so if you walked up that road, you must walk down it again at some point. How do you lose a, fancy Nike trainer?

jesus Christ She’s right you know

Could have fallen out of a gym bag?

Shoes on telephone wires is a drug gang thing appaz

OK, I'll accept your random hypothesis. But it seems unlikely you wouldn't notice, having noticed you wouldn't retrace your steps, or that you wouldn't just happen back upon it.

Oooh, I read the OP and thought, if my husband or I were working a till then we'd have probably said the same thing (we both used to work in SEN environments, and "mate" was a friendly greeting in our part of the country). However, it's got darker. I have never seen our neighbours arrive home with their shopping, or seen an online delivery. Strangely though, when we arrive home with our shopping or the online arrives, there always seems to be a neighbour randomly putting the bins out/walking the dog/just there!

Today when I got home with my shopping, there was an Asda van outside my neighbour's house but as I approached IT DROVE OFF!

I went inside very quickly in case I had made the bird bots angry.

It’s not a glitch, it’s what Einstein called ‘Spooky action at a distance’. It’s pretty basic quantum physics. The ‘Double slit experiment’ is possibly one of the closest explanations. When atoms are observed they respond differently. Sorry to boil it down to dry science but incidents like this used to happen to me ALL the time. I spent years trying to figure it out. Seen therapists. Thought I was a witch … it was a relief to have a tangible explanation.

Can you give some examples of things that you were trying to figure out in the past?

@Ineedtosleep79 There are so many 😂 things that were way too impossible to have been a coincidence.
A simple example - I’m walking to a dentist appointment down a sort of alley with a path on either side.
I stop and look backwards to the other path and see someone that I know.
A therapist I’d seen many times to try and understand these ‘phenomena’.
We cross, we speak, he says how funny we passed each other, didn’t see one another but both looked back at the same time.
We’d never met outside of his therapy room.
Six weeks later I’m going back to the dentist again, I reach the same spot and remember what had happened.
I looked back … and he was there doing the same thing.
Poor man 😂 it was like he’d seen a ghost.
I was laughing and saying ‘now this is the sort of thing I was talking about ….’
That’s a mild example.
He had previously explained it as something Jung called synchronicity.
It never really rang true for me … I instinctively knew it wasn’t psychological.
I found out years later when I married a science and maths genius … we later divorced.
He was far too geeky for me 🤣

Mrs Petty 😂 wow. How do you explain it though? Why would the universe want you and your therapist to be walking down the same street, twice? What possible motive could there be? You both made separate decisions and plans that day. I just fail to wrap my head around it all.

I don’t think there was any universal purpose for us to meet apart from maybe him to understand what it was I was trying to explain. Einstein’s theory of quantum entanglement is that when you measure something about one particle in an entangled pair, you immediately know something about the other particle, even if they are millions of light years apart. This odd connection between the two particles is instantaneous, seemingly breaking a fundamental law of the universe. I just copied and pasted that part 😂 strangely I am now so sensitive to it that I can tell when it’s happening. There doesn’t always seem to be a reason … but it doesn’t freak me out anymore now I have a scientific explanation. I made a list a few years back if the most major wtaf incidents that had happened to me … it’s kind of fascinating.

Yeah I've heard about that but I didn't really understand it. There were two possibilities as to how it could happen and one was if something could travel faster than the speed of light...which is widely accepted as impossible so the alternative is true which I think is something like things don't have a state until observed..but I still don't quite understand it lol.

Also what makes something "entangled"? @MrsPetty

Well Wikipedia says ‘Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by a large distance’. I think that’s where Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’ theory comes from. The first time that I heard that phrase I immediately knew that was what I had experienced for years. My geek DexH explained it as time/space continuum … it goes over my head a lot. But I’m happy there’s a science to explain it.

I’ve never thought about this until now - so true!! I’m going to be keeping an eye on my neighbours from now on 😂