To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

[bloomingheck1]

Hello,

I had a glitch in the matrix last night whilst dying my hair, I took the nozzle off the bottle and put it on the sink and then I mixed the dye etc and when I went to get the nozzle it was gone, I moved everything off the sink, looked on the floor but it was gone so I managed without and then once the hair dye was on I found the nozzle on the sink on top of something I'd moved and I swear it wasn't there before! Not a major event but it was a bit weird.

Do you have any glitch in the matrix stories? (Basically unexplained events)

I used to work in places where I would need to respond to panic alarms. A member of staff would push the button in a random room when needed , and id be expected to drop what I was doing and look at a panel to see where it was, then run to intervene.

A few times I would then up at an incident and not even remember hearing the alarm. I assumed I was just on auto pilot, and had forgotten.
Then I had a couple of incidences where I somehow was already running before the alarm sounded.

Staff used to laugh at me because I'd be running down the corridor by myself to a random room but before I'd get there the alarm would be sounded. To start with I assumed I was picking up on things like raised voices in the distance

Really spookily though we had some incidences where I'd have no way of knowing a staff was about to hit the alarm because of the type of incident. People sort of just used to follow me running down corridors because I was so reliable in it

Before I left we had a major incident at work while I was off shift, I was at a far off restaurant and suddenly really distinctively heard the specific panic alarm. I thought it might be a fire alarm but no one else moved to it, then laughed it off as being obsessed with the job. When I got in for my next shift, I was pulled aside to explain a member of my staff had been seriously hurt so would have pulled the alarm at the same time I was at dinner

Sometimes I felt I was beginning to beginning to just merge with that ward

Once lost my engagement ring. We both tore the house apart, it was nowhere to be seen.

This was following multiple sightings of a shadow following me but I was a bit of a sceptic. I decided to shout out that I would like my ring back.

One day it appeared, on the edge of the ironing board I had put up in the morning....in the box...open as though as I were being proposed to.
I never put my ring in the box as we could find the box!! There was just no ring inside it

Placemarking to read through properly, this is brilliant.

Except the spiders in the jam, which may haunt my nightmares

oh I have one!

I was listening to a song on youtube through my headphones. I suddenly made a very distinctive sound (very unusual sounding sneeze cough type episode) while still listening to the music, and about 2 seconds later I head the same sound I had just made play over the song. I thought I had imagined it so went back and listened again and it’s definitely there. It really freaked me out, it was just a simple music video with lyrics as the background- what are the chances of it having a random sneeze in it that sounds exactly like the sneeze I had just done? It sounded identical to mine and I’m almost certain it was although can’t explain how. I went back a few months later and the sound was still part of the video. It freaks me out even thinking about it and it used to be one of my favourite songs, not anymore.

My grandfather was born in 1919, my mum in 1949 and me in 1979.

When DM was 19, GF was 49. When I was 19, GF would have been 79. When I turn 49, DM will be 79.

I too was born in 1979, my mum in 1949, and my grandfather in 1919. What's more, we were all born in the same month, 1 day apart from each other!

I remember watching an event on live TV and the camera panned in on an audience member who was the absolute spit of me. I did a double-take, it was so eerie.

Many people (DH, for example) have umpteen lookalikes - celebrities, for example - whereas no one has ever commented that I look remotely like anyone else and I don't think I do either - except my doppelganger, who's evidently out there somewhere!

My cousin and I used to love old comedy videos. He'd burn them on DVD for me.
It was before the time of googling immediately everything and I had been arguing that Richard Pryor was long since dead.

The next day I was at Waterloo and saw on the big screen that he had died that day. Freaked me out!!

@dotherighthing

I had 4 sterling silver teaspoons as a present. They are bit unusual as the have a heart engraved in the bowl part. Always kept them in the cutlery draw. A few months later I found five! Had kept the box and it said four. Where did the other one come from?

I think there must be a parallel universe where people say/write 'draw' instead of 'drawer' as though it's completely normal. Or worse - 'chester draws'
It's amazing how many people do!

This isn't a criticism by the way, just an observation 😁

I inherited a diamond ring from my uncle. I wore it for his funeral.
I remember taking it off afterwards and putting it on the bedside table at the hotel we were staying overnight in.
We checked out of the hotel the next morning and I totally forgot I'd put it there. After a frantic phone call to the hotel later on that day I resigned myself to the fact that it was gone.
5 years later, I was sat on the sofa watching TV and felt like I was sat on something. I unzipped the bottom seat of the sofa and felt inside to feel what it was. It was the ring. I have no clue how it got there
Although I shouldn't be shocked because me, DH and 2 of our 3 children saw my uncle years after he'd died while we were on holiday. We were all on a coach in Florence and we were slowly driving by a famous viewpoint. He was stood there, plain as day watching us as we drove past. We all saw him. The holiday was paid for with money he'd left me.
Very woo but a good happy ending.

When I was 13, I used to walk through a small village to secondary school. I'd lived in the area all my life and knew it well. I lived in the next village though...about two miles away. One afternoon I'd been at school late finishing something and was alone walking home.

I spotted a new shop, just off the main street, down a little residential road. It appeared to be a junk shop and I LOVED those, so I detoured and visited it.

It was a typical junk shop...loads of stock in and out...books, toys, furniture all piled high and everything looked like it had been there for a long time. Outside there were tables with more stuff and hanging in the window, a pair of white ice skates. I browsed for a while whilst a smiling old lady who was in charge, watched me. Then I went home, planning to return with money the next day after school.

Well, I went straight to the shop the next day because there was no school that day but it was a weekday...maybe it was a strike or something...either way I was there by 10.00am and it was gone! The whole "shop" wasn't there. Nothing but a house. It was the same building but the shop and things weren't there.

It's impossible to think that it was just a house with a lot of stuff and it was all packed away between the day I went there because it was just so much stuff...and a big place too...right to the ceiling in places. There was no sign of it ever having been a shop at all...but it definitely was.

I often get deja vu. Some things that happen or conversations, I feel as though I dreamt about them years ago. I've always had it. It's a very strange feeling.

@CindyLouWho1

Something that happens regularly is that I will arrive somewhere when it is empty and within minutes of my arrival it will fill up with people, just like in The Sims when you go to an empty community lot and then it starts to populate. Some evidence that life really is a computer simulation ?

That happens to me all the time! I can remember us commenting on it when I was on a family holiday abroad in my mid-teens because it was happening so often - my parents and I would choose a quiet bar or restaurant and within half an hour or so it would be almost full - and it still happens now (well, pre-pandemic it was still happening - with my DH. It doesn’t matter what time of day it is or how many other similar places there are around me/us, it’s always the one I’m in that fills up.

I’ve had a few “premonition” moments, but one is quite chilling. When I was a student back in the 90’s I remember looking out of my bedroom window and seeing a plane and thinking to myself, “wouldn’t it be weird if I went downstairs and told everyone that plane was going to crash”. A few mins later our power went out, it turned out that the plane hit an electricity pylon during landing and crashed. I felt so freaked out by it that I didn’t tell anyone the thought I’d had beforehand.

@sodawaterandlime what song was it? Need to know now! Had you never noticed the sneeze before?

@WorstXmasEver

Omg this thread is great.

Not really a matrix thing but still spooky, when my wife was having a emergency caesarean & I had no idea what was going on, I was left in a room in the hospital & I noticed that the hands on the clock on the wall was just spinning around like crazy. I got a video of it.

It wasn't by any chance the night the clocks went back? Radio controlled clocks do this to reset themselves.

@shouldhavebeen

I moved to Italy, sadly had to leave my cats behind, they went to a good home but it broke my heart. I went back to the UK after nearly a year as I was selling my house. We decided to camp in the living room on the first night. I was awoken by a scratching noise, went to see what it was, and it was my favourite cat trying to get in. OMG I cried so much. He spent the entire night snuggled up next to me.

Aww ❤️🐱 This made me cry!

@DoctorManhattan I’ve seen those in the sky too. My parents used to own a house in rural France and we’d often sit outside staring up at the night sky because it was so dark, you could see so many stars. One night we were watching a satellite track by and I saw another light about the same size darting this way and that and then seeming to stop. I pointed it out to my dad but by the time he’d fixed on to it, it was moving in a straight line so he naturally said “oh that’s just another satellite” until it accelerated then stopped, turned 90 degrees and shot off that way then darted around some more. He’s convinced it was space junk but I’d like a proper explanation!

I was on holiday in Israel years ago and went on a day trip to the Dead Sea as I’d always wanted to float in it. I was wearing a brimmed canvas sun hat as the weather was so hot, you couldn’t not wear something to cover your head. When I got out, the rim of the hat was soaked where I’d put my neck back to float. Back home, a week later, I was unpacking and thought it strange that the rim of the hat was still damp as I’d worn it every day in 40° temperatures so plenty of time for it to dry out.

Put the hat away and thought no more about it. 10 years later, I found the hat in a drawer and it was still wet. Got DH to feel it to prove I wasn’t going mad. Went through my stuff again last year (another 10 years later!) and pulled out the hat to show teen DCs and tell them the story. Yup, it was still damp in exactly the same place. I’m sure there’s a scientific explanation, but it’s still weird!

I have three radio stations programmed in my car, they are all similar and play mostly chart music. I programmed them in because I don't like any talky bits so if there's a competition or a phone in or something I can easily change channel. On the way home from the school run one day Perfect by Ed Sheehan and Beyonce came on. I don't like it so I changed station, the second one also had Perfect as did the the third.

I did a quick calculation though and I now think that it's not particularly matrix-y. Given that it was a huge hit at the time all the stations were bound to play it during peak drive-time hour. The song takes about three minutes to play, one twentieth of an hour, so on any station there was a one in twenty chance of hearing it at the time you turn the radio on/tune into the station. So I heard it on station 1 and switched to station 2 (1/20 chance it would also be playing) and then switched to station 3 (1/20 chance it would be playing). So 1/20 x 1/20 is a 1 in 400 chance that all three would have it when I heard it on the first one. Which isn't particularly high odds really. Especially given that it was in the charts for weeks, and I did the school run 5 days a week.

Not really Matrix stylee but creepy as hell.
Not long after arriving home with my new born daughter, I had an awful nightmare that she was burning alive in a fire.
When I woke up I was just stood there in her room, over her cot staring at her.

I've got a few but one of the strangest was when I was sitting on my bed, alone in the house and went to put some eyedrops in. I'd tilted my head and was just squeezing the bottle to get a drop in my eye when I heard a loud NO (in my head not with my ears but I heard it and it was loud) and my hand jerked away from my face (nothing touched me and I didn't consciously move it). Looking at the bottle, I'd been about to put eardrops in my eye which would have been nasty as they were to clear ear wax.

Some years ago, my parents had a family friend who used to come and do jobs around the house for us. He was always very friendly, stopped for a beer, etc. One evening, he was about to leave and came up to me and shook my hand (which he never normally did) and said 'Well, goodbye, Autumn'. I knew instantly I would never see him again. He was killed in a train crash the following week.

Shameless placemark.

When I was teen I was upstairs to use the loo and going past my room my light was on, so I turned it off as my dad was always moaning about leaving the lights on. I noticed that my parents bedroom at the end of the corridor was still on so I walked past my room to turn that off to. I went back past my room the light was back on. I ran downstairs. It's an old Victorian house and the hallway gave me the creeps.

The wicker laundry basket lid would slam. One day dad told me it was slamming when he was alone in the house.

I’ve also had a couple of premonitions but they weren’t dreams or predicting the future in good (and useful) time ahead, they happened immediately before.

As a student I once worked in a cake factory over the summer where I did the decorations on top. I had to re-fill my bucket of chocolate so headed off to the area where the big vats of melted chocolate were. As I rounded the corner I stopped in my tracks as I saw hot melted chocolate spraying everywhere and someone struggling with the tap on the bottom of the vat. Wow! I thought and instantaneously it disappeared and all the chocolate was gone and there was no one at the vat. I took a second to think WTF but carried on towards the vat, put my bucket down and turned the tap. The whole tap head fell off in my hand and boiling melted chocolate started spraying everywhere.

I was just rooted to the spot in disbelief. The other staff ran over and dragged me away, putting wet paper towels all over my burning skin and asking if I was ok. I was trying to say in amazement “omg guys, I saw that happen before it happened!” But only some garbled mutterings left my mouth and they thought I was in shock from the burns! I was fine - no injuries.

The other time it happened was when I was talking to a woman at a training session for a hobby. I had just asked her what she did for work when I was transported outside and I saw this woman dressed in a green suit jumping out of the cab of a van. Just after I realised it was an ambulance, the image disappeared and I was back in the training room as she said she was a paramedic.

I can’t explain these things. It really wasn’t like I had a thought in my head “wouldn’t it be funny if chocolate sprayed everywhere” or “I wonder if this lady is a paramedic” I was actually standing there watching these things happen and then snapped back into the current reality.

I had a premonition about an armed robbery. It happened two weeks later and I’m a bit freaked out