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)

When I was a kid I got told off & sent to bed. As I furiously took off my watch the strap broke. Next morning the watch had gone, I never found it.

I was emptying water from a bowl into the sink, just as I tipped the water out I noticed a knife in the bowl. When I checked the sink there was no knife in the bowl or sink. A few days later I noticed the knife had gone down the plug hole & was stuck in an upright position. I was 17 at the time & convinced it was some form of magic 🙄

I have so many of these moments. Einstein called them ‘spooky actions at a distance’. That description made so much sense to me the first time I heard it. Some of mine are just off the wall nuts! I’m used to them now but others find it all so weird! The think I’m some sort of witch …. I’m not. It’s just quantum physics 😊

Hey, I work in neurology and mental health, but I'm still religious and believe in the frankly unexplainable.
I'd be an arrogant sod to try and explain away everything. Sometimes it's quite obvious, hallucinations, agnosia, head injuries, neurogenerative illnessnes, hypnopompia, false memories, even coincidence blaah blaah. But sometimes, there is no explanation. Frankly I find that cooler, and I like my world with a bit more mystery in it!

Not glitches really but I have 'known' things and they came true. I knew Id live in a certain place when I heard its name and a few years later I met someone from there and moved across the country to it. Id never been before.

One day on the bus home I had a "vision" Id have a daughter with blonde hair in pigtails who would jump in puddles with me. I did. I also predicted her DOB months before. Midwives were certain Id not have her the same day I was induced, but I was sure of it and I did.

😱😱😱

My neighbour who had been trying to conceive and was having difficulties came to see me, she and her husband were meeting up with old uni friends who had just got married she was a bit sad as she believed they were going to announce a pregnancy.

I looked at her and I KNEW she was pregnant, I insisted she get a test and do it before the meet with the uni friends - she did, she WAS pregnant and her husband said, let’s keep it between us and not tell anyone until we are absolutely definitely safe.

She said,I have to tell notmrsfitz - she’s the one who KNEW I was pregnant !!!

@MrsPetty

I have so many of these moments. Einstein called them ‘spooky actions at a distance’. That description made so much sense to me the first time I heard it. Some of mine are just off the wall nuts! I’m used to them now but others find it all so weird! The think I’m some sort of witch …. I’m not. It’s just quantum physics 😊

Thank you for this @MrsPetty, I love that spooky actions at a distance :)

Wish I had the capacity to understand quantum, what I can manage to assimilate is fascinating.

This is true, but not very nice.

In February 2004, I had a dream that I was driving through the night and an owl hit my windscreen and I crashed. The dream ended there.

I woke up feeling worried for some reason, and rang my Mum and Dad just to feel better. My brother had been killed early that morning on his way to work, on his motorbike. No other vehicles involved - on a country road. He was 22.

I went round to his flat that night to take care of stuff and to collect his cat to bring home. it was immaculate as always, with his pressed white shirts lined up in rows on hangers for work - everything perfectly in its place. The bed was made, but on it was a large piece of paper, and on it was written

OWL?

My daughter is autistic and is 30 now. For the early part of her life she was non verbal. One day, when she was about 3 she was in the back of the car as we drove down a country lane. She started screaming in real panic. I pulled over and got out and went to console her. She looked at me, laughed and said ‘tractor fall over’. I continued along the road and about where we would have been there was a tractor on its side, completely blocking both sides of the road.
Other things she would do was run in from the garden and hide trembling underneath the table, about 30 seconds to a minute before a loud jet (she was scared of them) flew low over our house. As she got older and more verbal these incidents declined in frequency and eventually stopped altogether.

Thanks for that link TedImgoingmad - will listen before bed...

I lost an earring, part of a pair bought for my 30th birthday. They were platinum with a tiny diamond in each. I thought it had fallen on the floor in front of my dresser but never found it despite searching high and low and looking for it every time I hoovered.

Fast forward four years, we were moving out and the day we left, I walked round the empty bedroom looking at it and remembering the good times when something glinted up at me -you guessed it - the earring. Totally bizarre.

So. I was listening to the ‘Battersea Poltergeist’ BBC podcast one evening and it was really really scary. I wen to sleep and got woken up at 3am exactly, by my Sonos randomly switching itself on (never ever did that before) very loudly playing a song called... FEAR (by Ben howard)

Following the deaths of my mum then step father 9 months later, I was alone in their house. I was staying there as I don't live near by and my siblings and I were going to sort through mums belongings.
The house phone rang. I didn't get to it in time. I did 1471. It was the their own number calling. Im not sure thats even possible but it freaked me out.....

In my own home, I had bought a bottle of vodka. It was on the side in the kitchen, unopened.
It disappeared. I checked the bin, the cupboards etc. Never found it. Definitely hadn't drunk it as it disappeared the day I bought it!!

I often hear things moving around in rooms I'm not in, go and look, only to find everything is as it should be.
I live alone, no pets. It doesn't freak me out anymore.

I plugged in my phone charger in an old hotel made sure the socket was on and phone was charging. All good went to sleep the next morning phone was partially charged and the wall socket had been switched off.

35DameDoom
Interesting as I had a similar experience in the mid90s (Oxfordshire)... except it was evening and I went (I'm old now) to investigate it.... Found out it was a mixture of 2 things...

1. A weird weather event that made the sky a hazy reflection
2. The thing reflected was a travelling funfair's ferris wheel doing a couple of trial runs... no noise but colourful flying saucer lights moving in a circular way.......

It kept going throughout part of the night though then you could vaguely hear the tune.

This was years ago when I was in my 20’s I always wore my special jewellery when I went out for a night and every time I’d come home and put them all together on the same bracelet which I’d then put on top of the microwave in the kitchen, one day poof they were gone, we had searched everywhere even holding the microwave up in the air from the counter so we could check all around, I’d carry on looking in the exact same places for days until one day I just said out loud “look thats enough now you’ve taken something really special and I’d like it back please”. Next day pulled out the microwave and then they all were. I had only said this because there had been some other weird cases of things like clocks being moved and turning up in cupboards, and another time I came home from work to find my then partner as white as a sheet in the hallway, he said he had been upstairs hoovering when all he could describe was it was as if someone had screamed in his ear, he ran down the stairs as fast as he could and I had just found him in the aftermath. All very strange.

I've just remembered another one. I've told this before on another thread, still baffles me.

My dm was Danish. She passed away in 2018 from cancer. When she knew she was terminal she joked with my stepdad that she'd let him know somehow when she got to Valhalla.

Now, back a couple of years before that she'd gone back to Denmark to visit her parents. Not long after that visit both her parents passed away in quick succession.

After mum died my stepdads phone pinged with a text. Important to note here that my stepdad is a technophobe, he doesn't have a smart phone. He has an ancient Nokia flip phone that doesn't group texts into chats by person, rather as separate entities by order of date as phones used to.

The text he received was an old one that had somehow resent itself to the top of the list. It was from my mum and was from when she went to visit her parents. It said:

"Have arrived safely. Mor and Far have collected me and we are going to get some food and settle in. Love you lots"

Make of that what you will.

Oh things like this happen all the time. The most memorable happened when I was late teens, it was witnessed by my mum, brother and I. Mums false teeth were on the edge of w bath. She got out and dried, went to put them back in and they were gone. All three of us looked for them. In and out of the bathroom, her bedroom, even our bedrooms. There was no sign. Mum was getting more and more irate.

Then all of a sudden she went back in the bathroom and they were on the side of the bath!

Used to work in an office where strange things happened. There was one particular room with no furniture apart from a 4 drawer filing cabinet. Really heavy, full of files. On several occasions, overnight, this cabinet somehow moved across the room to block the door, meaning that there was only just enough room to squeeze inside the doorway and shove it out of the way. Really strange and no explanation for it whatsoever. Really freaked us out.

@IntermittentParps I had exactly that same experience not that long ago. The same person passing, on the opposite side of the road passing twice in the same direction.
It was very confusing as I don’t drink, smoke or have lack of sleep and I am pretty lucid in my everyday life. Very strange

@ChargingBuck I realise the thread has moved on, but have you tried alcohol? Twice at the races I've found when I got a bit drunk I started picking winner's just by the names, no knowledge at all. I sobered up and the skill went again.

@whymewhyme

Who ever mentioned Uncanny podcast, Thank you! I'm addicted!

That was me, and so am I, although I am also very sceptical! Love a good spooky story, though. Same guy did The Battersea Poltergeist, also on BBC Sounds.

I have a few.

I dreamt about an ex I hadn't seen or spoken to for over 3 years. The next night he turned up unannounced on my doorstep to see if I wanted to try dating again, which unnerved me.

Met a friend for lunch and they brought their work colleague who I had never met before. He was on good form, great company and very jovial. When he went to the toilet I told my friend that him being so upbeat was impressive, particularly when he was so ill. My friend didn't have a clue what I was talking about, and said he was in good health. His colleague was admitted to hospital that week with a serious illness.

The one that sticks with me most as I really can't explain it. When I was 6 and at school a close family member talked to me (as their voice in my head iyswim) telling me they loved me, not to worry and to look after my Mum.
When I was collected from school that day my Mum told me the relative had died earlier that day. I remember it vividly as she got very angry with me when I laughed and said don't be silly and that they had spoken to me that day.

@Kelly7889

I had a dream I was at a funeral, don't know whose, but saw the coffin, flowers and crowds of people crying, it was so real.
The next day FIL drooped dead while out cycling.

Years ago while at college I had a vivid dream about a blond curly haired boy with piercing blue eyes. Next morning a new boy started, looking exactly the same as the boy in my dreams. I sort of fell in love with him instantly☺

My husband lost his glasses, he had them and put them down while he showered and we couldn't find them at all. He can't drive without them so turned the place upside down looking for them.

We also had a new cat that is mortally offended by a closed door and scratches constantly (this is relevant!) so we had looked on the internet and saw that putting tinfoil in front of the door may help as the cat doesn't like stepping on it.

While DH was looking for his glasses, I watched him pick up the foil and look underneath it (by this point nowhere seemed unreasonable to investigate), I stepped on the foil as I left the room to help with the search.

We'd just about given up looking when I went back upstairs and there they were - sitting in the middle of the foil on the floor!