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)

@tigerbear

There is almost certainly an tech explanation for this, and would love for someone to explain how it happens- just today, I was listening to music on the radio on Alexa downstairs. Then went upstairs into my bedroom, and the Alexa in there was playing the same radio station and song, but with about a 20 second delay. How can that be, I thought radio was live?

There is a tech explanation. It's the digital signal I believe. Our conservatory radio and kitchen radio are 20 seconds difference. My husband is partially deaf so he can only hear the one in the room he is in. I am not deaf and I can hear both at the sane time. I have to turn one of them off as it drives me nuts.

We had a pair of angel wings that my mum had made for the kids nativity play. Each wing was a wire coat hanger bent into shape, with net curtain material covering it and round the edge silver tinsel, so they were quite big. Every year they would go in the cupboard in a particular spot, on top of a box with a lid.
One year I went to get them out and they weren't there. I looked, my eldest looked, they weren't there. I checked at school in case they'd been left behind last year and put in the dressing up box, not there either.
Got home, opened the cupboard and they were there in the correct place, absolutely in sight, not hidden or anything.
Whenever we can't find anything now, we just look at each other and say "angel wings."

@driftcompatible

I had a bracelet with a little cross trinket on that I got when TTC - I became odd obsessed with it and paranoid over it. To me wearing this bracelet would help me conceive and protect my pregnancy etc.

One day when I was 8 months pregnant I lost it. Fuck knows how. It just fell off somewhere. I was stressed about it but by that point was so far along in my pregnancy I didn't need it as a crutch anymore.

3 years later I'm removing a problem tree from my garden and around the roots there's my bracelet. How it got under there I'll never know. The tree predated me moving in!

I still wear it now.

reminded me of this story

and there are more like it!

@disconnected101
Did you mean to include a link to this?

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40956139

@AngelinaFibres ah, that explains it, thank you!

I rented a barn from a local farmer. He was a friend as well as a landlord. In October I had a dream one night that I was on the farm with him but he had dropped dead. In the dream I had my white transit van that I used to move furniture I restored . The ambulance wouldn't come so I was trying to get his body into the van . He was too heavy for me so he was half in and half out. When I woke up I was quite disturbed by it and I said to my husband "I had a dream that X had died on the farm". I drove out of the village in the morning and passed him in the tractor. Not dead then. Phew. Met a neighbour the following day. Turns out X had died on the farm a few hours after I had seen him. They had found him but there were no ambulances available for over an hour.

@Kelly7889

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?

Mine isnt a glitch as such but it is weird. I know how I'm going to die. I have had flashes of it so many times that if anything happens when I should worry about my safety I'm not bothered. I know I will die in a crash in my car. I hit the curb on the side of the road and go off the side of the road. It's a dip/hill I go down and I'm dead.

@stupiduser I'd never go in a car again

Ask very politely for it to be returned. Bet it will be on the table when you come home from work. It's the spirits you know

A friend of mine used to say, "Put it back, Georgie", and the item would reappear in the original spot a few hours later.

@thenovice

I am convinced there is a parallel universe full of odd socks and teaspoons.

who remembers Eerie, Indiana?

@forlornlorna

Weird thing that our family often puzzled over.

It was coming up to our then dd 6th birthday. She had been insisting that she was having a kitten. We kept telling her she was not. Everyday she'd draw pics of this black and white cat,she'd chosen a name, made it a bed in her room. If we tried to explain that we really didn't have a kitten for her she would get very upset and insist we were being mean and he was coming.

Birthday morning came and she opens her presents. She got ready to go out with her dad to the toy store to choose a gift. Opens the front door and in darts a black and white cat. "Yay he's here"

We had to take him vets to see if he was chipped, asked all the neighbours if they knew where he was from, put posts on missing pets sites the lot!

He's still here 6 years later

This is such a lovely story :)

@parkrunner1977

I had a gold heart onyx ring as a teenager that went missing from my bedside table. Put it there when I got into bed ome night and by the morning it had disappeared. I assumed I must have knocked it off in my sleep but despite searching everywhere in my room I never ever found it.

When I was first dating my exh he decided to go fishing one day while I was going to have an afternoon nap. A little while later he came back and woke me up. He stood at the end of the bed and we had a conversation for about 10 or 15 mins. I fell back to sleep and when I woke again he wasn't there. I got quite a surprise when he got home as he hadn't been back at all, he gone somewhere quite a distance away so couldn't have just nipped back. I must have dreamt it but it felt so real!

I thought the ring was going to be inside a fish

The only one to really stick with me was when I was about 6/7 I had a deathly fear of sleeping alone so would often sleep in mum and dads bed and they would put me in my own bed when they came up. I was in their bed one night reading the first Harry Potter, really needed a wee so put the book down and had my wee came back into the room and a couple were sitting in my mum and dads bed (can’t remember who they were, what they looked like) I just remember it terrified me I was standing in the doorway of my parents room staring at this couple, started screaming and ran downstairs where my parents were sat watching TV so they brought me back up to bed and nobody was there.
I don’t remember dozing off and I don’t think it was a dream as I have no memory of waking up but a very clear memory of walking in from the bathroom and just being frozen in the door way

@SpiderinaWingMirror

I had a time warp. I undertook the same journey frequently. 45 mins door to door.Ruralish route, only 1 way to go. Except once it took me 30 mins, which is physically impossible. I checked my phone, text message half an hour earlier to friend to say I'm leaving. Checked time on phone against watch and radio. It's not physically possible for me to have done it in the time. Still mystified.

Maybe there was no signal temporarily when you sent the message, and it was only actually dispatched 15 minutes later, when you were already on the journey?

Had a dream about a neighbour being underwater, lots of splashing and movement was really scary, could see him struggling. Next day found out he had drowned that night on a fishing trip. Hadn’t spoken to him for ages so had no idea he was away with his boat.

I've told this one before!

Dh1 used to have a photo of himself, taken at a UK rock festival in the late 80s, in a nice frame. When we first started dating I took the piss a bit, because he really wasn't the sort of bloke to have framed photos of himself knocking about - he explained that his younger db had taken it, & his dm liked it so much she'd had several copies framed.

It is a lovely photo to be fair - he's clutching a can of cider & laughing at the camera, aged about 19. We didn't meet until 5 years after it was taken. I didn't even realise that we'd both attended the same festival; we both went separately to dozens of gigs in the late 80s & early 90s before we met.

Dh1 died unexpectedly at 31 in 2000.

The photo then moved house with me several times over the years, including throughout my 2nd marriage. It was always on display on a shelf somewhere. I've still got it. It's currently on a shelf in my study.

But it wasn't until a few years ago that the 2 teenage girls sitting on a blanket behind dh1 caught my eye. Backs to the camera, one with long red hair, one with spiky black hair...it's me & my then best mate. I recognise our t-shirts from because we'd bought them together at the festival, because our favourite band was playing that day.

But how I never noticed us in it for 20 odd years...?

This is so timely as I had the weirdest experience just two nights ago.
I woke up needing the loo, looked at the clock and it said 02:38. I have a big clock with big bright digital numbers next to my bed. I remember thinking I have exactly 4 hrs left in bed as my alarm goes off at 6:29 and I always snooze it once. A ‘snooze’ is 9 minutes. I always get up at 6:38. As I walked to the toilet and had a wee I was thinking 2:38-6:38, 4 hrs left, lovely.
I got back into bed, turned round and looked at the clock and it said 02:37.
I was so shocked I felt shaky and couldn’t get back to sleep.
I know in a sleepy state it might have said 02:36 the first time and I misread it but I was so absolutely certain it had said 02:38. I swear it did.
I’m still convinced time went back a minute while I pee-ed.

@Beanybob

My whole life I have always lost time without explanation. Aged about 10 I used to walk home from school on my own, it was a straightforward 20 minute walk at normal speed, but at least once a month I would find it has taken me about 45 minutes or so, enough time to walk to and from school. I hadn't dawdled and could never work out how it happened. The strangest part was my mum would never act like I was late home either, it was like I was exactly on time.

At second school I used to miss whole lessons. No recollection of being in them at all. One moment it was 11am and the next it was lunchtime but in the blink of an eye. Maybe I was just an accomplished daydreamer.

Always, at least once a week, think of a random actor, film or song and then turn the TV or radio on and that person will there. On Sunday "Steve McQueen" just popped into my head and then 10 mins later turned the TV on and Steve McQueen was on in The Towering Inferno. This morning I thought of an Erasure song I haven't heard since the 90s and it came on the radio on the way to work. Always getting déjà vu as well - it really gets to me not being able to work out why I remember something that has just happened.

But the scariest thing I've ever had happen to me was just pure coincidence...arrived home at night, turned the car engine off and all the lights in the street went out in a powercut at the exact same time. Even turned the engine back on in case it had been me that did it!

@Beanybob I really don't like keyboard-stranger-diagnoses but losing time and the déjà vu thing really can be symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy. Has anyone you've been in the company of ever noticed you zoning out - even for a moment - or seeming absent?

@ElegantlyTouched

The other day I was near my toddler dd and saw her throw something then felt drops of liquid land on my foot. Sounds reasonable except there was no liquid near her, I had shoes and socks on and my shoes were dry, with nothing in the area to account for the feeling. It was v strange..

My daughter feels drops of water on her leg quite often, there is nothing there. She also hears people walking past her room when home alone and has some very detailed premonitions. She hates it but not much she can do.

A few I can remember. Lots of random items appearing/dissappearing that I can't remember.

When I was 6 or 7 I was riding my bike along the lane near our house. Very rural Welsh valleys, barely any cars. Idly daydreaming, I wondered what would happen if someone stopped and asked for directions. This had never happened, but I thought it would be fun to give someone directions, make me feel important. Imagined it may be to the animal sanctuary and went through the whole conversation in my head.
Car pulls up, couple ask for directions to the animal sanctuary.

Another time, 10 or 11 we were going to visit a family friend who lived down a winding track. Had a vivid vision of burned out fields. Went around a few bends and the field was all burned. We couldn't have seen it from the road and I'd never seen a burned field before.

When I was 20, I desperately needed to contact my best friend (major drama about something) but for some reason I didn't have her number. I think may have borrowed a phone as my mobile was dead. Trying to remember her number and made a best guess, while dialling was praying 'please be X, please be X' in my head. Lady answers, doesn't sound like my friend, I ask 'is this X?', she says yes who is this?
It wasn't my friend, just a random lady with the same name!

I was stressed on a course and trying to get a load of work done in a resources room quickly a man off my course came in and said "do you want some help?" I said yes and was really grateful. When it was done I said "thank you" and walked out the room to sit with my course mates. The guy joined us and I said again "thanks for helping me" he said I don't know what you are talking about I haven't been in the resources room....

I love these. Fascinating!

[quote Alcemeg]@disconnected101
Did you mean to include a link to this?

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40956139[/quote]
@Alcemeg the link is there. It's in the word 'this' that's highlighted blue.
A neat little MN feature!
Is it a bit spooky that you picked the right link though, and not one of the others....?