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)

My husband put these cheap sunglasses I’d bought for my son on him to go to the park, I’d told him not to as I was saving them for going on holiday and I didn’t want him to lose them at the park.
He lost them.

We went to the park and walked that area several times, not looking for them it’s just somewhere we go often so walk this route several times a week. About 2/3 weeks later I went with a friend, mentioned I was gutted my husband had lost these cute sunglasses I’d bought for my son just in conversation and on the way back they were on top of a meter box on someone’s house on the route home. So weird I’d only just mentioned them that day not really thinking much about them since they’d been lost!

@CaveWoman1

A colleague of mine used to work in one of the old long-stay hospitals near us. He did a lot of night-duty, and he used to be on the oldest ward in the hospital, right at the side of the building. He said that at precisely 11:50 pm the light on the lift at the end of ward would go green, and the numbers change as the lift came up. Then the doors would slide open and he'd find himself staring into the empty space. This happened every night for the full five years he was in post at that place.

He must have balls of steel

There are many videos on tik tok made by hospice nurses which are like this. A new nurse was working with an experienced nurse one night. The lift doors on their floor opened but no one got out. The older nurse told her not to worry and that it happened all the time. She said it was the spirits coming to collect someone who was ready to die. Everytime it happened a patient died during the night. If it didn't happen there were no deaths that night.

I went to stay with my parents for new year, a couple of hours away. On the morning I was due to leave I couldn't find my reading glasses which are always kept in a green case. I had the case but it was empty.

We all looked for them everywhere. I had my everyday glasses on which are kept in a red case (red case was empty obviously) and we worked out I'd last worn the readers two days prior and had them on in their lounge.

Anyway, off I go home early last week wearing my normal glasses and took both cases back with me. I unpacked but left my travelling bag in my bedroom with the empty green case and a couple of magazines in it.

This morning, I told myself off for being too lazy to put the bag away. I emptied the bag and decided I may as well throw away the empty green case (after double checking it was still empty!).

I went into the kitchen and walked past the fruit bowl which I'd filled up on Tuesday. On top of the fruit was a green glasses case. Inside were my reading glasses.

I only have two cases, one red and one green. I have absolutely no idea how the second one appeared on top of fruit that I'd put in the bowl a week after coming home and with my glasses in. There I was, holding two green cases when I know I only had one. The red case is currently on my bedside table. I live alone.

One evening I came home from work late and realised that my work pass, which I wear on a lanyard around my neck, was not in its holder and nowhere to be seen - had to ring out of hours at work to cancel it as it gives access to a large part of the building. The holder was a little loose so entirely plausible that it could have fallen out after I left work (need the pass to leave the building).

Next morning I retraced my steps looking for it - checked my car, checked the exact place I parked, checked the rest of the car park, walked the same path into work, checked if it had been handed in - nothing. I got a new pass.

About two months later I came into work to find the original pass on my desk. My colleague, who didn’t know about any of the above, had got out of her car that morning and immediately stepped on it on the ground. It’s a large busy five floor car park used solely by staff from my organisation. No way was it there all that time without me seeing it or anyone else seeing it and handing it in - and so odd that the one person who found it just happened to be someone I know very well and who is one of four people who work in my office.

@disconnected101 aaaaaggghhhh sorry, I didn't have my specs on and so didn't notice the blue text indicating a hyperlink!

How mad that I got the same link 😋

I've just come across another one. I'm reading Writing Fiction for Dummies (2009) and the bit on creating convincing "story worlds" has this:

Trust us on this — the epidemiology of bat diseases is not nearly as fascinating to your reader as it is to you.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

What do you mean like physically? 🤯…that is bizarre

@disconnected101 Thank you for your concern, genuinely, but no I have never had any comments about being spaced out and have had MRI and CT head scans (unrelated reason) and have never had any concerns raised along those lines.
It's more like I blink and an hour has passed. Odd, but less frequent than when I was a child thank goodness.

The exact time my grandmother died, a plate she had bought for my mum fell off the wall and smashed. It was a plate with the word ‘mother’ on it and a poem
Another time my mum was talking to her friend on the phone. At exactly the same time they both had the bulbs in their lamps explode.
When my grandfather died we all stayed over at his house the night before the funeral as it was miles away. Everyone was asleep and I heard someone come into the room and slowly walk around, stopping (perhaps to look at each person as we were all sleeping on the floor!) when it was my turn I didn’t open my eyes as I was too terrified. I just knew it was him. I could tell someone was standing close to me. I then heard them slowly walk away. He didn’t know I was pregnant at the time and I wonder if he was checking we were all alright before leaving.

I was at school and I had a cancelled lesson (sixth form) and was sitting around. I suddenly got a feeling that I needed to go home right now, like right now so I left school and ran home. When I got home, my mum answered the door crying - my grandad had been found unconscious and later died. When I got up at 3am the next day to catch a flight to go to the funeral (happened v fast), I am sure, sure I heard his voice shouting “whos there?” I can still hear it now.

I get a lot of times where I think of something and then it happens, but this was the strongest “something is wrong” instinct I’ve ever had, I can’t even explain how powerful it was.

@UniformSchmooniform

I went meteor spotting when I was a child with my dad and his astronomy group possibly during the Persieds or something. We were sat in a circle at night, in deckchairs but in sleeping bags, everyone noting what happened in their section of sky above us. There was a fireball and we all went "wow!" as no one could have missed that. But then there was a second fireball, only a bit smaller - amazing colours and bigger than my hand in the sky - that no one else apparently saw. Absolutely no one believed me! I was not a tiny child, probably a young teen and it was definitely there - clear as anything but no one else saw it despite us all staring at the sky!

I'd never heard the expression 'glitch in the Matrix' before reading this thread, although I have experienced weird happenings several times in my life. The meteor post reminded me of something I experienced only a few years ago and have puzzled about since. I'm thinking it might fit in here.

I too was hoping to see the Perseids one year and had gone up about 11p.m. to look through a north facing back bedroom window, expecting at least to see a few streaks of white light in the sky, if nothing more.

I live near the edge of town, near the top of a hill, and beyond my small back garden is a long rectangular field sloping up from left to right.

I saw no Perseid shower, but suddenly arcing just above the surface of the field and travelling swiftly and smoothly parallel to the incline was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It was the purest and brightest gold from head to tail and reminded me of an image I saw long ago in a medieval manuscript. I seemed to be aware of it for about four seconds before it vanished. That image has always stuck with me and I've never bothered to look for a Perseid shower since!

@TheParadigmShift
But what sort of animal was it?

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Last night DH and I were in bed reading. The teenaged girls who live next door were being quite loud, but not too bad. Their household is chaotic and they often make a noise, just loud chatting, singing, laughing etc well into the small hours.

At exactly the same time, without talking about it, DH and I got to a suitable spot to finish reading and go to sleep. We both shut out books. At that exact moment the girls stopped and didn’t make a sound the rest of the night.

4 years ago I had a nightmare that woke me up about a sinister man coming to read the meter and it was very important that I didn't let him in. I sat bolt upright in bed and couldn't sleep after that. A few hours later my 14 year old daughter woke up crying. She said she'd been awake she thought in bed but heard a voice clearly say "Don't let him in!"
We were looking at each other open mouthed when the doorbell rang. We didn't answer it. There was a horrible atmosphere. I tried to make light of it but when I went downstairs, there was a card from the electricity company saying the meter reader had missed us. We change companies all the time and have sometimes gone years without anyone reading it so it wasn't expected by any means. I often think that we were being protected but from what I don't know. The sinister feeling lifted around 6pm that evening.

@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!

My son has epilepsy and the things you describe about school sound like his absences (formerly known as petit mal). You sound like you do or might have had it in the past. De ja vu can also be an aura of a different kind of seizure (it's common to have more than one type).

There are many videos on tik tok made by hospice nurses which are like this. A new nurse was working with an experienced nurse one night. The lift doors on their floor opened but no one got out. The older nurse told her not to worry and that it happened all the time. She said it was the spirits coming to collect someone who was ready to die. Everytime it happened a patient died during the night. If it didn't happen there were no deaths that night.

Why do spirits need to take lifts? They are not corporeal. That does not make sense.

This week. I took a ring off and put it on dining table. Turned away for 30 seconds, went to put it back on and it had gone. No one else in house. Searched high and low. No sign if it.

Mine are ready dark sadly....not sure if glitch or wooo

I used to work with a lady called tracy. Tracy was part time weds to Fri. Our tram meetings were weds. Lovely lady quite often had a laugh and joke with her she was very lighthearted. Part way through a particular meeting there was everyone else laughing and tracy looked absolutely serious and our eyes met and in mind I thought she''ll be sad on Fri.
The Fri came I went into the office everyone was huddled round I went to see what had happened and Tracy's dh had taken his life the Thurs evening.

Another one in 2019 I kept having the most vivid dreams of people watching TV and getting angry, shaking their heads at the news, people looting.
My mind kept telling me 2020 is when it all changes everything changes in this year. I just felt for months something bad was upon us. Really odd still to this my my dh and friends think it's weird I was telling them about 2020 being a bad year for while.

As a teenager in the early 80s I had the most vivid dream ever about Marc Bolan. I didn't really know who he was prior to this, but in the dream he talked to me for what seemed like hours. He was there, sat on my bed wearing a pink feather boa, it was so real.
I woke up feeling the most at peace I have ever felt in my life and scattered on my duvet were several Bright pink feathers. There was nothing similar in the house at all.
From there I bought the records as it had intrigued me so much and music in general got me through a lot of bad times.

I know it was a dream, but to this day I cant explain the feathers.

My Nan ( my Mum's mum) passed away several years ago and my Mum wore the eternity ring that my grandad had given to my nan
She had to take it off because it had started to wear thin and was rubbing her finger so she kept it in a little trinket dish inher dressing table.
I took my Mum out one Sunday morning and when we got back, the ring was sitting in the middle of a cushion on the sofa.

@WhatTahw

The year I turned 43, my mum tuned 73, I was born in 1973 and she was born in 1943.

I'm not sure if anybody else replied, but I think this is just mathematics.

My mum was born 1963, I was born 1989. If you add 63 to 1989, or 89 to 1963, you'll get 2052. In 2052, I will turn 63 and my mum will turn 89.

@VinylCafe

Many years ago when the DC were babies, their tiny socks would go missing in the washing machine - usually one of a pair. We were moving house 7 years later and I was doing one last load of laundry. When I was taking the wet clothes out of the machine, there were the missing baby socks! At first I thought they had gotten stuck somewhere in the machine for 7 years, then I remembered we got rid of the old washer and bought a new one the year before.

Wow!

@TokenGinger

Well done. I attempted that thought process last night; it nearly killed me.

@nettytree

Growing up I was very fond of one of my uncles. Then one day he had changed. It was like in a soap when a character had been recast. It was never the same after that.

@nettytree changed in what way?

Just tonight, I used my mobile phone to call a friend. I was dat at the dining room table and my 13yr old DS was sat at the table too. I finished the call and my phone died as the battery had run down. I carried on folding laundry and went to let the dog outside to toilet. When I came back to collect my phone, I couldn't find it anywhere. Checked folded laundry, on floor, entire table, downstairs toilet, kitchen, fridge, microwave, handbag and I still can't find it,!! It's nowhere to be found. I sure I'm going mad, jusy don't know where it is