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 went to an Internet cafe to do some coursework pre iPhones/iPads as we didn’t have a PC at home. I paid my 50p, sat down ready to log into my email only to find when opening the browser, I was already logged into my yahoo mail

When my DD was 2 she got an imaginary friend! She told me his name was Casper.....She would talk about him almost every day. She said he would come and play with her in her room when she had gone to bed. He seemed a friendly friend and it helped her go to bed and to sleep so I just went along with it. She said he liked her toys. Anyway when she was 3 we were given some videos and amongst them were 2 videos of...Caspar the friendly ghost! Thats my friend she exclaimed! Well that was strange enough....
When she was around 4 years old....she told me Casper had left and would no longer be around. Shortly after that I went in thw loft to clear out some old stuff that had been left in loft in teachests by previous owners.
I opened one teachest and found a load of toys......same kind of toys that my DD had where she owned a fire engine there was a fire engine very similar and a building tower. A book about a duck etc....
At the bottom of the teachest was a blowup version of ....Caspar the friendly ghost!

@Susurrar

Not sure if this counts but it’s very odd. I have two very vivid memories from when I was one year old. The weird thing is that I remember both the situations as if I were an observer, not me. So I “saw” myself and the people around me. There are no pictures or recordings of either of those situations, yet I “remember” every single detail. It took me years to speak to my family members who were present at those events to confirm that what I remember is correct. To clarify, it wasn’t anything traumatic, just family stuff.

It’s a way to tell if the memory is false or not. Being an “observer” means you’ve created the story in your imagination. If you actually remember it you can recall what happened through your eyes. Sometimes though when I tell a story about something real, I can see myself in the story because it’s part of the theatrics of telling. Do you think as a younger child you might have heard someone discussing the scenario and you turned it into a memory without realising?

My Nan was killed in a car accident on the way home from holiday when I was 4. The day they left for holiday she broke her pearl beaded necklace..12 years later and the day of my grandads funeral.. as my mum and auntie were coming down the stairs a pearl bead pinged out and bounced down the stairs in front of them.. my auntie swears to this day it was my Nan comforting her.

My DM and I were doing some family history research and were trying to find details of a court case involving my great grandmother in the 1930s. We were in a reference library surrounded by books about court proceedings and I said “We’ll never find this” I picked a random book off the shelf, and opened it, and right there was the court case we were looking for.

@TheVolturi

Asked Alexa to turn the lights on this morning and she did, but she was unplugged....

Does Alexa have residual power when she's unplugged? Like GroClocks remember the time?

DD and I once set off on a 25 minute drive (one we do regularly so I know exactly how long it takes) and half way there I checked the time and it was only 5 minutes after we left home.

In the ‘70’s, my family watched from our garden as an airliner was being escorted back to Heathrow by four fighter jets. From memory, this was at the time of troubles in Palestine. Never found anything out about it in the papers or on the news and it was pre-internet, but I’ve looked online recently and can’t find anything there, either! The whole family saw it though!

I always used to think I was maybe a bit psychic. I would have a feeling my phone would ring.. it would ring. I would be on my way to work and think ‘ oh what would happen if so and so didn’t turn up today’ I’d get to work and this would of happened. A couple of years ago I also had a miscarriage I was waiting for my letter for my 12 week scan and it was roughly around the time my nana had died the previous year I just had in my head If this letter comes and the date is the day she died then it’s not meant to be. Sure enough my scan date was the day she died and I sadly lost the baby the following week just before my scan was booked. I feel like it was her way of not wanting me to turn up for my scan all excited to find out that way. I also can describe family members and family members homes down to little details that I visited when I was only months old as baby. I also used to get hushed sounds of peoples voices in my head is the only way I can describe it I could never work out what they were saying but I know I always felt scared when it happened My mum always says I’m slightly odd 😂

There is a neurological phenomenon called Global Transient Amnesia which is a rare form of migraine. The brain suffers a short "power-cut" and completely shuts down for a nano second but in that time all new memory cells are obliterated. The result is that you may remember what happened the day before but all new memories from the day you are in are gone forever. You don't have any new memories until the brain has repaired itself and new memory cells are up and recording! It can be triggered by stress and exhaustion.

@KaiKanWhenever

Not so much an unexplained event as a coincidence that still blows my mind.

I have two DCs that were both born on New Years Day, three years apart...

Whose birthday is in March 🤣🤣🤣

I have racked my brains over the years for an explanation for this one but have never found one.

Similar to a couple of other poster’s experiences.

About 20 years ago. A glass of water on top of the old style TV in my bedroom suddenly went flying off the TV (it wasn’t near the edge) with such force it smashed on the carpeted floor.

It was honestly as if an unseen hand had swept it off the TV with enormous force. It was in a room with the doors and windows closed so no gust of wind.

Never thought of a logical explanation for it.

At a former job I noticed that one of my earrings had fallen out - I knew I'd been wearing it earlier so assumed it was at my desk. I was gutted as I really loved those earrings and they were quite expensive for me back then.... I sent an email round telling people it was missing in case they saw it on the floor somewhere. It was a large open plan office.

Time passed and we were having a sort out of files and archiving matters that had been closed previous. I was transferring paperwork from lever arch folders into paper folders to take up less room in storage. I opened one folder and my earring was sat on the top when I opened it! What a coincidence- obviously fell out when I was dealing with the file previously!

I was so chuffed I decided to send an email to the staff to tell them I'd found it - a dear secretary had told me she still looked on the way to and from work everyday in case it had fallen off on the way in to work - so I went to my sent items to revive the previous email by way of update .... and it was exactly a year to the day that I'd sent my previous email saying I'd lost!

Years ago in London DH and I both saw a huge passenger jet flying very low with smoke pouring out from it. We both gasped, certain we were about to witness an air disaster. Then at the same time, our perception of it changed and it appeared to be 4 fighter jets, with the smoke just being clouds behind it.

So weird that we both had the same optical illusion at the same time.

Not long after my father died, I was talking on the phone to my sister who was then living on the other side of the world. I had recently given my siblings a photograph of our dad and during our conversation, my photo fell off the wall at the same time as my sister's did. I'm not sure that it was a sign from my father, or just freaky coincidence.

I also have one necklace that has disappeared regularly for long periods of time, sometimes for 6 months, always to reappear when I've given up hope. I've turned the place upside down over the years and it always turns up somewhere obvious.

I once got home to hear a bunch of people in my flat, all talking, laughing etc, almost like a party. I heard my OH shout hello and I said hello I'm just going to the loo. When I came out a minute later the flat was completely empty, OH wasn't home, no sign anyone had been there. I ended up going to the doctor to ask if I needed my head checked

In 2008, my then-boyfriend and I had a two-day stopover in Marseille. We took a taxi from the airport to our hotel in the Vieux Port area. On the short journey along the motorway, we passed a lot of open countryside, with views stretching far into the distance. At one point, we saw a quaint, old-fashioned grey village with a windmill at one end.

The taxi-driver was chatting away to us, so by the time I got a chance to ask for the name of the village, it was out of sight and he didn’t seem to know what I was talking about. Never mind. I noted the time, so I would know roughly how far the village was from our hotel. We reached the hotel 12 minutes later.

We spent the next day exploring Marseille, and decided to try to find the village on our second day. We had a look at a map and couldn’t see it. The hotel receptionist didn’t know of the village and neither did the taxi-driver who came to take us out. Never mind, if we drove along the motorway to the airport we’d see it again.

We were driven out of Marseille and it took us longer to get out of the city than I’d remembered, and the views were more industrial. We headed out into the countryside and there was no sign of the village. The taxi-driver must have thought we were quite mad, this English couple chasing imaginary windmills. My boyfriend got a bit annoyed with me, but admitted he’d seen the village and windmill too. We had to admit defeat and the driver dropped us off at an out of town shopping centre. We had quite a nice time there, as it happened, but I still wonder what on earth happened to that village.

@LyndaSnellsSniff

One Christmas we were staying at a relatives house and I was given a high value gift card. A wonderful gift as money was tight. Unfortunately it went missing so I searched their house high and low looking for it, to no avail.

Back home, about 3 months later, it suddenly reappeared on a chest of drawers in my bedroom. Really weird but very welcome!

Another one…My walk home from work took me past a telephone box (this was a good while ago!). For several days running, the phone started ringing as I got to phone box. I thought about answering it but chickened out!

The telephone box - we could see a telephone box from our window, in a Cotswold village with a few tourists. We used to wait for people to be near then ring the phone and watch peoples reactions as they decided whether to answer it or not! If they did we would hang up. Only a few looked and found us cracking up in the front window and guessed what we had been up to 😃

We live on a busy road so if we want to open the gates for a delivery or something, we shut the dogs in.
DH and I were walking up the garden towards the open gate. There was a trailer on our drive and as we approached it, we both saw one of our dogs come out of the bush by the drive and go around the front of the trailer.
We both looked at each other and said at the same time, "I thought we had shut the dogs in!"
I went around one side and he went around the other. No dog.

We checked on him and he was shut in with the other two.
It was definitely our dog as he has a very unusual collar of a make discontinued 20 odd years ago.
I think he wanted to be with us so much he had projected himself somehow.
I have had many many occurrences like these my entire life though. Some of them I have told on here.

@AuntMasha

I awoke a couple of nights ago only to see a headless figure dressed in rags and bound with rope standing right next to my bed. It was initially terrifying, before I realised I was experiencing sleep paralysis.

Only ever happened to me once before a long time ago, when an alien was sitting on my chest and trying to touch my face!

Terrifying!!

@MsFannySqueers

When I was a child I was always collecting bits and pieces. Things like shells, driftwood, old birds nests. One day in a park I found an old gnarled bit of branch and took it home. I also liked to do crafty type things. So I decided to peel off the bark from the branch with a view to putting some varnish or paint on it. I peeled away the thick bark to reveal four numbers imprinted in black ink in the wood of the branch.It was over fifty years ago I still wonder how those numbers got there.

This one has me unsettled.

Spies, perhaps?

No! And I have tried unplugging it since and giving a command straight after and it doesn't work.

@TheLovelinessOfDemons

I mislaid my new engagement ring.
Searched high up and low down. Nowhere to be found.
It had cost my now dh a lot ( for us ) and he did without a cheap car to save for it and buy it for me.
How could I tell him
Prayed to a lovely friend who had died that year.
Miraculously my ring appeared.
Beside the sink.
It had definitely not been there when I was looking earlier.

@CaveWoman1

I think our brains are super powerful, more than we can possibly imagine & we can manifest our reality!! Apparently we only use about 20% or something like that, of our total brain capacity so there’s got to be more potential locked in there than we currently realise

Definitely - my DM’s telepathy is one example.

And IMO animals retain some abilities that we (or most of us) have lost. Some can sense things that we (or most of us) can’t.

A sister and family who lived close to us for a very few years, had a dog we were very fond of - he’d stayed with us more than once when they were away.
She and family then moved a long way away, so we only saw them once a year.
She said the dog invariably knew we were coming when we were still a good hour away. He would wait all excited by the front door or at a window - a thing he never did for anyone else.

OK, this one is ‘woo’, but a niece’s dog refused absolutely to set a paw inside a major area of the big old property they’d moved into.

None of the rest of the family had sensed anything at all ‘off’, but since niece knew someone reputed to have ‘the gift’ (she didn’t do it for money) she asked her to take a look.
She said immediately that something tragic had happened there, and the person responsible was hanging around, out of guilt.
She asked him to leave, and presumably he left, since right after that, the dog was perfectly happy to enter that area.