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To ask your "glitch in the matrix" moment?

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bloomingheck1 · 12/01/2022 13:08

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)

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StopStartStop · 18/01/2022 21:07

@73kittycat73

Oh wow StopStartStop, thank you for sharing that. It does sound quite scary. I don't know if I'd try again in your shoes either. I don't know why your fellow students got upset? That was a bit weird of them. Confused
Religious people. Sensitive. Concerned things might not be above board. It was never 'odd' to me, it was my life!
AmperoBlue · 18/01/2022 21:08

I have very clear “click” moments where you know somethings important.
I saw a woman in the train doing something with bits of newspaper and I had a click. Several years later I got a job, part of which was analysis of press cutting to do with our company. I then left my job but had keep the press cutting as a freelancer. It totally saved my life when I became a single parent.
Another was on a cruise. I clicked with a certain place abroad we visited . Not only did I return a few years later but weirdly met my future husband who had work in this place and we married there 17 years later.
Normally it’s stuff I click and then lose. Like I know I should watch out for it.

BertieBotts · 18/01/2022 21:20

When I hear a sudden noise in a dark room at night, my brain often creates a burst of light to go with it, whether my eyes are open or closed although it happens more often when I'm tired. I have no idea why this would happen and it used to freak me out thinking I had seen an explosion or spark, but it was always nothing.

Having read about exploding head syndrome, I believe it is that except that I don't hallucinate the noises, it happens in response to things like something falling over in the room.

whirlycarly · 18/01/2022 21:51

I've remembered another. I had opened a brand new pot of face cream in my bathroom and promptly dropped it on the floor.

All the cream left the pot really cleanly - and just vanished. I was left holding an empty pot and no cream anywhere, not on the floor or anything in the room. I even checked the ceiling.

Bloody odd. And annoying.

countdowntonap · 18/01/2022 21:58

As a child, I had reoccurring dreams of their being a secret tunnel in my house leading to a new room.
As an adult, I bought my parents house and have now built an extension where the hidden room was in my dreams. My dreams predicted my future!

lightisnotwhite · 18/01/2022 22:07

I put this on a Covid is Science thread but I swear in 1000 years we’ll look back and scoff at the Science people like we look at religion now. We’ll know that Quatum whatever is ACTUALLY hiw the universe works.

We’ll smile benignly on our 21c for believing what we do in the same way Greek and Roman gods are clearly bunkum despite being everything during their respect periods.

Wish I was around to know what was really going on ,,.

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHaands · 18/01/2022 22:09

When we had a thread like this previously, someone posted about childhood "memories" of floating down the stairs, from top to bottom in one floaty step. This resonated really strongly with me.. some part of me remembers doing this too.

Anyone else?

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHaands · 18/01/2022 22:11

@PercyGit

What will I do when this thread is full Shock? Will there be a glitch in the matrix II?
@PercyGit you go on Reddit and join their glitch subs. I've been hooked ever since the last thread of this kind!
Beemagirl · 18/01/2022 22:53

@startstopstart. I've had that experience too. Not as often as you though. I remember once knowing I was flying through Peterborough at night, I live in the Midlands and would have no reason to go there particularly. I don't know why I went there but I distinctly remember seeing road signs below I could clearly read and cars driving at night. It was a lovely feeling being able to fly but with no real purpose. And I agree very different to a dream. I would love to be able to do it at will.

PriamFarrl · 18/01/2022 23:11

@ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHaands

When we had a thread like this previously, someone posted about childhood "memories" of floating down the stairs, from top to bottom in one floaty step. This resonated really strongly with me.. some part of me remembers doing this too.

Anyone else?

I’ve heard an idea that the reason a lot of people remember floating down the stairs is because you were being carried.

Just think how often you carry or carried your own children. Now think how often you remember your parents carrying you. I remember being carried once.
I believe that being carried is such an ordinary thing when you are small that you simply fail to remember. You remember the sensation of going down the stairs but not that you were carried.

BeckyWithTheGoodHair010101 · 18/01/2022 23:44

Ooh I have another one. I was driving southbound on the M6 toll going home from a work trip. I wasn't driving slowly, but a big BMW overtook me. Following him was an old style VW golf. Desperately trying to keep up with the BMW and doing quite well. I thought to myself "if that polo keeps doing that speed it's wheel is going to fall off!" And a couple of seconds later, the polo had a blow out and bits of shredded tyre were flying at my windscreen. Polo veered to the hard shoulder, BMW and I kept going - I couldn't do anything other than laugh in complete astonishment. So weird.

UnicornsReal · 19/01/2022 00:11

@ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHaands

When we had a thread like this previously, someone posted about childhood "memories" of floating down the stairs, from top to bottom in one floaty step. This resonated really strongly with me.. some part of me remembers doing this too.

Anyone else?

Me!! I was absolutely convinced I could fly, particularly downstairs. I think it’s the astral body at night which separates from the physical body and goes to other places. I have also had experiences where I know I have been with a loved one during the night on another plane.
UnicornsReal · 19/01/2022 00:22

I remember being particularly drawn to a book as a child. I think it was called the Red Shoes. It was about a girl who went through the walk in her bedroom and danced all night, then returned to bed exhausted before waking up. Or something like that .I knew that was what I was doing in a small way.

JollyHostess · 19/01/2022 00:30

@ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHaands

When we had a thread like this previously, someone posted about childhood "memories" of floating down the stairs, from top to bottom in one floaty step. This resonated really strongly with me.. some part of me remembers doing this too.

Anyone else?

Yes definitely around 3/4. I know I also dreamt about doing it and then wasn't sure what was a dream and what was real. So now obviously I have to conclude it was a dream but I remember how real it felt too.
FinallyFluid · 19/01/2022 01:02

This is a great thread.

FinallyFluid · 19/01/2022 01:03

@eagerlywaitingfor

I woke up yesterday morning and had absolutely no idea what day it was. None whatsoever. A complete and utter blank. Even when DH told me it was Tuesday, it took a good 5 minutes to sink in, to remember that the previous day had indeed been Monday, and what I'd done that day.
I get that, it is called being retired. Grin
GrandTheftWalrus · 19/01/2022 01:45

For many years I was under the impression that I couldn't have children.

I then fell pregnant with my oldest dd and she was born the same day of the week I was, the same month and 30 mins after my time of birth.

I have been pregnant 3 times now, 2 live births and a miscarriage and all of them were due on the 11th of the month by my own dates.

I've also thought things and it's came on the TV or I've saw someone etc.

I remember when planning my wedding to exdh I said I couldn't invite someone as she would be pregnant and moaning about it. Sure enough a month later she announced she was pregnant and moaned constantly during it.

I also didn't see my gran for 2 years before she died and I had a dream after she died where I said sorry for not coming to visit and she said it was fine and she forgave me.

RasputinsPickledPenis · 19/01/2022 01:57

There are very few photos of my grandma and her siblings as children due to lack of money when they were growing up. There is one photo of my great aunt as a young child, and she's stood in front of a wall with writing on it. The only words that are clearly visible are what would later be the name of her husband and the name of her daughter.

I once had a vision almost, that I was called into the meeting room at work and I was told I was being made redundant. I had no reason to think this as as far as I knew, the company was doing okay.

The next day, I was called into the meeting room, and I was told I was being made redundant. My manager and the HR manager appeared shock by my reaction as I just said "oh, okay" as I felt completely prepared for it.

Hauntingnotespizzicatostrings · 19/01/2022 03:08

Not adding anything right now although I often see glitches!
Just following so I can make myself a coffee and enjoy this thread tomorrow Grin

Mummyoflittledragon · 19/01/2022 05:34

This thread is great and a bit goose bump inducing!

We bought dd a Nintendo 3ds for Christmas when she was about 6. Dd put it down on the dining room table and when she went to play with it again it had disappeared. Searched the house high and low, literally everywhere. In the end, I reluctantly bought a replacement console. Getting ready for a holiday, I made a check list and put the replacement 3ds on the dresser by the front door. Turned around and the lost console was on the floor in the middle of the hallway. Both dd and dh denied putting it there and I would never have put it on the floor. Odd.

I had a dream about someone, who I hadn’t seen for years and wasn’t close to. She had mental health issues and I think massively denied who she was. A quirky, sensitive person trying to navigate the normal world. A couple of days later, I was told she’d died… about the same time as I dreamt about her.

I had ivf and I had the most overwhelming feeling that the 2 embryos, which didn’t take were those of my dead dog and the neighbours dog. He’d just put her down as he was moving countries. I had wanted to take her but was having ivf and couldn’t cope with an old dog. I didn’t know he’d put her down until after the embryos were implanted and I instinctively ‘knew’ he’d done it and felt the dog was now with me. That is beyond weird writing it down and I had never considered reincarnation as a concept. My brain still tells me I am correct and I’m not normally someone, who makes odd things up.

Gargellen · 19/01/2022 08:08

I woke up one Sunday as normal but after a couple of hours I felt so utterly tired I went back to bed. Within minutes I fell into a deep sleep and dreamed about a ferry capsizing. The dream was so vivid it woke me up. I lay awake and I could hear screaming and smell diesel and petrol fumes. There was stuff floating in the dark and it was terrifying and yet I was awake by this time and looking at the bedroom ceiling.
I was really really freaked out. Within a few days the Herald Of Free Enterprise capsized and some of the images on the TV were exactly as they were in my dream.

buntybanana · 19/01/2022 09:07

When I was a young child (5 or 6), I was in bed and my DM was sorting out Easter presents & an Easter hunt downstairs in the kitchen. She took down a ceramic cat that was high on a shelf and hid an egg in it before placing it back. She said I wandered downstairs bleary-eyed late at night after she had finished and told her that she shouldn't take the cat down or put anything in it again because it scared our real cat. When she asked how I knew the ceramic cat had been taken down, I said I had seen it in my mind.

Multiple times I've lost small things and they simply couldn't possibly logistically turn up in the places that they do.

A family friend crossed a road as a car screeched really fast round the corner and was about to hit her. She said she felt herself being slowly lifted in the air and gently placed on the other side of the road. She thought that she was in the process of dying and it was very peaceful, but when she 'landed' on the other side of the road, she was back into reality and everyone was going about their business normally without noticing anything. The car carried on screeching down the road. She was a very devout Christian.

buntybanana · 19/01/2022 09:12

Also, a few days after a friend committed suicide when we were all teenagers, I had an incredibly vivid dream where he appeared to me and asked if we were all angry at him. I said of course not and I hugged him - it felt so so real. He said it was strange being where he was. It was so bizarre because I knew I was in a dream and that I would wake up, so I made sure I told him that I loved him so much. I woke up terrified and sweating straight after at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep that night - I instantly got up and went for a walk to think deeply about it.

disconnected101 · 19/01/2022 09:51

@MrsTinyTeana

I often have dreams that make no sense at all and they later come true. I struggle to remember full details now but I had one about where I would now. I remember waking up and saying to my partner it's so weird, I dreamt that I was sitting looking at x view out of the window at work while someone told me y thing, but I wasn't at work (as in, when I dreamt it I didn't work there) and I have no idea who the person was. But the weird thing is I don't recognise it at all until the exact scenario plays out and I remember then dream. It's kind of like deja vu, except I remember actually having the dream about it.

I have had this several times. You experience a situation and it feels like to have dreamt this exact scene and living it now, so the situation, people, place and feeling feels already familiar as if you recognise it from a dream. Is there a neurological explanation for this? Would you say this is the same as deja vu?

@MrsTinyTeana Neurological explanation could be temporal lobe epilepsy. Google it + deja vu
Beemagirl · 19/01/2022 10:46

@MrsTinyTeana I don't think it's de ja vu or temporal lobe epilepsy. My PhD son does have a scientific explanation for it which I can't begin to explain here, mostly because I don't understand it, but he, my dd and my dh all have this ability and I don't, I therefore believe it's been passed down through my dh's side of the family. I keep asking them to dream about winning lottery numbers but so far no luck lol.

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