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)

The only vaguely odd things I have had are finding things in odd places almost straight away that other people have been looking for for ages. Both times they thought I had hidden the items there as a joke as I found them in odd places and for some reason thought to look in those places.

Some of these are insane! Shameless placemark.

Dont know if this counts as glitch, but freaky. When pregnant with dd1 a tiny wooden cat figure turned up in my house. Never seen it before. Saw it around loads while pregnant but never really thought much of it, would turn up in my pocket etc but swear I'd not picked it up. Once I'd had dd didnt think of it but one day realised it not seen it around for ages. Before I knew I was pregnant with dd2 it turned up again and hung around. I did like it, was very sweet looking and tried second time around to look after it. After she was born, totally disappeared, never to be seen again. Never had any more dc

When a bit too young to appreciate the import, I could regularly predict useless stuff like who was going to be Head Girl, & who was going to win the school raffle. A voice would sound in my head - the same 'narrator' voice I hear when reading - & calmly state the name of the person about 10 seconds before the formal announcement. It happened a LOT. I just thought it was normal.

More usefully, I predicted the Grand National winner 3 years running - with zero knowledge of horseflesh at the time. It was only when I got old enough to realise what was at stake, & how unusual it was, the 'ability' just ... faded away. The useless one too!

@DameDoom

Not a glitch but a weird UFO one. 1990, the early morning before an A level exam, my mum came into my bedroom and woke me up really urgently telling me to come outside. I went down and most of the residents of our street were all staring up at this bright, spinning rugby ball-shaped thing in the sky above our houses. It was massive and covering half the houses. I completely crapped myself and ran back inside while they all just stood there open -mouthed for ages. Next day, my mum told me a police man had knocked on our door at lunchtime to tell her not to worry about what we’d seen - it was a police helicopter exercise. I have never seen an enormous, spinning police helicopter before. It was totally silent too. It was the talk of the street - neighbours phoned our local radio station and one called the newspaper but there was never anything written about it. Not so much as a jokey mention of local yokels getting themselves confused with ‘copters and UFOs. I have trawled the internet to see if anything has been written about it - can’t find one single mention. Still intrigues me today.

I know someone who had a very similar experience. Lived near Salisbury Plain.

A dear friend and her husband asked to join them, as their guest, at a country house hotel in Sussex for a long weekend. I had a single room with a single bed, it was all a bit cosy.
Anyway, the tv was on the wall facing the bed, and the remote was on the bedside cabinet. I watched a bit of tv, switched it off and went to sleep.

Next day, no remote. I actually moved the bed, the cabinet, stripped the bed, honestly looked everywhere. In my handbag (which was on the other side of the room), my weekend bag (which was zipped close. The remote was gone.

As we were checking out I thought I'd better mention it, in case they charged my friends for it when they noticed its absence (thinking we'd inadvertently taken it).

I told the owner who was checking us out, he didn't seem surprised. Just said "oh Room xx, there's always high jinks and jiggerypokery going on in that one!"

@ChargingBuck

When a bit too young to appreciate the import, I could regularly predict useless stuff like who was going to be Head Girl, & who was going to win the school raffle. A voice would sound in my head - the same 'narrator' voice I hear when reading - & calmly state the name of the person about 10 seconds before the formal announcement. It happened a LOT. I just thought it was normal.

More usefully, I predicted the Grand National winner 3 years running - with zero knowledge of horseflesh at the time. It was only when I got old enough to realise what was at stake, & how unusual it was, the 'ability' just ... faded away. The useless one too!

Actually this reminds me when I was young I used to watch the Simpsons and another cartoon on sky at 7pm every night and during the day I'd think of an episode of the simpsons and that night it'd be on! This faded away too but thought I was psychic for awhile, if only I knew the winning lottery tickets instead

@forlornlorna

I don't know if this counts as a matrix kinda thing but I have vivid memories from age about 5 till I was 22.Then I have a whole year where I've attended an important wedding, went on a mini break and visited family and I have absolutely no recollection of doing these things. No memory problems since. So puzzling and frankly scary. At the time I was apparently normal. I realised it had happened looking back at family photos and seeing myself at my cousins wedding and having non recollection at all, and then exh saying come on you must remember coz we went away to visit auntie the next day. He shows me pics of them and no zilch! Terrifies me

Do you think you might have had a head injury that you don't remember having and that nobody witnessed?

It was Christmas and I had recently had an early miscarriage (first baby). I was at the top of the stairs at my DHs home and his mum (who was at the foot of the stairs) called up to me to ask me a question. When I looked down to reply, she was holding a baby. I knew with absolute certainty that the following year, this would be a reality - and it was.

My pal was driving in Canada late at night.
Stopped at red traffic lights at a crossroads.
When they changed to green, he started to engage the gears, but heard his own voice shouting "don't move!!" in his head.
He didn't move, & a car came flying from the crossroad at high speed.
He'd have collided for sure.

Another time, he was driving in the daytime, & saw his own car, with himself at the wheel driving past him.

He's a completely rational man, with a strong scientific bent. The kind of mind that is smart enough to understand quantum ... which, come to think of it, could 'explain' the unexplainable ...

I had a kind of 'premonition' as a child and then it came true. I don't actually believe in premonitions so I know there must be some kind of explanation, but I don't know what. I had a dream where my sister and I were playing in the street next to our house as we often did. We were playing with a ball. Then she annoyed me in some way and we ended up having a silly argument and she stropped off and got hit by a car. The next day we were playing next to the house with a ball and the argument we'd had before actually started. I felt kind of sick and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I changed the way that I reacted and just let her have her own way. We carried on happily playing and a few seconds later the same car came round the corner. It really creeped me out but I felt very relieved.

I set off from home to go somewhere.
10 minute walk I had done loads of times. I went straight there but it took 30 minutes and I was late
I assumed my clock (pre mobiles) at home was wrong so checked it when I got home - it wasn’t

I was in Liverpool with my ex and had just gone to meet my aunt and uncle. They had annoyed me. When I walked back through the streets to the car park, there was the weirdest eerie feeling I've ever experienced, as if there was no air, just tension. A homeless woman lunged at me, everyone was staring at us even though I wasn't doing anything weird, and there was a man walking a dog wearing a superman outfit and a top hat. It was the weirdest thing I've ever experienced, it was like entering a parallel universe.

@iheartredsquirrels

Dh and me regular finish each others sentences, and 'mind read' each other, could never get away with anything I shouldn't, because he would know and like wise with him. It's sometimes spooky and unsettling in equal measures.

We do this. I don't know if it's mind reading, or just that we know each other so well.

When I was a teenager I left the house at 07:30am to walk to the bus stop as normal. I know it was 07:30am as my dad was watching the news and the regional weather had just come on. I walked my usual route, nothing strange happened. It should have taken me no more than 20 minutes to get to the bus stop. I arrived at the bus stop at 08:30am. I know it was 08:30am as my bus stop was outside the station and the tannoy was announcing the 08:33 train.

I still, to this day, have no idea where I lost 40 minutes. I was not ill, nothing bad happened, I didn't avoid any catastrophes by being late, no higher purpose for it. I was simply late for school.

About two years ago just before lockdown I lost a bracelet was convinced it had come off while doing the recycling.Emptied all my boxes no sign of it on Sunday my DH went for a walk and found it in one of his trainers absolutely bizarre.

[quote Lavender24]@VinylCafe I think you have a little house sprite that borrowed the socks and decided to return them when it realised you were leaving![/quote]

I've been thinking about this. I now wonder if I might have a personal sprite following me around as every time I put an item away in a "safe" place, the item disappears never to be found again. Every.time. The places I choose are usually in a drawer or on top of a wardrobe so not weird forgettable places.

My Grandad had recently died, and about 6 weeks later we felt it would do my Nan some good to get out of the house and into the fresh air, so we arranged for the whole family to meet at Scotney Castle for a gentle walk. The morning we were due to go we arrived at my grandparents house to collect my Nan and she told me that that morning she had opened the wardrobe door and a photo had fallen out onto the carpet - it was a photo of her and Grandad at Scotney Castle.

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!

I told the owner who was checking us out, he didn't seem surprised. Just said "oh Room xx, there's always high jinks and jiggerypokery going on in that one!"

Spooky! And I think I’ll use the phrase "high jinks and jiggerypokery" as often as possible from now on!

I have two really weird ones. Once when I was about 7 I was riding my bike up the hill on the pavement by our house. I could hear a car engine on a drive, the view was obscured by the fence and trees. I waited for ages and it didn't appear so I rode off. Suddenly the car reversed, I was about to be hit. Next thing I know I'm at the top of the road completely fine! No clue what happened.
The second is even spookier. I was about 13 and in secondary school. I was going home with my friends, we were chatting as we walked and I said goodbye. Next thing I know it was the following lunchtime the next day. I completely blanked out a whole day! I have no recollection of what happened. It freaked me out a lot. I told my Grandad and the same thing had happened to him as a boy when he was walking across the fields to school. (1940s). I swear these are true.

I've told this on here before. I had a strange experience a few years ago. Ill try and explain it.
I live in the middle of nowhere. I was heading back on a run towards my house. It was a lovely spring sunshine type day. I stopped to do some stretches and it was dead quiet. Not a sound from the sheep or birds. I looked at the hill my farm is on and I could see a big, white, modern office type complex. But it also seemed pretty natural too that it was there, like I'd always known it. I started to get really confused, couldn't get my bearings at all. Then a tractor started coming down the road behind me and it all went back to normal.

I had 4 sterling silver teaspoons as a present. They are bit unusual as the have a heart engraved in the bowl part. Always kept them in the cutlery draw. A few months later I found five! Had kept the box and it said four. Where did the other one come from?

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar no nothing at all