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)

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

There was a party that didn't happen and a Prime Minister didn't attend it, and then a bit later it turned out that the party had happened after all AND the Prime Minister had attended it but he hadn't realised that he had. Spooky.

Omg 😂😂😂

I was going to a work conference, attended by 1,000s of people, and saw the name of a previous colleague as a guest speaker up on the board at the entrance to the conference room. I froze because something inside me said that if I met him, I would marry him and my whole life would change. I didn't want my life to change, had never particularly liked that colleague or been terribly friendly with him. He had been married anyway when we had been colleagues and I assumed he still was. I went to the loo and thought for about five minutes about leaving, so strong was my feeling that I didn't want anything to disrupt the life I had with DS. Then I realised my employer had paid £500 for me to attend so I had to attend unless there was a really good reason not to. Sure enough, three years later, we were married. 13 years later, still very happy.

@NChgforMatrixThread

Years ago I was at working talking to a colleague. He was a nice guy, but too young for me and not my type. In any event, he was leaving to move abroad the following month. I was divorced and 40 years old.

Whilst we were talking, I got what I can only describe as a vivid image in my mind. It was of myself and this colleague, we were married, with 2 children and living in a very hot place.

Fast forward 5 years and all of this came true. He stayed in England, a few months later we dated, then we got married and had 2 children when I was in my mid-forties. Then out of the blue he was offered a job in the middle east and we all moved there.

I know it's a coincidence, but it's really strange.

I love this!

It's nowhere near as odd as some of the posts on here but when I was about 17/18, my dad went on a trip to Prague, he brought me a pair of beautiful earrings as a present when he came back. They were really unusual and my favourite pair - my dad was really happy when I told him this. I loved them and wore them all the time.

When he died (about 10 years later), I decided that I'd wear them at the funeral. I'd last worn them about a week earlier and had put them, as I always did, back in the box where I keep all my earrings.
There was only 1 of them in there.
I searched every where, I even opened the hoover bag and went through it, checked everywhere in the house when I came to move out a few months later (and again went through the hoover bag just in case I'd hoovered it up when I cleaned the rooms after the furniture had been taken out but I never found the earring. I've kept the one I have though. I don't really believe in ghosts or the afterlife but a teeny tiny part of me hopes that he's got the other one with him.

10 years ago, a workplace dispute had led to me raising a tribunal, my union and solicitors were involved. I was still working there and the situation was intolerable- I was having panic attacks, had lost loads of weight and was in a pretty bad way.

My partner and I had decided to try for a baby about a year before, but in a pretty half-hearted way- I was totally consumed with my work situation and I was not looking after myself properly.

I'd just been offered a crap financial settlement, and had instructed my solicitor to refuse it so I would leave and claim constructive dismissal. This would have caused loads more stress, uncertainty, leaving with no reference etc. but I was resolute.

On this Friday morning, I work up at 5am and immediately a voice in my head (my voice?) said "you are pregnant". I thought it was a bit weird but eventually got back to sleep.

On my way home from work that night I bought a pregnancy test and sure enough, it was positive! I'd never been pregnant before (or since), nor had any voice given me information like that before (or since!)

Maybe it could be explained away somehow, but I honestly feel there was some external hand in the timing (the universe, or what?), giving me a shove off the damaging path I was on and presenting me with a new life. Within 5 days, I had left that career for good. Today I have a 9 year old child who is the light of my life.

A happy glitch. x

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

There was a party that didn't happen and a Prime Minister didn't attend it, and then a bit later it turned out that the party had happened after all AND the Prime Minister had attended it but he hadn't realised that he had. Spooky.

@Applesonthelawn

I was going to a work conference, attended by 1,000s of people, and saw the name of a previous colleague as a guest speaker up on the board at the entrance to the conference room. I froze because something inside me said that if I met him, I would marry him and my whole life would change. I didn't want my life to change, had never particularly liked that colleague or been terribly friendly with him. He had been married anyway when we had been colleagues and I assumed he still was. I went to the loo and thought for about five minutes about leaving, so strong was my feeling that I didn't want anything to disrupt the life I had with DS. Then I realised my employer had paid £500 for me to attend so I had to attend unless there was a really good reason not to. Sure enough, three years later, we were married. 13 years later, still very happy.

This reminds of something else too, I was in bed with my then boyfriend and I had wanted to break up with him for sometime and I said in my head something like oh I can't be bothered with the argument a break up would cause etc and I heard in my head almost like a different voice say "What about jack? (NC)" I didn't know a jack at the time but had an overwhelming feeling about it so broke up with said boyfriend a couple of days later and about a week or two later I met "jack" on a night out, still didn't think much of it but six years later were married, have dc and are very happy so thank you random voice in my head haha.

I'm sure there's some kind of psychological explanation for this, aside from the fact I was just a weird child in general but I've never been able to explain it.
As a small girl I went through a phase of semi-believing I had psychic powers, as children do, and my friend and I spent many hours attempting to move things with our minds, read each other's thoughts, and so on. Eventually I told my mother I was psychic, and that I went out of the room and she hid the key to the dresser, I would know where it was because I was able to watch it in my mind. I suppose she was bored or something because she humoured me.

And I did.

It was in the drawer of the dresser clock. I saw her put it in there in my mind's eye from outside of the room, with the door closed. And I found it with no hesitation.

It never happened again and I've never been able to explain it.

Object permanence and ADHD isn't a thing. If you lose you phone you still know it exists even if it's not in sight. Unlike Object permanence in babies when something disappears they think it's gone forever.

@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.

Oh I get that sometimes. I don't like it. I wonder what it might foretell re the state of my brain :/

About 20 years ago I was borrowing a car from my boss and had it parked outside. Me and my friend went and got in it but the key wouldn't start it and we sat there confused for a while until noticing it wasn't actually the right car and that my car, identical colour, was parked right behind it. Anyway I get left with a funny story I have told plenty of times

Couple of weeks ago and a friend said "hey do you remember that time..." And described the above story. Except it's 110% not the same friend as in my crystal clear, often repeated, often remembered, memory. And it's not the same car in her version, and it happened at a different address. We're both absolutely sure of our stories 🤔

@OneTimeThrowAway

About 20 years ago I was borrowing a car from my boss and had it parked outside. Me and my friend went and got in it but the key wouldn't start it and we sat there confused for a while until noticing it wasn't actually the right car and that my car, identical colour, was parked right behind it. Anyway I get left with a funny story I have told plenty of times

Couple of weeks ago and a friend said "hey do you remember that time..." And described the above story. Except it's 110% not the same friend as in my crystal clear, often repeated, often remembered, memory. And it's not the same car in her version, and it happened at a different address. We're both absolutely sure of our stories 🤔

Can you ask the friend from your original memory if she remembers it happening? She would be the tie breaker!

These stories are so interesting, (to paraphrase badly) there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

Mine is similar to yours, @NChgforMatrixThread.

I'm married to someone much younger and we now live abroad.

When clearing out in preparation for the move, I burned a whole stack of old diaries, but flicked through some of them to see if there was anything of interest (generally speaking, there wasn't!).

I thought it would be a laugh to see what I was doing on the same day back in 1997. Well, lo and behold: I'd written about a very vivid dream in which I'd been irresistibly attracted to a young scallywag, who was a little over 13 years old. (And no, I wasn't reading Adrian Mole!) His personality was very clear -- streetwise and funny, and sexy in a really laid-back way.

This dream was so intense and puzzling (I was in my 30s, and married, at the time) that I told my friend at work about it. She then went round telling everyone I was dreaming of sex with under-age boys!

Anyway, as you might have guessed, my now-husband would have been a little over 13 years old at the time of that dream.

I didn't burn that diary! I still have it in my desk drawer.

Finding this did make me wish I didn't have this habit of burning my diaries every few years. I'd give anything to know what I was doing on the day he was born!

Watching a film once when I was young and still living at my parent's house. In the days of big thick TVs where you would have ornaments on them they had a goblet shaped candle holder on theirs. For no reason, it jumped off the TV and landed on the floor - but not just falling over, it flew off in an arc and landed upside down

@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.

OMG! Which town? Where? !!!

Just a coincidence, but I was reading one of those click-bait type lists "X-number of scenes you didn't know were improvised". It was an American site, so no link-up with British TV schedules.

One of them was about a scene from Fresh Prince of Bell-Air where Will does a speech to Uncle Phil about his crappy absentee father. I didn't know he'd improvised that scene, and thought how it showed what a good actor he really was. The guy who played Uncle Phil didn't know what he was going to say, and was struck by how powerful this emotional speech was.

Turned on the telly that evening, and it was that episode, and that scene.

Got covid, looking everywhere in the meds cupboard for some cold and flu, taking tuppaware of meds out and looking behind etc. Put it all back, then re-opened the cupboard and there was a pack staring at me right at the front. Totally wasn't there before

@Vampirethriller

I was once on my own in my family home, family were all on holiday and only I had keys. I was making jam. I came to put it in jars and couldn't find half the lids, so I left the lidless jars in the pantry and went to bed. Got up in the morning and all the lidless jars now had lids screwed on tight and in every jar was a dead spider.

Naaaaah 😂 I can't deal with this one!

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

When my brother and I were young, we bent to a small petting farm type place. We bought a postcard while there.

We still have it. We are in the picture on it...

I'm only on page 3, but this is the strangest thing so far.

I once yawned and at the exact moment I opened my mouth to the exact moment I closed it the sound of a motorcycle revving sounded outside, for a solid moment my brain thought I had made that sound

I did something once that may well have looked like a Matrix glitch to the poor bugger in the pub garden.

I'd driven 30 miles to another town for a job interview. Didn't know the place very well. Found a carpark, went to pay, and realised I didn't have my purse. DAMN. Back in the car, drove through town, found a space where you could park for 30 minutes for free. Got out, dashed past the pub where the fella was enjoying a lunchtime pint in the sunshine - he'd have seen a stressed woman dashing past (going south to north)

Went into the bank and explained the situation and as I knew my account details &c, they were able to give me some cash for the parking meter.

Dashed back to car. Man saw me dashing back the way (north to south)

Got in car, drove back round to the car park, paid for a ticket. But with all the hoo-hah I was going to be late for my interview, so dashed back down the street (going north to south) past the poor man in the pub again. He must have thought there was a glitch in the Matrix that day, or that there was something wrong with his pint!

@AuntMasha

My mother is the one person in our family who has experienced what you might call the paranormal.

Many stories to tell but one was when she was first married, my dad’s older siblings rented an isolated house down in Sussex for weekend breaks, which was built near a weir and was very, very damp. She and my dad used to stay there sometimes. My mum had a newborn baby (my brother).

One night my mum was woken up by the sound of small children laughing and giggling. She says it was a if they were daring each other to do something naughty or forbidden - the tone of the voices was whispered and hushed. But then she heard another, grown up voice which sounded like an adult saying ‘no, no, no, no, no!’ as if chiding the children. These noises continued for some time and realising that there were no children in the house and therefore the voices couldn’t possibly be ‘real’, she knew there and then that she was hearing some kind of ‘recording’ from the past.

The next day, having spoken about her experience to my Aunt and Uncle who told her, ‘you must have heard the ghost’ — lovally, the house had a reputation for being haunted.

The ghost or ............... mold due to the damp causing hallucinations?

'mycotoxins produced by black mold are neurotoxins, which lead to varying neurological symptoms. Feelings of brain fog, dizziness, mood swings, hallucinations, anxiety, depression, seizures, and numbness are just a few of the nervous system effects.'

I moved to Italy, sadly had to leave my cats behind, they went to a good home but it broke my heart. I went back to the UK after nearly a year as I was selling my house. We decided to camp in the living room on the first night. I was awoken by a scratching noise, went to see what it was, and it was my favourite cat trying to get in. OMG I cried so much. He spent the entire night snuggled up next to me.

@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!

Oh my goodness, yes this! I had things like this happen all the time. Also to the PP who said they would think of an episode of a show and it would come on that night - me too!

A more useful thing was that I would wake up and think "I hope my teacher is out sick today" or "I hope she changes the deadline for the homework because I haven't done it" and 9/10 times it would happen. Unfortunately that has also left me terrified of having any thoughts in case I make one come true that I didn’t want

@PompomDahlia

Watching a film once when I was young and still living at my parent's house. In the days of big thick TVs where you would have ornaments on them they had a goblet shaped candle holder on theirs. For no reason, it jumped off the TV and landed on the floor - but not just falling over, it flew off in an arc and landed upside down

Same thing happened to me! Was sitting watching TV and had left a pair of glasses on the top. They fell on the floor, but didn't just wobble and fall off the top of the telly - they jumped into the air, flew in an arc and cleared the TV by about a metre!