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Glitch in the Matrix Tales
Back in the eighth grade, I had this really vivid dream that my cousin Amber was pregnant. However, in the dream, she didn’t know that she was pregnant until she was about 4 months due to the fact she was still having her monthly (sorry for the TMI). Until one day when she went to the ER after bleeding excessively. She was then told there that she was expecting. That’s all I could remember from the dream. I should add …
Last semester, I moved to my new apartment with two other roommates. So, we all three have separate rooms, washrooms, and closets. It was quite a big apartment; my room (which was empty for three years) was in the corner of the apartment, which I could say was a little far from the other two rooms. So, every night I tried to sleep in that room, in the middle of the sleep, my whole body got shaken suddenly as if …
Growing up in a deeply religious household instilled in me a belief in the existence of a world beyond our visible one. This belief was further reinforced by my education at a religious private school and regular attendance of church every Saturday. Unlike many in my community, my fascination with the paranormal bordered upon obsession. I was intrigued by stories of ghosts, spirits, and otherworldly phenomena, often burying my head in fantasy books, always eager to learn more about the …
My aunt lives down south in the same town that her parents (my grandparents) lived in. They spent a lot of time together and were really close. My grandfather passed away quite a few years ago from pancreatic cancer and 4/16 was the anniversary of his death. My aunt got a notification on her phone a few days before 4/16 that she had a new message in Messenger. When she opened it, it was an old message she had saved …
Over the summer, my brother and I had our own “glitch in the matrix” experience when we decided to test reality with the app “Randonautica”, a game based on quantum energy and our manifestations. We were very skeptical of the stories other people have had from the game and didn’t believe that an app could actually read our thoughts and take us to a location matching them. The first set of coordinates we received was based on my thought of …
Now I come to the oddest thing that ever happened to me. Two or three years ago I was lying in bed, idly musing, one morning – it was the 2d of March – when suddenly a red-hot new idea came whistling down into my camp, and exploded with such comprehensive effectiveness as to sweep the vicinity clean of rubbishy reflections and fill the air with their dust and flying fragments. This idea, stated in simple phrase, was that …
Okay, so here is the long and short of it. I am a bit of a reckless driver. I always have been. The first time I was able to get behind a wheel, it took thirty seconds for me to run a stop sign. While I don’t do that anymore, I do still sometimes text and drive quite, which should convey the amount of raw stupidity I tend to drive with, along with the potential dangers that follow. It is …
My roommate’s grandma passed away, and her family made several trips to her grandmother’s house to clean it out. After three days of doing this, my roommate and her twin sister had the same dream: that there was money stuffed in her grandmother’s couch cushion. They thought it was weird that they had the same dream and told their mother about it. They all then went back to the grandma’s house. They checked the couch and found the money that …
“This happened about 15 years ago. I called my friend up, and he wasn’t home, so I left a message on his answering machine.” “I said, ‘Hey, it’s me. Sorry I missed you, call you later. Bye.’ And then I hung up and left the house. I made no other calls. Later that day, he called back and he says, ‘Wow, that was quite a message you left. Who was that girl you were talking to?’” “I was like, ‘What …
“About two years ago, I went to collect my husband from the ferry after work. My husband got into the car and as I was driving very slowly out of the car park we both noticed two people standing a few metres in front of our car. It looked as though they were strangers, older looking professionals, both walking to their separate cars in different areas of the car park. The man was reaching into his side bag and the …