Glitch in the Matrix

I took my son with me to the office yesterday because he didn't have school that day. He brought his backpack with snacks and his phone inside it. He was carrying the backpack with him when we left the house, I made sure he had it because his phone charger and all the stuff he needs is in there.

We get to the office, he take this jacket off, sits by one of the computers and places the backpack beside him. I've seen him going on his phone which was in the backpack.

Later around 3pm we couldn't find his backpack, we panicked because we thought somebody stole it and his phone was inside it. We asked around the office and they didn't see it after 3pm but they remember him having the backpack that morning.

We kept looking and couldn't find it. We realized it probably got stolen when he wasn't looking (there were a lot of kids coming in and out for trick or treating).

We leave the office and go home. I unlock the house, I go in my room and his backpack is sitting on the bed with all his stuff inside it, including his phone which he used yesterday. There is texts and a couple of social media interactions he made using the phone so we know he had both the backpack and the phone that day. We are shocked. We tried to rationalize it as much as possible but there is no way he never brought it with him, there's concrete proof that he did such as eye witness, him seeing it, him going on his phone, me seeing it, other people seeing it and the sent texts alongside other social media interactions that couldn't have been possible without him having the phone.

This is the first time something like this has ever happened to me. I don't know how to feel about it.

>So this actually happened last week... It just took me some time to come to terms with it...

>I got a phone call from my next door neighbor late in the evening asking if I can help him move a mattress into his upstairs. His mom is ill and has a big heavy sleep number bed. I of course ran over to help because they're great neighbors.

>I get over there and his friend, who is also a priest, was there to help. I helped them figure out how to separate the mattress from the bed so we could fit it up stairs. We get it all moved up and back in place when my neighbor asks if I can help them move an armoire upstairs too. I think nothing of it and we pull it out of his travel trailer and start bringing it up the front stairs of his house.

>This is where I died. The front stairs are 11 steps. I was on the lower end of the armoire about 6 steps up when my neighbor and his friend lose a handle on the armoire and it comes crashing down on me and I fall backwards towards the pavement...

>I then wake up in my dining room to my phone ringing and my wife asking me if I'm going to answer the phone. It's my neighbor asking me if I can help move a bed upstairs for his mom...

>I go over there and meet his priest friend again, as this has been the first time I met him. I say I can help with the bed but I cannot help with the armoire. My neighbor was like "how'd you know about the armoire?". I then proceeded to tell them I'm pretty sure I just died.

>I spent the next hour talking with the priest. He had so many questions. My neighbor didn't believe it until I described the upstairs bedroom in perfect detail down to the metal mattress frame on the floor and the intricate headboard leaning against the wall and I had never been upstairs in their house before.

>The priest asked me what I saw after I died. I told him I never actually died. Before it happened I woke up at my dining room table.

>TL;DR... I experienced my death but woke up alive about 20 minutes earlier in my life.

>This happened about two years ago and I was so blown away I took notes and told my wife about it, so I still have the notes on my phone. My 5yo son was pretty typical for his age; always goofing around, never serious, always working some angle to negotiate treats or buying whatever thing was at the top of his list this week. Kids have a selfish worldview and that's mostly indetstandable because they haven't matured yet. So when my son asked me to go for a walk just the two of us, I immediately laughed and thought "ok, what's he going to ask for".

>We start walking and I ask "what's on your mind buddy?". He said "nothing really, I just want to have some time to be with you and be peaceful and be out in nature". Wow ok, this is progress I thought. Then he said "I want you to know you're the best Dad I've ever had. You really do help me and my sister a lot and you're really very nice, even though we don't usually tell you. So I just wanted to say 'thank you for everything' and that I want to be near you always." By this point, the only reason I wasn't completely crying my eyes out is that I thought it was some kind of a joke or lead up to ask for something, this was totally out of character especially at this age. I managed to croak out something like "I'm really glad to hear that and I love you very much". Then we just enjoyed the rest of the walk.

>It really felt like for a moment I was speaking to a soul who has had several lives ("you're the best dad I've ever had") and wanted to speak directly to me instead of play the role of a child. I'm so glad it happened and it's something I will never forget. Later he went right back to being the same old goofy kid that I love.

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>Woke up in the middle of the night last night around 4:30am BST, I had my curtains half open and instead of looking at my phone or around my room I immediately looked out my window and for a split second I saw the stars as clear as day, jumped out of bed to get a proper look and they were gone.

>I live in the middle of a big city though so the only lights in the sky would be satellites, but literally for a split second I saw the stars and how quickly the earth was rotating.

>I've tried to look it up to see if other people have had the same experience as I did, bit I can't find anything about it.

>Does anyone know what could've caused it?

>I went out, parked infront of a store, bought a 6pack of water and went to register nr2, paid with change.

>Half an hour later, I remembered I wouldn't be going out anytime soon again so I decided to buy more water, and everything happened in the exact same order, I parked at the same spot, entered, bought a 6pack, register 2 is free, same girl working there, I even paid with same ammount of change coins. She looked at me with a bit of horror and confusion but couldnt see me smiling under my mask.