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This happened about 3 years ago.

My normal AP routine is usually I start out weightless and have to use my willpower to ‘solidify’ and move around. Usually clenching a fist and stuff like that helps. A quick look in the mirror and then I head off to whatever objective I have.

If I don’t have an objective, what often happens is when I leave my house be going through the ceiling or window, I end up somewhere random, which is probably why it’s good to have a plan and stay focused.

This particular time, when I left the house, I suddenly found myself in what I would describe as a stone castle, with very high ceilings.. like 3-4 stories. It was actually quite nice. For some reason, I was closer to the ceiling, in the air, and slowly descending. The gravity was much less than on Earth.. similar more to that of the Moon.

I looked at my right hand and was surprised to have claws and dark red skin. Observing myself further, I was very tall (maybe 3.5m) and muscular with small wings on my back. I was still “me”, so it’s not like I was hearing any other thoughts.. I felt more like I was just observing things. It occurred to me that the wings might be somewhat useful due to the low gravity, but I didn’t get a chance to find out, because I snapped back into my body and woke up.

This is not the only time I’ve found myself with a different astral body, but so far the other couple of times, it’s been a human body. Makes me wonder if anyone has some wisdom/insight to what’s going on when this sort of thing happens.

After I APed a couple of times, it occured to me to look at my astral body and I was surprised to see a few pinpoints of light that looked like the smallest of stars, for example, on my right index fingertip.

Another time, a shadow person appeared and it was covered in these little stars.. almost like the night sky.

Has anyone else experienced something like this and have an idea about what it is?

Last night, while meditating I was shown an ancient text that looked like it was written in Hebrew, Aramaic or a similar Semitic language. I was told that the text was intentionally made complex to overwhelm weak minds and that people with the correct genetics to contain the consciousness of someone that had the potential to understand the texts were identified and became “priests”. I think, also, this is passed on through bloodlines, due to the genetic factor.

Also, just to be clear, I don’t for a moment think that this has anything to do with me (i.e. I don’t have delusions of grandeur), but rather it was like learning that something exists and I am just curious to learn more / validate.

I know that sounds very woo-woo, but in any case, is anyone aware of such a thing? I am very ignorant in this area, so it might be something commonly known.

Thanks for any help you can give, and feel free to DM me if you prefer!

I’ve already AP’ed many times, but have never been able to do so listening to the Gateway tapes while conscious. What I mean by that is that I’ve gone from lucid to AP quite a few times while listening to the tapes (and without), but never in that mind awake, body asleep state.

A few days ago, someone mentioned Compoint 12 and I haven’t listened to that one in a long time. At my normal 3am meditation time, I gave it a whirl, but ended up falling asleep.

When I woke up, the recording was over, so I thought I would just start with NVC2 and let it keep playing into Compoint 12, with the hopes that if I fell asleep again, I might wake up a little during Compoint 12.

That seemed to do the trick. I woke up just enough to know I was in the “phase” and convinced myself to try sitting up in bed (my astral body), which worked. I was a little worried I would wake up, but instead I was able to then rotate 90 degrees to get my legs on the floor and the next thing I knew I was out of bed.

It was sort of non-eventful, but I managed to get to the bathroom mirror to look at myself (which is always my first step when I AP), but I snapped back into my body and woke up very shortly after that.

Anyway, maybe my experience will be a little breadcrumb for someone out there.

I’ve already AP’ed many times, but have never been able to do so listening to the Gateway tapes while conscious. What I mean by that is that I’ve gone from lucid to AP quite a few times, while listening to the tapes (and without), but never in that mind awake, body asleep state.

A few days ago, someone mentioned Compoint 12 and I haven’t listened to that one in a long time. I gave it a whirl, but ended up falling asleep.

When I woke up, the recording was over, so I thought I would just start with NVC2 and let it keep playing into Compoint 12, with the hopes that if I fell asleep again, I might wake up a little during Compoint 12.

That seemed to do the trick. I woke up just enough to know I was in the “phase” and convinced myself to try sitting up in bed (my astral body), which worked. I was a little worried I would wake up, but instead I was able to then rotate 90 degrees to get my legs on the floor and the next thing I knew I was out of bed.

It was sort of non-eventful, but I managed to get to the bathroom mirror to look at myself (which is always my first step when I AP), but I snapped back into my body and woke up very shortly after that.

Anyway, maybe my experience will be a little breadcrumb for someone out there.

Hi there.. I imagine what I’m about to post might not fit in here, and if not, please suggest a more appropriate subreddit.

Last night, while meditating I was shown an ancient text that looked like it was written in Hebrew, Aramaic or a similar Semitic language. I was told that the text was intentionally made complex to overwhelm weak minds and that people with the correct genetics to contain the consciousness of someone that had the potential to understand the texts were identified and became “priests”. I think, also, this is passed on through bloodlines, due to the genetic factor.

I know that sounds very woo-woo, but in any case, is anyone aware of such a thing? I am very ignorant in this area, so it might be something commonly known.

Thanks for any help you can give, and feel free to DM me if you prefer!

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/IxwrJ6MDjG

I just wanted to share a few new details since I posted about my Mantid experience recently. One little bit of background is that my first encounter which precedes this one, occurred after I had my first somatic therapy session, as I was being guided to deal with trauma. Turns out reducing the noise in your head is important.

I mentioned in my post that there were toys in the otherwise sterile white room, and assumed that those were maybe for children that they interacted with, however I now understand that was intentionally for me. I have a very hard time just relaxing or idly ‘playing’ and that’s related to you guessed it, trauma. So it was a message to start playing/having fun. So that’s something I am re-introducing in my life.

The other detail that really blew my mind is how I mentioned a kitten and I had to “meow” to it. Several days later, I was chatting with another Mantid experiencer and they mentioned 5MeO-DMT was something they had used to achieve communication. I have heard of DMT, of course, but I didn’t realise there were two different types and honestly have never heard of this. When I was reading their message, my inner voice was pronouncing it, “5-Meow”, as part of my off-brand sense of humour. It then occurred to me that the kitten in my experience was intentional and the Mantid somehow knew I would have the future conversation and make the connection.

I know the two things I mention could just be me expressing confirmation bias, but my gut tells me it’s not.

I started reading up on “5-meow”, and wow.

Other minor update is that when I meditate, I can see the silhouette of a mantid if I want to and there is sort of an intuitive answer I can get.. so I’m not hearing them speak as much as there is a knowing, if that makes sense.

I started regularly doing the gateway tapes mid 2024. I have just about every night listened to recordings and these almost every time lead to visions… but I’ll just call it dreams, because I don’t want to come across like I know anything. I am mainly posting to share in case others have had similar experiences and maybe what I put out there will be another piece of the puzzle.

When the big orb flap that started around November 2024 (New Jersey and worldwide), I started having dreams of a conflict where there were hundreds of orbs and triangle ships fighting each other in the air and meanwhile on the ground everyone turns on each other out of fear and it’s not pretty. I am not trying to put out fear, this is just what I saw. When this happens (if it does), btw, it’s very important to be progressed enough to send out white light/love and remain calm.

Anyway, in one of the dreams the black triangle craft were collecting people to I assume take them off-world to ‘save them’ from the calamity. As a traveller, I got pretty excited about going aboard should the opportunity arise, but a recent dream I had just a few weeks ago has me wondering and here’s where I hope other experiencers with some insight can shed some light on this matter.

In the dream, i was in a major city when RPG’s (Rocket-propelled grenades) and other kinetic warfare started going off from our military. Dropping from the sky, originating from the triangle craft, were hundreds of human-looking beings, but they were all blonde, wearing blue jumpsuits that had some sort of writing or symbols on the torso. Of course, I have heard of the Nordics, but have never paid much attention, because I tend to only go down rabbit holes when I experience something firsthand. So, just before writing this post, I was surprised to find so many matching details just by feeding this information into Google AI and getting some really good hits. Whatever they were, this was a surprise attack on humans.

That’s the main details. Wondering if anyone out there can share more, and in particular if you can validate, for example, who you think/know pilots the craft, intentions, or anything of interest. Also, if you can recommend a more suitable subreddit to crosspost to. Thanks!

Around 3am yesterday morning, I was doing my usual listening to gateway tapes and quite often I end up dozing off, but I still get interesting results.

After a recent brief communication with a Mantid I posted about a few weeks ago ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Experiencers/s/Y9nExGHblR ), I decided to set the intention to have an encounter. While I was sleeping, I realised I was in a dream and went lucid and then focused on meeting with someone friendly. I felt a gentle pull on my astral body and unlike previous attempts when I was fearful and cut off the attempt, I said “okay” and gave permission.

I was expecting to come out the other side and find myself inside a UFO, but instead I found myself floating in a void where there were numbers, symbols, and letters all floating around. Just then my gateway tape woke me up and I snapped back into my body. I slowly went back into focus 12 and straight into another lucid dream. I persevered in trying to re-establish contact.

This time, in the dream, I created a full-length mirror and stared into it (you should try that, it’s always interesting), and the mirror eventually vanished and became a doorway, which I went through. This is where I went from lucid to astral. I found myself in large rectangular white room. At the opposite end of the room there was a very tall mantid (\~3m tall) female and we were speaking telepathically. For some reason, there was a small wall partition (\~1m) between us, but much closer to her end of the room. What exactly was said is a blur now, but I will share what I can recall. The room was not completely sterile in the sense that there were kids toys and stuff around.. I suspect those were for younger experiencers.

First point is I was very calm. I have been really working on not being fearful and I didn’t get the sense that the calmness was being somehow forced on me. I remember thanking her for seeing me and also while she first appeared as a mantid, she shifted into sort of a hybrid between a mantid and a blonde woman (I think in retrospect she was adapting to make my experience less scary). She was getting me to repeat a few words telepathically. For example, a kitten appeared and meowed and I made a meow imitating the kitten. It sounds silly, but was how she was calibrating things to fine tune into my thoughts, if that makes sense. I wish I could recall every word, but for some reason I can’t. She had a sense of humour and personality.

She explained they were going to perform a procedure on me and somehow there was now a human male doctor (or at least that’s what was presented to me) and an operating table in front of me. I should be clear that every step of the way I was consenting and not scared. I think if I said no at any time, I would have just snapped awake.

The doctor warned me that the procedure would be “terrifying” and it occurred to me to ask exactly what was the benefit of the procedure before I consented! The mantid told me that this is what I asked for. It would facilitate communication. That suddenly made perfect sense and so I agreed and again thanked her sincerely for the help. Before we proceeded, I asked the doctor if there was any way to make the procedure “not terrifying”, and then I suddenly woke up. Not sure if the procedure went ahead and they put me under or if I asked the wrong question, but my gut feel is that it went ahead and I have no memory of that part.

One final thing is that for those of you that listen to the gateway tapes, sometimes you hear noises that aren’t actually there and I swear I was hearing clicking noises (like an insect would make) a few times!

If I can remember any more of the conversation, I will update the post, but for now that’s all I can recollect.

Around 3am this morning, I was doing my usual listening to gateway tapes and quite often I end up dozing off, but I still get interesting results.

After a recent brief communication with a Mantid I posted about a few weeks ago ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Experiencers/s/Y9nExGHblR ), I decided to set the intention to have an encounter. While I was sleeping, I realised I was in a dream and went lucid and then focused on meeting with someone friendly. I felt a gentle pull on my astral body and unlike previous attempts when I was fearful and cut off the attempt, I said “okay” and gave permission.

I was expecting to come out the other side and find myself inside a UFO, but instead I found myself floating in a void where there were numbers, symbols, and letters all floating around. Just then my gateway tape woke me up and I snapped back into my body. I slowly went back into focus 12 and straight into another lucid dream. I persevered in trying to re-establish contact.

This time, in the dream, I created a full-length mirror and stared into it (you should try that, it’s always interesting), and the mirror eventually vanished and became a doorway, which I went through. This is where I went from lucid to astral. I found myself in large rectangular white room. At the opposite end of the room there was a very tall mantid (\~4m tall) female and we were speaking telepathically. For some reason, there was a small wall partition (\~1m) between us, but much closer to her end of the room. What exactly was said is a blur now, but I will share what I can recall. The room was not completely sterile in the sense that there were kids toys and stuff around.. I suspect those were for younger experiencers.

First point is I was very calm. I have been really working on not being fearful and I didn’t get the sense that the calmness was being somehow forced on me. I remember thanking her for seeing me and also while she first appeared as a mantid, she shifted into sort of a hybrid between a mantid and a blonde woman (I think in retrospect she was adapting to make my experience less scary). She was getting me to repeat a few words telepathically. For example, a kitten appeared and meowed and I made a meow imitating the kitten. It sounds silly, but was how she was calibrating things to fine tune into my thoughts, if that makes sense. I wish I could recall every word, but for some reason I can’t. She had a sense of humour and personality.

She explained they were going to perform a procedure on me and somehow there was now a human male doctor (or at least that’s what was presented to me) and an operating table in front of me. I should be clear that every step of the way I was consenting and not scared. I think if I said no at any time, I would have just snapped awake.

The doctor warned me that the procedure would be “terrifying” and it occurred to me to ask exactly what was the benefit of the procedure before I consented! The mantid told me that this is what I asked for. It would facilitate communication. That suddenly made perfect sense and so I agreed and again thanked her sincerely for the help. Before we proceeded, I asked the doctor if there was any way to make the procedure “not terrifying”, and then I suddenly woke up. Not sure if the procedure went ahead and they put me under or if I asked the wrong question, but my gut feel is that it went ahead and I have no memory of that part.

One final thing is that for those of you that listen to the gateway tapes, sometimes you hear noises that aren’t actually there and I swear I was hearing clicking noises (like an insect would make) a few times!

If I can remember any more of the conversation, I will update the post, but for now that’s all I can recollect.

Around 3am this morning, I was doing my usual listening to gateway tapes and quite often I end up dozing off, but I still get interesting results.

After a recent brief communication with a Mantid I posted about a few weeks ago ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Experiencers/s/Y9nExGHblR ), I decided to set the intention to have an encounter. While I was sleeping, I realised I was in a dream and went lucid and then focused on meeting with someone friendly. I felt a gentle pull on my astral body and unlike previous attempts when I was fearful and cut off the attempt, I said “okay” and gave permission.

I was expecting to come out the other side and find myself inside a UFO, but instead I found myself floating in a void where there were numbers, symbols, and letters all floating around. Just then my gateway tape woke me up and I snapped back into my body. I slowly went back into focus 12 and straight into another lucid dream. I persevered in trying to re-establish contact.

This time, in the dream, I created a full-length mirror and stared into it (you should try that, it’s always interesting), and the mirror eventually vanished and became a doorway, which I went through. This is where I went from lucid to astral. I found myself in large rectangular white room. At the opposite end of the room there was a very tall mantid (~3m tall) female and we were speaking telepathically. For some reason, there was a small wall partition (~1m) between us, but much closer to her end of the room. What exactly was said is a blur now, but I will share what I can recall. The room was not completely sterile in the sense that there were kids toys and stuff around.. I suspect those were for younger experiencers.

First point is I was very calm. I have been really working on not being fearful and I didn’t get the sense that the calmness was being somehow forced on me. I remember thanking her for seeing me and also while she first appeared as a mantid, she shifted into sort of a hybrid between a mantid and a blonde woman (I think in retrospect she was adapting to make my experience less scary). She was getting me to repeat a few words telepathically. For example, a kitten appeared and meowed and I made a meow imitating the kitten. It sounds silly, but was how she was calibrating things to fine tune into my thoughts, if that makes sense. I wish I could recall every word, but for some reason I can’t. She had a sense of humour and personality.

She explained they were going to perform a procedure on me and somehow there was now a human male doctor (or at least that’s what was presented to me) and an operating table in front of me. I should be clear that every step of the way I was consenting and not scared. I think if I said no at any time, I would have just snapped awake.

The doctor warned me that the procedure would be “terrifying” and it occurred to me to ask exactly what was the benefit of the procedure before I consented! The mantid told me that this is what I asked for. It would facilitate communication. That suddenly made perfect sense and so I agreed and again thanked her sincerely for the help. Before we proceeded, I asked the doctor if there was any way to make the procedure “not terrifying”, and then I suddenly woke up. Not sure if the procedure went ahead and they put me under or if I asked the wrong question, but my gut feel is that it went ahead and I have no memory of that part.

One final thing is that for those of you that listen to the gateway tapes, sometimes you hear noises that aren’t actually there and I swear I was hearing clicking noises (like an insect would make) a few times!

If I can remember any more of the conversation, I will update the post, but for now that’s all I can recollect.

I’ve been doing a lot of work on myself the past few years and try to meditate at 3am daily. Starting around December this past year, I was starting to get the message that I need to start working through my own trauma as it is weighing me down and preventing me from expanding my consciousness as fast.

Despite that, I’ve had a few interesting NHI experiences this year and I just had one last night I want to share in case it helps someone with their own journey.

Yesterday morning, I had my first somatic therapy session and that unlocked a childhood traumatic memory I hadn’t thought about since it occurred, but it explained why I have difficulty just relaxing and always being on guard to this day. I became aware of related tension in my neck and back and throughout the day, focused on relaxing those muscles, which I realise are always switched on.

During my evening meditation, I listened to a Brian Weiss self-hypnosis tape that helps you to have a conversation with the part of your mind that relates to this and ended up being able to thank that part of myself for protecting me in the past, but that we were no longer in danger.

During this process, I could also visualise a cacophony of brainwaves/static from my mind continuously looping the sense of danger. As I finished the conversation, I could feel my mind being quiet and relaxed and my muscles relaxing more than normal. The tape recording ended and I continued into a ‘freestyle’ meditation.

As I went into a deeper meditation, I could vaguely ‘see’ a mantid NHI. The signal was not super strong, but it came through and ‘he’ said something along the lines of, “See, that’s why you need to work on your trauma. We can’t tune in to your signal with all that noise”. This was my first communication with a mantid and I am now convinced to keep working on myself to get rid of the noise.

The further I dive in to this, the more consciousness seems to play a major role.

I’ve been doing a lot of work on myself the past few years and try to meditate at 3am daily. Starting around December this past year, I was starting to get the message that I need to start working through my own trauma as it is weighing me down and preventing me from expanding my consciousness as fast.

Despite that, I’ve had a few interesting NHI experiences this year and I just had one last night I want to share in case it helps someone with their own journey.

Yesterday morning, I had my first somatic therapy session and that unlocked a childhood traumatic memory I hadn’t thought about since it occurred, but it explained why I have difficulty just relaxing and always being on guard to this day. I became aware of related tension in my neck and back and throughout the day, focused on relaxing those muscles, which I realise are always switched on.

During my evening meditation, I listened to a Brian Weiss self-hypnosis tape that helps you to have a conversation with the part of your mind that relates to this and ended up being able to thank that part of myself for protecting me in the past, but that we were no longer in danger.

During this process, I could also visualise a cacophony of brainwaves/static from my mind continuously looping the sense of danger. As I finished the conversation, I could feel my mind being quiet and relaxed and my muscles relaxing more than normal. The tape recording ended and I continued into a ‘freestyle’ meditation.

As I went into a deeper meditation, I could vaguely ‘see’ a mantid NHI. The signal was not super strong, but it came through and ‘he’ said something along the lines of, “See, that’s why you need to work on your trauma. We can’t tune in to your signal with all that noise”. This was my first communication with a mantid and I am now convinced to keep working on myself to get rid of the noise.

Hopefully this is the correct community to post this to.. the further I dive in to this, the more consciousness seems to play a major role.

A few days ago, in a discussion about the toilet maze, where it tends to be a series of either disgusting toilets or no privacy, I mentioned we should try and switch into lucid dreaming mode and manifest a gold toilet, then see if others notice.

So last night, I found myself in one of these restrooms and I was speaking with a woman about this idea, which itself is unusual, because I’ve never spoken with anyone in this scenario.

I tried to manifest the cistern into gold, but it was difficult and it quickly reverted back to how it was… I tried again, and this time it slowly came in, but unexpectedly, it was a mixture of mostly quartz crystal (white, so not see-through) with a few spots of gold mixed in.. this seemed to hold, but then I woke up.

So for anyone reading this, please report back if you saw any gold in toilet maze area, and in particular if you were part of this “dream”, noting that times don’t necessarily synchronise in this reality, so you could have experienced this weeks before or after I post this at some stage.

Hi there.. I have heard the term Mall World (MW) before, but only in the past few weeks has it started to intrigue me.. ever since I saw someone post the bathroom maze image and so I wanted to share an astral projection I did (AP), where I might have gone through MW for a minute in that state.

My AP started out as normal, where I am floating in my room and it takes a few seconds to gain control and get moving with my will. Sometimes, I just try and head outside by going right through a wall or window and when I come out the other side, it’s often a completely different realm. In this case, I went through a doorway and found myself in some sort of dark and dingy neighbourhood (think like an inner city slum). To my right about 3-4 car lengths was a skeleton that was patrolling the area. I think he was meant to be guarding the door I just came out of, but his back was to me and he was walking away, so I snuck to the left and around the corner.

Immediately in front of me was a water theme park and I ran in that direction, hoping to evade the skeleton guard as quickly as possible. I jumped on a water ride that got me to the other side quickly and jumped out and I knew I was safely far enough away from the guard to be noticed.

At this point, as I reflect, I don’t know if I was still at “Mall World”, but the journey continues that I am now in a small town with dirt streets.. the climate is like a desert. There are humanoids and no humans around, so I know I’m on a different planet. I walk into something akin to a kebab shop and talk to the two guys running the shop. They tell me the planet is called Vega and I tell them I’m from Earth. They look at each other for second and then say that they’ve heard of Earth before, but it sounds like something from their distant past knowledge.. like a historical memory.

So now I wonder if Mall World is a representation of a gateway or an intermediate stop to other astral levels. Anyone have ideas or experiences like this?

Thanks!

Hi there.. I have heard the term Mall World before, but only in the past few weeks has it started to intrigue me.. ever since I saw someone post the bathroom maze image and so I wanted to share an astral projection I did (AP), where I might have gone through MW for a minute in that state.

My AP started out as normal, where I am floating in my room and it takes a few seconds to gain control and get moving with my will. Sometimes, I just try and head outside by going right through a wall or window and when I come out the other side, it’s often a completely different realm. In this case, I went through a doorway and found myself in some sort of dark and dingy neighbourhood (think like an inner city slum). To my right about 3-4 car lengths was a skeleton that was patrolling the area. I think he was meant to be guarding the door I just came out of, but his back was to me and he was walking away, so I snuck to the left and around the corner.

Immediately in front of me was a water theme park and I ran in that direction, hoping to evade the skeleton guard as quickly as possible. I jumped on a water ride that got me to the other side quickly and jumped out and I knew I was safely far enough away from the guard to be noticed.

At this point, as I reflect, I don’t know if I was still at “Mall World”, but the journey continues that I am now in a small town with dirt streets.. the climate is like a desert. There are humanoids and no humans around, so I know I’m on a different planet. I walk into something akin to a kebab shop and talk to the two guys running the shop. They tell me the planet is called Vega and I tell them I’m from Earth. They look at each other for second and then say that they’ve heard of Earth before, but it sounds like something from their distant past knowledge.. like a historical memory.

So now I wonder if Mall World is a representation of a gateway or an intermediate stop to other astral levels. Anyone have ideas or experiences like this?

Thanks!

This one I only just learned about.. the whole Jif vs. Jiffy name.

Back in the 70’s or so, the advertising campaign I can still hear in my head is “Choosy moms choose Jif”… which seems to be the brand name in this timeline, but I’d seen some people remembering it as Jiffy.

For those that cling to Jiffy, do you have any strong memories, like advertisements or anything else you would like to share here?

Thanks!

I want to explore whether there is something fundamentally different about ME experiencers vs. non-experiencers, so I hope you will participate in this poll. Also, if you have other ideas of what could be going on, please feel free to DM me and I can maybe start another poll that builds on this one. Please forward on. Thanks!

Edit: Have received a few DMs with interesting ideas and already getting some interesting stats. This is my first time doing a poll, so please be kind.
Note, I will probably end this poll early (maybe give it a couple more days) and refine it with others’ ideas and when I do refine it, lesson learned to include terms/definitions so you don’t have to go searching for information if you’re not already across some of this.

Just to be clear, the idea behind this poll isn’t about what the cause behind the ME is, but rather, trying to see if there is a commonality amongst those who actually experienced an ME perhaps related to consciousness. Please make sure to DM me if you have an idea or story!

Edit2: Quite a few responses, thanks! I think there are enough now to see lack of correlation with my idea, but still got some unexpected results. I will let this go for another 24 hours (I don’t know if I can close the poll early, but will work with a snapshot of the results at that time), then will start a new post with a summary of the findings and a new poll to explore another correlation idea that was suggested. Please DM me if you have a correlation idea you want to add.

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Okay, this is a very tiny glitch, but I swear it happened and I can’t explain it.

Many years ago, I used to write very important briefings to a particular government official. Nothing too high-ranking, but the point is that the briefings had to be short, concise and PERFECT… so you would spend an inordinate amount of time preparing them compared to just talking to someone, because there was an official decision that was being made, no matter how minuscule.

Because of that and me being somewhat junior at the time, my boss would go back and forth with me on my briefings. He was very adamant about not fixing them for me, but rather reviewing them and pointing out mistakes and making suggestions for improvement.

On this particular day, I was pretty happy with a briefing and handed to him for his white-glove review. I forget the actual word, but he’d underscored a “typo” in red marker (as he always did) and passed the paper back to me. “You misspelled ‘blah’”. I looked at the word, and sure enough it was misspelt… now here comes the glitch. Whatever that word was, I thought to myself.. “there is NO WAY I messed that word up”. It was a word I knew well how to spell. For a split second there was kind of a blur in my vision as I was staring/focusing at the paper, and then suddenly, it was spelt CORRECT. I passed the paper back to him, and said there was no typo, and he looked and agreed.

So a very tiny, perhaps insignificant occurrence, but I swear this happened and it involved my boss, too… although I never brought up the whole glitch in the matrix with him.

Okay, this is a very tiny glitch, but I swear it happened and I can’t explain it.

Many years ago, I used to write very important briefings to a particular government official. Nothing too high-ranking, but the point is that the briefings had to be short, concise and PERFECT… so you would spend an inordinate amount of time preparing them compared to just talking to someone, because there was an official decision that was being made, no matter how minuscule.

Because of that and me being somewhat junior at the time, my boss would go back and forth with me on my briefings. He was very adamant about not fixing them for me, but rather reviewing them and pointing out mistakes and making suggestions for improvement.

On this particular day, I was pretty happy with a briefing and handed to him for his white-glove review. I forget the actual word, but he’d underscored a “typo” in red marker (as he always did) and passed the paper back to me. “You misspelled ‘blah’”. I looked at the word, and sure enough it was misspelt… now here comes the glitch. Whatever that word was, I thought to myself.. “there is NO WAY I messed that word up”. It was a word I knew well how to spell. For a split second there was kind of a blur in my vision as I was staring/focusing at the paper, and then suddenly, it was spelt CORRECT. I passed the paper back to him, and said there was no typo, and he looked and agreed.

So a very tiny, perhaps insignificant occurrence, but I swear this happened and it involved my boss, too… although I never brought up the whole glitch in the matrix with him.