A while back, I was living in Philadelphia and working at a
Home Improvement supply retail store a distance from the city, so I had to
take a bus. The bus stop was only a few blocks from my house up at the
corner of the main road in Roxborough and the side street. I walked up to
the crossing and stopped as the light was red; I had to cross to catch the
bus going in the correct direction of my job. I heard the sound of
screeching tires in the distance, and discerned that the sound was
approaching me. The light turned green, but I did not cross because I
didn't think it was safe at this time to cross. At that point in time I was
at the corner, mind you, and I then saw the vehicle approaching the
intersection and attempting to make a left turn. I knew it would jump the
curb right where I stood, so I shut my eyes and when felt no impact, I
opened them to find that I was several feet before the curb behind a small
tree -- I saw the car approach the intersection again and attempt the left
turn. The whole scene replayed right in front of my eyes again! But this
time, I see the car hit the curb right where I had been standing several
seconds ago, then skid up the sidewalk to stop at the tree I was standing
behind. I had a feeling like I was just floating, and I was stunned --
shocked to the core! I think I just switched to auto pilot then, because I
just continued to walk around the bumper back towards the curb, when a
woman who'd run out of the nearby diner to help the driver looked up and
saw me, and had this look like shock on her own face. I think I may have
materialized right in front of her as I was walking back up to the curb! I
continued to go to the bus stop to catch my bus as I always cut it close to
my time to be into work, and I had a story to tell them at work! That whole
day seemed very, very odd. That is my story, the weirdest day of my
life!
Another interesting thing happened when I moved here to Florida. My friend
in Philadelphia swore she saw the new owner of the house I lived in, and
she said the woman looked like me; she thought I had come back. But by all
neighbor's accounts she does not look like me at all. This was a time when
I was missing my place, and missing my friends up there. I think she either
experienced a reality shift or I caused it because I wanted to go back so
badly.
Note from Cynthia: While I have heard several teleportation to
safety reality shift stories, yours contains a very interesting aspect of
seeing a sequence of events replay themselves for you after you'd been
teleported to a safe location. I find this detail very intriguing, as it
matches the kind of lucid dream experience I sometimes have when observing
events unfold and deciding at some point, "I would like to redo this
situation." It seems as if you got this kind of do-over in real life,
complete with a minor adjustment of your physical location in the scene!
Very cool. I also like your account of having been witnessed in a place you
were missing, but not actually physically present in. This very same thing
has also happened to me several times; on one such occasion, someone saw me
walking down a street I was wishing I could walk down at that time!
Reality Shifting Pancake Syrup
Tish
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
One morning I sat down for breakfast to eat pancakes. A small spot of syrup
spilled on the table. I touched the syrup with my finger, and my finger
became sticky. I got up from the table to go to the kitchen to get a
dishcloth to clean it off, but before I picked up the dishcloth, I noticed
that my finger was no longer sticky. I picked up the dishcloth and went
back to the table to clean the syrup off from it, but the syrup had totally
vanished from the table. I ran my finger across the table where the syrup
had spilled, and there wasn't anything there, and there wasn't any sticky
residue at all. Later that day, I decided to eat lunch, and before I sat
down at the table, I noticed a fresh spot of syrup on the table again in
the same exact spot that it had been while I had eaten breakfast earlier.
As before, I touched the syrup, and it got my finger sticky. So, again, I
went to the kitchen to get a dishcloth to clean it up, and as previously
happened, before I picked up the dishcloth, the stickiness disappeared from
my finger, and when I got back to the table, the spot of syrup was
completely gone. I touched where it had been, and again, there was no trace
of syrup nor sticky residue on the table. I would have thought that the
first time I experienced this that I was imagining things except for the
fact that my finger got sticky, and the stickiness disappeared. Then when
the same exact thing happened again later that day, I really knew that this
must have been some sort of a reality shift.
The syrup experience was amazing to me, because I not only saw something
vanish and reappear, but I also felt the stickiness on my hands. I had
never had a reality shift in which the sense of touch was involved as well
as the sense of sight.
Note from Cynthia: This is the sort of experience that could
make a person feel like they're being watched by a secret camera
somewhere... in a reality TV prank. How amazing that the sticky syrup
vanished not just once but twice! The other really interesting thing to me
about this story is how familiar it all seems... like something similar to
this once happened to me as well. Just fascinating
Disappearing Wife
Dave
Wichita, Kansas, USA
I don't know if this is a reality shift but it is weird. My wife is
invisible to me at times. It happens frequently. I'll go through the house
looking for her then call out and she'll be right there sitting on the
couch. She'll think I'm nuts that I didn't see her. I've already been in a
room with friends and I'll be talking about her as if she wasn't there and
people look at me like I'm nuts and then look at her and suddenly I see her
sitting right there in front of me. I think she can relax her mind and go
to a real quiet space. It's like she wants to be alone and undisturbed at
times. It seems like people in general ignore her or act like she's not
there.
Note from Cynthia: As strange as invisibility may seem, this is
actually a somewhat commonly reported type of reality shift. It's been
described in RealilyShifters before, often from the point of view of a
person becoming invisible to others, which often can be rather frustrating.
I find it fascinating to hear what it's like to be living with someone who
every now and again seems to slip quietly and completely out of view.
Others who've reported being invisible do not seem to feel anything
different, so your wife thinking you're nuts not to see her fits with
typically reported stories about invisibility.
Several years ago, a client, who was a nurse in a dialysis unit of a
hospital, recommended to one of the patients to come and see me. She had
given her one of my color healing audiotapes to listen to.
After a few weeks she still hadn't come, when suddenly I received a phone
call from her to book an appointment. When she arrived she shared this
story.
She had been standing in her kitchen, feeling particularly miserable that
day. All of a sudden she clearly heard a female voice say 'Go listen to the
tape!' Being alone, she was motivated to go get the tape and put it on. The
voice on the tape (which, of course, was the tape my client had lent her)
was my voice and the one she heard in the kitchen!
Note from Cynthia: This story about the disembodied voice reminds
me of times that I've heard a disembodied voice... usually when in between
waking and sleeping, in the hypnagogic state. I'm always amazed that it's
possible to hear words (and other sounds) as clearly as if they were being
spoken by someone right next to me.
