" change state out they had the same gran but had never met each other . "
Recently,u/Fragrant_Good3174askedr/AskReddit, “What is the most surreal “this can’t be real” moment you’ve ever experienced?” And some of them were so wild, we had to share.
1.“I had an incredible urge to go to my employees house. It was weird and overwhelming; I called my Mom, thinking I’d lost my shit, and she said to trust my gut. So I went. It felt weird, who wants their boss showing up after hours?”
" When I got to his star sign , I heard a faint ‘ help me ’ hail from at heart . I give up the door in , endure inside – the fop had a stroke 24 - 48 60 minutes prior to my arrival . He was just place on the level and would ’ve rotted there had I displace that crazy itch . "
– ShitIsGettingWeird
2.“My son and I were riding the train in Chicago. He said, ‘dad, don’t you have a friend from Chicago, maybe we will see him’. I replied, ‘I serious doubt it son, Chicago is huge!’. He got on at the next stop.”
– middleagethreat
3.“I know one man in Glasgow. I was there for a couple of days and tried to meet up with him but we got our wires crossed and I had no way to contact him once I got to Scotland. One night I was on my way to a restaurant and stopped to look at a cool firetruck. Jim was across the street, also looking at the firetruck.”
– Guestking
4.“Elephants wandering around just outside of my Midwest town. I figure they they must have gotten out of a train car to walk around, but looking over and seeing four full grown elephants was surreal!”
– pallid - Independent-604
5.“It was dangerously freezing temps. I had just gotten off work and was broke – I was a dollar short to get on the bus to get home and it was too cold and icy to walk home safely. My rich dad wouldn’t send me the dollar I needed for the bus fare. No reason, he just didn’t want to.”
" I went to the library to warm up and adjudicate to figure out what to do . grab a random subroutine library book of account , open up to a random Thomas Nelson Page , and there was a folded up dollar bill deep down . Not as crazy as some of the other stories here , but I was very thankful . "
– bob - omb_panic
6.“I got a postcard in the mail in 2018. It was sent by my parents when they visited China in 1997. I was dumbfounded and thought I was being pranked. It just took a very long time to get delivered.”
– HeadCashier
7.“I had a lucid dream at 16-years-old that I could fly by flapping my arms. I flew around my neighbourhood (in the mountains) and noticed a house with a blue roof at the corner of Pine Ridge and Hook Creek road, back in the late ’70s. The dream was so real. I even went looking for the house, found it, but it didn’t have a blue roof. My teleportation fantasy was crushed. Just a dream, but so real.”
" Five years afterwards , I was a crew member on a forest overhaul Helitack crew . We were discharge to a whitening smasher in my neighbourhood . I was hanging out the threshold of the whirlybird look for smoke , when I suddenly had a déjà vu experience . I pick out the flight pattern from my dreaming . I gross out , because I could predict the eggbeater flight of stairs . I predicted the next pair of turns … I heave as I look down , because the house had a blue ceiling . I just got big cuckoo gibbosity remembering . Weirdest shit ever . "
– Dirtdancefire
8.“One spring afternoon in about 2013, there had been tornadoes in Oklahoma in the morning. Being in SW MO, I was looking towards the skies for any exciting looking clouds.”
" The local intelligence had spoken of one crack cocaine in OK that had demolish the attics of several domicile and loft cloth way up into the atmosphere which was caught in upper layer breaking wind . Some of the piece of roofing and paper were land here in Springfield , MO .
As I walk down our street , about five houses away from habitation , I see something tumbling down out of the increasingly knotted wait sky . It came down a few yard aside and I leaned over into the yard to snaffle it .
It was a piece of music of paper about an in by an in . A neatly cut man of a Sir Frederick Handley Page from some variety of school textbook . The cut had been through a paragraph so it was only portions of sentences , but the Holy Writ were : " and have raging air to rise … the formation of tornadoes … " I honestly thought I was losing my mind . I hold open it with me for many years until it disintegrated . It sounds just as ridiculous every time I retell the report . "
– Bitmush-
9.“I walked into a bookstore, picked up a book, and opened it to a page with my full name written inside it. In someone else’s handwriting.”
– bubblebliss2a
10.“I was on the random acts of kindness subReddit – a young lady was looking for some love and support because it had been a tough year and her birthday was coming up (it was on 9-11). Once we established that I wasn’t a serial killer, I dm’d her asking where I could send a nice card and gift. She sends me the address. I stop and stare into space for two minutes because I could literally see the building from where I was sitting. It was two buildings away from mine!”
– igneousink
11.“About 10 years ago, my husband and I made friends with another couple on holiday. They were also from the UK, but they lived all the way down south and my husband and I are up north so about 5/6 hours apart. We met on a day trip, got chatting and spent most of the day together – said goodbye at the end of the day and that was that.”
" A few weeks after we got back home , I initiate a new occupation in a car dealership , and who were the first the great unwashed to walk through the door on my first day ? The couple from holiday . Turns out their Word pay heed a university close by and they had come up to visit him but were waiting for him to have a break from speech so just adjudicate on a whim to come and look at some elevator car . So many unlike decisions that had to aline to make that car dealership get together happen – it makes me feel funny if I think about it for too long . "
– NorthernOverthinker
12.“I opened my neighbour’s locker in high school. The second I touched that dial lock, I knew the combination and entered it correctly first time. I freaked out and slammed the door shut when I saw girl’s stuff in it. Went back to mine and input my code fine. I tried to remember her code just to see if I could and it was a complete blank. Weird.”
– Brojangles1234
13.“I went into my local pub around the corner for a pint before taking a taxi into the city. When I got to the city, I went to a random bar and was served by exactly the same barman that had served me in the pub. Turned out he’d served me as his last customer in the pub and then started a shift at the other bar. I thought he had a twin or something. We both found it really funny.”
– Able_Stated
14.“Doing a puzzle, I picked up a piece looking for where it should go – I dropped the piece and lost track of it. Couldn’t find it anywhere, then I realised it fell into the exact right place. No chance of that ever happening again in my life.”
– BookkeeperGrouchy913
15.“Late twenties, maybe early thirties, I was struggling with my marriage and asked my sister to bring me a bible for a bit of comfort. She went to her church where they have plenty to give out and brought one to me. It was mine from when I was 13, complete with my own name in my writing.”
– Acceptable_Shine_183
16.“This happened to my grandfather, not me. He was on a train to Bluefield, WV and he met a pretty girl and started talking to her. They got off the train together and he said ‘well, I’m going to see my grandmother,’ and she said ‘well, I am too,’ and they both headed off in the same direction. Turns out they had the same grandmother but had never met each other.”
– Shroud4aNightengale
H/T tou/Fragrant_Good3174andr/AskRedditfor having the discussion!
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