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I just found this old post and remembered that not too long ago, I experienced a "glitch in the Matrix," very similar to the one in the movie where Neo sees the same cat walking by twice.
Last year, I was taking a walk with my then two-and-a-half-year-old son on our local "Recreation Path." He loves throwing rocks in the water, so we went onto a little sandy plateau down by the river. You can see the path about fifty feet above and about a hundred-fifty feet away from you from that point... so we were still pretty close.
While A. was throwing rocks, I sat in the sand and looked at the passersby on the path. A guy with a beige baseball cap, a blue shirt and beige trousers walked out from behind some trees on the path that covered my view, and kept following the path at a brisk pace. I looked around some more and again at the path ca. 5 seconds later.
I saw the same man -- beige baseball cap, blue shirt, beige trousers -- walk out from behind the trees again, at the same brisk pace. Everything was exactly the same. I was too far away to see his face, though, so initially I thought it might have been two guys in "partner look" or something. I looked further down the path where there were no trees at all, and I should have seen the other man on there (he couldn't have gotten any further in that short of a time, unless he had broken into a run). Nothing. I kept following the "second" man with my eyes, and he was the only one walking the path.
It didn't freak me out, it was just very odd. What do you think?
Last year, I was taking a walk with my then two-and-a-half-year-old son on our local "Recreation Path." He loves throwing rocks in the water, so we went onto a little sandy plateau down by the river. You can see the path about fifty feet above and about a hundred-fifty feet away from you from that point... so we were still pretty close.
While A. was throwing rocks, I sat in the sand and looked at the passersby on the path. A guy with a beige baseball cap, a blue shirt and beige trousers walked out from behind some trees on the path that covered my view, and kept following the path at a brisk pace. I looked around some more and again at the path ca. 5 seconds later.
I saw the same man -- beige baseball cap, blue shirt, beige trousers -- walk out from behind the trees again, at the same brisk pace. Everything was exactly the same. I was too far away to see his face, though, so initially I thought it might have been two guys in "partner look" or something. I looked further down the path where there were no trees at all, and I should have seen the other man on there (he couldn't have gotten any further in that short of a time, unless he had broken into a run). Nothing. I kept following the "second" man with my eyes, and he was the only one walking the path.
It didn't freak me out, it was just very odd. What do you think?