**Here's the text of a post I was going to make before I saw yours:**
Hi,
For a while now, I've noticed things. Things like the cat in the Matrix for lack of better analogy.
Things like a building appearing on a well traveled route, where you know there wasn't one before. And everyone seems to remember it always being there but you. Houses changing color. I'm not talking painted or sided, just being a different color, and everyone seems to remember it always being blue instead of red. Or maybe the road you travel every day suddenly seems different enough that it totally disorients you. The layout of a store or building changes, and nobody else remembers that it used to be different.
These things have happened to myself and a few of my friends, and I just recently found out, my father as well. In most of these instances, I have been fortunate enough to have at least one of these friends who remembers things the way I do, even if no one else does. Because of this, I know I'm not nuts.
I used to have disturbing dream sequences that I can only describe as fully real, just like this life you're living right now. I would seem to wake from sleep, go about my life, and slowly realize things were off. Things were out of kilter. I would start to feel groggy, get a headache, maybe black out, then I would wake up again. Sometimes this happened over and over again, each more normal than the last. One time, I though I woke up a dozen times, and the last time, it took a good while to find some small thing out of whack that caused me to do it all over again. I must have walked around for a half hour before I was convinced things weren't going to change again. It had really started to wear on my sanity.
Another time, I woke up to the smell of my mother cooking bacon, and I had two sets of memories. One from my normal life, and one from another. I remembered having a brother as a I really do, but also being an only child. I had a live in girlfriend, and I knew her name, but I had never seen her before. The house was different in various ways, and what should have been my brother's room was used for storage. As this reality went on, I developed the cold sweats and a migraine that got steadily worse. I was fighting a black out, and both my girlfriend and parents rushed towards me with worry. I fell against the wall, and slowly blacked out, and when I woke up, the house looked normal again. I wandered around suspicious of everything, checking to make sure my brother was still there, etc. The funny thing is, my dad once told me that he was dead set against having another child, and if my mother hadn't given him an ultimatum, I would have been their only son.
My friend James, who previously had his dream published as a story of the month last August at paranormal.about.com, had a similar experience. He had dual memories, and he stayed in it for much longer. In his dream, I was an only child as well.
Just a few nights ago, my brother spoke with my mother, and he said she told him an old friend of mine was in the hospital dying of liver failure. I called her right after and asked her why she didn't call and tell me. She said that a while back, another friend had told her he had gone to the hospital for what he thought might be heart problems, but as far as she knew he was out and ok. She also said she hadn't said anything about it one way or another to my brother, so he must have heard it from someone else. I assumed he made a mistake, and asked her to have my step-father, who is a nurse, see if my friend was admitted. She called back night before last and said he wasn't in there. I told my brother, and he was confused, and wondered if there was some way he might have heard it somewhere else, he didn't think he was crazy, but he still swore he remembered my mother telling him about it. I was just relieved that he didn't tell me he never said it, which after some of the stuff I seen, wouldn't have been an unusual response.
I would be interested in hearing of similar stories from others out there, and I'd like you to know that you are not alone. I know of at least 3 other people besides my father and my brother who have experienced this sort of thing as well.
Regards,
LurkerX
**No point in starting another thread, but maybe my experiences can help you out. It's not a complete list by any means.**