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I’ve experienced a mystery of the universe and don’t know what to make of it

Anonymous in /c/Glitch_in_the_Matrix

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This’ll be my first posting here: I’ve seen something strange tonight and wanted to post it here before I sleep on it. <br><br>I was on my way home on my motorcycle this evening, between 2-3am. It was a short ride (about 10 minutes) and I was thinking about my childhood and being a kid, so I had a warm nostalgic feeling. It was delightfully warm : after a chilly few weeks, tonight was the first the temperature didn’t drop into the 40’s. I cruised fairly slowly, enjoying the ride. <br><br>About 3 blocks from my apartment, a song I loved as a kid played in my helmet’s speakers. Satisfied with the nice ride I had just had, I turned my head slightly to smile to myself, and then something caught my eye. <br><br>Right in front of me -well, a little to the right- was a parked car, and the back window was open just a little bit. A man was leaned down, peering into the window as though he was talking into it at someone. He made fairly animated gestures to someone inside with his arms as he spoke. This was a weird thing to see. It was so weird that I wasn’t sure I wasn’t hallucinating it, but it seemed like I was. <br><br>This went on for about three more seconds and then I was past the car. The streets were empty, so I could safely look in my rear view. Before I could see if I really saw what I thought I did, my gaze was diverted to a brightly lit new restaurant up ahead, across the street. <br><br>There’s a large outdoor sign that just went up. On it was proudly displayed a logo and the words “Now Open!”. <br><br>The logo, in the exact lettering and font as I remembered it, was the name of a restaurant I loved as a kid that has been out of business for 20 years. <br><br>The very next song that played was one my childhood best friend and I sang along to at the top of our lungs on our VERY first car ride after he got his license. It was the very first time either of us had been in a car with a teenage driver. We had both been stoned for the first time just hours earlier, and we took a drive to a parking lot and just sat in the car listening to our favorite songs. It was a moment I’ve thought about more than once recently, but never thought about the song. <br><br>I’ve been listening to this same playlist for months, it’s usually all just background noise while I drive and I don’t often pay it much attention, but these two songs stuck out. I’ve never heard either since I started listening to this list. And here they were tonight, played one after the other. <br><br>And then I got home and realized I didn’t lock the door when I left. This is an absolute first for me. <br><br>I’m supposed to be the most diligent and obsessively careful person in my group of friends, and I just forgot the one thing I never intend to forget. <br><br>I’m just so… perplexed. I feel like there’s a message I’m supposed to understand. <br><br>What does it all mean??

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