I know this sounds absolutely absurd, and I promise I’m not making it up or crazy. For a long time I was in as much disbelief as you probably are.
I also want to promise I was not having some kind of psychotic break or hallucination. I only have one other witness, my husband, but he remembers it a little differently than I do.
A few years ago me and my husband were staying at some cheap hotel near Pittsburgh because he had to go there for a manager meeting and we decided to stay a few extra days because we really liked the city and decided we wanted to see a few attractions after his conference/meeting thing was over. This hotel had a standard indoor pool, 3-7 feet deep with a ladder and a staircase into the pool.
Here’s my perspective:
As he was drying off to go get some snacks from the lobby for us, I decided to try to jump in the deep end of the pool because I haven’t done that since I was a kid, and I would be the only one there. While he was drying himself on the chairs on the shorter side of the pool, I walked over to the deep end and was hyping myself up to jump. For some reason, as I stood on the side of the pool, I had a weird “detachment” from reality or something of the sort. This is what I would call the “glitch.” I had a sudden third person perspective of myself, like I was piloting myself from directly above. I had an awareness of my body, face, and the parts of myself I couldn’t see from above, but I had a weird telepathic “knowing” sense or something, like when you’re dreaming, and you just *know* what everything around you looks like without actually seeing it. I had a sort of diamond or weird trapezoid kind of shape above my head, and I wasn’t afraid at all. It was just like, yeah, that’s the floating mind diamond, obviously. Not a second thought about it. And I remember feeling like the laws of the universe meant that could never fall, and I could never drop it, so obviously I could walk onto the water like a surface and just.. that’s how it was.. I guess?
It felt completely like the physics/laws of space were different, but also that they’d ALWAYS been that way. It came naturally to me like how you feel gravity comes naturally to you or any other force. Like I had known these reality rules my whole life, I guess is the best way to put it?
So I just walked onto the water to do my dive. I just stepped forward and felt a sort of “particle barrier” or something between the bottom of my feet and the waters surface. And all this time I’m still not questioning anything, like “yeah obviously that’s how that works” kinda feeling.
Our perspectives break here.
For me, I walked onto the water and was like oh, now I can’t dive? And as if I remember a part of *this* realities physics, it broke, and I was pulled back to this world and was suddenly hit with a rush of adrenaline as I knew I was going to fall into the water, which I obviously did. In the moment of realization, I head a cracking sound, like really muted high-pitched thunder or like someone stepped on a twig. That entire realization, adrenaline and fall took less than a second. Just SNAP, back to “normal.”
I came up out of the water to look at my husband, who has a confused sort of “what the f?” look on his face, almost like an anger or disgust mixed with complete and total confusion. I looked back trying to figure out what the hell had happened.
His perspective is that I walked over to the other end of the pool, and he heard a weird “hum” sound, like a low pitched flute mixed with the noises you hear when you put your head on someone’s stomach and hear their digestion. He looked up at me expecting me to also be looking around confused, but saw me acting totally normal. I then stepped onto the water and started walking out to the middle of the pool, as I also remember. Then he heard a snap, and saw something that appeared like a really small lightening above my head, as I fell.
We remember everything the same, except he remembered that weird humming I have no recollection of, and the light I didn’t see above my head. But we both remember the sound?
Anyway, we told this story to my mom who’s very much the woowoo witchy type, and she said I snapped into somewhere else, but my body here was doing the same thing it was there, because I had accidentally made myself split into two places at once. I don’t believe that entirely because that’s not what it *felt* like. It felt completely real, and if my husband hadn’t witnessed it I would’ve thought I had some kind of psychotic break or depersonalization episode, but he saw it too and told me everything EXACTLY as I remember it before I told him what I had felt, minus the details of the hum and whatnot.
Any idea what this could be? I still don’t feel “right” years later.