While most of my life is fairly mundane, I have had a series of bizarre and “impossible” things happen over the years. The latest one was last night around 8:48 pm, Friday, May 16, 2025. I’ve had dislocated sounds before in a different living room, but this was my first wide awake physical experience where something physically contacted me (well, my headphones, it didn’t hit my head at all).
I was inside in my living room wearing headphones working on a mix when I heard a small whoosh and something the weight of a walnut hit me on top of my headphones. I could feel the impact distributed to the ear pads, starting at the top. I immediately looked around, but there was nothing that had fallen. Only after having a good look for any logical explanation, moving the headphone chord in various ways, etc., did I get that adrenaline rush of encountering the impossible.
No windows were open and there was no lifeless humming bird in the room. That’s about the weight of what hit my headphones. Seriously weird. It is like an invisible walnut fell through my roof and hit my headphones from another dimension.
I’m a fairly grounded science minded person but with my collection of odd events like this, I seriously entertain the notion that we are in a simulation and once you get proof of that, the simulation won’t let you forget it. It’s like a puzzle you are required to solve or something. It keeps nagging you with impossible events. Even if I completely accept that this is a simulation, what is a light knock on the headphones telling me? I checked with friends and family to and nothing seemed relevant.
Well, it is what it is. I’m still puzzled but not sure where to look for any deeper answers. Many people have their views about spirit worlds, and other dimensions, I could get 100 different explanations from 100 different people, but I have the strong sense that this is something I have to personally understand on my own terms.
Like perhaps my actual self is on a ship in space and what I’m experiencing is one of many simulated lifetimes, and the hit with the invisible walnut was because the real “ship” I’m traveling in got hit with a micrometeor. That’s what makes the most sense to me, more than, say, invisible walnut throwing aliens, or a ghost, etc.
As I write this, a helicopter has been hovering outside. I hear it very clearly. I step outside to have a look. But, of course, it too is invisible? Well, probably just below the tree line. I check my ADSB Exchange Flight Tracker map and at first the internet doesn’t work, then there is not a single aircraft shown in the sky across the entire USA on ADSB Exchange. Technical difficulties I assume. Well, as one friend said, perhaps the message is just to let things be mysterious.