While ardently pursuing the faint hope that I would someday find a
"scientific" (physical) explanation for various "psychic powers", I have
experienced several remarkable events that would appear to be "impossible" 
by our usual standards. The events are not "big" in terms of the impact
they have on our lives, but the non-linearity of time implied by these
events gives rise to serious concerns about the "stability" of our
universe, as we know it. 

For years I have been noting how, occasionally, people insist on 
remembering specific events in a manner that disagreed with my own 
memory. Until recently, I had assumed that one or the other of us was 
simply mis-remembering. Now, I'm not so sure.

The critical event that drew to my attention the notion that reality could
"shift" was when we borrowed a friend's video boardgame. The game comes
with a set of six white plastic tiles, each approximately a centimeter
square. Each of these is numbered from 1 to 6. At the beginning of play
each player draws a tile at random and places it into a slot in the base
of the playing piece, displaying the number. 

We soon learned that whoever draws the highest number has to do an 
annoying 'test' half way through the game. So we all laugh at whoever 
draws the highest number. I got the '6', so I jokingly inserted my tile 
into my game piece blank side up. My daughter said, "very funny, Dad, 
now turn it over", and everyone laughed at me, as usual.

Now the weird part. About 2 weeks after I made that little joke, while 
putting the game away the next morning after having played it the night 
before, my wife stopped and said, in a very confused tone, "Hey! I 
thought these tiles only had the number printed on one side!???"

When I looked at the tiles they *now* quite clearly had the numbers 
professionally printed on both sides. Being aware of such simple 
elements as 'witness prompting', when my daughter came home I asked her, 
very carefully worded, "Do you remember that joke I made with the game 
tiles?" And she replied, "You mean when you put it blank side up?" I 
showed her the tiles... And I still hear her voice saying "weeeeeeird", 
in that drawn out fashion.

But it gets even weirder than that. Having already experienced many 
shifts, I anticipated, and was able to confirm another aspect of the 
phenomenon, which is that most people's memories change along with the 
'new' reality. When I spoke to the owner of the game on the phone, I 
asked her if she remembered the tiles being printed on one or two sides, 
and she said without hesitation, "two". From this and other incidents,
I have come to suspect that shifts might be very frequent. A function of
the quantum universe. The anomaly is that some people remember the pre-shift
universe. I speculate that maybe the soul has its own memory that is untouched
by things strictly in the physical universe?

Another good example with a real physical 'impossibilty' is the incident 
where I placed a two liter pop bottle into our fridge-top freezer 
compartment to chill quickly, and then forgot about it while I went out 
to buy groceries. Upon returning to our home, my wife and I proceeded to 
unpack groceries. It being a hot summer day, my first priority was to 
get the ice cream into the freezer. My wife watched as I found the box 
of ice cream, opened the freezer door, and in one smooth motion placed 
the box into the far rear corner where it would be coldest. I closed the 
freezer door, and dug into the next grocery bag. I found the frozen 
orange-juice and the mental association of 'frozen drinks' triggered my 
memory of having put another drinkable object in the freezer. And with a 
modest panic that I had frozen the pop, I opened the freezer door and 
there was the bottle, right in the middle. In FRONT of the ice cream. 
Again, knowing that people might question whether I had just overlooked 
the bottle, I attempted to remove the ice cream from the freezer. I 
could only do so by twisting and contorting my arm slowly and carefully. 
Given the fact that the sight of orange juice triggered a panic reaction 
over the soda being in the fridge for too long, it seemed unreasonable 
that I would completely fail to react to it while trying to avoid 
touching it. Add to this that my wife had just seen my put the ice cream 
in the fridge in a quick, open-place-shut motion, and we can't avoid the 
idea that for a moment the pop bottle just wasn't there.

These are simple, clear-cut, unambiguous examples of a phenomenon that 
has occurred more than once in our household. Most frequently my wife 
remembered me doing/saying something which I not only do not remember 
doing/saying, but which was actually contrary to my nature/habits, such 
that I *would not* do or say the thing she remembered. On other 
occasions, my wife and I remember something that someone else said, but 
that other person just as clearly didn't say what we remembered. With 
the exception of the tiles and the pop bottle it has been very easy to 
ascribe these occurances to faulty memory. Or at least it was......

Now, I consider it important to distinguish the phenomena I am describing 
from simple "apports" - a term I have seen used to describe the 
"mysterious" disappearance and reappearance of objects. Prior to the 
incidents with the tiles, I had already accepted that occasionally a book 
I clearly and unambiguously left on a table top has turned up in a drawer 
half an hour later with no one in the house to move it. Or keys would be 
gone from a pocket and sitting on a table top even though they had been 
placed in the pocket minutes before. But reality shifts are more than 
just objects popping in and out. It affects the physical evidence and 
memory of events that supposedly occurred in the past, in such 
a manner as to suggest that the past itself has been changed.

One store we visited "did not deliver", but when we returned the next day
the same woman who had told us this insisted that they "had always
delivered". A restaurant where we had made reservations many times
suddenly told us that it was policy to never take reservations and they
had "never" done it! The simply couldn't understand our insistance that we
HAD done it before. We used to think that people in situations like this
were liars, or were covering for some mistake by changing their story. 
But consistently, there was a feeling of honesty in what people said to
us, and so we accept that reality isn't quite what it used to be.....