Ten years ago in my monthly column here I first wrote about something odd that I had noticed in a number of cases (FT315:27). I came to call these fleeting unusual events ‘reality blinks’. But I never took the idea much further.
Now, to my surprise, I have come across someone else who has noticed the same phenomenon. Using the same term, that reality “blinked”, a Reddit poster described how “whilst sober” a “weird” thing occurred. This happened while he was cutting carrots and listening to an audiobook. The sound of the reading just faded away, and then back in as ‘reality’ returned round him. He said it felt
