I just saw something very odd. A few minutes ago I was alone in a room, with the TV showing a Netflix series. There were 5 minutes left in one of the episodes, and I was cleaning my sink, more than a meter away from the TV remote. Suddenly my TV freezes on an image of someone pulling out a book from a shelf. Then, very oddly, Netflix simply vanishes, and my TV changes to showing an "LG Channels" screen I get in the morning before I ever choose to watch Netflix. This "LG Channels" is a variety of channels a little like cable TV.
This is not how Netflix behaves. There could be some button on the TV remote that might produce such a change in what I see on my TV, but no one was touching the TV remote, which was on the sofa away from me, securely resting in a particular spot.
I can imagine how this hard-to-explain event might have a strange symbolic meaning. The spooky event happening when there were five minutes left in the show might symbolize a "five left" motif, referring to time left in my mortal life, which could mean five days left or five weeks left or five months left or five years left. The selection of a book on the TV screen when the TV show froze could symbolize an appointment, such as an appointment with death. In English "book" has a double meaning, meaning both a printed volume, and "to schedule something," as in the phrase "he booked a hotel for April 3." The switching from the world of Netflix to the very different world of LG Channels might symbolize going from one world to a very different world, as a soul might do when departing from this earthly realm.
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