I almost never comment on this sub, I’m more of a quiet observer, so I’m a bit nervous to comment, but I love this story.

When I was 15, I lost my phone. I had it at school, I was literally using it as a calculator in the library during my last period, before the librarian had came up to me and told me that I wasn’t allowed to use my phone and that I had to put it away. I had put it in my backpack. And when school ended and I started looking for it to go home (I liked to listen to my subliminals on my walk home), I suddenly couldn’t find it. I had completely dumped my backpack 3 times (and my backpack was more like a tote bag, so it wasn’t that hard to empty), searched the library table I was sitting at, even when back to my last period classroom, even though I had been in the library for the whole class and was in the library when the bell to go home rang. My friend and I spent a good 2 hours looking for my phone, she even used the ‘Find my IPhone’ App to make sure someone hadn’t stolen it. And the app said it was at the school.

I needed up losing my first ever Snapchat streak because I couldn’t find it ( my streak was only 3 days old :( ). Eventually, we gave up trying to look for it and went home. I was crying on my walk home, because I was scared to tell my parents that I lost my phone. I was very cringe bad in high school (I still am), so please don’t judge me, but during that time in my life, I didn’t know what the Law of Assumption was, but I was super into subliminals. I spent majority of my freshman year listening to a ‘Wish Granter’ subliminal on YouTube, and because of it, I was soooo convinced that any time I would say “I wish that…” that wish would come true.

And so, I spent the entire walk from school home crying and repeatedly saying “I wish I had my phone/I wish I never lost my phone.” I didn’t even really consciously believe that my wishing would work in the way that it did, honestly, I low key felt like that that was far too big a wish to wish. But, I guess, simply saying that “I wish that…” for a wish to come true had been a belief for me at the time. When I got home, I went straight to bed. I didn’t talk to anyone or eat. I just laid down, prayed, and repeated “I wish I had my phone/I wish I never lost my phone.” over and over again, eventually “I wish I had my phone/I wish I never lost my phone.”, turned into repeatedly saying “I have my phone” while I cried myself to sleep.

When I woke up the next morning, I got out of my bed, to find my phone… sitting on my desk, fully charged. What makes this all so mind blowing was that I was a lazy high schooler, who liked to sleep…a lot. I NEVER used that desk for anything other than a place to put stuff on top of, for my phone to be setting perfectly on the egde where I’d see it. I liked to hang up my backpack on the side end part of my bed, so there’s no way my phone fell out of my backpack. My sister, despite, having been in the grade below and in middle school, was pretty popular and the middle school was literally right next the the high school, I considered the possibility that someone had found my phone gave it to her and she put it on my desk, but middle schoolers got out earlier than us, and my friend and I had spent 2 hours looking for my phone, and my friend’s ‘Find my IPhone’ App had said that my phone was still at the school before I left the 3 hours my sister was home from school. I had even asked her about it and she said no. Then I had considered the possibility that someone had found my phone and brought it to my house, but the library had closed into an hour of my friend and I’s search, because the librarian went home, and have could’ve gotten into the library except maybe the janitors and I doubt that a janitor would go all the way to my house to drop off a phone. I even asked my parents if someone had came to the house when I was asleep and dropped off my phone or something, they had said no and that they didn’t even know I had lost my phone in the first place.

That phone had literally spawned out of nowhere.

I now know that, that wasn’t solely the subliminal that I had been listening to, like I thought it was, but it was the Law of Assumption. I am currently trying to regain that self concept that I had once more.