Did anyone else have experiences where people said you were absent but you are/were certain you weren't?

Hmmm. I can’t think of any instance off the top of my head, but I can recall when a teacher said he saw me when he certainly did not.
He told the entire class (9th grade English) when he marked me absent, that he had seen me at a local donut shop that day. Impossible since my grandfather had passed away, and I was in Michigan. My boyfriend at the time was in the classroom and told me. Because I was marked as cutting, my mother threw a fit. The teacher avoided me after that. we had other issues

I’m certain this has happened, but I can’t remember.

Edited massive grammar fail that almost made me have a heart attack

In high school I was very, very quiet and blended in really well. A few times, my roommate’s friends came into the room to chat with her. They’d look around and say, “Where’s EP?” My roommate would then point me out less then five feet away from them. “Has she been here the whole time???!!!” That would be a big “yes”, guys.

I’ve mostly had the opposite happen. There was a girl on my college campus who looked quite a bit from me and until I found out, people were always fussing at me for ignoring them. They were calling my name and expecting her to turn around and answer them. (Once I found out, I started cutting people off with “Are you sure it wasn’t Sarah?”)

Have you considered the possibility that you’re part ninja?

@efritz
I wish.
Well actually, in my later years I was called “ghost” once because I was moving around so imperceptibly.

I have marked students absent when they didn’t respond to a roll call or when I took the roll from the seating chart and they were not in their seat. I also leave students marked absent when they come in as an unexcused 10 minute tardy. If a student claims I made a mistake I ask them to show me that day’s notes and/or classwork.

@galileogirl
it is not that i was marked absent. they said i was not there.

Our conscious mind can only process less than 100 bits per second, while the unconscious mind can handle up to 50 million bits per seconds, some of which will linger in accessible memory for quite a while.

Your facial expression and body language can signal absent-mindedness to others which might mean your conscious mind was busy with something else. As you switch back your focus, a familiar association in the classroom might give you access to some parts previously stored by the unconscious mind. This might give you the feeling you weren’t absent-minded at all.

@mattbrowne
i did not mean absentmindedness. i meant being physically not there.

@ragingloli – Ah, I see. Well, I don’t believe in alien abduction. Must have been a Romulan cloaking device then.