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15 people share their most unsettling glitch in The Matrix stories

November 28, 2022 People's Tonight 9731 views

Bailey Brown

The idea that we are all living in a Matrix has permeated the public conscious since Keanu Reeves’s Neo broke through the veil of reality. These Redditors, however, shared their experiences with real life Matrix glitches that make us question whether Neo was onto something.

From unexplained coincidences, personal “Mandela Effect” experiences, and prophetic dreams, these glitch in the Matrix stories are just real enough to make use wonder whether what we perceive is actually real at all

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• They Experienced A Glitch That Altered Their Life

From Redditor /u/Hedgerow_Snuffler:

A long time ago I had a conversation with an old workmate who described [the following]:

The detail is hazy, but he said one day he was in his house when he felt a sudden need to go outside and stand on his lawn. He claimed it was the strongest, clearest feeling ever, and on doing so he experienced a sort of “wobble”; he just said everything was screwed up for moment, and he experienced a feeling of detachment/outside-ness. When it passed, he turned to go back inside.

While talking to me, he got quite upset at this point, and asked me not to think him crazy… The next thing he saw was his car parked in the street and it was the same model/registration, but a different color.

He was so thrown at this, and then more so because then his wife came out to ask what he was doing, and he said he realized she was in all appearance his wife, but somehow not his wife. He said from that point on she liked foods she had claimed to hate before, and sometimes brought up memories he said he had zero relation to. He said things like his route to work was still the same but somehow different, he said there were buildings on the way that either he had missed in the six years he’d driven past them five days a week, or had just “appeared” overnight. He even said some people he remembered from other departments in work had just vanished, and asking about them brought total incomprehension from other people.

He was a totally regular healthy guy, but he said he measured his life in relation to that afternoon. He went on to say he was now living his life with a feeling that about 15% of it had spontaneously changed that afternoon.

• • They Saw Inside The Matrix

From Redditor /u/A_lot_of_italics:

One day I was walking to work and all of a sudden had an urge to walk a different path than usual. I work downtown in a big city. It was a strange spur of the moment urge to walk a different way that changed my life forever.

I turned into an alley I had never seen before. As I remember it, I made it about fifteen feet or so when an actual “glitch” happened. Everything in my mind scrambled. I felt like I didn’t have a body anymore, just that I was a semi-conscious entity floating through some weird dimension. All of a sudden in the array of different colors and shapes a vision came to me. It was a bunch of strange looking people that in my mind resembled businessmen in suits. They looked startled and panicked that I could see them. One of the “people” made a quick movement and everything turned to black.

When I regained normality, I was on a completely different street. It was the same street that I always use to walk to work. I felt sick, and severely disturbed/depressed.

I’ve never done any hard drugs, never experienced any hallucinations, never have had anything like this happen to me. The weird thing is, when the glitch was correcting itself and I could see those “people” watching me like a caged animal, I had the feeling that I knew I was being controlled. It still bothers me very much to this day.

• • A Kid Brought A Tablet Computer To School In 1987

From Redditor /u/Bugs_Nixon:

When I was a kid in England, in primary school, around 1987ish, a new kid joined the school on a temporary basis for a term. He had an American accent and was ginger. His name was Lee. Before he left us, he brought into school what today would look sort of like a tablet computer but this was very thin with brown tanned glass. He had cartoons on it – he totally loved cartoons and movies. I swear this happened. I didn’t dream it.

It was amazing. There was a crowd of kids who saw it and their reaction was interesting because they liked it and wanted one, comparing it to the Nintendo Game & Watch and calculators, but sort of accepted it and didn’t think it was magical – but it certainly was. I said to him it was like the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy prop used in the TV series. He didn’t know what I meant. He kept it away from the teachers and didn’t bring it back in. I kept asking him questions about his ‘calculator TV’ and he just gave vague answers and saying he didn’t know, but when I asked where he bought it, he said his Dad got it from the US. One other thing he said, he saw a movie which “had every cartoon character ever.” A few years later I realized he was talking about Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which came out soon after.

This was 30 years ago and you can imagine how difficult in all this time it’s been to describe this thing, as we haven’t had ubiquitous tablets everywhere. I used to draw diagrams of it and show it to people. I went crazy when I saw the Tom Hanks movie Big – the scene where he pitches a hand-held comic book video device… my parents just sort acknowledged it, just humoring me. When Star Trek TNG came out and the Padd was shown on screen, I went “That’s it! That’s the thing!”

Eventually, the tablet PC came out and I remember thinking “finally at last,” [and] the video iPod was further confirmation. Today, it’s obvious that it was a tablet computer, and my story sounds more convenient.

I suppose I could track some of the other kids down on Facebook to prove this – I bet they would remember. Naturally, no one believes me.

• • They Remembered A Car Crash That Didn’t Happen

From Redditor /u/TheNamesClove:

I vividly remember this girl at my school dying in a car accident [after she] drove over the side of an exit ramp that was having construction done on it, and the reason she didn’t realize it is because she was texting. I remember my sister and her friends going to the funeral (she was in my sister’s grade). We lived in a small town and I remember everybody talking about it for weeks.

Fast forward almost 10 years, I’ve told my fianceé the story enough times she knows the girl’s name by heart – mainly to try to convince her not to text while driving. My fianceé is from the other side of the country, and I never go back to my hometown, so she doesn’t know any of the people I went to high school with personally. One day she’s looking at my sister’s Facebook page and says,

“Hey isn’t this that girl who died?” and I come over to check it out. Turns out she’s alive, married to an old friend of mine, with a kid, and no one remembers the car accident/funeral. I’m still so confused.

• • They Remembered Their Uncle’s Passing

From a former Redditor:

I knew my uncle had died. My mom had called me and told me the news. It was very sad. She told me in the middle of work and I told one of my coworkers. He expressed his condolences on my loss.

A couple weeks later, my sister mentioned my aunt and uncle doing something. I said “but… he’s [gone].” And my sister said no, he wasn’t. I called my mom. [He was alive].

To this day I’m still not sure how much of it my brain imagined and how much was real. Did I really talk to my coworker? Was I even on the phone with my mom at all that day? It still freaks me out knowing that my mind could fabricate so complete and real a memory like that.

• • They Got A Check For The Exact Amount They Owed

From Redditor /u/BrAnders0n:

I got a call from a police officer telling me if I didn’t pay some old fines within a week he would come arrest me. The total was $267.63. It was about two weeks before Christmas, so I was really sweating it. The very next day I got a check in the mail for $267.63 for overpaid child support throughout the year. Craziest, most unexplainable thing I’ve ever had happen to me.

• • They Saw The Same Woman In Different Places Minutes A Part

From Redditor /u/your_a_moron:

I was catching a skytrain in one particular city about 15 minutes from where I get off. While I wait there is a woman with glazed eyes asking people for money. She came up to me, stopped briefly, and asked, “Excuse me, could you spare some money? My brother is in the hospital and I’d like some money to buy him some flowers.”

“That’s rich,” I thought. “[People] are getting more and more obvious with their lines.” Gave [her $5] without even looking her in the face, convinced of her intentions. My train pulls up and I get on. I look through the glass at her walking around asking others for money as the train pulls away.

The train arrives at the station 15 minutes later, and I walk down and out to the bus stop. There is only one bus in the direction I’m going, and just my luck! It is there waiting when I get off the train. So on the bus I hop and wait for the bus driver to finish reading his paper before the doors close and we embark down the highway.

[After] about 5-10 minutes [of] traveling, the driver pulls over for a routine stop. The doors open, and to my complete astonishment the woman from the skytrain walks into the bus. A dozen roses in hand. She looks me right in the eyes as she walks past to take her seat.

How in the blue hell did she get there? I took the train before her. I watched her at the train stop from inside as we pulled away. I went over a river. I caught the first and only bus going this particular direction. And not only did she beat me there, she had time to go to a store and buy a dozen roses.

• • They Miraculously Survived A Motorcycle Incident

From Redditor /u/ShepherdOfHermas:

I got in a motorcycle accident about six years ago. I’m going 45 [mph] through town and a woman, who didn’t see me, turns left in front me. It could only have been a millisecond but I remember weighing my options and thinking if I should try and go over the car or under it by laying the bike down. I put the bike down. It went straight under her car, [and] I went diagonally.

I slid across the pavement wearing no helmet, no jacket – just jeans and a cheap zip up hoodie from Walmart. So I slide for 80 feet or so (not sure on the exact measurement but it was a long way) on the pavement and when I stop I just stand up and the only thing wrong is that there is a hole in my hoodie cuff about the size of a dime. Not a scratch anywhere on me.

I remember looking at it, then at my mangled bike, and just screaming in my head, “PHYSICS DON’T WORK THIS WAY.”

• • The Parking Lot Filled In Less Than 30 Seconds

From Redditor /u/JeBalon:

About a year ago, my girlfriend and I went to eat dinner at Chipotle. It’s in a smallish shopping area with a burger joint and Pei-Wei neighboring the Chipotle… one of those kind of upper-classy type shopping areas.

We pulled into the parking lot in front of the establishments at around 5 pm on a Friday evening to find an empty parking lot. There were no tables outside, there were no cars in the parking spots, not a person in sight and even the lights inside the buildings were off.

Completely confused, I took the car in a sort of loop around the building in order to leave. The only thing of interest was a single firetruck parked along side the building, headlights on, but no emergency lights, and no one in the truck. It struck us as a little odd; maybe a fire in the building?

As we pull around the backside of the building, and then finish looping around, we drive past the front facade of the building… Except this time every parking spot is full, tables are outside with patrons at them, food half-eaten. There’s people walking around, and the lights inside the buildings are all on. But the firetruck was gone. Mind you, it took less than 30 seconds to make a circle around the building. Easily one of the strangest things I’ve ever experienced.

• • Their Dream Saved Their Life Years Later

From Redditor /u/FriskyChicken:

My dream was simple: I was driving down from the mountains back home with friends in the car after (what I vaguely remember) was a snowboard skiing trip. The conversation was I suppose the usual for a long car ride, “I spy this” and just stupid stuff. Then, Smash Mouth’s “All Star” came on. I remembered it because everyone started singing along. Speeding down the mountain, and after signaling into the passing lane, all of a sudden a huge car wreck happens right in front of us, happening so fast cars smashed into each other, and one of the cars involved rolling off the mountain over the divider. I was too close to avoid it, and so I pulled to the right, which caused the car behind us to plow into the side of us, rolling our car to the opposite side of the road. I remember just a fuzzy feeling, upside down and just glancing around the car and just seeing my friends mutilated, just… it sends shivers down my spine to even think about it. I wake up and in tears, I was just so frightened and scared… it was so surreal.

This is where the glitch begins, After years passing from the night of the dream, my friends and I decided to get together to plan a small trip to have a ski and snowboard day for the first snowfall.

We knew a storm was coming so we headed up the mountain. Good runs, fresh snow, it was overall a great success; we had gotten exactly what we had come for. We packed our things [and] headed down the mountain, and it clicked – the same stupid car banter, “I spy”, and then Smash Mouth’s “All Star” came on… it happened, I was in my nightmare.

The wreck happened just as I remembered, but I didn’t pull right as I did in my dream; I pulled to the left, into the opposite lane, and some how just avoided it. Everything slowed down, it was like I was in my own world, and everything happened the same except for my actions. We pulled to the side of the road and called 9-1-1.

I broke down; it was too much… I was again scared and shaking, but some how that stupid dream saved my life.

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• They Got A Call From Their Deceased Friend

From Redditor /u/leafygreenmountain:

I was a total idealist back in high school, so when choosing a college I chose to go somewhere that none of my friends were attending so that I could strike out on my own in a “finding myself” sort of way. Well, I ended up making a few really close friends my first semester. I mean, these guys became like family to me in a matter of months. One day during winter break, one of those guys, my buddy Kimbo, had gone back home to visit friends and family, and on his return trip to our college he hit a bad patch of ice and [perished]… It hurt… for a long time and I still think about him all the time.

A few weeks after Kimbo’s accident, me and the rest of the guys were getting back from a party off campus and, as we were standing outside our dorm building… I felt my phone vibrating. When I pulled it out, I saw that I was getting a call from Kimbo’s phone! Dumbfounded, I showed my friends the phone quickly and then answered. When I picked up, it just went directly to his voicemail, which played the same message it always had… It never happened again and we never really talked about it, but for me it was one of those “someone’s looking after me” moments.

I hadn’t been doing very well, but seeing his name show up on my cellphone screen one final time made me feel a whole lot better for a time, and really helped me get out of the slump I was in. I have no idea how his phone could’ve possibly called me and I doubt I ever will, but this was one “glitch in the matrix” that I’ll forever be thankful for.

• • Their Take-Out Dish Changed On Them

From Redditor /u/HadesSmiles:

Me and my friend were at a Chinese Restaurant, and we ordered a general tso chicken dinner and a shrimp lo mein dish. When we sat down, we took out both boxes and set them on the table about two feet apart. My friend opens the first box and we see a shrimp lo mein dish. It has all the things in there – noodles, shrimp, fried rice. He closes the box and opens the other box. Inside that box is another shrimp lo mein dish – shrimp, noodles, fried rice.

“Oh,” I think, “they must have mixed the order.” I was just about to say this when my friend says out loud, “looks like they made a mistake and gave us two…” as he opens up the first box again.

Inside of it is a general tso chicken dinner order. General tso chicken, white rice, and an egg roll. He froze and looked at me… I looked back at him… and we sat in silence.

It took us five or so minutes to collect ourselves. I have no idea what… happened.

• • They Heard A Disembodied Voice Inside The Car

From Redditor /u/pistacchio:

When I was like 10 or 11, I was going to the beach with my aunt and her friends. There were two cars of us. To get there, we had to go through a very large industrial area. We didn’t know the direction, so our car was following the other. Suddenly, they did an unexpected turn and so our driver had to take a sharp bend.

In that moment, we heard a very clear, loud voice inside the car laughing [and] saying, “Sharp bend, hm?!” The driver immediately hit the brakes. We looked at each other, puzzled: we all recognized it as a voice not belonging to any of us.

In the very same time, we noticed that the other car had stopped as well. The other driver got out of the car with a scared face and shouted to us, “Did… did you hear that as well?”

They heard the same thing inside their car. The area around was fully deserted.

• • They Watched Their Own Procedure

From Redditor /u/ScoobyD00BIEdoo:

During a spinal tap procedure, I was put under. While under the anesthetics, I had what I can only explain as an out-of-body experience seeing as how my view point was from above my body looking down on the procedure. I watched the whole thing and saw that the doctor knocked my game boy off the tabletop while walking by, batteries ejecting from the fall.

One fell in sight and he picked it up, but the other was next to the front left wheel under the bed out of his view… but not mine. I woke up groggy and told him where my other battery was and he was shocked when he found it there. To this day it still weirds me out.

• • They Heard A Phone Call Before It Happened

From Redditor /u/Tog_the_destroyer:

I was sitting in my car with just my dad, and I distinctly heard my sister (who was at home) say, “Are you guys almost home? I’m scared” in a very specific, concerned tone of voice. Two seconds later, my dad’s phone rings.

Guess who’s on the line? My sister. She said, “Are you guys almost home? I’m scared” in the same concerned tone of voice. I was pretty freaked out.

• • Their Dream Gave Them Winning Lottery Numbers

From Redditor /u/kevonicus:

I’ve won the lottery twice by playing numbers that I saw in dreams the night before. First dream was me entering the numbers 4906 on a keypad for some reason and the second dream months later was me using a bottle of 409. I only won a couple of hundred bucks, but it’s better than nothing. I got exact matches both times.

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