Glitch in the Matrix

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/meimeixinka on 2024-10-13 15:57:28.

I made myself some oolong noodles in this pot on Friday night. The noodles come with this dark soup/sauce and I always set the flame too high on the stove when I cook. As a result there was a dark orange stain line all around inside the pot. I didn’t think much about it until I was washing the dishes and the line wouldn’t come off. I was scrubbing it for ages, used two different detergents, even baking soda and nothing. The stain was still very dark orange. Frustrated I gave up, rinsed it with water, dried it and put it back in the cabinet. The next day after I had my breakfast I decided to clean the whole apartment and started with the breakfast dishes. The sponge was already overused so I got a new one and suddenly remembered the pot and thought I could try and scrub it one more time but with a new sponge. So I got the pot from the exact same spot where I put it and…. It was clean. Stainless, white and clean. The orange stain line was completely gone. I texted my roommate asking her how she managed to clean it and she had no idea what I was talking about. She went to sleep around the time I was washing the dishes previous night and left early in the morning so it was very unlikely she’d take a pot from a kitchen cabinet and scrub it before she left the house (besides she never cleans). Nobody else lives here besides the two of us, none of us brings anyone home, even if we did, why would someone go into the cabinet and scrub the pot? I had to sit down for a while. I’m still thinking about it, I mean it’s just a stupid pot but how? That stain was really dark, it looked like I didn’t even try to wash it and suddenly it’s clean? Was there a chemical reaction? I used two different flavors dishwashing soap and baking soda (that’s all I had at the moment). Do you guys have any logical explanation? I tried to attach a photo of the pot but it won’t let me so I’ll try in some other sub as well. Am I overthinking it or am I going crazy?

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/Garwaymoon on 2024-10-13 12:01:18.

Hello all, long time lurker and new poster on this thread. This is about my boots, which took themselves off for a walking tour and then came back.

About 2 years ago my husband and I went on a driving holiday around Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. We are interested in out-of-the-way sites and geology, and I'm interested in high strangeness and especially the Missing 411 cases.

On our way through Colorado we stopped off at a mom and pop store similar to a Tractor Supply, where my husband browsed happily in the sporting goods section and I wandered around till I found myself in the boots aisle. One pair jumped out to me, a low cut Ariat with American flags sewn into the leather. I treated myself to them.

Once home again they went into the section of my closet where boots live. I wore them a couple of times, put them back when I took them off, and so on. I'm pretty fussy about my footwear.

Last year around July 4th I went to grab them to wear at the local parade, and they were just not there. Thinking I'd left them somewhere, I checked our trucks, nothing; checked all the other house closets, nothing. Really frustrated I pulled everything out of my closet, looked in all the shoe boxes and all the containers. Nothing.

I gave up at that point but I never forgot and it always bugged the hell out of me. Where were they?

We recently went to visit friends in the South for a week and my girlfriend and I went to a big western store. I found another pair of boots I liked and, when I went to pay for them I told my friend and the lady at the desk a brief version of this story saying, 'you wait! I'll buy these and the others will turn up!

We get home from the airport and it takes me a few days to get round to unpacking my suitcase. I open my closet to put the suitcase away.... and my original flagged Ariats are standing, neatly paired up, in the center of the clear space where my suitcase usually stands.

No sensible explanation for this at all, except that my boots walked off, and then came back.

Edit: spelling

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/DelayHour4989 on 2024-10-13 08:21:41.

I've experienced glitches/ eerie situations a few times in my life. This was the most recent and by far the most blatently obvious.

3 months ago my husband and I were on a week long vacation in San Diego. We rented an SUV for the trip. The trip was fabulous, everything we needed after grinding away at our 9 to 5s and daily monotony. Well, we went to get lunch in the Hillcrest District and saw a thrift shop and decided to park and check it out. We bought a couple shirts and come back to the suv.

I open the door to climb into the passenger seat when I see it. My nail sitting there on the plastic thing you step on to get in and out the vehicle. Just perfectly sitting there exactly where you step to hop in/out. I check my nails, they're ALL intact. I pick up the nail, it's my nail alright. Shaped like my index finger, fits my index finger, IS MY INDEX FINGER NAIL. down to the very wear and tear. When I say wear and tear I get square tips and the tips end up rounding out a bit on the sides.

the kicker, no additional nails would/could be there. It wasn't our vehicle and I did them in my home state For two, ANYTHING on that plastic step part of the car couldn't have been there long since I was getting in and out the vehicle all week.

It was so weird I showed my husband and he was tripped out too saying yes that's definitely my nail. I saved the nail.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/nev-klu on 2024-10-13 06:23:00.

So, I woke up this morning and took off a pair of black pajama shorts (I recently bought them in a pack at Marshals; the pack had one black pair and one pair with pumpkins and cats on it. They are both size medium). Then I went along with my day. While driving home, I saw a car in my apartment complex reverse behind the apartment dumpster. When I passed the dumpster, I looked over to see that the car had disappeared. Weird!

When I got home and was looking for something in my clean laundry, I found the same pair of pajama shorts that I had taken off earlier this morning, which should be dirty. Weirded out, I looked in my bedroom and found the dirty pair of shorts. Then I looked back at the other pair; one was size extra large. I have never bought another pack of these shorts, let alone in a size extra large. Can someone explain what is happening and if there is any spiritual meaning behind this?

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/AnnoymousB12 on 2024-10-12 22:32:55.

Just discovered this subreddit today after watching smosh Reddit stories, so I thought I should share this weird experience. About a decade ago when I was a teenager, I was lying on my floor in the dark watching something on my laptop like I usually did, suddenly something slammed on the floor with a thud noise. I could see it near me, looked shoebox sized but could not make it out in the dark so I put the light on and nothing was there.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/Longjumping-Rule4447 on 2024-10-12 22:29:16.

I bought a brand new deck of cards the other day and opened them to play with my partner and 3 year old. I did what you do first and went to take the jokers and instructions cards out.

There was only one joker in colour and I said how strange that was as you usually get a colour joker and a black and white one. Partner agreed and we put it down to budget cuts. Now we only played chase the Ace (or old maid) but decided to use the single Joker as the Ace/maid

We played about 3 or 4 games of this sat at the dinner table before 3yo started wanting to just play with the cards on his own. To make sure they were all still there when he was done i counted them, 52+joker and put them away.

The next evening pick up the cards to play again and theres now two Jokers in the deck.. both colour ones.. still no black and white. I was shocked, we paired up the cards leaving one joker a few times. Asked partner if he remembers out conversation about it and he does. So what happened? Joker replicated itself?

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/Brave_Muscle421 on 2024-10-12 20:54:42.

So this morning I was in the bathroom going about morning routine, and I heard something I've never heard before, super close as if in the room with me...it was like some old school dial up type tone thing. No notifications on my mobile, not that it's made that sound before. Landline phone downstairs and again doesn't make that sound...please can someone give me an explanation.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/ConfusionMajestic913 on 2024-10-12 17:38:35.

So, I'm someone who's stuff lasts a long time, without getting lost, mostly. So, during my school years, my purse seem to be a magical one, sometimes one particular onject in it would disappear without any reason, like I haven't taken it out or given it to anyone, and then reappear again sometime later,maybe a few hours, maybe days, even weeks. I have no recollection of finding it somewhere and putting it back, it just reappears within my purse!! Could be an eraser,y favourite pen, the ruler I've been using for almost a decade now, or some bookmarks. It's weird and fascinating at the same time.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/yellowRablador on 2024-10-12 14:50:52.

This is the second incident of me getting lost in elevator buttons and levels. This happened the first day I moved in a very progressive country, way different from where I came from. It would be around over ten years before the first elevator glitch I have experienced. My friend fetched me from the airport and we're going back to the house. The house is a hotel/apartment, this means there are some units that they rent for more than three months but not over a year. She has been there for three months and we are to stay for another three. It's very modern and with very few security since there are CCTV cameras everywhere and the tenants use a card to tap open lobby and room doors. If I remember correctly it has 36 levels and we need to go up to the 21st floor. At the lobby you have four units of elevator working and as I stayed there for the next few months I have realized it's seldom you'd be running across other people unless you live at the same floor. So dragging my luggage my friend helped me inside the hotel and to the elevator and as she pressed 21 it light up and since the hotelis rather new, the elevator barely make sounds when going up or down. You could say based on my first story and here that I like watching the lights go up as the lift takes us to our floor. The number 21 opened and the machine stopped and rocked a little and the door opened, we turned right and go all the way at the end of the hall where the room was. My friend took out the card and tap for the room to open but it keeps on being rejected. Her housemate was inside and so we started knocking and a lady around our age opened the door. I watched my friends face got shocked and confused and then the lady ask what do we need. My friend finally said, she lives in that unit but the lady just smiled and said she's the one who lives there. So my friend confirmed the room number and the lady smiled and said we got lost because that's the 31st floor. We said we're sorry for bothering them and for the confusion and walked our way back to the lift. She kept on pressing 21 while asking me if she made a mistake but I knew she didn't as I watched everything carefully. You see it was my first day in a foreign country so I was carefully keeping an eye on how things work there. We made it to the unit and never had any problem again with the lift as we stayed therefor another 4mons before we transferred to the same hotel but different tower. To add, since the city are mostly high rise buildings and residences, elevator maintenance and government checking and regulations are strict and religiously followed, I'm convinced it's very unlikely that it was a technical problem because no repairs were done in the following days .

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/YeahBowie on 2024-10-12 05:35:40.

Okay, this is going to sound really stupid, but please bear with me.

This just happened: I'm scrolling through my phone, and, out of nowhere, a black speck appears on the screen. I keep scrolling, and it disappears. I thought nothing of it.

All of a sudden, it reappears. Probably just a glitch on the web page. It disappears again, and so on.

Curious, I start swiping up and down the page (mostly white with some text and an image, which would cause the speck to vanish every time it passed through it), and it would pop up and fade away at seemingly random intervals, always in the same position on the screen.

Finally, I decide to wipe it away... and it turns out it was just a piece of debris, after all.

I'm left baffled. It sounds super mundane in context, but I really have no explanation as to how or why it would cease to exist, only to remanifest itself like that. Almost as if it was in some sort of superposition, only I was watching it the whole time...

Anyhow, I've had plenty of far stranger things happen in my life, but I just felt compelled to share this here.

Be well, everyone! ✌️❤️

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/Classic_Director1259 on 2024-10-11 20:32:49.

A few years ago before I moved to my current residence I was driving to Camby, IN and noticed the car’s paint undulating. I don’t think I was seeing a mirage and I doubt it was a trick of the light.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/DoubleChallenge7177 on 2024-10-11 16:48:17.

This happened months ago but me and my ex were watching a random video on YouTube about the Mariana Trench. When they said the name we both laughed and was like damn for a documentary you’d think they wouldn’t get the name wrong. Then they kept saying Mariana… and we looked at each other so confused and I went and looked it up and it’s called the Mariana Trench? For my entire life, and hers, we’ve ALWAYS seen Marina Trench. We grew up on two different coasts so it’s not a ‘teacher taught us the wrong word’ We spent an hour calling friends asking if it’s called the Marina trench and everyone was confused. I could swear on my life it’s been called Marina Trench. Always thought they named it very well cause it sounds similar to Marine Water or something. To this day I still refuse to accept it’s always been called the Mariana Trench. We joke about how that night we got teleported to a universe where it’s always been like that. But at the same time we kinda believe it

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/MisMelis on 2024-10-11 16:32:15.

Well, where do I start. I have dry eye disease. I was in a horrible state. I purchased two heat compress headgear. (not sure what to call them).

I heat one of them up, lay down, put it on my eyes for a while and go to sleep. When I woke up, I couldn’t find it anywhere. Mind you, I have the heat compress on a small plate in any Ziploc bag. That way it doesn’t get contaminated. The next night I take out the second compress. I do the same thing. In the morning when I went to look for it to bring it into the living room, it was gone.

I’ve looked everywhere for them. Along with my friend, my mother and my son. I have a small apartment. There’s only so many places that it could be. I’ve looked in drawers, under the furniture, I do not sleepwalk. At least I don’t think I do lol I had to purchase a new one. This happened about five months ago and I still have not found either one. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤔🤯

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/nyangel122191 on 2024-10-11 16:09:58.

This was definitely the weirdest experience I've had and I can't find any logical explanation. Last night I got ready for bed, my husband was already asleep in bed for some time. It was dark in the room and I walked over to the nightstand to grab some water. When I was walking towards the nightstand, all of a sudden it felt like something bumped or hit me in the left shoulder, almost like I walked gently into a wall. But it's all open space on the side of the bed. I just jumped back and because it was dark, I assumed my husband had sat up in bed and was getting out of bed and he had bumped into me. But I turned the flashlight on from my phone and there was absolutely nothing there and he was still sound asleep. The feeling was brief and lasted maybe a second. I don't really understand how this is possible. The only explanations I can see was that it was a ghost or some invisible entity standing there/walked past me or it almost felt like if we are in a simulation, it was some glitch where I was trying to walk somewhere that didn't finish loading. I've had weird sensations like crawling feelings on my skin before, but I could always tell that was something with my nerves and within my body. This felt like there was literally something there that I could not see and it stopped me in my tracks. Really strange! Has anyone ever experienced something like this?

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/Cool-Improvement-594 on 2024-10-11 13:55:48.

I was watching a video of a friend of mine, I have seen this video that I have on my phone many times. At a certain point I simply blinked and I saw that my friend was wearing a very visible blue headband all made of rhinestones. I was shocked I continued to blink I watched that video many times I know with absolute certainty that before she did not have that headband in the video,it was a very strange feeling. For the first time in my life I understood when they say that reality is a hologram.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/14fetita24 on 2024-10-11 04:39:38.

So this happened today, I was in my living room studying and my dog was outside scratching at the sliding door to get in. For reference, I was home alone. I am on my ipad studying, when i get a phone call from my boyfriend. I pick up, we are talking and i mention to him that my dog wants to get in and is scratching at the door. I was waiting to finish my conversation on the phone to let my dog in and get ready to walk him. Then, i notice that my dog walks away from the door as maybe he got bored of waiting for me and went to walk around the backyard. All of a sudden, i hear my dog walking from the opposite side of the house (not from the living room or where the sliding doors are located) and my cat is running towards him. My cat is an indoor cat, and she is desperate to go outside, so at that moment i thought maybe he was able to slide open the sliding doors from the kitchen (somehow idek), and that my cat is speeding in that direction to escape. Once i get there, I get an eery sinking feeling; the sliding doors are closed, locked even. All doors are locked. All windows are closed. I didn’t let my dog in, I was drawing on my tablet while having a quick conversation with my bf. My cat sensed something as well, because she only goes to sniff my dog if he’s been outside or if she thinks she might get a chance to slip through the door. I dont know how to explain this. My family thinks I had some kind of lapsus and forgot that I let him in. But I was on the phone with my bf and he would’ve heard the door and my dog if i had let him in. Plus i verbally mentioned that I will be letting him in later when I am ready to walk him.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/TheRapidfir3Pho3nix on 2024-10-11 04:23:23.

Alright, guys I need a sanity check. So my wife and I are in central OK and we were looking up in the sky because there's a solar storm hitting us right now and we were told to go outside and look. Unfortunately it's not too impressive because of all the light pollution here but there is a small shade of red you can see somewhat everywhere.

But here's when things got a little strange. My wife was trying to get pictures of the shade of red in the sky. I kinda got a bit bored and started looking at stars that were very faint but flickering. I started to think that because of the flickering it almost makes these stars look like they're moving and shifting around kind of "blinking" in and out. I also started to think I'd sometimes see small lights shoot out from these stars sometimes but I was just chalking that up to my eyes/mind playing tricks on me because I had been intensely focusing on these faint flickering stars for a while. The reason I'm including this part is because I'm wondering if this primed my mind/eyes for what happened next.

So my wife was still trying to get photos of the red shade of the sky, she was using my phone and I guess because it was night my phone was "brightening" the photo and it was blowing out the slightly red shade in the sky. And I pointed out some of the flickering stars to her, but she was mainly still focused on getting the photos. As we're both looking up at the night sky, the WHOLE sky lights up for like idek like a tenth of a second. I wouldn't say it turned pure white but more like it went from black to like a medium tone of gray like it glitched or something? I would have chalked it up to just my eyes playing tricks on me but as soon as it happened my wife looked at me and I was looking back at her and we both had the same shocked looked on our faces. We were both speechless for a second and I asked her "you saw that right?" and she said she did. I asked her "it was like the sky lit up for a half second right?" and she agreed though she was the one saying to her it looked like the sky "glitched" for a moment.

Y'all what did we see???

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/paaunel on 2024-10-11 03:24:59.

this happened while i was on a cruise going from florida to the bahamas and back-in total this cruise took 8 days, and with the phases of the moon, you would definitely be able to see it from the big open decks on the boat-especially with how clear the skies were at the time, and all the stars were visible. edit: this happened late july 2022

however, for the entire 8 days of the cruise(and being out on the deck every night) i never once saw the moon. i remember telling my friends about it, and we walked to the other sides of the ships regularly, looking for the moon. it was NEVER visible, even on the way back to florida. the entire sky was pitch black aside from the few stars.

was my positioning on the planet and in the ocean just specific enough to avoid the moon??? i remember going back to my home state of pennsylvania and the moon being completely normal and visible. i keep trying to find an explanation for this, but considering moon phases change daily, even with it starting at the darkest, i should have been able to see it at least 1 day out of the 8 edit: looking at moon phases in nassau, bahamas, in july 20-28th it says the moon was going from half moon to full moon, further adding to my confusion. it should have been completely visible

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/TheRumpIsPlumpYo on 2024-10-11 00:11:27.

I actually just clicked a link to a post in this sub, the one about the guy who's closet disappeared. Then I realized the sub I was in. I experienced a glitch today. It's got me feeling shook lol. Still, and it's been all day.

My ID has been missing for a couple of weeks. I remember the last time I saw it. I assumed I'd stuffed it in my pocket and I'd find it in the laundry.

On two separate occasions I've had someone witness me looking in my waller and not having it. Once out with a friend and once at the front desk at a new doctors office. I looked in my car, laundry, dresser. I don't carry a purse lately. And the ID pocket with a window in my wallet has been EMPTY. Again. Multiple people have seen this. It's not just me.

Today I went to grab my health insurance card and I notice my car ins card is in the little window pocket where my ID would be. Weird. I grab it to put it in the right pocket. MY FUCKING ID IS IN IT. Right where I have looked several times for it.

I'm 100% sure no one in my house did this. And I'm flabbergasted. That's it. That's the story. Things like this have happened to me sometimes but I've never like blatantly had so many witnesses and been SO positively sure. Like wtf. Universe. Lol.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/CowAccomplished2844 on 2024-10-10 23:50:38.

Hi this is something weird that both my boyfriend and I experienced 2 years ago and we still can’t explain it to this day so here’s the background context.

2 years ago we went to Santa Monica Pier and played at the arcade and with the tickets we won, we picked out two stuffed animals (we collect silly trinkets and love cute things). One was a cute lamb and one was a hedgehog that looked so insanely messed up. It looked like a child tried drawing it from memory it was so silly and stupid looking and we loved that thing we named him Manny.

A couple months later we were leaving the country to go overseas for a month and the morning of our flight to leave, our cat peed on our bed and it got on Manny, one of our pillow, and one blanket. We put it in the washer but the thing is that we were going to get the washer replaced in a couple days. We lived with his family so his sister who was staying behind knew we put our stuff in the washer (even though it wasn’t going to work well but we were freaking out about Manny) and said she’d put it in the dryer for us. So we left but we were still anxious that Manny got destroyed.

A couple days later we asked his sister if everything was okay with our stuff and she completely forgot to take our stuff out of the washer and the people who replaced the washer already took it and put a new one in. We were freaking out because our stuff got taken and we didn’t know if we’d be able to get our stuff back, especially Manny. The sister tried calling the company but they said they didn’t see anything in the washer so we thought that the sister misplaced it. She looked everywhere but she couldn’t find it and she knew no one took the stuff out before they took it.

My boyfriend was heartbroken he loved that stupid thing so much so I reverse image searched it and literally nothing came up, like not even similar at all. So then I looked at the tag that was in the photos and I emailed the company on there and asked them if they had any more of that specific hedgehog stuffed animal (I also sent a picture of it so they knew exactly which one I was talking about) and they said they had it and would mail it to us. We were super happy! We come back from our trip and also turned the entire house upside down I’m telling you we looked absolutely everywhere (his family helped too) and our stuff could not be found. We get the stuffed animal delivered from the company and it was nowhere the same as Manny. We didn’t want to bother them more because they already sent it to us for free but we were super disappointed.

A month after we came back, I went to bed before my boyfriend as I always do. He’s always a night owl so he wasn’t tired whatsoever. He wakes me up in the middle of the night and says “Manny’s back!” and I was still kind of half asleep so I was like “What?”. He said “I went into the laundry room and he was just sitting on the dryer!”. I was super confused still since it was late at night and he led me to the laundry room where Manny was dry, perfectly clean, (but didn’t smell like laundry detergent or anything) sitting on the dryer. I freaked out, he freaked out because we knew that thing was NOT in the house. Our room is also by the laundry room and no one went in there at all that night or day except for us. The next morning we asked everyone in the house and they all said that they didn’t put him there and that they didn’t see or hear anything. We also ended never getting our pillow or blanket back, only Manny.

So we were kinda creeped out but mostly happy Manny was back so we ended up putting him somewhere our cat can’t reach him, since apparently this stupid looking, one of a kind hedgehog plush is irreplaceable. We joke to this day that he just went to where we vacationed after us because he didn’t get the memo on the actual dates. Anyways yeah we can’t explain it, I know it’s a silly situation compared to others on here. I hope this is considered a glitch or else I totally put it in the wrong subreddit.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/FriendshipEntire6364 on 2024-10-10 11:22:35.

In 2014 I was living with my then boyfriend and working debt collections for a pretty well known company. I hated the job and had begun feeling like my day to day life was really mundane. Because we had access to people’s sensitive information: full social security numbers, addresses, etc, we weren’t allowed to even bring our phones into the building. Once a month they would put us on required overtime, when we were working on accounts that were getting ready to go into the next phase of collections. I worked 10am-9pm Monday and was scheduled 9am-7pm Tuesday and Wednesday.

I got home from work Monday night and watched Netflix with my boyfriend until I fell asleep. Woke up the next day to pee and when I checked the time, it was 8:13. I assumed I forgot to set an alarm, freaked out for a minute, and rushed to get ready for work. I pulled into the parking lot at 8:56 and was feeling pretty good about still making it to work on time. As I was clocking in, my coworker Anna stopped me and asked “where were you yesterday?” I said “uhhh….here?” She insisted I wasn’t which I thought was really weird but I just brushed it off, clocked in, and went to my desk. Anna and I were pretty close as far as coworkers go. We bitched about the job throughout the work day, and texted/engaged with each other on social media outside of work daily.

About 20 minutes into my shift I glanced at the calendar on my computer and it was showing it was Wednesday. I genuinely thought Anna was playing a weird prank on me and had messed with my computer settings since she asked where I was when she knew full well I was there yesterday.

On my lunch break I went out to my car as I did every shift. When I turned my phone on, it also said it was Wednesday. I started panicking and called my boyfriend. He worked second shift and hadn’t yet gone into work, but looked at his phone and had the same realization and also started freaking out.

Now the really weird thing is, no one in either of our lives seemed to notice except Anna. I wasn’t super hungry or thirsty as I assume I would be if I hadn’t consumed anything for an entire day. We both were heavy smokers at the time but neither of us woke up feeling like we really needed a cigarette. We lived with my boyfriend’s two brothers and we had two dogs. One was an elderly dog and the other was just a puppy, so they both required pretty frequent trips outside. Our room was in the basement and we had a baby gate at the top of the stairs to keep them from roaming the house while we were sleeping. Neither of the dogs had an accident in our room, nor did they eat as though they hadn’t been fed in over 24 hours. I asked both of his brothers and they hadn’t let the dogs out or fed them Tuesday. I am really close with my mom and we talk on the phone on my way to and from work every day, yet she didn’t mention anything about not talking to me for an entire day. Neither of us were written up for no call no showing a shift, or even spoken to by management about the missed shift. Neither of us had any missed calls or texts from Tuesday.

To this day, I have no reasonable explanation for what happened that caused us to lose an entire day. If I had been living alone, I would have chalked it up to somehow being so exhausted or maybe having a weird 24 hour illness or something that made me sleep through an entire day. But the fact that both of us experienced the same thing with no consequences made it even weirder. I think about this regularly and no one I’ve spoken to about it can come up with anything plausible either. It feels as though we went to sleep Monday, ceased to exist in this reality on Tuesday, and then resumed normal life on Wednesday.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/Creepy_Damage7776 on 2024-10-10 10:03:47.

This is not super serious and is mostly funny, but it’s become concerning now that it’s been occurring for two weeks. Every night, my routine is the same. I clean up the kitchen, go to the bathroom to get ready for bed, take off my makeup, and encounter The Mosquito.

I live in the desert and for most of my life, we didn’t have mosquitoes. Common sense considering it’s dry as all hell and our temperatures are currently in the upper nineties and hundred degrees Fahrenheit. But two weeks ago, as I was washing my face, I heard that little telltale bzzzzz-ing near my ear.

Okay, whatever, it’s one mosquito. I spend like five to seven minutes trying to locate it in my bathroom and then I kill it. I always make sure that it’s dead because I’ve been to tropical countries before and waking up with mosquito bites on my face is an absolute nope. I’m also a bit of a sadist, maybe, because I always inspect my work after it’s done. Checking the abdomen to see if there was blood in it, you know the drill. I haven’t gotten any mosquito bites, so maybe this one was just pathetic and I got it before it could get me. I go to bed, mosquito forgotten.

Until the same thing happens the next night. I’m washing my face and I think I hear a noise so I stop the water and listen. Lo and behold, another mosquito. At this point, it didn’t really weird me out too much. Crazy because it happened twice, but totally a possible coincidence. All the lights were off in the house except for the bathroom, so it made sense that the mosquito would follow me to the light source. It probably smelled me or however mosquitoes sense blood nearby.

And then it happened again! And then again! For Two Weeks. I just got out of the bathroom before I started this post and I was like, okay, this is starting to get weird.

The thing is, it’s only ever one mosquito. I have never seen two at the same time. It comes at the same time every single night (around 1-2 am, my get-ready-for-bed time). Every night, I shut off the two doors in the bathroom and spend a few minutes cornering it and killing it. Every single time, it’s dead. I confirm that it’s dead.

Tonight was weird in particular because there were multiple other lights on in the house at the time, before I went to turn them off. But it always targets the bathroom. Maybe because it’s moist, but I don’t know. Why doesn’t it go in there at any other time of the day? It’s literally only at night at the exact time that I’m in there. My brother hasn’t noticed it, and my sister hasn’t either. It’s not like the bathroom is absolutely dark; we have a small lamp in there that gives off light at all times. So it very well could go in there if it wanted water to lay its spawn or something.

It’s not laying eggs in the toilet because I’m a germ-fearing lad and I always keep the lid lowered until it’s needed. It doesn’t have any other sources of water in the house (aside from maybe the drain of the sink after I’ve finished using it) and I’ve checked to make sure.

I actually have no clue how one singular mosquito keeps showing up. I haven’t gotten any bites these past few weeks and my bedroom is right across from the bathroom where I sleep with my door open and no blanket. Unless these mosquitoes are breeding invalid children that lack the ability to consume human blood, I can’t see a reason how there would be an infinite mosquito population that sends in one lad after another has been compromised, but doesn’t draw blood.

Is the mosquito the Sisyphean subject? Or am I Sisyphus? We are each other’s infinite cycle of hell and I swear it’s respawning and heading straight for its death every time because it gets neuralyzed MIB-style right before it comes back to life.

In all seriousness, please help me come up with an explanation because I have zero clue whatsoever.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/xSupreme_Courtx on 2024-10-10 09:53:12.

This happened a few days ago when I was driving back home from a work detail. I have a backpack that has a big main section which is divided in the middle. In one half I had a laptop sitting vertically the charger under it, and in the other half I had some food (a pack of frosted cookies, some protein bars, jerky, etc). The backpack was sitting in the passenger seat with the main section open. But when I reached in to grab something to eat, I didn't feel any of the food packaging. I reached all the way to the bottom and thought I felt the charger, but nothing else. So I switched to the section with the laptop and felt past it, but I didn't feel any food there either. I can't remembered if I felt the charger under the laptop or not. I switched back and forth a couple times, and none of the food was in either section. The divider has a very distinct feel and doesn't feel anything like the laptop, so I'm sure I wasn't just feeling down the two sides of the laptop the whole time. I even purposefully felt down both sides of the laptop thinking maybe I remembered wrong and the food was in the same section, before switching to check the other section again. Finally I pulled the laptop out and then put it back in the same section, and then the food was back in the other section when I reached in, as obvious as can be.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/vampyrewolf on 2024-10-10 04:06:45.

I still have no idea what happened to that missing week, 11 years later.

Gather round, story time.

I graduated as an Electronics Technician in 2006, and pushed my career path hard and fast. Production tech for a year, Warranty for two years, QA for 6 months, QA Reliability Tech for a year, then into regional management with 7 direct reports for 2.5 years.

For that 7 years I was pushing my body and mind working 12hrs a day on average. Working my day job and then IT work in the evenings, or just getting more work done than should have been humanly possible towards the end of it. 205-250hrs a month average, over 300 a couple times... For 160 salary.

I lost the company lottery in 2013, and was one of the lucky few. Long story but the company hired based on projects & bids, then let management fire whoever they wanted.

So now I'm downsized in May 2013, while every group I was part of was shutting down for summer. Which means I have time to kill. I managed to kill May. June I spent 2 or 3 weeks online, quite literally. I even slept a couple hours a day at my computer, if I slept. Did you know lolcats and icanhascheezeburger have an end? YouTube takes you to the weird side and back to the normal side if you click random videos long enough.

Then? I lost a week. No computer records (see: IT), no bank records, no phone records, no mystery food in the fridge, no laundry. If I spent anything it was less than $100 as I normally have 40-100 on me. I went from sitting at my computer to sitting in my recliner, and a week had gone by.

I still have no clue what happened, just a momentary hiccup and missing time.

The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/Fail_at_Life04 on 2024-10-10 03:32:28.

So about a month ago, September 21st me and my woman was coming home after going out for the night. We were driving on a straight road and I looked at the moon which was in front of us. It was bigger than I have ever seen! I told her to look because it was massive. If I held my fist straight out it would be bigger. So I grabbed my phone to tell my friend to look cause he lives in the area. Looked back up and it was regular size again. I was completely shocked and in disbelief. I wouldn't have believed my own eyes had my woman not seen it. Also I had only traveled about 100 feet or so be time I looked back. It had literally been seconds. Anyone else ever experienced anything like this?