Sure, everyone has heard of Deja Vu but this is a bit different. A glitch is something that happens when someone observes something that would essentially shatter the laws of physics and reality as they are.

I have recently stumbled upon a subreddit called “Glitch in the Matrix.” It really got me thinking and I realize now that I have experienced a glitch myself. Though it happened long ago I still remember it like it was yesterday. My experience goes as follows.

I was hanging out with my boyfriend at the time at the mall, this was roughly eight or nine years ago. He had gone to get food, I saw him leave my side and walk to the food court yet just a few moments later the same thing happened again. I shook it off at the time as my mind playing tricks on me, but I now know that it was more or less a glitch.

While my experience is nowhere near as fun to read as the ones I will list below it makes me believe these stories all the more since I too can identify with having experienced something similar. Have you ever experienced a glitch? If so feel free to leave a comment explaining, I would love to read your stories as well!

7 Experiences That Suggest Reality Isn’t Real:

1. Reddit User: the_rev

Title: “Mundane but slightly odd glitch with two wrist watches.”

“I own a few old-school analog watches that have the little window in the dial to display a number for the date.
Last week I had a jeweler install a new battery in one of the watches; he always sets the proper time and date on a watch any time he fixes one.
I picked it up on Friday, noticed the time was set correctly and didn’t pay attention to the date. It should have been set to 28 but I didn’t notice.
On Sunday the 30th, I decided to wear a different watch (my “nicer” one) out to brunch. When I put it on I noticed that the date said 31 instead of 30. I wanted to make it right, so I had to dial it all the way through the range of numbers to set it “back” to 30.
That was pretty odd because I wear that watch maybe once a week, and I hadn’t noticed the date being wrong. I had to reset the date at the end of June (a 30-day month) to roll it forward. If I had neglected to do that, it would have been a day behind (not ahead).
Here’s the kicker: On Monday the 31st, I looked at my other watch (the one with the new battery), and the date window said “1”. So I had to dial that one through all the numbers to set it “back” to 31.
So both my watches somehow “gained” a day. I suppose the jeweler must have set one wrong when he replaced the battery, but that’s out of character for him.
But what about the other one? Did I click it ahead TWO days at the end of June, without noticing? And I didn’t notice it was set wrong for a month?
Sorry if this is boring and confusing. It’s just strange.”

2. Reddit User: blackcat104

Title: “Not sure what happened to me at work today…”

“So to start things off, I love reading this Reddit. It is one of my favorites. I’ve never experienced a glitch or anything before personally so I don’t know if what happened to me today was anything at all or I’m just losing it. I’m a cashier, to help get through college and all that. Very boring job. But I usually work at the express (7 items or fewer) lane at my store. I work nights a lot too. The other day around 7 pm, it was kinda slow and I was only getting customers about once every ten minutes. A man about 40 and his two kids came through the line and bought frozen pizza, ice cream, beer and a few other household things. I had a casual conversation, checked his ID for alcohol (it’s store policy to ID everyone) and he left. Another five or so minutes go by and I see the man coming in my line again. I asked if he had forgotten something and he looked confused and said: “What are you talking about?” I looked at his items and they were the exact same as before. He was with the same two kids and everything. I just stood there confused and asked if he had just been in. He said no and I laughed uncomfortably and said it must have been someone who looked just like him but I know it was the same man as before. I even had to check his ID again and it was the same man. It was crazy. I asked the girl next to me if she saw him twice and she said she wasn’t really paying attention but she thought he only came through my line once. The whole situation was very odd.
What do you guys think?”

3. Reddit User: five432fun

Title: “Wtf universe? (personal glitch experience)”

“It all started in March with a Facebook message. A staff member from a bar in my city messaged me on Facebook to tell me that they had found my credit card at the bar that night and would hold it until I could pick it up. The bar had just opened the night before. I’d intended to go to the grand opening celebration because the event they were advertising looked cool, but I ended up doing something else instead. (EDIT: That “something else” was flying to another state at attend a music festival for five days, so I was in a totally different part of the country.) I figured they had the wrong person since I had never been to that bar before. She specified the card type and, while I coincidentally was a card holder with that company, I had locked my card in a drawer months ago and hadn’t touched it since in an attempt to cut down on my credit usage. I forgot all about the Facebook message until last week.
(EDIT: I had no connection to any employees of this bar at the time. I assume they found me on Facebook by taking my name from the card and searching for people in our city who looked like they fit the profile of their typical clientele. I have a name that is common enough that it would not be wild for another person with my name to have left their card there hence my assuming it was someone else’s. But my name is not like “Jane Smith” common to where they would have an impossible time searching Facebook and narrowing the cardholder down to 2-3 people if not directly to me without much effort.)
I went to that bar for the first time in May (I remember because it was Cinco de Mayo) and serendipitously started dating one of the guys who work there. I’ve been going there on a weekly basis ever since to visit him at work, so I’ve gotten to know his co-workers. The other night, I was sitting at the bar when the manager noticed that some candle wax had spilled on a table. She reached in the lost card bin and grabbed a random one to scrape up the wax with. She looked at the card, looked at me, and handed it to me with a confused look on her face. It was my card, the same one that they’d messaged me about months before I ever stepped foot in that bar for the first time.
I remember the day I decided I wasn’t going to use that card again. I won’t go into details in order to protect my privacy, but let’s just say I hid it in a drawer in a location where there was a near zero percent chance of someone else coming across it. I was cleaning out that drawer in May and distinctly remember seeing the card (two months after they “found” it in March), removing it from the drawer, and moving it to a different drawer because I wanted to use that drawer for something else. Just for fun, I checked both spots today and the card wasn’t there. Then I checked my billing statement. The last charge made on the card was in January by me, before I locked it away, two months before I got that Facebook message.
I’ve visited many possible theories in my head but cannot rationalize this experience with logic that is of this world. In an alternate reality, I must have skipped the music festival, gone to the grand opening of the bar on that night in March and had such a good time that I left my card behind…
EDIT: one possible theory I considered was that this could have been an old card of mine that someone stole, then dropped at the bar that night. I’ve certainly lost the card before and had to cancel it and order a replacement (though I can’t remember the last time). However, the card number of the card that the bar returned to me matched the card number of the card I had stored away. If I’d canceled the card after losing it and ordered a new one, the new one would’ve had a different number.”

4. Reddit User: smol-bean-dean

Title: “My Reflection Glitched”

“The scariest thing that happened to me was last year. I’m still scared to look in the mirror some times. I looked in the mirror and was doing my makeup and I blinked and my reflection blinked right after me. I saw my reflection blink. It wasn’t when I blinked, it blinked after I did.”

5. Reddit User: TitanicMan

Title: “The world lagged for a moment”

“This was a few nights ago, been meaning to post it since.
So, my brother had just gotten back with dinner for the family. He’s handing everyone’s food to them. I walk out, I’m standing 3 feet in front of him.
He gets to my food, looks all around the house, including dead at me, and goes “/u/TitanicMan, where are you?” Then realizes, I’m right in front of him. He says “Oh there you are.” and then my dad says hello. I was standing in that room for multiple minutes.
It’s not like there’s a crowd, there’s only three of us.”

6. Reddit User: ogmarker

Title: “So, this happened yesterday and this seems like the appropriate place to post it.”

“I meant to post this yesterday but fell asleep after I got home and forgot lol.2
So, I wake up at 5:00 am yesterday for work. Head out the house at around 5:30 am. As you can imagine, there’s hardly anyone on the street. So I’m about halfway to work when I catch a red light. A little ahead of me there’s a guy on a moped. It looks like he’s going to stop at the light, but then he makes a right.
So now, I’m the only one at the light. No one behind or next to me. I look in the rear view mirror, no one for at least 200 feet in back of me. The light turns green. I accelerate and happen to look in my rear view mirror again as I pass the intersection. What I see next….
The guy on the moped making a right at the intersection. The same thing that I saw 12-18 seconds before, happening again. It was insane. My windows aren’t tinted so I’m always super aware of people pulling up next to me. I’m still not sure what to make of that. There was no one next to me or near me when the light turned green.
Maybe this isn’t a “glitch” but I thought u guys might appreciate the story”

7. Reddit User: TeaOrchid

Title: “Shifting World Glitch”

“This seemed like a good place to tell this story. Perhaps someone has had a similar experience.
This happened to me last December. My fiance, baby, four-year-old and I were staying with my parents for a few months waiting for an apartment to be finished and ready for us to move in. We were there about five months.
The room the four of us shared was downstairs, directly below a bathroom and my parents room. The bed we slept in faced a wall of big floor-to-ceiling shelves that my dad had built into the wall.
One morning I was having a hard time waking up, blearily struggling to open my eyes as I could feel the bright winter sun on my face. I cracked my eyes a little and blurily saw the shelves across the room, as usual. Suddenly, the entire wall of shelves shifted, sharply moving to the left a couple feet, and then back, so suddenly that my brain immediately thought, “Thats funny. I must still be sleeping. I totally thought I was awake.” I closed my eyes again for a few moments and then opened them quickly. The same series of tall white shelves faced me, and again, so swiftly and unexpectedly, the entire thing slid to the left and then back again, like that bar thing on a typewriter. Very mechanical. By now I knew I was awake. I was the only one in the room besides the sleeping newborn, who never woke for this.
I left the room confused, telling myself it was some sort of wierd leftover dream state hallucination. Later that morning over coffee, my mom stared out the window and remarked quietly, “My bed was shaking this morning. It was so wierd.”
I was intrigued and asked her to explain. She set down her cup and told me how she woke up earlier in the morning and saw the sun coming in through the window, and as she was just waking, her bed felt like it moved suddenly to the left, and then back. She sat up, startled and quite awake, but it didn’t do it again.
I hadn’t thought twice about my experience or her saying her bed shook, not until she described the way it shook, the particular shifting motion, just once and quite abruptly. As it someone slid it over and then back quickly. In a room located directly above the wall of shelves in my room. With the occurrences happening about the same time.
I told her my own story then of that morning, and her eyes widened at my description of how the wall moved. We agreed it was bizarre and, with nothing to do, simply left it at that. I have never experienced anything like it since.”

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