40 People Sharing Their Experiences With Real-Life Glitch In The Matrix

You’ve probably heard the phrase “glitch in the Matrix”—a moment when reality seems off, like something skipped a beat or you caught the universe pulling strings behind the curtain. Inspired by the sci-fi movie The Matrix, people use it to describe weird, unexplained experiences that defy logic and make you question everything.

#1

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Developed a rapidly growing mass in my left eye socket. Multiple doctors said it was an infection and would go away on its own. Left my last doctor’s appointment to get dinner and happened to sit next to a retired orbital surgeon visiting from another country who told me I would need surgery ASAP. She connected me with the best surgeon in my country and I’m recovering now ❤️

#2

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The night I met my BF we were talking and figured out we lived in TWO of the same childhood homes, and had the same rooms. My family moved in right after he moved out each time.

#3

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I found my mom’s library card in a cave when I went on a spelunking tour in Australia last year (I’m from Sweden btw smh).

#4

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I was in an airport once and I had this book in my bag and as I was going through security I realized that the lady in front of me was the author and then she signed the book for me :)

#5

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I went to Istanbul and found used written postcards from the 50s in an antique shop, one was written by my great aunt to my great grandmother back in Berlin. She never send it from Istanbul.

#6

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Met a guy at a bar in a different state than I lived in. Started talking & realized not only were we from the same state, we lived at the same apartment, same floor, and in fact were next door neighbors. We are now in a relationship lol.

#7

Image source: maffie_paige, Cihat Hıdır

I’m from America. I had a pen pal from the UK. Went on a class trip to Spain and just randomly ran into her.

#8

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You know how when you’re little, your parents take you to a park where you make a friend and never see them again after that? My husband is that friend I made all those years ago.

#9

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I travelled to Italy in 2017. I ordered a cab to get from my airport to my hotel. The driver was really nice. We had a great convo the whole way there. I got laid off in 2023, so I signed up to drive uber. My friends told me to go to the airport for guaranteed money. My first customer was that cab driver from Italy.

#10

I used to run a comedy show in San Francisco with a few friends. One of them did a 10 min bit about how bad Third Eye Blind was. Then she was like “ok I feel mean. But it’s not like Stephen Jenkins is here.” From the audience a man goes “yes he is.” And it’s Stephen Jenkins.

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#11

Image source: stellabethh, Deva Darshan

I ran into someone from my school at a gas station in New Jersey. We grew up in a New Zealand town of 31,000 people.

#12

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I had this childhood bestie Leslie, we lived in the same apartment complex, she moved & I was so sad, my fam also moved a week later, we unexpectedly moved across the street from Leslie.

#13

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I checked out a book at my high school library, the old library card fell out of it with my mom’s signature on it. She had checked it out in the 80’s.

#14

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My girlfriend and I, 12 years before we met each other on hinge, were in the same tap dancing class and performed on stage together less than a metre apart.

It’s on tape and everything.

And the song were performing to is
“It’s a small world”.

#15

Image source: peachjammies, Yunus Tuğ

I moved into the same apartment as my mom’s first apartment without knowing that she ever lived there.

#16

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In high school, my great—uncle passed away…told my classmates. A friend said hers had died too. Turns out, we were talking about the same funeral — we found out we were cousins after that.

#17

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My neighbor bought a used car and found a picture of me as a child in the glovebox.

#18

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I traveled several states away, went to a flea market and found a one of a kind post card OF MY GRANDPARENT’s HOUSE from 1911.

#19

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My mom had decided on my name (Phoebe) before she gave birth and the nurses who helped deliver me were Monica and Rachel.

#20

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It’s not that juicy but I ended up at a new friends house and three out of four of us had the exact same birthday. October 31st, 1995.

#21

One day I was walking through the city when I saw my doppelgänger across the street. That’s not the weird part. Although seeing one’s doppelgänger is uncommon, it does happen sometimes. Where it got into “glitch in the matrix” territory was that she was wearing the exact same dress that I was and her hair was styled in the exact same way.

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#22

When I was a kid I used to sell earings and they were little flowers i made with my signature on it (I live in Quebec). Ten years later I was in Croatia and the lady sit next to me on the bus was wearing the earings I made.

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#23

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My mom’s first love was the dad of my first love.

#24

Image source: Ry<3, Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra

My mom died when I was 8 and the exact same day she died three years later I saw her doppelgänger and she said I looked familiar.

#25

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My finance’s mom was one of the nurses who took care of my mom after she gave birth to me.

#26

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My dad ran into his boss on vacation in a random small town in France.

#27

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My friend found her cat on the side of the road in Washington. She moved to Spain and met a girl from New York who found her cat on the side of the road in Washington. Their cats are siblings.

#28

I moved to the Detroit from Congo at 8yrs old in 3rd grade. We briefly moved to NC in 8th grade and the boy who used to bully me IN AFRICA was in one of my classes in Cary, North Carolina!!!

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#29

My parents (Ray and Karen), bought my childhood home from a couple named Ray and Karen…. Then sold our house to a Ray and Karen.

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#30

I had a friend, we are both half-japanese, our mums both had the same name. After 5 years of friendship she asked me whether I wanted to fly across the country with her to go to her grandparents house. We discovered when we got there that her great uncle and my great uncle were both physicists who worked together and gone to the same highschool. Our families knew each other years 60 years before and we had never connected the dots. her great uncle had been running the research centre named after my uncle (who died 30 years ago) for 20 years. Kinda crazy

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#31

I took a trip to Ireland and met a wonderful local couple at a pub.

Completely different trip, this time to the UK, stopped somewhere for some dinner in London and was sat down at a table right next to the same exact couple.

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#32

One of my students moved half way through her 8th grade year and moved across the state. I moved over the summer and she walked into my classroom for the first day of her 9th grade year.

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#33

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Me and a classmate of mine were born on the same day, my mom said she remembers congratulating my classmate’s mom cuz she was born before me. We later found out our moms have the same bday as well.

#34

Image source: claireb3an, Rodrigo Castro

My family went on vacation in PuntaCana this year and ran into a group of girls we met 5 years prior on another family vacation in Mexico.

#35

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Classmate dies in 5th grade, I attended visitation, saw him in his casket. Later on 2 summers later, I swim to the bottom of the pool to find a necklace…same necklace he wore in his casket, he drowned.

#36

Got a walkie talkie in 4th grade, flipped to one of the 256 channels and asked hello? A voice came through, my crush at school decided to use her dad’s walkie talkie that night on the same channel.

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#37

I had a nightmare about a particular house that I’ve never seen before. The house had a ton of rooms and was kind of a maze. In the dream I was running from something.

Cut to weeks later I saw the same exact house on Tik Tok. I freaked out and closed my phone.

2 days after that my wife showed me the video and explained the dream she had about the house. My stomach sank and I told her I had the same dream and saw that video days ago.

She said “did you read the comments”? I did not so she showed me the comments.

Hundreds of people had the same dream about the same house in the same video and it made me feel very anxious and a little sick.

TIL this day I have no idea what or why but it was definitely a weird moment in my life.

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#38

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Turned down a spelunking date in 9th grade. 15 years later the rejected boy was my tour guide. On an 8 hour spelunking tour. My husband and I were the only 2 that signed up.

#39

I was hacked in Roblox in 2020, 3 years later, a boy from Brazil comes to my class and in one class we decided to play roblox, HE WAS THE HACKER.
He moved from Brazil and ended up in the same class as me (in Portugal) we were in “computer” class and I told him to play roblox w me as a joke, that’s when I recognized the username!
We started laughing because WHAT ARE THE ODDS, he said he used to do it for fun and gave me my account back!!! (happy ending)

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#40

My ex before I knew him went to a concert and when we met we found out we went to the same concert and he showed me the videos he took and I’m in the videos.

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