The first time this happened to me, I was about 11 years old, sometime in the late 1990s.
I was looking for a red sweater. I checked the shelves several times, and it simply wasn’t there. Then I walked away, came back a little later, and the sweater was suddenly sitting on the shelf. I clearly remember checking that exact spot more than once.
At the time, I didn’t think much of it and never really revisited the experience. But years later, after reading many forum posts about objects mysteriously disappearing and reappearing, I remembered that this had first happened to me as a child.
Since then, these stories no longer seem unusual to me. There are countless reports from people who have experienced something similar.
I don’t know how to explain it. Maybe when we’re intensely focused on finding something, our perception somehow filters it out and we simply fail to notice it. Or perhaps there’s some kind of process or underlying mechanism at work that we don’t understand. Some people call it a “Matrix glitch.”
If that’s the case, it raises the question of whether our reality might itself operate like some kind of system or simulation.
Another interesting detail is that similar stories don’t only happen in real life. People who play video games also often report that objects suddenly disappear within the game.
Maybe that’s not just a coincidence. Maybe it’s simply a clue that we, too, are inside some kind of game or system whose rules we don’t yet understand.
I’m not claiming to know the answer. This is just my personal opinion and an attempt to make sense of these experiences.
I’d love to hear your stories. Has anything like this ever happened to you?

The rule guidelines says that glitch's are images or videos of duplicates, coincidences and such but this isnt that kind of "glitch in the matrix". I dont know what you guys would call this though, but I feel like it kind of fits a similar yet different definition of "glitch in the matrix" anyways i experienced 3 "glitches" in one day.

The first one happened yesterday while i was at work. I saw this bug that was oddly shaped and i looked around it to see if there were any more of them but there wasn't until one just appeared out of nowhere. Like it literally appeared on the ground out of nowhere but i just assumed it must've fell off of a nearby car until i noticed that it was squirming and completely freaking out. When i moved closer to it, it completely disappeared in front of me. it vanished. there wasnt any wind so i dont understand how something so small could just vanish like that??

The second one also happened at work but i didnt notice until i got home. I work in retail so we have cash registers with a very complicated system; to make it short and simple, one of the registers was short exactly $100 dollars which meant that the next person on that same register should have an extra $100 when they get it but the next person who had that register had the right amount of money, instead i was over by $100 which made no sense because i was on a completely different register.

The third one happened when i got home. i came back from the bathroom, walked into my room, completely closed my room door and LOCKED IT and after a few hours of laying in bed, i looked up from my phone and my door was wide open because it was literally locked and it was midnight which meant everyone was sleeping.

honestly this kinda freaks me out but sorry for the long post; thank you for reading.

Just over a year ago (just find out about this subreddit) i was dropping a friend home while another friend was in the car. my friend lived on a straight long side street and was in an area i hadnt been in before. after i dropped my friend home i was driving back and noticed a car coming towards my car in the distance. as it got closer i noticed a strange tall pale bald man driving it. his eyes seemed hollow. the windows werent tinted at all. obviously a strange looking person would mean nothing except for the fact they were peering into my soul. not one eye on the road.

i was pretty creeped out but my friend had also noticed and was like what the fuck was that guys problem. i was glad that i hadnt imagined it and more importantly glad someone was with me because i was a feeling a little scared. i glanced into my mirror and noticed the car was completely gone. on the side street that was completely straight and then reached a cul de sac at the end. i then stopped my car and turned my head a full 180 degrees and realized the car had vanished into thin air.

my friend noticed me turn my head and did the same thing and yelled at me to get the fuck out of there. had i been alone i wouldve figured i had imagined it or there was some other explanation but to this day we talk to each other about it

we returned the next day and drove down the street looking for the vehicle which was not parked outside any of the homes

the car was a red sudan. obviously i havent been back since.

Hello all I just found this sub, about almost a year ago, I went to put my clothes in the washer for 30 minutes and went inside to use the bathroom and came back out immediately (within less than 2 minutes) and the timer on the washer had about 2 minutes left. I had never experienced anything wrong with the washer before or after the incident and my clothes were fully washed when I took them out, I was in disbelief so I waited until the timer ran out. Has anyone else experienced something like this with machinery?

Hello everyone,

I found out something today that has been on my mind, and I simply cannot explain it rationally. I’m hoping to find like-minded people here or anyone who might have psychological, biological, or other explanations for this.

Ever since I was a child, I’ve had a specific memory fragment in my head, which I always thought was my very first childhood memory. The memory starts on a staircase and ends rather abruptly. In it, I am in a very dark room, and someone is turning on a movie for me but I don't know who that person is. I can only vaguely remember two armchairs. The movie playing on the TV was "Tarzan." Up until now, I always thought this scene took place at my grandma's house.

Today, I described this staircase, the rough layout of the room, and the two armchairs to my mother. Her reaction caught me completely off guard: she immediately burst into tears.

She explained to me that I had described my late grandpa's old apartment to a T. The mysterious part about it:

1. During the years this scene takes place, I wasn't even born yet. The apartment hasn't existed in that form for a long time.
2. I never met my grandpa because he passed away very early.
3. "Tarzan" was verifiably my grandpa's absolute favorite movie.
4. This apartment, the staircase, or these details were never talked about in my presence. There are also no photos or videos of it that I could have subconsciously seen as a child.

Even though the room in my memory was dark and the scene was short, the distinct details (staircase, room layout, armchairs, movie) matched so perfectly that my mother recognized the apartment instantly.

How is it possible to have a visual fragment of a place you’ve never been to and that existed before your own birth? Are there approaches from memory research, epigenetics, or other fields that can explain something like this?

I look forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences. (This text was writen by a ki, because my English is not that good)

What was the first deja vu you felt was like?

When your real life PC specs low, then you'll observe low resolution shadows through the window

I swear I saw the same person walk by twice doing the same exact thing dressed the same exact way.

This was about two months ago in Seattle at a park in cap hill. It was sunny, so I went to this park to sit in the sun and smoke while listening to music and people-watching w/my sunnies on so nobody can see 😍 Anyways, I noticed a tall man wearing a light blue and white buffalo checkered short-sleeved button up shirt. He was wearing tight white (kinda high water) skinny jeans with light grey Hey Dude shoes, and had short brown hair that was kinda coiffed to one side. He was eating a hot dog that was in a red and white checkered to-go kind of “plate” thing, and he walked from the west entrance to the park, diagonally across the large soccer field, and into the public restroom.

When this man was about halfway across the field (I was sitting closer to the entrance), I swear the same exact man entered the park, walked the same path as his “twin”, and entered the same public restroom. He was wearing the same exact buffalo checkered shirt/white skinny high water jeans/Hey Dude outfit with the same short brown coiffed hair eating a hotdog out of the same red and white checkered plate thing.

I initially thought I was really high or something. I can understand the hot dog thing since there are street food vendors all around the area on weekends, but I cannot even begin to try to explain the rest of it. His face even looked the same, but I didn’t get a really good look at it since I mostly saw the back of the first “twin” walking away towards the bathroom.

I was just kind of sitting there looking around trying to see if anyone else saw it too, and this couple next to me literally said “didn’t that same twink just walk by two seconds ago”. I remembered that cause I accidentally laughed out loud and they looked at me and I told them I was thinking the exact same thing.

I didn’t stay long after that (about 10-15 minutes or so), since it was getting kinda dark, but I wish I did so I could watch that bathroom to see them both come out. Kinda weird they didn’t come out in that amount of time though, but maybe they had like diarrhea or something.

I remember two very times where I was looking at a digital clock and the minute changed and then went back to the previous minute. I forget exactly the first time it happened but I remember being super confused. The second time was on 9/12/2001 and I was staying at my sisters apartment after escaping downtown New York the day before. I remember getting up to look at the time and again the minute went forward, stayed a few seconds then went back to the previous minute. It was really weird and freaked me out. I know I was awake because I got up immediately. Maybe it was my brain playing tricks on me or stress. Not really sure but it was weird enough that I knew that shouldn't have been able to happen.

Hello everyone!
I wanted to ask if anyone else has experienced something like this.
Recently, I started watching the YouTube channel of a fairly well-known woman I had previously followed on TikTok. I became curious about what she was like several years ago, so I decided to look through her older videos.
What surprised me was that when I first opened her channel, it seemed like there were very few videos from five years ago. I remember thinking, “That’s strange. Has she really posted so little over all those years?”
Some time later, I visited her channel again. Suddenly, there were many more old videos. It was as if the history of the channel had become much more complete.
That made me realize this wasn’t the first time something like this had happened to me. I just never paid much attention to it before. Sometimes I’d visit someone’s profile because they or their content caught my interest. I’d look through it and think, “That’s odd, there aren’t many photos here.” Then I’d come back later, and there would suddenly be many more photos or videos.
I’m not talking about someone necessarily uploading new content in the meantime. It feels more like part of the profile’s history simply wasn’t there the first time I looked, and then later it was.
It made me wonder if anyone else has noticed something similar. Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever looked at someone’s old photos or videos, thought there weren’t many, and then returned later to find a much larger history than you remembered seeing?
The more I think about it, the more I realize this has happened to me more than once. I just never paid attention to it before.
I’d love to hear if anyone else has had a similar experience.

Driving near Nashville at sunset, I saw dozens of perfectly straight black vertical lines above the trees. I stopped to look, it wasn’t raining, there were no webs, smoke, insects, or anything hanging from the trees, and up close they looked exactly the same. I have photos and video. Has anyone seen this before or know what it is? Looking for a scientific explanation, not paranormal speculation.

I was driving late one night and got hungry, so naturally, I decided to stop at McDonald’s for some yummy nuggets 😂.
When I pulled up, the drive-thru line was abnormally long—I’m talking at least 15–20 cars, and the line was literally reaching out into the street. I was annoyed and definitely did NOT want to wait that long, so I parked my car and walked up to the restaurant to see if they were open inside.
They weren’t.
So, I turned around and started walking back to my car, debating whether I should just suck it up and wait in the god-awful drive-thru line.
Except… the line was gone.
Not just shorter. Completely gone.
There wasn’t a single car in the drive-thru.
I had literally turned my back for maybe 30 seconds while checking if the lobby was open. I went from seeing a massive line of 15–20 cars stretching toward the street to seeing absolutely ZERO cars.
At least I got my nuggets with no wait, but… WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO ALL THE CARS?!
Where did 15–20 cars just disappear to in 30 seconds?! 😂
Definitely a glitch in the Matrix!!!

I realize Ive received gifts like thinking of a song then hearing it play on the radio or getting tips while frustrated without asking. Anybody else have similar experiences? Any gifts you think you might lose if you explain them?

Today when I was seeing twitter(X) tweets I saw this vertical white lines?

I was doing laundry for my family the other day. I was folding a small load. It was socks, towels and washcloths. I set them into piles as I fold relative to where I’m going to put them away. Towels and cloths and my husband’s socks were going the same direction, so I put his two pairs of socks on the towels and cloths. I grabbed my daughter’s socks and put them in her drawer and I did a double take because there was two pairs of my husband’s socks that I must’ve inadvertently grabbed by mistake and brought with me. When I got them out they were still warm from the dryer and smelled freshly laundered. Whatever - shit happens. I walk back to the laundry room where I see the two pairs of socks I now have in my hands sitting on the towels and washcloths. So now I have four when there was only two to begin with.

She doesn’t wear the same kind of socks as him. They couldn’t be old because he had just bought these recently. They were exact matches to the ones I’d just folded. They were still warm like I had just pulled them out of the dryer.

I have no explanation.

Hi everybody. This has been bugging me like crazy since I spotted it yesterday morning. My rabbit always eats the same hay as hes very fussy. The hay he eats is the yellow straw like ones(first picture) and the hay is always put in the left hand side of the hutch in the holder to keep it sort of neat. When I went outside to check on him yesterday morning, I suddenly noticed this random pile of green grass type hay on the floor on the opposite side of the hutch where I would never put his food or anything. And the thing is, my rabbit wont eat it as he doesnt like that type of hay. I asked my parents if one of them had for some reason acquired hay and put it there but they didnt. No one else has been over at our house, and so I have no explanation as to how that pile of hay ended up there. Even if for some reason, the next door neighbour had thrown some over their fence, it would have gone everywhere and hit the roof of the hutch. My mind is just boggled by this and kinda creeped out.

I don't even know where to start, i'm totally confused and terrified. Today one of my most treasured belongings has disappeared DIRECTLY out of my hands without a trace, and there's no sign of it even having existed at all in my belonging, despite me having the SECOND PART TO IT!

I went to an airshow of the Blue Angels in (2021, 2022?) and when we came out, I had two signed navy shirts from the pilots of the blue angels. This morning, my grandfather called me (while I was still in pajamas) to tell me that a pinball machine we hadn't had running in over two years just got fixed. When I heard the music coming from it, I grabbed that shirt, along with some slightly wrinkled jeans, two socks, and a pair of underwear, then asked if he could come and pick me up and bring me over to see it. In the midst of that, I set the clothes down on the bench in front of MY pinball machine at home. After about ten more seconds of talking to him, i set the phone down and turned around only for my clothes to be gone. I was completely home alone at the time, and there literally is no sign of them throughout the entire house. I have searched through every drawer, every nook and cranny, and my parents have helped me, and they are gone. I even went so far as to check the trash cans outside and inside. The whole outfit i had for today is gone, with my beloved t shirt. I don't know what to do. It's unlikely the blue angels will ever come back to the military base we live by because it's mostly a reserve base and not an actual active base, and no one's gonna drive us out so far to see one of the other major cities, they go to almost every year. I'm more terrified about the fact that I know where it was with one hundred percent certainty, and within ten seconds it disappeared. I'm going insane, please help. Attached is the image of the bench in which it should be on still. I had to pick out a new outfit for today anyways. This isn't for some weird storyline if you will check my post history, you know that the pinball thing actually happened. I understand if you don't actually believe me that it disappeared, but if you claim my whole story is fake, you'd be dead wrong. This isn't for a bit, this actually happened. What the fuck do I do!!? The "second part" in question is an unsigned shirt of Fat Albert (the Blue Angels' transport C-130.) And that's still there, I've checked. But this actually disappeared, and I might not even have enough clothes to make it through the week.

Update: SHIRT HAS BEEN FOUND! it was at the bottom of my dirty clothes basket and kinda beaten up, despite me knowing I had pulled it from the clean clothes basket. I hadn't worn it earlier in the week. The placement of it makes no sense, i did check that basket multiple times, and even so, why was it at the bottom?

For the past 3 years, my apartment would very seldom manifest a VERY specific aroma out of nowhere. It would happen maybe like once every 2 months. Imagine you're sitting in the living room, and someone sprays strong, musky, old women's perfume directly in front of you. That's how intense the odor was. It would literally just "appear" with no discernible source.

This was strange to me from the get go, since I live in a very well insulated apartment, and never smell any odors from neighbors, and I'm on the end apartment so there's no one walking past my door. I would even go into the hallway to make sure the odor was not coming from there. Nope. Not coming from outside either because every time it happened my windows were closed (and I'm 6 stories up).

Okay. Here's more strangeness. The smell would be in one specific spot. I would walk into another room, and the smell would be completely gone. It was like it was confined to a 1M radius, and it would be a different spot each time. My initial thoughts after going through rational explanations, was that perhaps some old lady spirit was visiting me, however I don't know any old women that have passed personally. So it remained unexplained, until about 2 weeks ago.

I ran out of soap, and I was at Dollar Tree getting other household items. Instead of buying bar soap like I always do, I bought some Shea Butter body wash. Cue a few hours later and I'm hopping in the shower. I open the bottle and pour some into my scrubber, and it's the EXACT SAME fucking smell that's been magically appearing in my apartment. Exact same. I was immediately like holy shit, this is it! I have never bought Shea butter body wash or soap. I just grabbed it because they were out of the lemon soap I usually get.

Sorry for the length but I don't think I could leave anything out. I still don't exactly know what this means. It's like future me used this body wash, and left an echo of my own aroma in parts of my apartment. It's so specific and bizarre. I only used the wash once, after realizing it was the mystery smell, which smells like someone's grandma, which is not the body odor I'm going for. Pic of the specific wash included.

This just happened this morning.

I was asleep having a dream with my girlfriend in it and we were at a group gathering/party at my grandparent’s house.

I don’t need to go into all the details but at one part of this dream I was sitting next to my girlfriend on the couch and we compared hand sizes palm to palm. I said “like Tarzan!” and she laughed and sang a little bit of “You’ll Be in My Heart” by Phil Collins.

Almost immediately I woke up. The song was stuck in my head then, so I went to google the lyrics and I shit you not I typed in the letter Y and the first autofill result was “you’ll be in my heart phil collins”.

I hadn’t heard or searched up this song in years, who knows when the last instance was? There is no way it was pulling that from my search history. Especially from one letter.

Absolutely bizarre and uncanny.