Have you had any "glitch in the matrix" experiences?

[Heretic]

I've just finished reading a thread on Reddit discussing this, and I find it to be chilling. I can't think of any I've ever experienced, but I'm curious to know about everyone here experiencing the phenomenon.

Here are examples:

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[I_royalty_I]

Links of some examples?

What kind of glitches are we talking about here haha

[Heretic]

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ok there

[athron]

I find topics like this really, really interesting but I never had such experience in my life.

[Heretic]

@(you need an account to see links) me too. I'm always wishing for experiences like this to happen to me, but I never have anything more than deja vu sometimes. I've never lived somewhere that's haunted, so I've never had a paranormal experience either. Even though it can be scary, it would be a nice story to tell and something unforgettable and unique.

[I_royalty_I]

To be honest, I feel like I'm losing brain cells reading some of the posts on there. "Omg me and this girl
had the same nail color" "the ants stopped crawling on my hand"

Some of the others are interesting, like a paper airplane freezing in the air and falling down. Could be attributed to other things though. I feel like it's got to be one of those things where you need to experience it to actually get it. I've never experienced anything like that before. I'm always a skeptic.

[kat.]

Yeah.... It all seems pretty silly. I mean it would be cool if things like this meant something but it all just seems like people grasping at straws to make their lives seem more interesting or special.

[Clair]

Not my own personal experience but it is relevant:

I didn't know this until recently, I found out through a class, that the Matrix is based on the personal psychotic experiences of Philip K Dick, probably the most influential scifi writer ever. His experience overlaps with the feelings of "unreality" that are very common to those who suffer from psychosis experiences. I would argue that his experience is also related to a "solipsistic delusion" where you believe you are the only person left in the world (in true reality).

“We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs.” These alterations feel just like d�j� vu, says Dick, a sensation that proves that "a variable has been changed" (by whom—note the passive voice—he does not say) and “an alternative world branched off.” (Note this was in the 70's, decades before the Matrix was released.)

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Article about it if anyone is interested He wrote like an 800 page book as well describing his experience and trying to make sense of it.

[Bela Lugosi]

nope never had it, I've had plenty of deja vu.. not matrix glitch experiences.

[champloo]

I think I had something like this just today.

It's Memorial Day and I forgot to turn off my usual alarm for work. The key thing is I forgot; I didn't even know it was on, and I've been off since Friday so I haven't been waking up to it at all. I was having a really good dream and, just as I was getting to the good part, my alarm goes off and I wake up, completely ruining it.

The weird part is this happens all the time. My dreams seem to naturally "make themselves" in a way where I always wake up just as the best part is about to happen, whether I sleep for four hours or for ten hours. Even when my sleep schedule is totally off and I have no intention of waking up it still happens in this exact way.