Reality should be fairly stable. The sun rises, day becomes night, objects (generally) stay where we left them. But every now and then, the universe seems to play a few tricks on us. We see things or people that surely should not be there, or experience moments that make absolutely no sense at all. It's almost as if the world has glitched.
Thankfully, there's an online community out there dedicated to "exploring the mysteries of life while staying grounded in wisdom and insight." More than 880,000 people gather in this "rare space" to share personal experiences of the Mandela effect, glitches, déjà vu, reappearing items, astrological phenomena, and more.
From the creepy to the comforting to the downright bizarre, Bored Panda has put together the best posts from the Matrix Mysteries page. Many might leave you questioning some moments of your own reality.
#21
My husband and I took our daughter to Meow Wolf last week. For those unfamiliar with it, it’s an immersive art experience. It’s like a giant interactive art world that you can walk through. My husband and I have been before but it was our daughter’s 1st time.
Before entering, a person greets everyone and details a story within the experience. There’s a boy in this story with a unique name, the same name as my husband. When the lady said the name, my husband and I looked at each other surprised, because we never heard them say that name before when we came other times and it was odd that it was his name.
We brushed it off and started to walk the exhibit. There wasn’t many people at this time of day, maybe about 7 total so it was nice to be able to walk through and every area was pretty much empty. We got to one part where there’s a massive stage looking area with bright fun colors and lights. It was completely empty.
I should mention Meow Wolf always has unique music playing, and I’ve never heard any words spoken beforehand, it’s always been instrumental. We put our daughter down to run around this area, as soon as she starts walking around, the song says her name, very clearly. My husband and I looked at each other in disbelief. No way we just heard that. But luckily we both got it on video because we were recording her walking on our phones and low and behold, it clearly says her name on the videos so we know we weren’t just hearing things. Our daughter has an even more unique name, (sorry for not saying it it’s just for privacy reasons) it’s a name I guarantee you’ve never heard before, it’s from the Cornish language and it’s over 1000 years old. There’s nobody there that knew us. His or her name wasn’t used to purchase the tickets, we didn’t even say her name while walking through, and I never said his name.
Maybe I’m looking too deep into this and it’s just a very odd coincidence. But very strange synchronicities like this has happened before to me, and it made me feel like I was exactly where I was supposed to be.
Before entering, a person greets everyone and details a story within the experience. There’s a boy in this story with a unique name, the same name as my husband. When the lady said the name, my husband and I looked at each other surprised, because we never heard them say that name before when we came other times and it was odd that it was his name.
We brushed it off and started to walk the exhibit. There wasn’t many people at this time of day, maybe about 7 total so it was nice to be able to walk through and every area was pretty much empty. We got to one part where there’s a massive stage looking area with bright fun colors and lights. It was completely empty.
I should mention Meow Wolf always has unique music playing, and I’ve never heard any words spoken beforehand, it’s always been instrumental. We put our daughter down to run around this area, as soon as she starts walking around, the song says her name, very clearly. My husband and I looked at each other in disbelief. No way we just heard that. But luckily we both got it on video because we were recording her walking on our phones and low and behold, it clearly says her name on the videos so we know we weren’t just hearing things. Our daughter has an even more unique name, (sorry for not saying it it’s just for privacy reasons) it’s a name I guarantee you’ve never heard before, it’s from the Cornish language and it’s over 1000 years old. There’s nobody there that knew us. His or her name wasn’t used to purchase the tickets, we didn’t even say her name while walking through, and I never said his name.
Maybe I’m looking too deep into this and it’s just a very odd coincidence. But very strange synchronicities like this has happened before to me, and it made me feel like I was exactly where I was supposed to be.
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#22
I had a crazy dream about my grandmother who passed 13 years ago. We were very close when she passed and I think of her frequently. I’m no longer sad when I think about her, but rather joyful to reminisce on her memories.
When I remembered the dream the following day, I was overcome with so much emotion, I couldn’t help but cry for a while (I’m not a super emotional person). It felt like she came to me. We were sitting at a long dining table set up outside in a field/woods, surrounded by our family. Her and I were sitting at the end of the table, but I was the only one that could see/hear her. I said to her “everyone probably thinks I’m crazy because it looks like I’m talking to myself”. Within our conversation, she told me that she visits every March because “that’s when all her babies were born” (she never had babies, she adopted my father and his two brothers. She was never open about why she didn’t have kids herself, but I’m wondering if she experienced miscarriages that occurred in March).
At one point I told her I was scared of my life ending and she told me not to be & that heaven is absolutely beautiful. In my dream, she was young (30ish) and healthy (she was very sick for many years). I remember feeling warmth from her, like the sun was shining through her onto me, and that feeling radiated throughout my entire day. The dream felt like a blessing! Would love to hear any similar experiences.
When I remembered the dream the following day, I was overcome with so much emotion, I couldn’t help but cry for a while (I’m not a super emotional person). It felt like she came to me. We were sitting at a long dining table set up outside in a field/woods, surrounded by our family. Her and I were sitting at the end of the table, but I was the only one that could see/hear her. I said to her “everyone probably thinks I’m crazy because it looks like I’m talking to myself”. Within our conversation, she told me that she visits every March because “that’s when all her babies were born” (she never had babies, she adopted my father and his two brothers. She was never open about why she didn’t have kids herself, but I’m wondering if she experienced miscarriages that occurred in March).
At one point I told her I was scared of my life ending and she told me not to be & that heaven is absolutely beautiful. In my dream, she was young (30ish) and healthy (she was very sick for many years). I remember feeling warmth from her, like the sun was shining through her onto me, and that feeling radiated throughout my entire day. The dream felt like a blessing! Would love to hear any similar experiences.
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#23
When I was 7 or 8 I had a reoccurring dream of me flying around our property. I can still feel the pressure on my body from "flapping" to take off. I never saw myself so I dont know if I was a bird or just a kid flapping my arms lol I would just cruise the sky. We had barns and I remember seeing two rocks on the tin roof of one of them. They were the size of a basketball. Fast forward probably 20ish years and the barn had to be torn down so I'm like WAIT!!!!! I NEED TO CHECK SOMETHING!!!! I made them put a ladder in a backhoe bucket to get me up there to look! Sure enough there on the backside of the barn roof were the two rocks!!!! Nobody believed me that I saw them while flying 🤣 But I know. I tried to find the rocks after the demo but as the bottom of the barn was old stone too I couldn't pick out which ones they were!
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#24
So day before the epic blizzard we just had this Sunday. I stopped at the liquor store to get bloody Mary mix. Each isle has tube lights over the bottles on the shelves. Lots of aisles. I walked up to the first aisle searching. When I walked up the light dimmed. O.k. lights bad. As I walked down the aisle each light would go out and the one on the far end would turn on. As I went to a different aisle the same thing would happen. By now the cashier noticed and another customer who had come down the same aisle. The customer said I was sucking the energy from the lights. It was just strange. I've had where our small chandelier lights in the kitchen and front entry hall explode over my head.
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#25
My grandma passed away a few years ago. At her funeral my cousin sang over the rainbow because that was always her favorite song. Fast forward a couple of years I check my phone and got the notification that it was my grandma's birthday on facebook along with a recommendation for a video to watch on YouTube for an over the rainbow piano cover. I just thought this was cool, I think she was letting me know she made it over the rainbow somehow.
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#26
I wonder if anybody else ever saw / experienced this.. when I was walking home from achool with my mum, brother and sister (maybe around 22 years ago) we looked in the sky and saw a ship, like an old style wooden boat with sails.. but from what I can remember it was all white. It was very high in the sky and definitely wasn’t a kite or balloon or anything like this. I can still remember it now and we all watch it and even a man walking past stopped to look. This has been a mystery all these years and we’ve never been able to explain it!
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#27
I'd love to hear if anyone else has experienced seeing a being that resembled static.
My husband and I were watching TV and the cat and dog were on the ottoman in front of us. The animals turned their heads to look towards the entryway. We turned to look and a figure walked by as if it had just come down the stairs to go out the front door.
No noise, no negative feeling, never happened before or since, we both saw it, the animals seem to have seen it but weren't bothered by it.
It's like it was just walking through as if we weren't there. We couldn't see through it, but it looked like the static that used to be on TVs after hours.
It's one of the top strangest experiences I've ever had.
My husband and I were watching TV and the cat and dog were on the ottoman in front of us. The animals turned their heads to look towards the entryway. We turned to look and a figure walked by as if it had just come down the stairs to go out the front door.
No noise, no negative feeling, never happened before or since, we both saw it, the animals seem to have seen it but weren't bothered by it.
It's like it was just walking through as if we weren't there. We couldn't see through it, but it looked like the static that used to be on TVs after hours.
It's one of the top strangest experiences I've ever had.
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#28
So I had a very vivid recurring dream for the majority of my childhood (up until I was around 16) that I still think about all the time. It would always just kind of start, or like I would drop in after it already started. It would be me, like real life me at whatever age I was, being dragged up a cliff in the middle of the desert by “aliens”. I feel like the “aliens” appearance changed over time, based on what I thought of them to be as I got older. There was always 4 of them, two holding my arms on either side, one behind us and one at the front. The one in the front always felt like the main one, head honcho or whatever. I would beg and cry for them to let me go, but they always acted like they couldn’t hear me and would just stare straight ahead and keep walking and dragging me along. We would get to the top, and the one in front would turn and look at me, but no one ever spoke or did anything but drag me up this cliff. Then with no warning, they would shove me off the cliff. I would fall for a minute, screaming, and then right before I hit the ground my eyes would fly open in real life. The weirdest part of the whole thing is that every. single. time. I would wake up from this dream, I would be jumping on my bed, and when my eyes opened, my legs would come out from underneath me involuntarily, and I would fall on the bed.
I had this dream frequently, at least once a month, for a LONG time. As I got older it wasn’t quite as often, but often enough for me to always wonder what it could have meant, or what was actually happening.
**Edit, I feel I should add that the last time I ever had this dream was when I was about 6 months pregnant with my son when I was 16. I’ve asked my son if he’s ever had any weird reoccurring dreams/nightmares and he hasn’t, but he did have night terrors when he was a baby. But I can definitively remember the very last time I had the dream was when I was pregnant with him.
I had this dream frequently, at least once a month, for a LONG time. As I got older it wasn’t quite as often, but often enough for me to always wonder what it could have meant, or what was actually happening.
**Edit, I feel I should add that the last time I ever had this dream was when I was about 6 months pregnant with my son when I was 16. I’ve asked my son if he’s ever had any weird reoccurring dreams/nightmares and he hasn’t, but he did have night terrors when he was a baby. But I can definitively remember the very last time I had the dream was when I was pregnant with him.
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#29
I’ve washed all the baby clothes together so many times, but I’ve never ended up with duplicates before. I was totally shocked. And then this morning, my older son walked out wearing a T-shirt that I was sure was still drying on the rack
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#30
I ride a commuter train about an hour each way. I also get emails when the train is running late and the reason for the incident.
Yesterday I received a note that my train that I was on was running 20, min late due to equipment failure. There was no equipment failure. I checked and my train was running on time. I brushed it off as the person sending notices must have reported on the wrong train.
I looked at my watch 2 stops from mine, on time.
When I arrived to my stop (without any equipment failure), we were in fact arriving 20 minutes late.
(Important to note-the 'time between the 2 stops is 10 minutes). Somehow I consumed 30 minutes in a 10 minute run.
Then this morning, while on my bus approaching my work, I looked at my watch and noted the time. A few seconds later the bus started to turn the corner and we were almost T-boned by someone blowing the stop sign at the corner. It was quite the fright for those of us in the path of the car looking out the window. Fortunately the bus driver was savvy and we stopped in time.
I got off the bus and my watch was missing. I never felt it come off.
I got to my desk and was telling someone about this and my watch fell out of my sleeve, which I had checked several times!!! It literally disappeared for a few minutes.
So weird.
Yesterday I received a note that my train that I was on was running 20, min late due to equipment failure. There was no equipment failure. I checked and my train was running on time. I brushed it off as the person sending notices must have reported on the wrong train.
I looked at my watch 2 stops from mine, on time.
When I arrived to my stop (without any equipment failure), we were in fact arriving 20 minutes late.
(Important to note-the 'time between the 2 stops is 10 minutes). Somehow I consumed 30 minutes in a 10 minute run.
Then this morning, while on my bus approaching my work, I looked at my watch and noted the time. A few seconds later the bus started to turn the corner and we were almost T-boned by someone blowing the stop sign at the corner. It was quite the fright for those of us in the path of the car looking out the window. Fortunately the bus driver was savvy and we stopped in time.
I got off the bus and my watch was missing. I never felt it come off.
I got to my desk and was telling someone about this and my watch fell out of my sleeve, which I had checked several times!!! It literally disappeared for a few minutes.
So weird.
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#31
I'm currently in Varinasi, India. I sat with my feet in the River Ganges. I looked to my left and there was a man in a white robe, salt and pepper coloured dreadlocks and really light hazel eyes. I looked at him, he looked at me and we smiled. I felt odd, so I looked away for no more than 2 seconds and when I looked down at my hands. My hands were brown. I have the whitest skin (redhead). I looked back to the man and he was gone. He was nowhere. NOWHERE. I instantly felt comfortable when I saw this man I sat silently for a minute or so. Then I just went back to my hotel. I felt so drained (so unlike me).
Dan Smith:
You know the answer. Trust your intuition.
Dan Smith:
You know the answer. Trust your intuition.
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#32
My deceased ex called me in a dream I had last year This one is also for those who swear you can’t use phones in your dreams. He called me on fb messenger twice. Both times I picked up but couldn’t make out what he was saying because there was so much white noise coming through the phone. He hangs up and FaceTimes me instead. I can see & hear him clearly but he only says one thing: “none of this is real” Then I woke up.
Aspenn Galyan:
I have dreams where I need to call 911 but I can never hit the right numbers. Or it’ll be 119 991. I’ve also googled the number for emergencies in my dreams. There’s been times where I finally get the sequence of numbers correct & then never get through. It’s a never ending hold while people are dying. These are the only dreams I’ve had my phone in
Aspenn Galyan:
I have dreams where I need to call 911 but I can never hit the right numbers. Or it’ll be 119 991. I’ve also googled the number for emergencies in my dreams. There’s been times where I finally get the sequence of numbers correct & then never get through. It’s a never ending hold while people are dying. These are the only dreams I’ve had my phone in
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#33
I was going to ask my 6 year old if her teacher mentioned any field trips coming up this year, because usually they take at least 1 and I haven't heard about any yet this year. I never asked her the question, yet out of the blue an hour later she answered my question. She said she doesn't know where their field trip will be this year. I asked her why she started talking about field trips out of nowhere and she seemed like she didn't even know why she was talking about field trips either.
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#34
So weird thing happened today. I was training a new kid at work and we were talking about cars cause he likes them. Whatever, anyway. I was talking about the mustang Mach E suv. Talking about the doors and that there wasn’t any door handles, it’s just a button cause it’s an electric car anyway. He’s like, like that? I look out the window and it’s just in drive thru. It’s just weird, I was talking about it and it just pops up in drive thru
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#35
My dad passed away very suddenly in August 2021. I NEVER believed in anything like this but since he passed away, every single day I get my phone out randomly to check whatever , news etc .. WHENEVER I look at the time randomly it sure is 13:06 . My dad was born on the 13th of June . Almost 5 years and without a doubt i just randomly check my phone at 13:06...every single day
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#36
I'm a lawyer and I have a briefcase which I use every day for work. The briefcase has two main compartments and inside of them there are different kinds of pockets in which I store my pens, my post-it notes, my badge, and stuff like that.
I have court meetings every single day. The last court meeting I had for 2025 was on December 26th. I had a few days off around New Year's, so I wasn't using my briefcase. When I got back at work at the beginning of January, the personalized pen, which I use every day, was gone. I took everything out of my briefcase, I literally shook it and I couldn't find it. I was absolutely sure that I have lost it and I was hoping that some of my colleagues will find it in the courtrooms and give it back to me because it was personalized, it had my name on it, and it was a gift, so I really wanted it back.
I store different case files in the briefcase every single day because I have different court meetings. So every day I will take the case files from my briefcase and I will put in another ones for the next day. Since December 26th, I have took out and put in a lot of case files, all of them different.
A few days ago, I had court meetings in another city. As usual, I put the case files in my briefcase, I went to the court and I finished the court meetings. I got back to my car and when I was about to take the case files out of my briefcase, so I would put another ones for the next day, I saw the pen lying in one of the big compartments. The pen is black and my briefcase is in cream color, so there is no way I could not have seen it that morning. All of the case files that I have put in the bag since December 26th are different ones. So no case file that was on December 26th in the briefcase got back in the briefcase. Meaning, there is no way that the pen could have gotten in one of the case files and then put back in the briefcase, because all of the case files that were exchanged during this period of time were different. There is no way the pen could have slipped into one of the pockets, because I checked literally everything since the day I realized that I had lost it. I checked every single pocket. I shook the bag. I took everything out of the bag, and the pen was just gone. The pen was not in my briefcase when I put the case files for the meetings I had that morning, but it was there when I took the case files after the court meetings. It just reappeared out of nowhere. By the way, I keep the briefcase in the trunk of my car and yes - I have checked the trunk as well.
I have court meetings every single day. The last court meeting I had for 2025 was on December 26th. I had a few days off around New Year's, so I wasn't using my briefcase. When I got back at work at the beginning of January, the personalized pen, which I use every day, was gone. I took everything out of my briefcase, I literally shook it and I couldn't find it. I was absolutely sure that I have lost it and I was hoping that some of my colleagues will find it in the courtrooms and give it back to me because it was personalized, it had my name on it, and it was a gift, so I really wanted it back.
I store different case files in the briefcase every single day because I have different court meetings. So every day I will take the case files from my briefcase and I will put in another ones for the next day. Since December 26th, I have took out and put in a lot of case files, all of them different.
A few days ago, I had court meetings in another city. As usual, I put the case files in my briefcase, I went to the court and I finished the court meetings. I got back to my car and when I was about to take the case files out of my briefcase, so I would put another ones for the next day, I saw the pen lying in one of the big compartments. The pen is black and my briefcase is in cream color, so there is no way I could not have seen it that morning. All of the case files that I have put in the bag since December 26th are different ones. So no case file that was on December 26th in the briefcase got back in the briefcase. Meaning, there is no way that the pen could have gotten in one of the case files and then put back in the briefcase, because all of the case files that were exchanged during this period of time were different. There is no way the pen could have slipped into one of the pockets, because I checked literally everything since the day I realized that I had lost it. I checked every single pocket. I shook the bag. I took everything out of the bag, and the pen was just gone. The pen was not in my briefcase when I put the case files for the meetings I had that morning, but it was there when I took the case files after the court meetings. It just reappeared out of nowhere. By the way, I keep the briefcase in the trunk of my car and yes - I have checked the trunk as well.
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#37
I've had this pack of highlighters for years. Yesterday I gave a patient her appointment slip and I remember opening this pack and taking out the yellow one to highlight her next visit. Today I open the drawer where I keep them and there was an extra yellow one out of the pack. I dont know where this extra one came from. And I keep this drawer locked overnight. Made me freeze when I slid it open and it was laying next to the closed pack
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#38
My mother gave me a memory box 15 years ago with childhood photos, newspaper clippings, trinkets and various little things from over the years. I am 49 with my own children and I cherish that box and I have gone through it countless times. I have emptied it and shown the items to my kids, my husband and friends many times. Yesterday this happened. I was speechless. As a child I had this ceramic jewelry box with a lid. I was devastated when the bottom broke so I kept the top. It was in my room until I moved to college. I dont remember if I inherited it or who gave it to me, it was just always in my room. Now I have two identical tops of that ceramic box... I called my older sister, she remembers the box, she remembers the bottom part had broken. She doesn't know if there were two. I called my mom, she is baffled. I am in awe of the things that have no explanation. It stopped me dead in my tracks. I have a twin brother and a part of me wonders if in a different timeline, I had a twin sister instead and we had matching jewelry boxes.
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#39
I have stage 4 cancer and I wear 3 angel pins on the lapel of my jacket I wear ALL THE TIME. I'd lost/found the backing to pin and didn't loose it. A few days later, I checked again and the backing was gone so I took the angel off. I didn't have another backing. A friend said "don't put it back on. It's completed it's purpose". So, I have it in the pocket. Yesterday I checked the backings of the other two and one is missing. I took it off and put it I'm my pocket with the other one. Did this one complete it's purpose, too? Mind you, these pins were given to me over 25 years ago!
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#40
Around 10 years ago I was sat with my boyfriend whilst he was on his computer. My phone started ringing and it said my boyfriend was calling me on Facebook messenger. We both stared at my phone in disbelief as he was sat right there and was definitely not calling me. I pressed the button to answer and as soon as I did this the call ended. The weirdest part was that there was no record of the call either on my Facebook or on my phone call log. He also did not have any record of the call on his own Facebook (he even had fb open in a tab on his computer at the time). He’s usually extremely sceptical about things like this but even to this day it still freaks us both out as we cannot think of any logical explanation.
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