The origins of the universe are still one of life’s greatest unsolved puzzles. Some say it started with science, others believe in something divine—but every so often, reality glitches just enough to make you think we’re all part of a simulation.
Because how else do you explain the Matrix-level weirdness these people went through? We’ve got no good answers. Scroll down and see if you do.

Image credits: hindsight_travel
#1

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 ❤️
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81points
#2

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 :)
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73points
#3

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).
69points
#4

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.
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64points
#5

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.
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62points
#6

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.
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58points
#7

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.
54points
#8

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.
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53points
#9

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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52points
#10

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.
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49points
#11

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.
49points
#12

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.
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45points
#13

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”.
It’s on tape and everything.
And the song were performing to is
“It’s a small world”.
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45points
#14

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.
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43points
#15

My neighbor bought a used car and found a picture of me as a child in the glovebox.
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42points
#16

I moved into the same apartment as my mom’s first apartment without knowing that she ever lived there.
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41points
#17

My mom had decided on my name (Phoebe) before she gave birth and the nurses who helped deliver me were Monica and Rachel.
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40points
#18

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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40points
#19

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.
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39points
#20

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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36points


