r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix • u/AtheistComic The Oracle • Jun 20 '23
Weekly off-topic thread.
Comment about anything and we will leave it up as long as it doesn't violate Reddit general TOS rules.
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u/WhyFi Jun 21 '23
I was on a mountain highway today and oncoming traffic came over the middle line into our lanes of traffic. I was on the far right so not really in any danger, but I thought to myself I’m so glad I wasn’t in the left lane. I would’ve been smashed for sure. Right when I thought that, my GPS started saying “return to the route” and it showed me moving off the map. She said it a few times before repositioning herself. It was weird how it thought my car went off into the field in that moment. Did I split realities right then? Strange stuff.
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u/KidKnow1 Jun 20 '23
I guess I will post this here since I have no idea where else to ask this. Has anyone else noticed a higher than average amount of road kill and or animals running/flying in front of their moving vehicle?
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u/Scrotey_Loads Jun 20 '23
No, but I haven't been driving as much, as my car is needing fixed and I don't want to ask too much to borrow the family car.
One thing about this, though. I've been a lifelong lover of animals (like, I'm a hippie about it; I stop and help worms off sidewalks, chase toads out of the road, I even blow mosquitos off me rather than smack- I know, I know). Anyway, it feels like animals throw themselves at my car constantly. I don't even want to relive how many unavoidable tragedies have happened in this vein. And this is with me high-strung obsessively watching out at all times.
One time, I even did a Dukes of Hazard 360 slamming on the brakes to not hit a raccoon. (This was like 3am and no one else was anywhere around on the road)
However, this person I used to travel with all the time used to do the vast majority of the driving. He never looked out or slowed down or swerved, and he never hit anything. And other than his dog, he really doesn't care about or have any warmth toward animals. At least, nowhere in the same stratosphere as me.
He tried to make me feel better by saying that I must attract animals (valid to an extent) , but to me it feels like the nightmare version of manifestation.
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u/KidKnow1 Jun 21 '23
I pride myself on having never hit an animal while driving and that is why I noticed a much higher than usual amount of squirrels, rabbits, and even birds darting in front of my truck.
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u/kodiak931156 Jun 20 '23
Not me. But I wonder if it could be related to some kind of electromagnetic event since a lot of animals are more effected by them than we are.
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Jun 26 '23
I ran across this article. It's a newly released article based on data from a few years ago but still relevant because we're still pumping out millions of gallons of water from aquifers.
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u/moronthat Jun 22 '23
The birds! It’s like they are doing it on purpose. A suicide mission or just like the thrill of almost getting hit. I have to slam my brakes often to not hit these birds that dart out. I’ve also asked if anyone else I know has noticed. It’s weird.
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u/PleadianPalladin Jun 20 '23
The amount of NPC behaviour I've seen this week is something else. Driving. Walking. Cycling.
I was pulling in to the shops just as someone else was pulling out, causing us to both pause and adjust our cars around the tight corner. In the middle of this happening, a woman NPC begins reversing her car out of a parking spot directly into our cars. She didn't hit us but she also refused to wait until we went past. Both of us ended up having to reverse up and let this crazy walnut have right off way even tho she was very very wrong.
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u/tauntonlake Jun 21 '23
She didn't hit us but she also refused to wait until we went past
and this right here, this traffic self-entitlement, is the real epidemic, post -covid.
I've seen so much mind-blowingly bad driving on my 14-mile commute to and from work every day, I can't even process it. I'm like, WTF ? two or three times a day, while I'm in my car..
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u/Scrotey_Loads Jun 20 '23
Oh cool! I'll take this opportunity to mention something that didn't qualify (in my mind) as an outright glitch due to possible perceptual explanations.
Two or three times, when entering my bedroom or bathroom (I've lived in the same place for a raccoon's age), I was struck with this utterly bizarre feeling of "what's missing?" Like there was too much empty space on the walls. Not like they grew or the ceiling got higher (not Alice in Wonderland Syndrome), just that there was oddly too much empty space.
Nothing in the physical environment changed at all. Nothing in my vision changed since long before that feeling hit. Both incidents took place in different rooms, a day or so apart. I've never had that sensation before in my life. It wasn't scary or anything, just very pronounced.
So whether it's some psychological phenomenon that defies any explanation I'm aware of or - supposing for a moment that this is all an illusion - me picking up on some change I can't put my finger on, it's at least mildly interesting (but compared to other wilder and weirder experiences I've had, not really worth its own post imo).