We often feel perplexed by how things work around us, and usually science is waiting with a reasonable explanation. Wondering why the sky changes color at sunset or how a tiny seed turns into a towering tree can lead to neat little discoveries. Yet every so often, a moment pops up that refuses to sit in those tidy explanations, like a shadow facing the wrong direction or a coincidence with suspicious timing. Those experiences leave reality feeling a bit like a movie set where someone misplaced the script.
Today, we dove into r/GlitchInTheMatrix, a subreddit devoted to strange occurrences people casually call glitches in the matrix. Members share photos of lighting illusions, out-of-place objects, implausible scenarios, and textures that look broken, along with dozens of other odd sights. The collection feels like walking through reality with the contrast turned too high. Keep scrolling to see the images that caught everyone off guard.
#1 The Sky Outside My House Looks Like A Badly Rendered Video Game
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#2 My Coworker Thought This Was A Glitch Picture And Said I Should Post Here 😂
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#3 I Took This Long Exposure Photo Of Wind Turbines, Felt Like It Fit Here
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Talking about strange occurrences, some of them actually have very solid scientific explanations. Water, for example, can do a party trick where it exists as ice, liquid, and vapor at the same time. Scientists call this the triple point, and it depends on a very specific mix of temperature and pressure. For water, that sweet spot is just above freezing, around 0.1 degrees Celsius. The pressure is tiny too, only 0.006 atmospheres, almost like a gentle squeeze. Every material has its own version of this magical balance. It sounds like science fiction, yet it’s regular old chemistry at work.
#4 My Friend’s Dad Is At A Santa Convention, For People Who Play Santa During Christmas. This Is During Breakfast At The Hotel
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#5 I Found My Rug In The Call Of Duty Map “Azhir Cave”
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#6 Square Shaped Cloud
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Fish handle emergencies with better manners than we do on a crowded subway. Neon tetra fish form neat, orderly queues when they need to escape through narrow spaces. They line up so the school doesn’t collide or clog the exit route. It’s like they invented traffic rules long before humans drew road signs. Researchers saw this as proof that fish can follow social customs under stress. The behavior is automatic, calm, and surprisingly organized. Humans, on the other hand, tend to panic and bump carts. Nature clearly hired a better event planner for the fish.
#7 These Cars Have The Same License Plate
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#8 Two Guys With The Same Tattoo On The Train
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#9 The Sky Tonight In Hanoi, Vietnam
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The Moon is shrinking, though not in any dramatic deflating balloon way. Over hundreds of millions of years, it has lost about 50 meters in radius. That’s roughly the height of a medium office building spread across an entire planet. Moonquakes, the lunar version of tiny sneezes, might be part of the reason. The surface wrinkles a bit like an apple left in the fridge too long. None of this changes your horoscope or weekend plans. Still, it’s wild to think our bright neighbor is slowly tailoring itself. Even space rocks go on quiet diets.
#10 No Need To Update, She Still Runs Alright
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#11 The Clouds Failed To Render
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#12 This Phenomenom Only Happens Twice A Year In Hawaii And It Makes Objects Look Like A Badly Rendered Video Game
This is called Lāhainā Noon, it’s just because the sun lines up directly above Hawaii at high noon or something. It lasts a few minutes or so and happens twice a year. It’s not a glitch but it does look crazy!
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It’s impossible to burp in space, and the reason is both gross and funny. On Earth, gravity separates gas from the food soup in your stomach. Only the airy part floats up and escapes from your mouth as a polite little belch. Without gravity, everything stays mixed like a shaken smoothie. Trying to burp would be closer to throwing up inside your helmet. Astronauts have to swallow the gas again instead. So space travel cancels one of life’s simplest relief buttons. The universe really said no manners allowed.
#13 Phew
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#14 From R/Pics
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#15 “Ctrl-C” “Ctrl-V” “Ctrl-C” “Ctrl-V”
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About half the cells in your body are bacteria, meaning you’re a walking neighborhood. Estimates suggest around 39 trillion bacteria share space with 30 trillion human cells. Because they’re so small, they weigh almost nothing, only a few percent of body mass. Earlier scientists thought the ratio was ten bacteria to one human cell. Turns out we’re more balanced roommates than expected. These microbes help digest food and train immunity like tiny gym coaches. You are less a single creature and more a friendly ecosystem. That idea makes looking in the mirror more interesting.
#16 Pic Of A Concert The Moment The Stage Changes Colour But Not The Filming Phones Yet
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#17 I Have An Old Sugar House That Is Being Eaten By The Ground And Steam Comes Out Of The Chimney
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#18 When I Came Out Of The Store, There Were Two Identical Suvs Parked Next To Mine
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Men are more likely to be colorblind than women, thanks to genetics playing favorites. The main genes for common colorblindness live on the X chromosome. Women have two X chromosomes, so one good gene can cover for a faulty one. Men only have a single X, like showing up with one shoe. If that lone gene carries the trait, color confusion follows. This is why more guys struggle with telling navy from black. The biology isn’t personal, just molecular luck. Still, it explains many questionable outfit choices.
#19 Glitch In The Corntrix
Image source: AggieJared14
#20 This Building…?
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#21 Solid Loop Error At Play Here
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Soil is packed with life in a way that makes a city concert look empty. A single teaspoon of dirt holds more microorganisms than there are people on Earth. Billions of bacteria, fungi, algae, and microscopic insects hang out together down there. It’s basically Times Square beneath your sneakers. Every garden is a crowded apartment building of invisible tenants. They recycle leaves and feed plants like unpaid janitors. Dirt deserves a thank-you card.
#22 One Branch Of This Cherry Tree Stays Longer Green
Image source: PinguinBen
#23 Cloud Texture File Corrupted
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#24 I Hope This Hasn’t Been Posted Yet!
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The human stomach can dissolve razor blades, which sounds like a superhero feature nobody requested. Stomach acid has a fierce pH of around one to two, strong enough to melt metal over time. In one study, the thick back edge of a blade began disappearing after a couple hours of soaking. That doesn’t mean the body enjoys sharp snacks. Razor blades remain extremely dangerous and can cause serious harm long before any dissolving happens. Think of this as proof your stomach is a dragon, not permission to test it. Science tells the story, common sense adds the warning.
#25 The Shadows Aren’t Rendering Properly
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#26 Rendering Error
Image source: BurstYourBubbles
#27 Forgot To Change To The Sky Channel
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Well, whether there’s an explanation or not, some things are simply fascinating. These posts really do feel like moments when reality looked over its shoulder and blinked. The images resemble real-life glitches in the matrix, like a familiar room wearing an unfamiliar costume. Even when logic can’t pin them down, curiosity still gets the final word. The world stays interesting because it never promises to behave.
#28 Cannot Place Here – Obstructed By Another Object
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#29 So The Cloud’s Just End There, Interesting
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#30 Fog Over La Makes It Look Like Badly Rendered Video Game
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#31 Horse Buffering
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#32 When The Textures Don’t Load IRL
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#33 Looked Out My Window And Saw This Weird Turn Made By What I Assume Was A Plane
Image source: Familiar_Cattle7464
#34 TV Scene Changed While Photo Was Being Taken
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#35 Perfectly Timed Car Number Plates
Image source: VerucaMoon
#36 Was Walking To A Friends House One Night When I Realised It Wasn’t Night Yet
Image source: Grimsby545
#37 Same Dude Plays For Both Teams (And Watches The Game)
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#38 I Thought It Was A Reflection In The Clouds Then Zoomed In
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#39 Caught Them Changing Shifts
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#40 Bird.exe Has Stopped Working
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#41 The French Gentleman Spawn Is Broken
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#42 Downloading Windows – 90% Complete
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#43 Phoenix’s Are Real!!
Image source: kod8ultimate
#44 This Ain’t No Photoshop…..it’s Just Paint!!
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#45 Smooth Texture Error
Image source: Unknown_smile
#46 Trippy Tree I Saw Over The Weekend
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#47 The Way These Trees Are Trimmed
Image source: WildBunnyFlower
#48 Glitched Skybox In The Beach Area, Scripted Boss Fight Coming? [pic From My Parents]
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#49 A Person Adopted A Puppy (Right), And A New Dog Appeared In Front Of The Door, And He Looks Like He Is The Same Dog From The Future Trying To Warn Himself About Something
Image source: Limp_Yogurtcloset_71
#50 Saw This On A Deserted Road While Driving Alone
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#51 Three Oddly Simmilar Cats Looking In The Same Direction
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#52 Viewed From A Flight Over Norway
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#53 Weird Morphed Landscape Enroute To Anchorage, AK (Not Edited)
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#54 Car In A Wall
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#55 A Dime From 1902 Fell From The Sky And Hit Me In The Head While I Was Taking Out The Trash
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#56 I Took A Picture While On A Bus And The Car’s Wheel Is Invisible
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#57 My Brain Does Not Compute
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#58 Deja Vu
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#59 How!!!?? My Pencil Did This
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#60 Devs Need To Fix The Sky
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#61 Caught The Aurora 2 Weeks Ago And Saw A Weird X In The Sky
Image source: ShacloneMan91
#62 You’re Not Fooling Anyone Here, Guys
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#63 When You Decrease Shadow Resolution
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#64 Minecraft Shadow
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#65 Apple Loaded With Chunk Error
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#66 One In A Trillion Crash: Maroon Sentra Gets Hit By A Teal Hardbody Which Gets Hit By A Maroon Sentra Which Then Gets Hit By A Teal Hardbody
Image source: Im_Not_Mr_Fantastic
#67 Ugh The Dog Is Clipping Again… Please Fix This
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#68 🍋🍋 This Is A Lemon🍋🍋
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#69 Exactly Three Years Ago, I Spotted This: Two Black Vw Jetta Cabrios With Both Owners Giving The Same Type Of Dog Ice Cream In The Backseat
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#70 Default_juice
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#71 A Glitchy City Block In Madrid
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#72 Is This A Portal?
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#73 My Car Is On The Left. This Morning I Noticed A Parked Car The Exact Same Model As Mine That Had The Exact Same Beginning Letters And Digit Of The License Plate
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#74 Replicating T-Shirt… Suddenly My Wife Has Two Of These Very Specific Shirts
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#75 My Dad Brought Me A Fake Version Of A Ring That I Wear Everyday That Belonged To His Mother Who Passed Away Before I Was Born. My Great Grandmother Gave Me My Real Ring So He Had No Idea I Even Had It. Real – Bottom
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#76 Found 2 Bottles ! My Friend Gave Me Only 1 Bottle, I Stopped Using After I Got Headache. I Kept This In My Table Drawer, After Manyy Months When I Opened To Clean The Drawer I Find Two Such Bottles!
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#77 Charging Light Is Green But Reflection On Top Of Alexa Plug Is Red/Orange
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#78 I Left A Quarter On My Table. Thought It Was A Good Pun As There Was “Hope For Change”. Left It On My Study Desk & Came Back To Two Coins There. I Moved Here Recently, This Was My First (& Only) Quarter I Have
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#79 Bright White Clouds At Night
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#80 Traffic Glitch (Look At All 3 Cars In Line!)
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#81 The Ice Froze… Up And Diagonally?!?
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#82 Sunset Split In Two
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#83 Noticed This Glitch In The Matrix In Spoons Last Night
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#84 Someone Went A Little Too Wild With The Copy And Paste
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#85 Came Home From A Trip And Found That My Welcome Mat Had Cloned Itself
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#86 This Car Parked Right Next To Me
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#87 Bug In The Raytracing Engine
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#88 My Apple Had A Texture Bug
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#89 The Bubbles In This Dish Water Created A Perfect Pattern
Image source: JVGR-YT-Checkitout
#90 3 Of The Exact Same Impala At My Local Michael’s
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#91 My Shadows Are Rendering At Medium Quality
Image source: Tripiantes
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