As The Raven Dreams Podcast - 6 TRUE Glitch In The Matrix Stories - Timeline Shifts and Reality Breaks (Vol. 45)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Do you have a true story you want to send to the channel? Then go to as the ravendreams.com slash submit or check the links down below and of course. Thank you. So, this may seem a bit lame when it comes to glitch stories, but to me, it's really strange. Some backstory that may or may not seem really all that relevant. I am 27 years old, and I work in computer networking systems. When I was in high school, I took all the computer classes that I could in order to get myself into a position that I would be comfortable working with computers and the such on a daily basis.

Starting point is 00:00:53 I didn't really expect to go into network systems, but I found my niche and I'm comfortable in what I do now. I make decent money, and while my actual dream was to become a software developer, I'm fairly happy with my life as it is. So on that, I even took a year of intro to programming when I was in high school. It was basically a primer, with the overall structure of programming, how to properly write code, and even some projects using Python. It was a super basic class, but I had a good time in it, and I learned a few things over the year that I had that class,

Starting point is 00:01:37 Honestly, it was one of my favorite classes, mostly because the teacher was a super funny guy, and he was all about making the class and learning the concepts entertaining. I remember that we actually had a few projects, one where we had to write pseudocode to program a robot to do our homework. There was a group project where we actually had to do a full-stack mock-up, and that's everything from front end to back-end. By the way, so user interface to background code. I promise you that all of this is important.

Starting point is 00:02:16 There's a reason that I'm mentioning it. Fast forward to this last year, in 2020. My brother landed a job as a back-end software developer. Basically, he writes the code that works on the actual backend of the system. He's a year younger than me, and he's always kind of followed in my footsteps, up to and including my interest in IT and coding. Unfortunately, my love for coding stopped after high school.

Starting point is 00:02:49 It may have been one of my favorite classes, but I wasn't any good at it, and I tried my damnedest to get the hang of it. That said, he took to it super quick, so he learned the ins and out to coding, and he was beyond proud to have landed this gig. So, all this out of the way, here's where the weirdness actually starts to kick in.

Starting point is 00:03:16 When my brother told me that he got the software development job, I was ecstatic. I told him congrats. We exchanged some idle chit-chat. Then I made a quick joke about how he better be careful or else I would ask him to get me a job with him. He laughed and responded with, You never liked programming.

Starting point is 00:03:39 You wouldn't want to do this job. I then reminded him that I took a programming class in high school because I wanted to be a software developer. And his humored laugh turned into a confused stare. He then tells me that I never took a programming class, and that if I had, he would remember it. I then told him that, it was Mr. Smith's programming class

Starting point is 00:04:06 and that I learned the basics, and that we also even learned some Python coding. He then tells me straight that Mr. Smith never taught a programming class, and that I never took a fundamentals of coding class.

Starting point is 00:04:22 We bantered back and forth for a few minutes, and I bet him dinner that I would get my transcripts and prove to him that I did take this class. He took me up on it, I went upstairs into my office and pulled my education documents out of my drawer of my desk, which is basically just my degrees and transcripts in case I ever need them.

Starting point is 00:04:45 I sort through them until I get to my high school transcripts, and I start going over the years. I'd go over them once, and I don't see a programming class. I started thinking about it, and I figured it must have been my junior year based on how long I had left, and I remember that a buddy of mine took the class with me, and he was a year ahead of me, so it would have had to have been before my senior year.

Starting point is 00:05:13 I combed over the classes, and according to my new transcript, I never took a coding class with Mr. Smith. This class that I distinctly remember taking, that I remember all of the projects, the basics, the topics we went over, never existed. and apparently I never learned anything about any of it. What's really confusing to me, in my junior year,

Starting point is 00:05:41 there's now a class that I took that I don't remember, introduction to photography and videography, something that I have absolutely zero interest in, yet I apparently took it for a year. Even more interesting, this class was instructed, based on the documentation, by a David Smith, the Mr. Smith that I remember teaching the programming class. I somehow ended up in a timeline where my education changed,

Starting point is 00:06:13 and I apparently never learned something that I very much remember learning. I know that one possibility is that my official transcript is incorrect, but I just don't think that's the case, honestly. These are official documents, and I've had them for eight years. I feel like I would have noticed that there was an incorrect class on the document when I submitted them for my college application. Or maybe when I graduated and got them? In the end, I guess I'm just crazy and remember stuff that I never learned. And unfortunately, I'm still no good at it.

Starting point is 00:06:52 Oh, and I had to buy my brother Chipotle, by the way. It was his choice. So here's my glitch story. In April of 2017, my band was on a road trip to Roswell, New Mexico, of all places, to play a gig. And I believe it was somewhere in Missouri at night that we stopped at a rest stop. I have no idea exactly where we were, but I remember saying to my bandmates as we pulled into the lot, that this place gives me twilight zone vibes. It just had an eerie sort of presence to it.

Starting point is 00:07:40 and I like that kind of stuff, so it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. So I don't even know what the other two guys were up to. They may have just stayed in the car, but what I do know is that me and the bass player had to go inside to go to the restroom. This is just your normal setup of a parking lot, out in front of a rest stop of a highway. I don't smoke anymore, but back then I did. Me and the bassist decide to smoke a cigarette first before going inside to pee.

Starting point is 00:08:16 He offers me one of his sigs and ensues to call up his girlfriend to update her on how the trip is going. So, I'm just standing there, smoking and chilling, and he's standing next to me smoking and on the phone. We're both out in front of the entrance to the rest stop, and we're both facing outwards toward the parking lot with our backs to the entrance of the building. Suddenly, while still on the phone, the basis starts casually walking back out towards the van in the parking lot. I see him walk away, and his voice grows more distant. I don't recall exactly how far away we parked, but there's only one lot, and I remember seeing him walk into the distance in front of me, still on the phone with his girlfriend.

Starting point is 00:09:08 This confused me, as I thought that he had just gone inside to go pee. But I didn't give a crap, and I was finishing my cigarette as the moment unfolded. So I shrugged and put out my cigarette and immediately turned around to head inside the stop building. As soon as I get inside, it's completely empty, but you have to walk straight ahead down this hallway to get to the bathroom. I remember there was some sort of Route 66 clock that had a spiral shape or something directly above as you entered this hallway. It just overall had that twilight zone sort of vibe to it. I don't know how else to explain this experience.

Starting point is 00:09:58 So I'm walking down the hall and I get into the bathroom and I hear someone in the stall who was talking on the phone. His voice sounds exactly like my bassist. There's no one else in this bathroom. I can't see who's in there, but I'm standing at the urinal and laughing about how weird it is that this guy sounds so similar to my bandmate. But I know for a fact it can't be him, as it would be physically impossible for him to have gotten into the bathroom before me, when I literally just saw him head out towards the car in the parking lot, about 20 to 30 seconds earlier at most. I even said to myself,

Starting point is 00:10:41 now that would be ridiculous if it was somehow him. But even as I said this to myself, I knew for a fact it was not him. Except that it was. Sure enough, a moment later, the stall door opens and out comes the bassist, still on his phone with his girlfriend. I'm finishing up, so he's behind me washing him.

Starting point is 00:11:05 his hands. I turn around, and I see him still on the phone, and he's now walking out of the bathroom. I don't even think he noticed me in there with him, but at this moment, I'm absolutely stunned, and I'm just left there in the bathroom by myself wondering what the hell just happened. I ended up telling him and everyone else about this when I got back to the van, and he also explained that he went through a very different series of strange events, but I can't remember the details of his side of the story anymore. All I know is that it was simply physically impossible that he could have been in that bathroom before me when I literally saw him walk into the distance towards the van, and then I immediately headed into the bathroom. Sorry if this was overly long, but I wanted to be as succinct as possible about how it went down.

Starting point is 00:12:02 When it comes to glitches in the Matrix, a lot of people tell stories about losing time, remembering people that didn't exist, and other significant events. But sometimes, even the smallest things can be really, really freaky. My boyfriend and I were moving into our new apartment in July of 2020. For the story to make sense, you'll need to have a slight understanding of the layout of our place. It's a one-bedroom. so the bathroom is separate from the bedroom. The doors face one another in the hallway,

Starting point is 00:12:48 so if you were looking out of our bedroom, you'd be looking across the hallway into the bathroom. In the bathroom, the sink is on the far wall, so you'd be facing opposite the doorway if you were using the sink. I was in the bathroom, sitting on the floor, in front of the sink and unpacking some boxes of toiletries. The sink has a large cabinet underneath it, which is where I was storing the items because we had moved from a slightly larger apartment. I was trying to save space by consolidating items.

Starting point is 00:13:25 I had three open boxes of Band-Aids, and I decided that I was going to put all of the Band-Aids into one of the boxes for easy storage. Once I had emptied the other two boxes, I left them sitting open in front of me on the floor. My boyfriend was in our bedroom organizing some things. Suddenly, he called to me. Without standing up, I turned around to see him walking up to me with a target shopping bag in his hand. He said it was the bag of newly purchased toiletries that I hadn't been able to locate for a few days, which was odd for me, because I have OCD and I rarely lose important things. Especially in the middle of a move.

Starting point is 00:14:09 I need to know where my blunt. longings are. This was also strange because he said he found it sitting smack in the middle of our bedroom doorway. Now, don't you think I would have noticed if that was the case?

Starting point is 00:14:26 Keep in mind, I didn't move from my place on the floor this entire time. The two empty Band-Aid boxes were sitting on the floor, open behind me, just as they had been. As my boyfriend walked up to me,

Starting point is 00:14:40 he had his arm outstretched to hand me the bag. The following happened while we could both see each other fully. There was no way either of us could have moved anything without the other person noticing. My hand and his hands were completely in sight. We're also not the kind of people to prank each other and let it go on forever. Without taking the bag from him, I reached inside it while he was still holding it to see what it contained. because I was skeptical that this was the same bag that I had lost. We both watched as I pulled out two unopened boxes of Band-Aids.

Starting point is 00:15:23 I didn't buy Band-Aids, I said, confused. I got a strange feeling, so I opened the boxes, and I found they were completely empty. I turned around to see the boxes that had been sitting behind me, They were gone. My brain took a moment to register what had just happened, and as soon as it did, I started crying involuntarily. My boyfriend was immediately confused,

Starting point is 00:15:53 and as soon as I explained it to him, he was freaked out too. He agreed that neither of us had manipulated the contents of the bag until I had reached inside while we were both watching. So, did my Band-Aid boxes tell you? On the 24th of May, around 11 a.m., I was watching a stream on my phone while working, when the stream suddenly stops, and my phone stops charging. I asked my mom if the power went out and she confirms.

Starting point is 00:16:36 I got upset, so did my mom because she wanted to watch the news. My father leaves our house to go to work at noon, so at 11 a.m., he's usually watching TV. My mom was feeling bad for him because he couldn't watch TV, and she said something about it, so I made a joke, since I was the one that had issues with it. I couldn't do my work. My sister laughed. My mom was still mad because she couldn't watch TV,

Starting point is 00:17:07 and there was no power to watch the news, and then she looks at my upset expression and says, you can't do your things. Then the power is back on, and there was still no internet for a few minutes. Once it's back, I sent my friend a message asking what I missed from the stream. The next day, again, 11 a.m., the power went out. I got mad because I couldn't work, so I went back to sleep.

Starting point is 00:17:39 I kept waking up from time to time, there was still no power, but I only woke up for real when the power was back, around 3 p.m. this time. My mom mentioned that our neighbor was told that on that day they would cut out the energy from the entire neighborhood until noon. It was back around that time for a few houses, but for others like mine, it wasn't. But that's where things started to get bizarre. I decided to comment,

Starting point is 00:18:10 Damn, the power went out yesterday, then today, I wonder if it's going to happen tomorrow as well. Both of my sister and mom stared at me, confused. The power didn't go out the day before, they said. I said it did, around the same time, except that it was back before noon. We kept on arguing if it did or not. My mom said she didn't say any of the things I remember her saying, that she actually watched the news.

Starting point is 00:18:42 My sister said there was no joke about my father wanting to watch TV. She said at that time, she was just back home after going to a job interview. But that's something I don't remember. I was awake around 8 a.m. For me, she was home the whole time. She was having breakfast, not coming back from an interview. I immediately remembered the message I sent to my friend, and it was still there. Me saying the power went out and asking them what I missed.

Starting point is 00:19:16 After the hour the power went out again, and when it was back, the whole region where I lived was lacking connection for TV, phone, and internet for the rest of the day. It was quite a weird day. So they don't believe me. For them, it only happened on that one day. Despite that, the description they gave me for that day was different from mine. It was only informed to everyone that the power was going out on that one day only, which, supports their version of it instead of mine. We waited for my father to get back from work,

Starting point is 00:19:53 and, just like them, for him, the power didn't go out the day before. They don't believe me, yet they can't explain the message that I sent to my friend. So, any opinions on what could have happened here? Me and my wife were living in an apartment, and we both were going to college at the time. and we had a magic router. I found out as soon as we moved in that I could get a good $20 a month for the first year of service. I call them, and they charge my card instantly, and my internet is on.

Starting point is 00:20:43 I've got my router in the wall from my previous house, and that is what we connect our game systems and laptops up to. This is important, since nowadays you may have internet you don't have internet, you don't even use if you just use data on your phone and are crazy. There is always one place in the apartment to connect my router to. The internet was never great, and the router was on the other side of the apartment from the living room, which really sucked,

Starting point is 00:21:14 and I spent plenty of time resetting the router to get the internet to work. We lived in this place for a year. However, six months into our stay there, my internet goes out for a couple of days. Not a big deal. I call the internet provider to bring a guy out to fix it. He comes out and he checks our outlet. No internet.

Starting point is 00:21:39 He goes to check inside and there's no cables connected to it. Checks the basement. No box connected that would have connected to the main internet. No place for it to have even been in the past. He checks the past on the place. and said that they never set up internet in this apartment in the past, so it never had a box or wires connecting to my second-story apartment. He would have to string it up two stories through the wall to get the cord through.

Starting point is 00:22:11 As he is taking it through the wall, he tells me that there isn't even holes in the wood for the cords to go through that would have been there had it been connected. He managed to get a cord up and to get us internet, but he was shocked as I was, and he said there was no way I was using my own internet. I was using the same router from the previous house, and after he connected it,

Starting point is 00:22:37 I stayed on the router and it finally worked. Anyways, not sure what happened here, not sure why they were able to flick it on, to be certain that it was fine in the first place, and then show that we never had service later, and I'm not sure how I got internet on my PS3. at the time to play cod or watch Netflix. When I was a kid, my parents had plates that were given to them as a wedding gift.

Starting point is 00:23:14 After many, many years of use, the plates had started to chip and break, so they decided it was finally time to buy some new ones. I can't remember whether it was my mom or dad that picked them up, but I remember they were Corell plates from Walmart. They were very distinctive. They had green vines around the edges with violet hearts. For a while, maybe even years, we used these plates. I remember we had matching bowls, too.

Starting point is 00:23:50 There's no doubt in my mind that we owned them. I'm not sure when exactly the realization hit me, but a few years ago, I noticed that I hadn't seen those plates and bowls in a long time, and that the ones from their wedding were back in use again. I asked each of my parents where they had gone. Side note, my parents are now separated, so they ended up with different items from our kitchen. Neither of them is known to be forgetful,

Starting point is 00:24:20 sparing the occasional absent-mindedness, we all experience sometimes. Neither of my parents knew what I was talking about. They insisted, and they still do today, that we never owned those plates or bowls. At first, it made me question whether I was misremembering. But why, then, can I find pictures of a set of Corel dishes on the Walmart website that look exactly like the ones that I personally remember?

Starting point is 00:24:52 This isn't just some case of me remembering a random set of dishes that I've seen, and then confabulating that my family owned them for years. That's much too long a time for me to falsely remember something so specific. I mean, as strange as it sounds, I even remember how the texture of the pattern on the dishes felt. I washed them many times. I ate off them, and I'm pretty sure I even broke one. So, why do my parents have no memories that we owned them? Are they both misremembering years of using these dishes?

Starting point is 00:25:31 or did something in the universe shift ever so slightly that we never even purchased them? I don't know. You tell me. So that was this week's glitch in the Matrix Collection. Sorry if my voice cracked some throughout the recording. I tried to get them all. I know I missed at least one. Yeah. My throat's doing some funny stuff. I think it's the dry air from the AC. Anyways, thank you to everybody who listened and thank you to everybody who didn't listen or let me use their stories or did let me use their stories, you get the point.

Starting point is 00:26:13 Hopefully you all enjoyed the video, and if you did hit the thumbs up button, if you're new to the channel, hit that subscribe button. You get notified if you hit the little bell button. You know that stuff, the good stuff. The YouTuber stuff. You know how that goes. All that said, friends, let's move on to this week's Word of the Week. Last week's winner has been pinned to the video.

Starting point is 00:26:37 Last week's word was arduous. This week's word is merge, M-E-R-G-E, to combine or unite into a single entity, to become combined or united. So, please, write me a sentence with the word merge. And if you can, try to make it a little story. I want to read your little stories. I want to read you little stories. I like little stories. Okay, I'll see you next time, guys.

Starting point is 00:27:17 But until then, sleep well.

As The Raven Dreams Podcast - 6 TRUE Glitch In The Matrix Stories - Timeline Shifts and Reality Breaks (Vol. 45)

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