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Have you ever been in a situation where you look at someone and feel like you’re looking in a mirror? You definitely have if you have an identical twin brother or sister, but if you don't, seeing another person who looks like or is dressed like you can make you feel like the universe is experiencing glitches in the matrix.
Though the doppelganger mythology says that meeting your own twin stranger is an incredibly bad omen, nowadays, it just causes some confusion and laughter. Oh, and also outfit envy!
While catching a real life glitch is a matter of luck, they aren’t as rare as to be mythical. In fact, we found 59 photos proving that these glitches in the matrix are real! And if you’ve captured any look-alikes that seem like a glitch in the matrix, we'd love to see them in this list, and don't forget to vote for your favorite photos!
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#1
Each Booth Is An Alternate Reality
John L 8 years ago
For some reason, I keep coming across this picture on the internet. Is this an 'alternate reality', or what?
Rambling Rapscallion 8 years ago
Maybe it's just a small a*s town where the only clothes store has great deals on red and green coats?
Cesi Baca 8 years ago
Staged probably. Why would all of them be sitting at the very edge of their booths like that. When two people get a booth, they usually scoot in a bit comfortably. Not isit inches from the edge.
Ursa Davis 8 years ago
It can be hard for people with limited mobility to slide into booth seats. I have that issue myself sometimes. :)
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Nathan Coppedge 2 years ago
There's also the 'sounding like the monster from star wars' glitch. I have been noticing it with myself when I feel like yawning but can't quite yawn. Quantum yawning.
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#2
Double Glitch In The Matrix
Bonnie Alcorn 8 years ago
Guys in glasses appear to be mirror image twins - look at their hands. As a child, our neighbors were mirror image twins. Only way I could tell them apart was that one was left-handed and the other right-handed. That and one of them always spoke to me, and the other didn't, but that's a different story.
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Anastasia Pryamilova 8 years ago
https://www.instagram.com/twins_pics/ the whole account is dedicated to this ;-)))
Star Simpson 8 years ago
Lol I was going to ask, what's with the two bros back there, same look on their faces 😂
#3
Leaked Photo Of The Rarest Planet Sequencing Event
L Cadenas Quiñonez 4 years ago
Have you ever ever in your bald headed life had a bald headed bitch for your Bald headed wife?
What’s The Meaning Behind Real Life Glitches?
Without diving too deep into the metaphysical and the unexplained, we have to ask ourselves: Are the glitches in real life true, and how can they be explained?
If we accept these glitches in the matrix stories to be genuine, we’re accepting the belief that our reality isn’t real but rather a computer simulation ruled upon us by someone. On the other hand, we can find some real-life phenomena that could be called a glitch in the matrix. We’re talking about déjà vu, the Mandela effect, memories of past lives, luck, and maybe alien abductions.
If we’re talking about the latter, we may assume they are genuine—after all, plenty of people have experienced them and think of them as absolutely real.
As for the glitch in the matrix meaning, it may mean different things to all of us. Maybe they’re here to serve as a reminder that while we’re the owners of our lives, our fate isn’t all in our hands?
#4
These Two Guys Entered The Metro From Different Stations And Don't Even Know Each Other. They Kind Of Fit Together
Susanna Vesna 8 years ago
The brand they wear is the same! I wonder if the noticed each other!
Sharon Charpentier 8 years ago
how about one having green hair and the other a green hoodie. Then the other way around: one has orange hair and the other an orange hoodie...
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Cesi Baca 8 years ago
Entered the metro from two different stations and yet they find each other and stand feet apart. Some times a coincedence is too much of a coincidence to be just a conference. I say staged again.
Alexandra Ionescu 8 years ago
My thoughts exactly: simply marketing. Smart one!
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#5
I Had To Do A Double Take And Then Another. I Wasn't Sure I Was Seeing This Right. It Just Couldn't Be
Ruth Meszaros 8 years ago
Photoshop trick, I think. The woman was shot close by, then the photographer just waited until she was down the street, shot her again with camera in the exact same spot, and merged the two photos.
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I think your wrong, I agree with @Dana Miller Dana Miller 6 years ago "It looks like her black handbag is missing from the farther
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Susann Campbell 8 years ago
The woman closest to us sure sees her, wonder if she gave out a shout after her.
Fern Baptista 8 years ago
Why is the woman closest to us carrying TWO pocketbooks? Something's fishy here.
#6
Spotted A Glitch In The Matrix Today
John L 8 years ago
Holy Cow! Even the shirt collars are identical. But one is left handed, and the other is right handed.
Ditto 8 years ago
Carrying things in a certain hand sometimes doesn't mean that it is the dominant hand.
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Manuela Braun 8 years ago
This is photoshopped, you can see it at the backside of the pants, there is something with the fabric and it's mirrored on both pants.
Artemis Tatalas 8 years ago
Exactly my thought! No way in hell they'd have the same wrinkles in their pants. I thought it was already extremely f*****g freak accident if they'd had the same sweater underneath the same polo, same line of hair. Same bag shoes etc etc. . But the wrinkles tooo?! Get the f. outta here with your glitch bs. Not this one. And not the lady with the blue pants in a picture before either.
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Allan Gabia 8 years ago
NO its edited look at the jeans stitches would it be real coincidence ? or mirrored?
Miguel Denyer 8 years ago
Photoshop... same mark on the back of the pants but reversed in mirror image...
What Are The Examples Of Glitches In Real Life?
As we briefly mentioned in our previous section, we think that a couple of real-life phenomena could be called glitches in the matrix. Those are déjà vu, the Mandela effect, memories of past lives, and pure luck.
The first one, the déjà vu, is a French term that literally means “already seen.” Anyone who has experienced it will agree that a déjà vu gives you a sense of overwhelming familiarity with a particular event, a face, an object, or a circumstance—quite a spooky feeling.
The second is the Mandela effect refers to a situation when a significant mass of people firmly believe that a particular event happened when, in fact, it didn’t. As for the memories of past lives, some believe that we all have those and often recall something from our other lives to solve problems in our current one. And luck is here to remind us that we aren’t always the sole rulers of our own fate, and happy coincidences sometimes change the course of our lives.
What are these phenomena, if not glitches in the matrix? They do seem like errors in the code of our existence, and without any solid evidence as to why they’re happening, they carry a mythical aura. If you’re just as fascinated with these glitch in the matrix stories as we are, continue to scroll through our list of incredible photos of real life glitches captured by people all over the world.
#7
Something Is Wrong Here
CATHLEEN FLORCZAK 5 years ago
WHAT IS THUS? WOW! 3 OF THE SAME PERSON! WIN_202010...e241a8.jpg 
#8
Oops
Mia Robinson 3 years ago
Just the model standing in front 0f his ad, not a big deal or weird at all
#9
There's A Glitch In The Matrix!
Chelle Snail 8 years ago
Why would anyone downvote this comment??? It is a matrix glitch and yes the gender can be switched along with the colours... it is all in the numbers. Watch the series Touch.....
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#10
A Glitch In The Matrix
Cathy Shift 8 years ago
um, this gallery is a compilation of glitch in the matrix pics from around the web, so...
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#11
I Think There Is A Glitch In The Matrix
Mia Robinson 3 years ago
If you see this type of thing every day you should take photos and make an insta acct just for the pics of it
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Madeline Tuohey 8 years ago
The person next to the girl in the first seat has blonde hair. But this is still cool.
Pobin Rice 8 years ago
Nothing new.... I see this everyday in east "hipster c**t central" London
boredhuman 8 years ago
This is not a glitch. This is just how schoolgirls nowadays and they all think they look unique.
Bunnies are better!! 8 years ago
I haven't seen a single school girl who dresses like that. True, my 13 y/o brother and my 9 y/o brother wear leather jackets, but that's just because they love ww2 fashion.
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London. This Just Happened
Jeremie Guerra 8 years ago
The real glitch is that they're both laughing at this post on BoredPanda :D
cajsalajka 8 years ago
They are both probably texting a friend saying "the guy next to me has the same outfit!!"
brandon sat 8 years ago
they staged it and are texting each other "dude, look...we are freaking everyone out on here lol!!"
#13
Another Matrix Glitch
Bridget Smith 8 years ago
Right? Why else would someone be wearing tapered green pants? WHY?!?
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Diana CrunChewy Watson 8 years ago
Maybe they're twins and they wanted to eat at two different places in the food court.
#14
Glitch In The Matrix Detected In The Video Games Section
#15
Glitch In The Matrix
Pi... 8 years ago
Lol, no! Those are solid transparent plastic handles meant for people to hold on to. We have them in a lot of our busses.
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#16
Another Glitch In The Matrix
#17
Another Glitch In The Matrix
Marika Stanway 8 years ago
Yeah, twins or friends who went to the same clothes store. They are still quite spooky though :) Some of them.
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#18
There's A Glitch In The Matrix
Nela Rothenbach 8 years ago
It's not a who....it's the name of the paper. The time
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So he thought it would be cute to snap a photo of him reading a newspaper where he's on the front page. What's the big deal
#19
Glitches In The Matrix
Lisa Joyce 8 years ago
That's not photoshop. Those are two different people...look at their jeans and one of the men appears to weigh more than the other
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Kirsten Lee 8 years ago
at first i thought the second guy had two different colored shoes on i was like wait what
#20
Come And Play With Us. Forever
Ivan Plazacic 8 years ago
I know these ladies. They live in my city, they are twins and they do dress up the same. They're riding the trolleybus in this one. ^_^
Aunt Messy 8 years ago
It's the opening shot of a horror movie....instead of scary little girls, it's scary grannies.
Nikola Dimitrovic 8 years ago
They are twins and they're from Belgrade, i see them every now and then. True sensation these two ladies are here :D
#21
Glitch In Matrix At My Local Coffee Shop
Cathy Shift 8 years ago
mandatory bald head and black glasses. that means you too SARAH!
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Glitch In The Matrix
#23
Matrix Bug Or Something?
Ry Keener 8 years ago
All on their way to grab some pumpkin spice lattes.
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#24
Doppelgangers
#25
Did I Capture A Glitch In The Matrix?
Gamergalaxy689 5 years ago
Is that Donald trump on the right? *gasps* DONALD TRUMP IS A WIZARD!!! (not that I want him to be)
#26
A Glitch In The Matrix
Hans 8 years ago
That would probably cause an overflow, leading to a crash.
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#27
Slight Glitch In The Matrix
boredhuman 8 years ago
I want to see what's gonna happen when he try to grap the hand of the wrong wife.
CATHLEEN FLORCZAK 5 years ago
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Heather 8 years ago
If it's a double exposure, how come only one man has a shopping cart? Just curious.
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#28
I Encountered A Triple-Glitch In The Matrix A Few Days Ago
#29
Cookie Shop Glitch In The Matrix
#30
I Found Another Glitch In The Matrix
beargrylls420 8 years ago
so brothers all have the same beard, style, and hairstyle. thanks for the info
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Alejandro Taira 8 years ago
The three at the same time "dude, that grooming looks good on you! No you really thinks so? Yeah dude you look cool!"
Bridget Smith 8 years ago
Hahaha. These are such bros. Where I lived, we would call them "Vivint Bros" cuz all the guys who work for this company look like these guys. And they're super into going to the gym & fake tanning & such
Makiki Cheez 8 years ago
We aren't even talking about the shirts look at the facial hair and hairstyles!?
Cathy Shift 8 years ago
they are different colors with slightly different collars.
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Glitch In The Matrix
Bridget Smith 8 years ago
Can we take a moment to focus on the headline. "Queen: Thank You For Giving To Gosh." So, being from the U.S. I realize this may sound ignorant. But it just looks like a hardcore conservative paper that felt disrespectful saying "God" so they said "Gosh" instead. Oh heavens, I'm confused.
Paul Osborne 8 years ago
GOSH is Great Ormond Street Hospital, a hospital for kids
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#32
A Glitch In The Matrix?
Gamergalaxy689 5 years ago
The one on the middle is like “why am i here in the first place...”
Cole “MancipE” Noidenice 1 year ago
Bro why does it look like she's writing in the Death Note???
#33
I Witnessed A Glitch In The Matrix At Walmart Today
Ana T. 8 years ago
oh common white shirt and those a*s ugly shorts are the equivalent of women in leggings and ugg boots .
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#34
So My Buddy Sat Down At Our Local Mexican Restaurant
#35
Glitch In The Matrix
#36
The Matrix Is Glitching Again
Ditto 8 years ago
*Facepalm* No, it's not, I say this again and again, if you haven't used photoshop yourself and know what it can do, don't blame everything on it. The light and depth matches perfectly and in sure not everyone on the Internet are photoshop masters.
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Pinks Stripes Are In This Season
CATHLEEN FLORCZAK 5 years ago
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#38
Coincidence?
Pizzacgamer 8 years ago
that is litterally what I was thinking after I read the title
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CATHLEEN FLORCZAK 5 years ago
I 90000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times think not.
#39
Glitch In The Matrix
Alberto Curutchet 8 years ago
When your alternate you makes more money and can afford better seats
therealpixie 8 years ago
I do believe that's a college lecture hall. All the seats cost a fortune!
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#40
Human Mirror
Sara Eggler 2 years ago
this is photoshopped i see the missing arm on the boy in the back to the left
#41
There's Been A Glitch In The Matrix
#42
Glitch In The Matrix
#43
I Too Spotted A Glitch In The Matrix Today
#44
Glitch In The Matrix
Diana CrunChewy Watson 8 years ago
We should add Wheezy Waiter and Michael from V-Sauce into this picture and really freak people out.
Ina Goodling 8 years ago
I immediately thought of Michael from V Sauce when I saw this photo too. XD
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Adam Brock 8 years ago
What if you were either of this person's SO and you went to the restroom and came back and couldn't remember exactly which booth it was.. like wth do you do??
#45
Today I Witnessed A Glitch In The Matrix
#46
Glitch In The Matrix
#47
The Infamous Glitch In The Matrix
Mibo Dumplings 8 years ago
WELL I mean if theyre walking together there is a likely hood of them being twins
#48
Glitch In The Matrix
Alejandro Taira 8 years ago
Was just thinking the same... It reminded me of Live's music video for Turn my head... (I felt kinda old while writing this... )
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Meh. two older men with a very common form of MPB and black jackets.
#49
A Serious Glitch In The Matrix
#50
We've Got A Glitch In The Matrix
#51
Well This Is Awkward
#52
A Glitch In The Matrix
Ina Goodling 8 years ago
Because it's painfully obvious that they're all twins. It's just that it's rare to see adult twins dressing the same. Notice how there are practically no pics of twin children here? Because we see those all the time and it's SO damn annoying to see them all dressed the same. It's extremely rare to see adult twins together, much less dressed identically.
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Mirror
#55
Look-Alikes
#57
A Glitch In The Matrix
Mychael Bilodeau 8 years ago
thats edited. The arm on the right, of the man on the right, was added to the arm on the left, on the man on the left and the right hand of the left man was added to the left arm of the left man (flipped) ...unnecessarily confusing.. I know
Jennifer Manby 8 years ago
They're standing differently, their t-shirts and shorts are sitting differently and the box under their right arms are sitting at different angles and the box under the right persons right arm is sitting further back and has a barcode on the bottom.
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#58
Sydney University, Located In The Same City Where The Matrix Was Filmed
#59
I Don't Know If I Missed The Boat On This But: Another Glitch In The Matrix
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Sondre Strøm Linde 8 years ago
Such creative titles! Here a free one: A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX. You're welcome.
Notchimine Mette 8 years ago
Some are definitely photoshopped, others are company uniforms and the rest is just plain freaky!!
G Michael Leonard 5 years ago
Internetters armed with photoshop who have a little too much time living on the internet and too little time living in the real world. Worse- a bunch of loungechair loving internetters that are awestruck without as much as a questioning thought in their simple little minds.
G Michael Leonard 5 years ago
Looks like these commenters spend too much time living in the virtual world and too little time living in the real world.
Henning Haake 8 years ago
can't add an image, so i ll do it here.
Kim Jong Tram
Scrolling through my CNN app on the tram. Looking up, seeing him a couple of seats over. Put screenshot and photo into a double exposure. kimjung-59...209def.jpg 
Bradley Roon 8 years ago
In WVa i was living 3 miles from electricity - and one afternoon was forging in my blacksmith shop by the hand-hewn beams and recycled metal roofing. This bro came walking up - about my build but maybe about 10# more than i. He stood there and watched me heat and forge a hook end and we got to talking. Turns out - i got married in 77 - he did in 74. Our wives were both about 5'2" tall. I had my first son 3 years after he did. Second son 3 years after his second son. In 74 i'd started Isshinryu Karate - he'd started Isshinryu Karate 3 years before that. In 76 i started Kenpo and Escrima - 3 years after he did......
Sondre Strøm Linde 8 years ago
Such creative titles! Here a free one: A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX. You're welcome.
Notchimine Mette 8 years ago
Some are definitely photoshopped, others are company uniforms and the rest is just plain freaky!!
G Michael Leonard 5 years ago
Internetters armed with photoshop who have a little too much time living on the internet and too little time living in the real world. Worse- a bunch of loungechair loving internetters that are awestruck without as much as a questioning thought in their simple little minds.
G Michael Leonard 5 years ago
Looks like these commenters spend too much time living in the virtual world and too little time living in the real world.
Henning Haake 8 years ago
can't add an image, so i ll do it here.
Kim Jong Tram
Scrolling through my CNN app on the tram. Looking up, seeing him a couple of seats over. Put screenshot and photo into a double exposure. kimjung-59...209def.jpg
Bradley Roon 8 years ago
In WVa i was living 3 miles from electricity - and one afternoon was forging in my blacksmith shop by the hand-hewn beams and recycled metal roofing. This bro came walking up - about my build but maybe about 10# more than i. He stood there and watched me heat and forge a hook end and we got to talking. Turns out - i got married in 77 - he did in 74. Our wives were both about 5'2" tall. I had my first son 3 years after he did. Second son 3 years after his second son. In 74 i'd started Isshinryu Karate - he'd started Isshinryu Karate 3 years before that. In 76 i started Kenpo and Escrima - 3 years after he did......
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