A glitch is not a glitch, it’s this crack in the illusion. 2026, and we have been hearing this every now and then, where we talk about the concept, ‘exiting the matrix.’ We live in this veil and shadows of illusion, where our physical forms are trapped, and our souls want to break free of the ‘simulation.’
We all know the stories: something vanishing and then again reappearing in plain sight, strangers who seem stunningly familiar, or time moving in inexplicable ways. But what if these so-called glitches are not errors at all? What if there are cracks in the grand illusion that is our perceived reality?
The Matrix first gave us the language for this phenomenon, explaining déjà vu as a “glitch” in a simulated world. The online communities that exist today show that more people experience difficulties between two states of reality: the real world and the artificial world. People use the term “exiting the matrix” as if it represents both a real possibility and a valuable way to escape the deceptive barriers that bind our spirits to our human existence.
We think that these glitches are malfunctions in the system, but no, they are moments when the curtain slips, revealing the machinery backstage, or the loopholes that we give a blind eye to. They force us to question whether the world around us is as solid as we think, or if it is a projection, a shadow-play designed to keep us distracted from deeper truths. When an object vanishes and reappears, when two realities overlap, or when time bends, the simulation flickers, and our awareness expands; however, too much awareness could just be as harmful to the mind as it sounds. Somewhere, we must understand the line between awareness and obsession. For a moment, we sense that our consciousness (overused term) is not bound by the rules we’ve been taught.
Glitches are invitations—cracks in the illusion—that urge us to look beyond the surface and ask uncomfortable questions. Perhaps the true glitch is in our perception, and these anomalies are the universe’s way of nudging us awake, urging us to seek what lies beyond the matrix.
