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5 min readA listener named M showed up at a 2018 coffee meetup between the storyteller and her childhood friend P, carrying photos and memories of events the storyteller had no recollection of — including a birthday party in 2009 where M claimed to have taken a group photo of all of them. When M handed over the printed photo, the storyteller felt a stabbing headache and visceral nausea looking at her own face in the image. "In my head I was screaming that this wasn't me." Years later, when P was planning her wedding in 2026, neither P nor either of their mothers remembered M at all. M's Instagram account still existed, but when messaged, she said she didn't personally know the storyteller and couldn't recall when they'd followed each other.
That opening story sets the tone for the entire episode of As The Raven Dreams — a collection of reader-submitted accounts of reality appearing to bend, skip, or duplicate itself. The throughline across all the stories is the experience of a mismatch between what a person remembers and what the world around them confirms, often accompanied by physical symptoms like nosebleeds, nausea, or disorientation.
The body as a glitch detector
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:03) **The Mismatched Friend and the Party Photo** - A woman reunites with a childhood friend, but a third person, M, claims to have been part of her past, backed by a photo that feels deeply wrong.
- 2 (09:45) **The Double Milk Run** - A man observes his neighbor, Ron, walk out of his parents' house with a gallon of milk, only to see Ron pull up in his car a minute later carrying a second gallon of milk from the store.
- 3 (12:08) **The Time-Locked Highway** - A hospital worker driving home from Boston to New Hampshire at 2:30 AM misses her exit and finds herself on a road that looks like a time capsule from the past.
- 4 (15:43) **The 40-Minute, Two-Hour Drive** - A woman and her mother inexplicably travel nearly two hours in only 40 minutes while driving home from the airport.
- 5 (19:25) **The Apartment of Impossible Coincidences** - A French Canadian woman moving into a new apartment after a divorce experiences a cascade of eerie connections linking her new home, her new friends, and her past.
- 6 (26:32) **The Lantern Man in the Locked Room** - A 12-year-old girl sees a man with an old-fashioned lantern in her brother's room, only to discover her brother didn't come home for another two hours and the door was locked.
- 7 (29:41) **Quantum Immortality After a Suicide Attempt** - A listener shares a story of overdosing on Christmas Eve 2010, believing it worked but that she was "shoved back" into a slightly different reality.
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Show Notes
So... In the intro I mention the Laffwicks ad, and I 100%% forgot to add it. So if you would please, go on over to https://www.AsTheRavenDreams.com/candles for more information on the Laffwicks & ATRD Partnership!
That's how you know it's a partnership and not a sponsorship, if it was a sponsorship and I forgot to insert it, they'd cancel my contract.
Welcome to the 128th Glitch In The Matrix Stories Collection! Today we have 15 stories that will make you question reality itself, submitted and posted by everyday people. Today we have stories about disappearing objects, strange happenings, time skips and quantum immortality.
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I upload episodes every 3 days, so there are 2 days between new uploads. The podcast consists of new scary story collections, Glitch in the matrix collections, and also what I call the "Dark Dreams" collections (which are older stories, remastered and layered with rain sounds).
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Thank you to all of the authors that have stories in todays episode...
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Julia, Isabelle, Stellan, Amanda P., Bianca, Jesse, Jimmy, Shane, Fanfictionmusiclover, Ellie B, Angel, Edamame, Khieuran Goyathlay, Andy F
As Well As Any Author That Has Requested Anonymity.
TimeStamps…
Ad breaks after Story 1 & Story 6
1 ➤ 1:02
2 ➤ 8:14
3 ➤ 10:29
4 ➤ 13:51
5 ➤ 17:54
6 ➤ 24:45
7 ➤ 27:10
8 ➤ 32:34
9 ➤ 35:42
10 ➤ 43:56
11 ➤ 46:15
12 ➤ 49:39
13 ➤ 50:52
14 ➤ 54:29
15 ➤ 1:06:20
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