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5 min readOn a Sunday morning in an unfamiliar part of the city, a woman heading to a pagan festival asked the universe to guide her safely without getting lost. She opened Google Maps, nervous because she rarely uses navigation apps. At her first turn, a hooded raven stood on the street she needed to take. At the second turn, another hooded raven. At the third turn, a pigeon instead. At her final corner, a fourth bird—another pigeon—waited. From there she could already see the event building. She thanked the birds. On her walk back to the subway station hours later, she did not see a single bird anywhere. She still does not know how to label the experience, but she believes something heard her small cry for help.
That story, read by the host Raven on the podcast As The Raven Dreams, sets the tone for an episode built entirely from listener-submitted accounts of events that seem to slip outside normal explanation. The throughline is not a single theory about what causes these glitches, but rather a quiet insistence that the experiences themselves matter—even when they lead nowhere, even when they seem trivial, even when the only honest conclusion is “I have no idea.” The episode collects roughly a dozen such accounts, and several of them share a pattern worth noticing.
Objects that disappear and reappear
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:47) **Birds as Guiding Spirits** - A woman on her way to a pagan festival asks the universe for guidance and finds a bird waiting at each turn she needs to take.
- 2 (08:54) **The Unseen Family Video** - A woman's future partner describes the contents of an old family video of hers in perfect detail, despite never having seen it.
- 3 (11:25) **The Disappearing Book** - A woman's book vanishes from the sofa while she is in the kitchen, only to reappear exactly where she left it after she angrily demands its return.
- 4 (13:11) **The Wrong Toddler Memory** - A woman has a vivid, terrifying memory of being locked in a backyard studio as a toddler, but her entire family insists it happened to her older sister, not her.
- 5 (15:49) **The Prophetic Midnight Message** - A woman wakes in the night with a sudden, irritated certainty that her gym crush has messaged her, only to find his message waiting on her phone the next morning.
- 6 (21:23) **The Sauna Spirit's Toll** - A woman's brand new, never-worn fuzzy zebra socks vanish without a trace during a sauna session in a 100-year-old smoke sauna.
- 7 (29:09) **The Mysterious Wedding Gown** - A woman's daughter finds a beautiful, strapless wedding gown in a Tupperware container on her back porch, which is the complete opposite of her own conservative dress and has her great-grandmother's bracelet underneath it.
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Show Notes
Today's Episode is brought to you in partnership with Laffwicks Studio! We've partnered to bring you TWO fantastic candles based on the show! More information at https://www.astheravendreams.com/candles
Welcome to the 129th Glitch In The Matrix Stories Collection! Today we have 18 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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TimeStamps…
The only Ad Break is after story 10. There is a partnership info break after story 4
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2 ➤ 7:28
3 ➤ 12:10
4 ➤ 14:48
19:08 ➤ Laffwicks Partnership information
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6 ➤ 28:07
7 ➤ 31:17
8 ➤ 33:48
9 ➤ 37:28
10 ➤ 40:14
11 ➤ 41:48
12 ➤ 45:49
13 ➤ 47:21
14 ➤ 49:05
15 ➤ 56:29
16 ➤ 59:22
17 ➤ 1:05:09
18 ➤ 1:06:34
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