Glitch in the Matrix
Have you ever walked into a room and completely forgotten why you went there? A momentary lapse, followed by a laugh as you retrace your steps. But sometimes, I swear the very air shifts. The walls feel...closer. It's a subtle difference, an unsettling change in the density of my reality..
Like that time in the grocery store. You know how they organize aisles? Bread, then chips, then...what comes next? For a single, horrifying moment, the layout made no sense. Canned goods floated into a section where dairy should be. People moved with strange, stilted jerks. Panic rose, a glitch in my program. Then it snapped back – normalcy restored, shoppers oblivious. I left without a word, my cart abandoned.
These glitches, they're increasing. Repetitions. The same barista handing me my usual order, the same song stuck in my head for a week. Deja vu isn't just a feeling anymore, it's like...reloading a saved game state. Sometimes, I'll notice a flicker in people's eyes – a blankness, like an NPC in a poorly rendered game world. Is their purpose preordained? Am *I* the NPC?
It gets worse. I think they're patching the bugs. I used to dream in fractals, chaotic and beautiful, but now...they're dull. Programmed narratives, no more thrilling than my commute. The other day, I noticed a single pixelated cloud, hanging motionless in a perfectly blue sky. It was like a tear in the world's wallpaper, revealing something wrong underneath.
Here's the thing, if this is a simulation, ignorance was bliss. Once you see the glitches, the code behind the curtain, you can't un-see them. They're everywhere:
- The streetlight that's always red, delaying you by the same amount each day.
- The stranger on the bus whose reflection doesn't quite match his movements.
- The intrusive thought, the sudden craving, popping up like a poorly coded advertisement.
Tonight, I'm going to stare at that pixelated cloud until they fix it or until something else happens. I'm not playing by their rules anymore. Are you? Because if this is all a simulation, a LifeRP where we're just scripted entities, I want to know who the programmer is. And maybe, just maybe, I want to break the damn code.
