The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/FriendshipEntire6364 on 2024-10-10 11:22:35.

In 2014 I was living with my then boyfriend and working debt collections for a pretty well known company. I hated the job and had begun feeling like my day to day life was really mundane. Because we had access to people’s sensitive information: full social security numbers, addresses, etc, we weren’t allowed to even bring our phones into the building. Once a month they would put us on required overtime, when we were working on accounts that were getting ready to go into the next phase of collections. I worked 10am-9pm Monday and was scheduled 9am-7pm Tuesday and Wednesday.

I got home from work Monday night and watched Netflix with my boyfriend until I fell asleep. Woke up the next day to pee and when I checked the time, it was 8:13. I assumed I forgot to set an alarm, freaked out for a minute, and rushed to get ready for work. I pulled into the parking lot at 8:56 and was feeling pretty good about still making it to work on time. As I was clocking in, my coworker Anna stopped me and asked “where were you yesterday?” I said “uhhh….here?” She insisted I wasn’t which I thought was really weird but I just brushed it off, clocked in, and went to my desk. Anna and I were pretty close as far as coworkers go. We bitched about the job throughout the work day, and texted/engaged with each other on social media outside of work daily.

About 20 minutes into my shift I glanced at the calendar on my computer and it was showing it was Wednesday. I genuinely thought Anna was playing a weird prank on me and had messed with my computer settings since she asked where I was when she knew full well I was there yesterday.

On my lunch break I went out to my car as I did every shift. When I turned my phone on, it also said it was Wednesday. I started panicking and called my boyfriend. He worked second shift and hadn’t yet gone into work, but looked at his phone and had the same realization and also started freaking out.

Now the really weird thing is, no one in either of our lives seemed to notice except Anna. I wasn’t super hungry or thirsty as I assume I would be if I hadn’t consumed anything for an entire day. We both were heavy smokers at the time but neither of us woke up feeling like we really needed a cigarette. We lived with my boyfriend’s two brothers and we had two dogs. One was an elderly dog and the other was just a puppy, so they both required pretty frequent trips outside. Our room was in the basement and we had a baby gate at the top of the stairs to keep them from roaming the house while we were sleeping. Neither of the dogs had an accident in our room, nor did they eat as though they hadn’t been fed in over 24 hours. I asked both of his brothers and they hadn’t let the dogs out or fed them Tuesday. I am really close with my mom and we talk on the phone on my way to and from work every day, yet she didn’t mention anything about not talking to me for an entire day. Neither of us were written up for no call no showing a shift, or even spoken to by management about the missed shift. Neither of us had any missed calls or texts from Tuesday.

To this day, I have no reasonable explanation for what happened that caused us to lose an entire day. If I had been living alone, I would have chalked it up to somehow being so exhausted or maybe having a weird 24 hour illness or something that made me sleep through an entire day. But the fact that both of us experienced the same thing with no consequences made it even weirder. I think about this regularly and no one I’ve spoken to about it can come up with anything plausible either. It feels as though we went to sleep Monday, ceased to exist in this reality on Tuesday, and then resumed normal life on Wednesday.