The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/InformedInTheChaos on 2024-12-17 23:23:42.

I work from home and often sit on my couch to do menial office tasks in the afternoons. I sit with a side table on my left, and an organizer bin to my right. Since I do this so often, I have chargers laying just right, supplies on the side table, etc.

I went to lift my phone a few minutes ago and stupidly grabbed it by the charger. It got snagged on the couch and ended up falling between the couch cushion and the armrest. Because of the way I heard it fall, (and how loud it was) I actually thought that the phone fell all the way through the couch and onto the floor. I got on my hands and knees and looked under the couch. When I didn’t see it, I realized that it had not fallen all the way through and was actually stuck inside the couch itself.

After moving the organizer bin, pillow, and couch cushion, I could see a small hole where the phone must have perfectly fallen, allowing it to go into the couch. I attempted to stick my arm into the hole, but then had no choice but to rip the lining of the couch in order to get my hand close enough to the phone to grab it.

I got my phone and cringed at the amount of crumbs that were attached to it. I wiped it off, plugged it back into its charger and placed it on my side table, while mentally noting how close I had just come to damaging it since it was delivered to me only 24 hours ago and is brand new. I then put my workspace and cushion back. I added a pillow to the side of the couch nearest the side table so that nothing could fall back into the hole. I was thinking about how I was going to go about fixing the hole I had ripped in the lining when I reached for my phone on the side table.

It wasn’t there. I stood up and looked around, comically patting my nonexistent pockets. I looked under the couch, in my organizer bin, everywhere. Then, I dinged my phone with my watch and I could hear it. It was inside the couch.

I removed the pillow and cushion and went to reach my hand in the hole in the lining. But… I couldn’t. The hole wasn’t big enough. I had to rip it again.

Here’s how I know it was a glitch and cannot be explained away: 1- I am home alone. No one could have moved it- but even if I wasn’t alone, I hadn’t left the room. This all happened within a few moments. 2- I heard it fall through the couch the first time. It was loud and undeniable. I would have heard it fall if it happened again. There are no sounds in this room except for my dog softly snoring. 3- I plugged it back into its charger after I got it out of the couch the first time. Even if it had somehow fallen, the charger would have been moved. But it wasn’t. It was laying just as I had laid it, only it wasn’t attached to the phone like it should have been.

4- I had to rip the lining again. It was as though the universe reset by like 2 minutes and my phone went back into the couch and the lining un-ripped.

I can’t explain this away. It finally happened to me. I’ve experienced a glitch!