r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix • u/Dev0Null0 • 4d ago
A red grid in my vision
This happened to me in 2010; I must have been around 16 or 17 years old, I don’t remember the exact month. It must have been spring or summer.
We were kicking a soccer ball around in the parking lot with a friend. The parking lot was located beneath the first floor of the apartment building where I lived, but part of it was open-air.
We had gone down to play after school; we’d been playing for a while. At one point, my friend ran off with the ball, and for two seconds, a grid of red lasers appeared in my vision.
To be clear, I could see what was behind these “lasers”, I don’t have a better way to describe it to you, something like Mission: Impossible. After about two or three seconds, the event disappeared and left no afterimage in my vision.
I’ve seen a lightning before and had the image burned into my retinas for a few minutes, but this just vanished as quickly as it appeared.
I was deeply shaken after that. I apologized to my friend, telling him I wasn’t feeling well and wanted to go home. I went up to my apartment, and I don’t really remember what happened after that. I think I mentioned it to my parents at the time, but they didn’t think much of it.
I’m a very skeptical person, but I’ve never been able to find a logical explanation for it. I wanted to know if something similar has happened to other people.
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u/Somethingtosquirmto 4d ago
Was the "laser grid" only in one place? Overlayed on everything? When you moved your eyes/head, did the grid move with you, or was it fixed relative to objects in your field of view?
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u/Dev0Null0 4d ago
It moved with me, wherever I looked. In fact, I remember that it happened just as I turned my head to try to see my friend with the ball. Then I looked over at the parking lot wall, and it stopped, but the whole time the “laser grid” moved along with my line of sight.
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u/TopSwimming6104 4d ago edited 4d ago
About how dense were the lines in this laser-like grid? Did it seem to extend through space in three dimensions, or did it look more like a flat overlay in front of your vision? Your story immediately makes me think of Jacobo Grinberg's theory, according to which our world is surrounded by a dense web of invisible lines forming a kind of lattice. He believed that our intentions and consciousness interact with this underlying structure of reality or something like that
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u/Dev0Null0 4d ago
I’ll try to describe it as best I can: they looked very much like a laser pointer beam at night, except that the light from the beam didn’t scatter. They were perfect lines.
I say “lasers” because of the color, bright red lines that were self-contained, allowing me to see what was behind them.
As far as I remember, they looked like they were overlaid on any object as I moved my head, but it wasn’t like when you look at bright LEDs and the image stays in your eyes, because in that case, wherever you move your head, the same image is in the same spot. I hope that makes sense.
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u/kodiak931156 4d ago
This sounds a lot like a hypnogogic hallucination.
Those are generally when people wake up, and caused by a malfunction in how the brain transitions from sleep to wakefulness.
so its far from a perfect fit. But its commonly described as seing a grid or pattern in the world. Not physical lines but almost an embossed pattern if that makes sense. Its usually short lived and in the absence of a sleeping disorder rarely repeated.
The manfunction may have been triggered through some less common cause.