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People spot 'glitch in the matrix' as they film unexplainable lightning ‘error’ during storm
Featured Image Credit: Reddit/Lucky_Lucky_Baldie

People spot 'glitch in the matrix' as they film unexplainable lightning ‘error’ during storm

A video of a lightning 'error' has some people convinced it's a 'glitch in the matrix'

Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck

A video of a lightning 'error' has some people convinced it's a 'glitch in the matrix'.

I sometimes find myself staring into space and having an existential crisis after a rogue thought pops into my head, such as 'Think about how you are basically a speck of dust in comparison to the whole universe' or 'Am I simply a character in a video game and someone is choosing what direction my life goes in?'

Nope? Just me? Maybe I need to stop catching up with the latest season of Black Mirror - movies like The Matrix certainly don't help, either.

And a video of lightning in a storm in Kissimmee - located in Florida's Osceola County, south of Orlando - just adds more fuel to the fire. Catch a look at it here:

On Wednesday, 13 September, a user - who goes by Lucky_Lucky_Baldie - uploaded a 44-second video of the lightning to a Reddit thread titled, 'r/GlitchInTheMatrix'.

The caption reads: "Can someone explain this? Feels like someone forgot to code the lightnings correctly.

"Took my eyes off it for a literal second, turned around and it was gone. Simply poof!"

The Redditer explained it took a 'literal second' for the lightning to disappear.
Reddit/ Lucky_Lucky_Baldie

Redditers have flooded the post in awe of the video.

A user wrote: "The code reached an error and stopped the process because of it. This is why you test every case, people!"

One user on X - formerly known as Twitter - wrote on the same day: "This lightning can't be real. It's a glitch in the matrix bruh."

And the lightning 'show' wasn't the only one to take place last week either.

One Redditer offered a potential explanation.
Reddit/ Lucky_Lucky_Baldie

Another 'awesome' lightning 'show' occurred the day before and wasn't just spotted in Kissimmee, but in other locations across the US too.

"I saw it from Hudson FL. Was something else and were used to seeing all kinds of lighting here in the Tampa are but that was different for sure," a Redditor said.

Thankfully, another Redditor offered a potential explanation for the rapidly disappearing lightning which will save me from any more existential crises.

They wrote: "Drone. That's what most drones have to locate/identify. a blinking locator light. someone put a drone up to catch the lightning show from the air."

"Dude is getting some killer footage too!" another added.

Topics: Weather, World News, US News, Reddit, The Matrix, Film and TV

Poppy Bilderbeck is a Senior Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from The University of Manchester in 2021 with a First in English Literature and Drama, where alongside her studies she was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Manchester. Poppy is most comfortable when chatting about all things mental health, is proving a drama degree is far from useless by watching and reviewing as many TV shows and films as possible and is such a crisp fanatic the office has been forced to release them in batches.