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* In the sci/fi novel [[Resonance]] obsessive compulsive office messenger Graham Smith has lived his entire life experiencing glitches in the matrix varying in size from street names suddenly changing to a childhood friend's dead parents suddenly never having died, and believes that the universe unravels every time he breaks his OCD routine. It is later revealed that {{spoiler|he switches bodies with a parallel universe version of himself every time he makes a decision as a result of being the only person who is exactly the same in every single universe}}
* ''[[Labyrinths of Echo]]'' series had a few of these, as dreams and semi-realities are an important part of the series. The most blatant one happened when Numminorikh was placed in a crafted dream supposed to be completely immersive, as a part of his training. The subject of the exercise neglected to mention his unusual nature (having extremely developed sense of smell), and the dream was scripted too much and used natural for normal humans focus on visual impressions, so despite high quality it was "real" only until he remembered how things are "supposed to" be.
** It's less than reliable in general, however, in that past can be almost as elastic as future, [[Reality Warping|in a less-solid reality]] it's just more obvious. And Max, for one, cannot be trusted to retain his eye colour anywhere.
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