Level 1: Substitution
A familiar word is replaced by another word, sound, or name. The speaker may not notice.
Level 2: Divergent Understanding
Different listeners understand different meanings from the same statement. Each interpretation feels natural and complete.
Level 3: Contamination
The altered language begins affecting nearby speech, writing, signs, or memories.
Level 4: Declarative Reality
A phrase briefly influences what is real, especially when spoken with conviction near a Seam or Confluence.
The effect follows symbolism, context, local history, and the logic of the instability.
Ending a Glitch
A glitch may end through distance, grounding, silence, correction of a name, restoration of an Anchor, or resolution of the anomaly causing it.