This explanation feels like FNAF, where persistent objects remain like haunted animatronics, while nonpersistent ones disappear quickly, like fleeting power moments

Persistent refers to an object’s ability to transcend time or space. A persistent object stores/saves its state in a permanent storage system with out losing the information represented by the object.

A non-persistent object is said to be transient or ephemeral. By default objects are considered as non-persistent.