Dreams, what are they? And how do you know you’re not in one? A recurring subject in the films is dreams. The “Matrix” is a dream world in every sense of the word. A place beyond reality, yet directly attached to. The only thing that tells us that we have dreamt at all is waking up with a recollection of organized thoughts. The main character Neo, has lived his whole life in a dream and just now awakes to find it was all a dream. He spent his whole “Dream” thinking he was in reality. Knowing nothing else to be a possible reality, having no idea he was a tool.

Brain-in-a-vat syndrome. Neo awakens to find that he was not in a dream per se but in an artificial reality. Something created by a superior intelligence to control the beings they [The Machines] were using as energy sources. Some people watc

Religion is a very large factor in this movie. There are many religious references in the series, some immediately recognizable, while others may be a little more latent. There are several instances of Christianity, Gnostic, and Buddhism throughout the storyline.

The A.I. that we had created turned against us, with aspirations of perfection. It found flaws in our inferiority and sought out to remove the imperfection. With no source of energy, and in a drastic move, the machines systematically turned humankind into batteries. They made man slaves to their will. They did so discreetly, making a virtual dream world for the sleeping batteries. It was so perfect in fact, that no being inside this dream world even knew it was a dream unless acted upon by an outside force. The machines also seemed to impose a kindness upon the living beings they used as batteries. Never wasting the bodies and discarding them frivolously, they recycled the “batteries” as food for the other living “cells”. In comparison the machines that every man with his own will fought against, were possibly his greatest savior yet. In the eyes of the willed man though, the machines were no savior, they only saw an oppressor ostracizing them from what they felt was divinely theirs through centuries of history. A new entity was doing to man, what man had done

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