[hirundo]

I'm reading here various conspiracy theories about how the current time was inserted by one technical trick or another. We should at least consider the possibility that this was simply a preview of the matrix we all live in, and to prepare us for waking up in a vat of mucus.

[EGreg]

Actually, that world was also a simulation. The machines realized that some people wouldn’t accept the program that their primitive brains kept trying to wake up from. So they made an imperfect world but some people still wanted to wake up. Thus, they made a “real world” where people thought they had woken up, but where a blind neo was able to still able to sense the machines.

What if you’re never really sure you exited the simulation? LOL

When you’re dreaming, you often think you’re awake. But when you’re awake, you KNOW it. How?

[joshspankit]

There was something in the Animatrix that still haunts me after having watched it when it came out (right after the first Matrix).

There is a scene where humans have jacked in to a machine using cables and there is some conversation which leads to the line “To a machine, every input is artificial.”

There’s nothing stopping more layers of simulations outside the ones we’ve seen already. (Except, of course: lack of mass market appeal)

[josephcsible]

> When you’re dreaming, you often think you’re awake.

Is this the case, or is it just that when you're dreaming, you don't usually think to ask yourself whether you're dreaming or awake? (And when you do, you either become lucid or wake up?)

[AfterShave]

I spent some time trying to have lucid dreams. I distinctly remember times where the question didn't result in either. But instead a suspicious half lucid state. Where you are a lot more aware that something is wrong. But not quite sure you are actually dreaming.

One of the simplest methods was to look for a clock. Look away, and see if it changes. The realization of "hmm, I should find a clock" making them appear on every street light and building. Wasn't always the obvious indication of a dream it might sound like. Instead leading to a very confused dream wondering if reality always looked that way.

[myspy]

At the time after reloaded came out, this was my favourite theory - that it's just another simulation - but they didn't take it into account which was a bummer.

[scyzoryk_xyz]

Well, it was clear that the third part was rushed by the studio and just crammed with that awful and unwatchable Zion battle sequence with all the unnecessary side characters.