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A little fun for the unplugged among us. Name one thing from your Matrix and other people can say if they heard of it in theirs. Maybe find a little common ground.

I'll start: New York City.

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Aren't we supposed to be getting past all of that?

We're expected to, certainly. Whether or not we should is something else. I think it's a personal decision.

Great. Thanks.

You can't unlearn experiences.

And if the experience didn't really happen. That doesn't matter?

It still matters because your feelings were real.

If you weren't really living it, then you weren't really feeling anything.

Feelings in dreams can be just as strong or stronger than feelings in reality.

[hmu if hopping in isn't okay]

Yeah. Except you wake up from dreams. This is being awake.

[& hopping in is fine always fine!!]

You know that's not true.

I know about really living, and not living.

In my experience, things are seldom that simple.

So what do you do with all those feelings you were really feeling, now that you know none of it happened?

It's like playing a really long game. It lasts a hundred rounds. You win some, you lose some, but when you get to the end, they tell you everyone you were playing with wasn't really playing. They were just pretending to play. They maybe even let you win. If they never told you it was fake, how would you feel? But it doesn't matter now, because you know it was never real.

I don't disregard them. Because, regardless of whether I'm put in there or out here, I'd make the exact same choices, all over again.

Because, no matter what, I'm still me.

No. You wouldn't. Because the same choices wouldn't come up again. Because all of your adversity, all the villains you were up against--they were all part of it. They weren't in on it. But they were part of it.

Don't mistake this for nostalgia. Getting an idea of what similarities or differences to expect from the Matrixes is going to be useful for anyone planning on entering them.

[Oh. Well.]

You'd think they'd already have a list of those started.

Sure, but I don't.

Think of it like an icebreaker.

Great.

I'm not going back in. So I think I'll skip it.

Feeling shy about the details of your world? You do know none of that stuff was real, right?

Yeah, I think I heard a little bit about that. But thanks for the tip.

And it's not shyness.

Good old fashioned paranoia?

Paranoia is a lot of work.

Working hard nets results.

So you're not shy, or paranoid... maybe you have something to hide?

Before you starting inventing something, the real reason is, I'm just not that interesting.

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