I started out in a large mall-like building that was supposed to be my work building. I was talking to someone there about The Matrix 4 coming out, and as we were talking, it was supposed to be like we were starting to watch it. Keanu Reeves was there, but he looked more like his Cyberpunk 2077 character, Johnny Silverhand, than Neo. Pretty quickly it transitioned from watching a movie about it to being part of the story.
The inside of the mall-like building was very brightly lit and pretty much all white except for some black accents. There were a lot of video screens around, too. Big ones, like big video kiosks that would normally have a map of the mall or playing an ad, and others on the walls that were like giant multi-part displays.
Keanu (because he was Keanu in the dream, really not Neo) looked around and said that the Matrix was being turned off. I looked around, too, and I didn't see anything at first, but when I tried to relax my mind and my eyes, I started seeing the Matrix code sliding around on everything, except that instead of being green, it was a bright, light blue. As I looked in the direction he was looking, I could see where these screen like areas were going dark, and the Matrix code was disappearing from them. It was starting from farther away, but was quickly coming towards the area we were standing in. As it did, it also was turning out the lights in that direction, so it was getting darker.
There was a group of maybe about 10 or 15 of us around, all different ages, men and women, boys and girls. It really was just a random selection of people. We all took off after him. We understood that if the Matrix shut down, our world and our existence would be wiped out. It was more like we were programs rather than people injected into the Matrix, but at no point did anyone ever imply we were programs. Keanu said, "We have to stop the Matrix from shutting down. Come on!" And he took off running in the opposite direction of where everything was turning off, and we all followed.
As we ran and watched the Matrix code around us, we could see it flickering in and out, and we could hear the "thunk" behind us, like a big switch being thrown in an empty warehouse, as things turned off. It seemed to catch up to us, and Keanu egged us on to keep running and keep following him. He kept telling us that we needed to get to "the center of the Matrix" before it all shut down.
There was a point where we came up to a really big area, kind of like a huge food court but without the tables and chairs. The light was getting dimmer, and there were something like giant statues of heads around. The Matrix code was getting sparse on everything and kept flickering in and out. But even though this was the case, we were in this area for a bit longer. There was some talking going on, and it kind of seemed like maybe Keanu was talking to... I don't know... machines, maybe? I think he was trying to convince them to stop the Matrix shutdown, but they were saying that this was the way it had to be, and eventually we moved on.
Soon after this we were running through more big white mall-like hallways, and the power outages seemed to be very close, and stuff was turning off all around us. We had hit an area of the building where there seemed to be some strangeness in the structure of the building, going up in kind of a weird diagonal direction, and we were having to climb up over furniture, boxes, weird built-in structures, and such to get through a doorway sized opening that was about 10 feet up from us. Everyone was helping each other climb up and through. Once we got though there, the whole area where had just left turned off and went black. The way forward went through a short hallway and then opened up to a very sunny and warm outside area with green grass and blue sky.
At this point my alarm went off and I woke up. I wish I knew if we ever made it to the "center of the Matrix"...
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