What if We’ve Done This Before!?
Now, I know that I might be a bit late with this, but I recently watched the Matrix. I was unsure whether or not I had watched it before. The movie is quite old and almost all of my friends have watched it.
So, it was around 2 A.M when I finished some writing work, that I gave it a search. Although I had been in front of the computer all day, I felt like watching this movie. I had heard it being mentioned across social media so much, so I thought it would be worth watching. Maybe it answered some questions that I’ve struggled with lately.
Questions such as “Who am I?”, “Have I lived this before?”, “Are we part of a programmed reality that’s created by higher powers and we’re just players walking and following the rules of this reality they’ve created?”
These questions were pretty intriguing. So, watching a movie to try to find their answers sounded unbelievable and fun.
It wasn’t the first time watching it
As the movie was streaming, I recalled that this wasn’t the first time to watch it. And I remember it very well. The first time watching it was during my childhood when I was seven or ten years old. It was a cold autumn night and I was at my grandparents' house.
We had lit a fire. The room was warm and cozy, and we were sweating a bit. I was sitting in the corner of the couch because we had guests and there wasn’t much space.
Green filters, passing dimensions, men with glasses. I recalled those scenes. The event that followed then had made them stuck in my mind more firmly. My nose started bleeding and I fainted. Probably from the food and warmth, but all I remember is that I was taken to the nurse.
She gave me a few pills, measured my temperature, and I don’t remember whether she gave me an injection or not, but then we went home. All I remember is that the whole time I was thinking about the movie. I was fascinated and wanted to continue watching it when we got home. Those numbers flashing on the screen… That was damn cool. However, the movie had finished when I went home.
My opinion without researching
After watching the first movie, I was intrigued to watch the other one that same night. And then, as you might assume, the third as well. I finished them around 9 A.M in the morning and I was going to watch the fourth but only the trailer was available.
The idea treated in the movie is quite simple. There’s the normal world as we know it. Then, we have this hacker who is contacted by another person from an outside dimension. He’s taken out of this world and brought to their reality which seems to be the real world, while this one is nothing but a world run by programs.
So, imagine this: What if our world is just that? A reality made by sophisticated computer programs. We are forced to struggle with life, finding work, and making money to live, so that we don’t have time to doubt the reality. We’re playing the game as programmed.
Now, since everything around us is made by energy, energy is made by waves and waves are frequencies, and frequencies are made by numbers, this reality is made by numbers. And programs are fundamentally built using numbers. Sounds quite intriguing, but why not?
You can prove this
I’m sure you’ve had moments in your life when you’ve felt like you’ve done this before. And following the logic from the Matrix that makes you think we are programs who are becoming aware of being programs and are able to see throughout their life cycle. This is one theory.
The other theory about this feeling is that since programs run on repeat, it means that we run numerous times in different ways. In the movie, there’s this guy who is the creator of this programmed reality, and who keeps reinventing the Matrix over and over again. So, everything that happens in the movie, happened thousands of times before with slight differences.
What if we reach a new state of awareness as programs that we get to see the whole programmed reality, and maybe find a way to explore other dimensions within or outside of it? Or maybe I took the movie too seriously?
Final Thoughts
I’m probably a terrible movie critic, but I had to share this because it resonated with other concepts I’m reading about, and it gave me that Deja Vú feeling.
However, I feel as if some ideas are worth thinking about. Movies like this make you think. What if we are programs indeed and we’re capable enough to reprogram ourselves?
