These three mind bending works share mutual aspects of individuals finding it overwhelmingly challenging to admit that they have been alive within a ruse, struggling against wakefulness as well as coming to the realization of the trials belonging to the real world. Within The Matrix, Neo is not convinced nor does he truly accept the actuality of a matrix willingly and avidly repudiates Morpheus’ declarations that everything Neo has experienced to that point was nothing more than illusion. Morpheus is also uncompromising in his assertions that most individuals living in the matrix are just not ready to accept reality enough to wake up to the actual real world. In retrospect, Cypher instead desires to return to the matrix where simulated life
