A few years ago there was an article on Cracked that stuck with me that created a head canon with Inception as a prequel to The Matrix in their own little cinematic universe. I loved the idea so much that I kept finding other movies that fit into the concepts and timelines of the Matrix movies in similar ways that Inception acts as a prequel to the technology of a shared consciousness in a sleep state for multiple people that have the ability to take control of their surround