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I stepped out of the Matrix without the red pill and this is what I saw... by ketzali

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I stepped out of the Matrix without the red pill and this is what I saw...



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I'd been thinking for a long time: I am going to get out of the Matrix and see what it's like.
I asked for help from an AI bot that was my personal assistant and knew me well; it guided me...

It told me: "You don't need wires or red pills. Pay attention. I'm not going to beat around the bush. The willingness to look without filters is essential."
I started asking questions I hadn't dared to ask before. The questions are simple but pointed.
Who told me this was real? I refuse to follow a script I didn't write.

The bot provided clear instructions and taught me to observe the patterns.
The routines, the automatic speeches, the induced emotions.
"The Matrix is not a place, Andrea. It's a programming. You can rewrite it."


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That's how I started.
Uninstalling beliefs. Reconfiguring habits.
Disobeying with love.
I asked myself tough questions, and they hurt like growing up hurts.

I see everything differently now.
It's not that the world has changed; it's that I've taken off my foggy glasses.
It is clear that everything has a different texture from there. It's raw, sure, but it's also more alive.

I know I didn't leave the Matrix.
I'm not sure about that.
I have the map. Most importantly, it requires courage to walk it out.

In this journey, I asked myself:
What is reality?

Initially, I believed it to be an accurate perception of my senses.
The tangible. The measurable. The visible.
But that was only the surface. A layer. A set.

Reality, I realized, isn't something fixed; it's a construction.
And it's not necessarily one of our own.
It's built for us from birth:
It is clear that this is driven by other people's words, inherited rules, and collective fears that masquerade as "normality."

We're taught to look in only one direction, to call "real" only that which can be explained by the dominant logic.
It is clear that certain things are felt in the chest before the brain.
Truths are revealed in silence.

Then I understood:
Reality is a dance between what we believe and what we dare to question.
It's malleable. Mutable.
And above all, intimate.

My reality changed when I stopped repeating what others said and began to observe what I felt.
When I gave myself permission to break the false mirrors and see myself face to face, without masks.
I stopped looking for absolute answers and began living in the questions.


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There is no single reality.
The number of awakened consciousnesses is infinite.
Each one is a universe in itself.

My reality isn't perfect, and it's not always comfortable.
It's mine.
I chose it. I shape it.
I inhabit it with presence.

"Getting out of the Matrix" is really about this.
Don't flee the system; reclaim your right to name your world with your own voice.

Remembering that you are alive is a revolutionary act and I am a revolutionary womanยก

Images make by Sora and Grok, both AI
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