Hmm...
interesting,
See I thought that the matrix was feeding images and sensation based on the matrix construct into the mind. Not that the subject was "dreaming" in the sense we understand dreaming or creating thoughts independently. But that you would "see" a car or the girl with your optic nerves feeding the false info to your brain from the matrix. Your bodily nerve impulses of walking, talking, working etc. are feed into the larger matrix world for others to "perceive" via sight sound and touch and smell created by the matrix. All other persons actions would be feed into the matrix and synced. What however the matrix wouldn't control is your thoughts about what you see and feel, just the total environment you are immersed into.
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. The freeman of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. James Madison
Live as free people, yet without employing your freedom as a pretext for wickedness; but live at all times as servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16