Since I don't want to create a dictionary to describe a new thing let us describe inside a familiar framework. The film "The Matrix was very popular and introduced to a lot of people the idea of virtual reality. Imagine a school in which you have the experience of learning on a gut level the lessons you have trouble with on an abstract level. So if you don't get the lesson because of a pressure brought against your essence by lusts of the flesh (instincts, drives of necessity but bombs if mismanaged) or frustrations or trauma ad infinitum..
the lesson is ramped up until until you learn or fail.

The matrix is because stuff gets arranged. Higher intelligence. So - does that fly?