This is not a Matrix! If you have the ability to control thought or manipulate the time it does not turn the system into a matrix.
A system defined as a matrix is a system in which controller has absolute control on every aspect in the system.
And when you create a link between the minds you control you get hive mind!
And when you have a hive mind you control the reality of the people.
Local social control and global social control!
So when people talk about improving their lives by thinking, they're actually creating a pattern change within the hive mind.