10 Things You Didn't Know About The Matrix Trilogy
7. Lying Down In Limbo
In The Matrix Revolutions, Neo awakens on the platform of a mysterious train station, with only a mother, father and daughter for company. Soon discovering that he cannot escape the platform or board a train, he finds himself trapped in an in-between, neither able to enter the matrix nor re-join the real world.
The station Neo gets stuck in is named Mobil Avenue, and is another addition to the Wachowskis' canon of clever names, as 'mobil' is an anagram of 'limbo'.
In Christianity, limbo is a parallel of purgatory -- a place neither really part of heaven nor hell, but a suspension in-between, where some individuals are stranded when they die. In more general terms, limbo is the state of being between two things, often experienced when awaiting a decision.
Neo's refusal to reload the matrix in the previous film, coupled with his newfound wireless connection to the machines' computer source in the real world, led to him being split between these two realities, and his mind was isolated in Mobil Avenue by the machines: limbo.