What was the relevance of the sentinel passing through Neo in Revolutions

This question relates to the movie : Matrix Revolutions

When Neo and Trinity are on the way to the Machine Mainframe on a ship. Neo uses his mind to destroy the sentinels that attack them.

One of the sentinels is shown to go right past Neo. This is shown in a golden vision. In reality, there is no sentinel that actually enters the ship and physically touches Neo. What is happening here?

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Let me clarify what I'm looking for. I would like to park the idea of matrix with in the matrix idea because that invalidates the whole trilogy. That invalidates any knowledge of how the current world looks like. That also gives rise to infinite possibilities and explanations to what is actually happening in the real, real world.

I would like an answer that uses the in-movie science to explain this.