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[Matrix] What happens to the person that the Agents take over the bodies of?

So I was rewatching the first Matrix and I ran across something I couldn't explain... Let's say I'm hooked up to the Matrix, and an Agent takes over my body randomly. What's happening to my from my perspective? Assuming i'm still alive after the Agent takes over my body, do I remember any of it? Do I die in the real world?
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In a normal takeover (pre Revolutions) the agent would basically Hack the avatar of the other user.  To the user, they have a sense of lost time if they are alive afterwards.  Think of every time you've been driving to work, or walking down the street; only to arrive at your destination with no memory of the inbetween parts.

In a Smith style takeover you are completely overwritten and your avatar and your computer now belong to the agent with no trace of the original "operating system".