How do you know you’re not crazy and just hallucinating your whole life?
Tags: Matrix, Mind, People, Reality, Hallucinations

This question appeared more and more often in the thoughts of many people, especially after 1999, more precisely with the appearance of the film Matrix, until then only certain people thought about this aspect (philosophers, visionaries, thinkers). The film was so well made and had such an impact that many people began to wonder if we were living in reality or actually living a simulation. It is no longer a secret that several philosophers were involved in the production of this film, precisely to link the harder-to-explain or even inexplicable events in everyday life to virtual reality. The film was so well thought out that it had a very strong impact on a lot of people. This film is considered one of the films that revolutionized both cinema and the IT industry, respectively the evolution of technology.

There are certain categories of people, with a fantastic ability to see where certain things are going. We can say in a way that these people are also called prophets. Such people in the past were also called prophets. These people have futuristic thinking, and if their ideas are exposed in a book / movie or any way of spreading information, these ideas become challenges in the bright minds of certain inventors. There are many ideas thought many years ago, which lie in archives or on certain libraries, because the times, society, technology, financial possibilities contemporary with the emergence of these ideas, did not allow their implementation. A very good example: Nikola Tesla.

Take the film area, for example, Star Trek: where Picard appears with a tablet in his hand many years before it was invented. The movie Predator talks about a camouflage suit put into practice many years later with the help of technology. The film Matrix presents our daily life as a virtual reality. A few years later, reality simulators are better and better made, the “games” resembling reality very well. There are many examples of films that “told” us about a technology or a lifestyle a few decades before they appeared. Combining both mystical and real ideas about those films, it all comes down to one question: Were all these films a “prediction” or an inspiration?

Starting from the above question, applying the rule: anything is possible but not necessarily probable, we will also treat our subject: do we live or do we imagine that we live?

A very large part of me tends to believe that this is the reality we live in for several reasons:

1) continuity in events — we have continuity in our lives, from small, until we grow big, until we give birth to our descendants. Did you ever tried to resume/continue a dream you had a night before?

2) the free will of each one — we have the freedom to choose, but other people who are tens, hundreds, thousands of kilometers away are just as good. If we watched a video with certain stages in other people’s lives, we would see that they lived their lives without any interaction or influence from us. So, we cannot imagine that others live their lives without us knowing about their existence.

3) Processing capacity — A personal experience: I was away for a longer period in the interest of work. In the morning before I woke up, when I started to become conscious, I dreamed that I woke up in my bed at home (where I live) — a very pleasant feeling; then I realized that I was not there and that I was actually in the bed where I grew up (in my hometown) — an acceptable feeling; then I woke up and realized that I was actually still on a business trip — a feeling of disappointment. Basically, one morning I “imaginary traveled” to 3 different locations and I was 100% convinced that each of them is real. That day I was like a vegetable, I was not able to do anything, my brain seemed to be short-circuited (I can say that I lived a particle from Inception — I saw the movie much later after this incident and it was quite interesting. I realized how tiring that experience was for the brain and I thought: if I barely processed that episode, how could I imagine the existence of every being on this planet?

Where does the possibility that we imagine our life come from? It is related to the spiritual side. We do not know 100% what happens to us after we die, how I like to believe that there is life after death and we are here to learn something (see the article: “is there life after death?”), Every life lived to learn that lesson can be likened to a virtual experience.

No matter how crazy I would be, if I imagined my whole life, my paradise would unfold in a slightly different way.