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Society has always had divisive ideas about what is
considered real. It can vary from culture to culture, but in the differences are diminutive. Reality is an individual experience,
dictated by one's own sensory perceptions.
So reality would be everything you can see, feel and taste. It's also every
action completed within time and space. How do you know it's real? What if it's all a long and complex dream?
Maybe
that is the reality of life: we are living and dying everyday in a long and complex dream.
When you take into account
all of the new innovations in technology and you understand the power of imagination, then you can really comprehend how hard
it actually is to define reality. Many people live a different reality,in which their own minds unconsciously decide what
is real.
In Plato's allegory, he writes that Socrates describes how the prisoners in the cave may limit the truth.
When a prisoner is released from the cave and he begins to realize that his perception of reality may have been altered. In
the end, we all live within our own perception of what is real. Until we can walk out of the cave, or experience a different
perception, we are prisoners of that cave, or reality. What if it is all a dream? As long as we think it is real, it doesn't
matter.
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