If you don’t believe that everything around you is an illusion, look again. When I first saw the movie Final Fantasy several years ago, I was unaware that it was an animated feature (somehow I missed the ad’s that said that). It sort of ruined the show for me, because for the next hour and a half I sat there watching and trying to find the animated parts and the ‘real’ parts. I found out later there WERE NO real parts. Along the same lines the creators of Shriek have said that they had to dumb-down the animation because they did not want some of the characters looking TOO REAL.

Holograms, life-like animation, virtual reality; technology that sees in the dark and maps out entire area’s from standing in one place … this technology is here. Look at the CGI in movies these days. You don’t know what is real and what is not. There was an old movie put out years ago (1978) called Capricorn One. The premise of the movie is that a Mars landing can’t happen so they fake it, fooling the American people. Then of course there is the movie Wag the Dog. Let’s face it … in terms of the media, we don’t KNOW what’s real and what’s not. Is the 10 O'clock news real??

Apparently not!

But here’s the rub … it’s always been that way. Have you ever touched a freezing cold cast iron skillet and thought you just burned yourself? Have you ever seen a bird turn colors from black to green, then purple back to black? Have you ever heard a loud noise from one room only to find out that it came from another? Have you ever experienced phantom pain? and what’s Deja Vu all about?! I think Shakespeare hit the nail on the head when he wrote: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Heratio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

But here’s the best part: If you don’t think you can create stuff in such a Universe – guess again!

Love and Bright blessings ~ Richard