Your Life Is A Virtual Simulation

“For it is a land of illusion, a place in the mind, a shimmering mirage of riches and mystery and death. These illusions have distorted its landscape and contorted its history.” - Richard E. Lingenfelter

My former boss thought there was something wrong with me. He told me how he often noticed that my mind enters La-La land whenever we had our meetings. I’m not sure why because during discussions, I really tried my best to pretend I was paying attention. I’m probably not that good at pretending. Just imagine how hard it is to keep a straight face when you’re saying, “That’s absolutely right! What’s the question again?”

In my moments of silence, I often ask the question, “Am I living in a dream world?” Why do I always find myself in situations that I never even planned to put myself in? Something always feels wrong. There is that sense of being locked up inside an invisible prison. No matter how hard you try to break away from it, you can't find any escape path because you can’t even see it.

I guess I’m just living inside a computer simulation. If this is true, then what’s the difference between virtual reality and the real world? How will I know if I'm real or not?


A virtual reality is a computer-simulated environment that is interactive. You can do whatever you want inside a virtual environment. You can pretend to be anyone, and you can also create almost anything. The things inside a virtual environment are not real, however, because you know it’s just computer software, right? But what if somebody tells you we already live in a kind of virtual reality, how will you respond to that?


Some people, most particularly the Hindus, believe that our world is an illusion. They call this Maya in Sanskrit. This illusion, similar to a computer program that generates a virtual environment, covers the real world and prevents us from seeing it. If you are able to grasp this concept, you will realize that everything that exists around you, including your own body, may not be real at all.

You can compare our world to the artificial world just like in the picture you see above. The people you see inside a virtual game like Sims are just images on the screen. Thus, those people are not real. What you don’t realize is that a player (someone from outside that virtual reality) is controlling the person inside the game. Could the situation be the same for all of us? Is your actual self controlling you from outside this world? Is your mind separate from your body?


Take a look at the picture above. Imagine for a moment that one of the many people in the picture is you. You’re inside the airport and you’re waiting in line to check-in/out. Are you done? Ok, turn your attention back to yourself (the one who is looking at the picture). Feel what’s going on around you and look at the things surrounding you. Are you done? Good! Now, imagine that there is someone else who is looking down at you while you’re reading this article just like how you looked at the small people in the picture above.

That’s it. We’re done. Snap out of it. If you felt something weird after following my instructions, you just experienced what I’m trying to say. Would you like to meet my former boss?

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