Is Our World a Real World or a Virtual World?

Mr Junaid
ILLUMINATION
Published in
10 min readMar 2, 2024

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Why is this world said to be virtual? Is what people see necessarily real? Could it be that our brains are tricking us? What is our relationship with the world? Why would a person involuntarily hold his breath when watching someone else drowning, or even experience a real sense of suffocation in the brain? Why is it that a person is not breathing when he is still in his mother’s womb? So is the feeling of suffocation simulated by the brain or is it real? Dreams and the real world. Have you ever thought about whether this world is a dream?

After years of deductions, some experts have come to a terrifying conclusion: the probability that we live in a virtual world is very high. Musk also claimed that the reality of the world is only one billionth. There is a classic line in the movie Inception. We all know that dreams are fake, but in our dreams we believe that the things in our dreams are true.

Is Our World a Real World or a Virtual World?
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By the same token, we all think reality is real, but how can we be sure it’s not a dream? Can this question worthy of our deep thought inspire you and me to re-examine our world? Why might this world be virtual? We have been accepting the settings of this world since we were born. The sky is blue, the grass is green, our feet are walking on the ground, and the water is in the boat. Everything tells us that this world should be like this. . So is it…

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