Is Reality an Illusion?

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Since ancient times, this has been a puzzling question.

How real is our reality?

“Dreaming of a Butterfly” poses an interesting perspective.

It’s a story about a man, Zhuang Zhou, who dreamt he was a butterfly.

Image Credit: Zhuangzi Dreaming of a Butterfly, by 18th century Japanese painter Ike no Taiga, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

He was joyfully flying around and didn’t know he was Zhuang Zhou.

And, when he woke up, he wasn’t sure.

Was it him, Zhuang Zhou, who had dreamt he was a butterfly?

Or was it the butterfly dreaming that it was Zhuang Zhou?

Makes you think, right?

A story from ancient China of 476–221 BC makes you think!

Over the years, up to this day, many theories try to explain the “realness” of our reality.

And most of them agree on one point.

The reality we experience is, most probably, an illusion.

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