Mystical Angels

What would you do if you discovered everything you know now was an illusion?

Now obviously most of what we perceive as reality is an illusion to a certain sense, at least here in High School. Too frequently people are caught up in what they think is the "now" when their focus remains upon things that were never meant to be anything more than the past. The minor details they take into account: Boyfriend issues, celebrities, etc. But what if life was, by literal translation, an illusion? Consider both of the following: 1) You awake to find that you are an "alien" and that your life as a human was all just a figment of an overly active, extra terrestrial imagination. There is no such thing as human. Also, in dreams the most ridiculous things can seem rational. What if you discovered mathematics, literature, science and all of the other subjects were really composed of a bunch of gibberish? Having finally awakened, you recognize that the whole ordeal was a vivid nightmare/hallucination. What is your initial reaction? Or, option number two: 2) You snap out of this reality to discover you are in a mental institution and life is entirely different from what you believed. Nothing you remember (the 9/11, who was elected president, wars…) actually occurred so you cannot pretend to be psychic either. Consider carefully on both, give good responses. The best will be selected.

Public Comments

1. I knew it. I know it.
2. 1. me as an alien waking up from this dream would make me so glad. i would wake up from my alien bed and just stare at the wall recollecting what i just dreamed of. i would be happy because i believe a little bad is not worth a lot of good. in other words, if i could end human race in a second, i would do it despite all the love there is. 2. i'd be damn glad to wake up from that nightmare. i would ask the nurse for an ativan and try to get whatever meds i can squeeze out of the nurse.
3. I would learn the new reality, knowing that it is yet another illusion.
4. You Speak of illusions as though it is not desirable thing, such as a fantastic plan or desire, that causes an erroneous belief or perception. Without error (evil) we could not know the devinely real contrasting (good.) Consider the higher animals have fears but no illusions, hence no religion. Man creates his primitive religions out of his fears and by means of his illusions. Theology deals with the intellectual content of religion, metaphysics (revelation) with the philosophic aspects. Religious experience is the spiritual content of religion. Notwithstanding the mythologic vagaries and the psychologic illusions of the intellectual content of religion, the metaphysical assumptions of error and the techniques of self-deception, the political distortions and the socioeconomic perversions of the philosophic content of religion, the spiritual experience of personal religion remains genuine and valid. Page 1140-7 By meditation on God, by union with him, there comes deliverance from the illusions of evil and ultimate salvation from all material fetters.
5. I think I'd go on a LONG walk. Probably with a bottle of beer. Oh god I hope there's still beer.
6. Part of my current knowledge would be required to show me the rest was illusory, so this seems a nonsense question.