Blog 1

If i were to parallel my life with the chained men inside the cave of Plato's "Allegory of the cave", In this stage of my life, I would say I am chained up looking at the shadows on the wall. My reality is all I know because it's what I have been exposed to. My shadows. What i see, what I smell, what I think I know is my reality.....my cave.

I've accepted it as reality. I wouldn't say im walking out into the light because I've never really questioned my reality, I have always accepted it as my reality because i can smell it, touch it and see it. This is how i've been taught to determined if something were real or not. One point that has been brought to my attention though is that, if I can do those same things in my dreams, how come I dont take my dreams as reality instead of an illusion?

The only answer I can come up with, is because I can wake up from dreams. But If i were to sleep one day and never wake up, in my mind, that would become my reality. This logic has opened my mind a bit to the idea of us possibly living in a matrix, but how does someone become unchained and walk towards the light? Essentially taking the red pill like Neo in the Matrix. If freed how would i know? What would i see? What would change?