Step out of reality....

Stepping out of reality is a ridiculous concept. What does it mean? What is the definition of reality? Let's explore this.

First it’s important to talk about the meaning of reality. Reality is everything that a person experiences and considers "real." The definition of "real" according to the dictionary is "of or relating to fixed, permanent, or immovable things (as lands or tenements); not artificial, fraudulent, or illusory; capable of being detected." These definitions can be condensed down into a simple definition: "predictable pattern." A predictable pattern is fixed, not illusory and is very capable of being detected. This is our reality. Nothing more than ants on a mission, we need our pattern and our predictability. So with this definition it is easy to escape reality. All we need is to mix things up.

A different argument is that reality has a more literal meaning. Reality, literally, is anything we experience, see, do, think, feel, smell, hear or taste. Everything we do is happening. It is real. There is no way to escape reality. Unless everything we do is interpreted differently by someone else. Maybe I am exceedingly happy but someone thinks I am sad. My reality is I am happy; theirs is that I am sad. Who is right? This brings us to a major conflict. Either what we see and experience and interpret is reality, or what someone else sees and experiences and interprets is reality. Broken down, this means our reality is either inescapable or nonexistent. What if everything we do is misinterpreted? That means our reality does not exist. Reality either is or is not.

The common meanings of "stepping out of reality" are going somewhere out of the ordinary for that person, drinking or doing drugs and watching a movie/reading/watching a play. By our first definition of reality, this makes sense. This is all a means of stepping out of the predictable pattern. This is all escaping reality in a very shallow manner. The truth is, it is impossible to escape reality.