What is real? - Ankkit Modi

Read this only if you have the 'The Matrix Trilogy'... really im not kidding.

'The matrix is everywhere,' informs Morpheus, 'It is all around us. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you to the truth . . .' - The Wachowski Brothers.

The Matrix, released in 1999, is a remarkable film in a number of respects. More so than any comparable film, the script and details of the set design are informed by many different stories and myths. Perhaps even more remarkable is how quickly the film generated numerous articles in academic journals, and an impressive number of books from scholarly imprints devoted to the film. This article is based on reading many of these books and a selection of the articles. Then draws together the way the mythic themes of The Matrix can be regarded as 'metamyths'. In other words, how the script of The Matrix implicitly – and, at times, almost explicitly – engages with the underlying creation of mythic themes. The idea of a 'metamyth' - 'a myth about the eternal processes by which myths, and humans, are made. It reveals the world as a myth…' - Jake Horley (The Matrix Warrior). This idea of the matrix does not date back to the "Egyptian" or "Aboriginal" times as most of the other posts have but that is what this is about, the matrix is right now. But the idea of the matrix brings up various questions which sometimes cannot be answered. 'What is real? If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain .' - Morpheus. What is hard is to make a choice. A choice to believe that the matrix does exist and we are in it right now. If you do then nothing here is 'real', we are made to believe that there is a real world. But what we do have is the power of choice. The most common quote to back this would be 'To be or not to be. That is the question.' William Shakespeare.

The world or idea of creation beings only when you wake up from the matrix.