~Illusion and Reality~

I googled illusion and reality and quite honestly was a bit overwhelmed with the results it came up with. I was puzzled as to where to start. Wiki was the one I turned to. One thing I discovered was that Reality and Illusion is a movie having to do with a multiple personality disorder. Interestingly enough, guess who came to mind? None other that Don Quixote himself. I thought of him because of the many stories he believes himself to be living in. He is simply Don Quixote, yet also a knight. He sees "battles" or "events" in which he needs to help people, but is he really helping? So, I found this very interesting that I could somehow connect Don Quixote to this documentary film made in 1999 dealing with multiple personality disorder.

I then looked further into Wikipedia to find that in Indian religions, "Maya" is an illusion, but also has many other meanings as well. I was very fascinated by this. Maya is also "the principal deity who creates, perpetuates and governs the phantasmagoria, illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe."(Wiki) Apparently, it may also be a sort of representation of truth. As I googled Illusion, I found many of the results dealt with philosophy.

Reality, as wiki puts it is "the state of things as they actually exist." Philosophically, reality is "nothingness". Poetry immediately came to mind when I read the definition of reality. Poetry is similar to reality in the sense that it is what it is. Also, the fact that reality is nothingness brought to mind Keats' idea of negative capability, when the artist becomes NOTHING, so the work becomes EVERYTHING.

The idea of illusion and reality could become rather complex, but perhaps if we look at it simple as what it is rather than what it "could be" we can make sense of it. Then again...is reality simple? Hmmm....this is something to ponder as my week-end comes to an end!