I saw Vanilla Sky over the the weekend and I couldn’t quite figure out why no one liked it. Maybe because the movie-goer was forced to think? Not only did you have to think, but it made you think about things like reality and your place in it.

The movie certainly dabbles in Science Fiction with a twist at the end that is unexpected and very interesting. But I started to think about it in terms of our own reality. At what point are we all just making our own reality? We do it all day long.

When it comes down to it, we all live in our own reality that we construct out of our perceptions of what is happening. Someone doesn’t say good morning to you and suddenly you can think of 4 reasons why you think they don’t like you or things you have said that might have made them mad. Your boss gives you one project instead of another and you wonder why you were given that particular one and your co-worker the other. Someone cuts you off on the freeway and suddenly they are a jerk of terrible proportions with only self-centered attributes.

Do you get what I’m saying? Are any of us living in the “real” world? Or do we just construct our own little reality based on our perceptions of what we see about us? And given the chance, would you want to wake up so that you had to face the reality as it was? Or would you rather just stay in your own world, making the puzzle pieces fit how you may?