How do you know your so-called dream is not a real reality

Jacey 2022-04-19 09:01:03

I understand two things: 1. It is an endless loop, similar to "Terrorist Tanker", which is in line with the grandfather's paradox. No matter how hard the protagonist tries, he will not be able to change the future due to various factors. (But the appearance of little James seems to indicate that this is a parallel space) 2. Is it a time-travel or the schizophrenia of the protagonist? There are too many underground worlds that have been seen in the surface world. So, which world is the real one?
This is in line with the psychology of a real time traveler, and he begins to suspect that his original world is actually an illusion, which is all imagined by himself.
One more level: how do you know that your so-called dream is not a real reality?
I think I need to organize my thoughts before writing

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    Title Card: ...5 billion people will die from a deadly virus in 1997... /... The survivors will abandon the surface of he planet... /... Once again the animals will rule the world... / - Excerpts from interview with clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990 - Baltimore County Hospital.

  • Jeffrey Goines: All the doors are locked too. They're protecting the people on the outside from us from the people on the outside who are as crazy as us.