What is reality?

Something struck me during the course. People we're judging the people who played online games like Second Life. They thought it was foolish for people to invest in something that they considered as not-real.


But what is reality then? It's not like those people sit behind their computer playing Second Life all day, it's just not possible to survive this way (well at least for most of us ;-). They are just entertaining themselfs, wasting time, because with everything we do we are 'wasting' time. Are the people watching television not being real?

I believe we make our own reality, try to imagin someone on the other side of the planet, they are living a different kind of reality then you. But still it's reality. Reality is something we created, just like we came up with the 'Sun'. Most people consider it as the bringer of all life on earth, but as soon as you pay a closer visit it is considered as a place called hell! Think about it..