Are the things people perceive real?

Everything is an illusion: The illusion hides the truth

and shows humans something they believe is there. Only being there out of persuasion by their
emotions, beliefs, senses or anything else that convinces them of a lie. One can take the
example of the love in a Midsummer Night’s Dream: Helena can not believe it when Lysander (
her best friends [ Hermia’s ] lover ) and Demetrius ( the one whom she loves but does not love
her back) are both fighting over her attention. Hermia ( Lysander’s ​true​ lover ) can’t believe it
either; convinced that Helena was to blame for all of this chaos. What the two women do not
know though is that the trickster , Puck , poured love potions into both men’s eyes. Making all of
this an illusion that Hermia and Helena believe enough to want to hurt each other and end there
,ever since childhood ,friendship.

First off, illusion’s are not meant to last forever. They are only meant to be in that time or
moment for a split second; enough time for the observer to “ appreciate ” whatever is seen,
heard, touched, tasted or anything else of the senses. Most if not all humans have eaten food;
whether the food is a simple sugared bread or Oreo cookies. One can taste the flavor but even
this is an illusion. How? The taste fades away like any other thing and even if the food may not
have a taste, it too “ disappears ” until one becomes hungry again. Another example of reality
being an illusion would be beauty. A beautiful model can be the most gorgeous thing a human
has ever seen. Their perfectly formed head, their clear skin, their toned and built body, their
beautiful eyes whatever it may be, eventually that same beautiful model will “ age with time ”
and become “ imperfect ” ( source 4 ). Making that beauty look like it was only meant to last long
enough for people to notice. Not necessarily keep forever and awe over for eternity.

Second, going back to ​A Midsummer Night’s Dream​, When Helena was chasing her
lover in the forest, ( the lover being Demetrius who hates Helena for her annoyance / obsession
over him ) he kept on calling her names and even threatening to hurt her, “ And I am sick when I
look not on you ” ( line 220 ). Helena not caring what he would do or say because of her being “
love blind ”. Thinking of Demetrius as “ flawless ” and that he is “ everything she wants” ( source
5 ). The love that Helena believes is there is only an illusion. Even though it may be real to her.
Demetrius is also under an illusion of reality, believing that he is in the woods looking and
searching for Hermia’s love. When in actual sense, he only wants Hermia ( not her love
)because her father ( Egeus ) approved him to marry her and not Lysander. This concept of
being love blind ties into perception. That what one wants is ​there​ but at the same time, it is only
a false creation innovated through wanting of something. If one is hungry, they will hallucinate
food but only because of what they want to see. For if the human was not hungry, the human
can care any less about burgers.

To argue, illusion can only be derived from what is know as “ real ”. It exists only within
one’s imagination. Those images a dreamer thinks of “ are necessarily drawn from reality ” (
source 3 ). For example, one can think of one’s crush and of them being together but that would
not actually mean the daydreamer and lover are actually eloped nor would it mean that the two
are on a date ( Helena in a ​Midsummer Night’s Dream​ is guilty of this throughout the whole play
with Demetrius right up until the end when they actually end up together ). The only way one
can compose such a thought or idea does not come solely from daydreaming, but from the
things the human already knows. The daydreamer knows that one, they like him / her, the
daydreamer knows that two, it is unclear if the crush likes them back otherwise why would one
imagine a date, one knows that three, the “ lover ” feels some type of emotions for the crush and
that the lover in a sense, cares for the so called crush. All this illusion about dating the most “
beautiful “ person comes from real life knowledge and facts. Not the other way around of there
being no reason and logic behind what one feels and experiences. But even this is an illusion,
because the thing’s one imagines can actually be true. The daydreamer dreaming of dating the
crush can ​actually ​not be as fantasy as they think. The crush can like the daydreamer back, the
only problem is, the daydreamer does not know it and is living in the lie of an illusion.

Lastly, reality being an illusion can not only surpass religious points of view ( like Noah’s
faith which made him built an ark to save his family even though he did not necessarily hear
God’s voice or see the danger of the world drowning, he still listened and was saved unlike
others who did not believe ) but illusion’s can also pass scientific points of view to. Which should
come as a surprise to many because of science being the “ realest ” thing humans know to
mankind: Earth was made by water and rock and all the basic elements of the periodic table,
humans breathe oxygen, the sky is blue, the sun is approximately 10,000 degrees farenheit,
wood is composed of tiny materials made up together, there are approximately 7.4 billion people
in the world, whatever the case may be, illusion is in every part of every life no matter what
perspective one is looking at it from. Even death can be an illusion because of how people still
believe their lovers are still with them and how they never left and only their bodies have gone,
not their spirits nor the memories of them so they are still very much alive. Going back to the
scientific example, the example can be simplified to a particle which has “ neither a definite
position nor a definite velocity ” ( source 7 ) so does this mean particles do not exist? No, to put
it in easier terms, a human is made up of millions upon billions of cells but this does not mean
humans see other humans like they would under a microscope no, humans see each other by
the cells composed together not separate. This gives the illusion that human actually do not
have cells since the cells are not visible through the naked eye, but if one were to look under a
10x magnifying glass, their perspectives would change on what is real and what is not.

In conclusion, reality is not what humans think it is. Reality is what humans try to claim
as the simplest thing in order to understand the most complicated things in existence. But
mankind can never tell the infinite possibilities that are out there. Mankind would never find what
it is looking for which is the meaning of life. Mankind would never find the answer because of
the different point of view humans have on life. Illusion fooling many of them to the point where
they would build the biggest things and discover the greatest discoveries. So, are humans living
in an illusion? Well, one can only tell and look so far and say so much yet would never be
completely satisfied with a definite answer of “ yes ” or “ no ”. That there always has to be
something more than that.