For this assignment, I watched the movie Inception (which had been discussed in class but I had never seen). You can read about the movie at ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception or at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/?ref_=nv_sr_1 where you’ll also find trailers.

This movie places a bank heist inside a philosophy question: What is reality and what are dreams? Other movies, such as the matrix, have also explored this realm, (though rarely in such an eerie and unsettling way) as well as books such as Tad Williams City of Golden Shadows. The closer we get to convincing virtual reality, the deeper we go into that uncanny valley, and the more we get nervous about if we’ll be able to tell the difference, and even if we do, if we’ll care.

Sadly, for people who have Derealization disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derealization , they take these fictions to be their reality: that reality is a fiction.