Of course it's all very real to us. As I warned, there is no red pill. We're stuck in here, for better or worse, and there's no escaping to the higher realm(s). But as a civilization which prides itself on being self-aware, it seems to me that this is all taking self-awareness to a whole new level.
But I actually find it oddly comforting. I've even noticed a big difference in how I cope with adversity, especially at work. I work in retail, and had a few rude customers tonight... one guy was totally going off in my face, but I didn't let them get to me. Before learning about all of this, I usually couldn't help it. I always took things too personal, and too seriously, and would get angry or frustrated, but now I'm more relaxed and laid back. Now I consider the crazy people to be merely another test in the game... and I'm pretty good at passing tests.
I was raised as a Baptist Christian... am quite familiar with Catholics, and my wife and family are all quite religous, but my quest for enlightenment started long ago, watching stuff on the Science and History channels mostly, about how the religions all came about, and I had come to believe that there was no God... I was an Atheist for the past couple of years... but now everything, especially life-after-death, is up for re-evalution... and now I suddenly believe that there obviously is a Creator, but he is a computer programmer, but there are many "Gods", basically each of us has our own "higher self", and we are the avatars for all of the players of this massively multiplayer online game which more than likely has the name "Sims" in it's title... Sims Universe, or Sims 12, or Sims 2000.
Imagine for a moment that we are the "real" civilization. At the rate computers are advancing, in probably less than 50 years, our offspring will have quantum computers capable of generating this level of simulations. And the people who create the Sims games, can create a new Sims game about the universe and the history of human civilization, as a MMO, which people in the near future can play on their personal web devices, which may be built into their glasses, watches, or possibly even implants, with brainwave or neural interfaces, so to send a command to their player in the game, they merely need to think it. Those programmers and players would be like Gods to us. The pineal glands in our brains are the receiver/transmitters. Some of those videos, maybe in the workshop series, which I didn't post because this thread was taking too long to load as it is, theorized that while we may have some free will, we don't really generate our own ideas... it only seems that way.
Now as likely as it seems that our civilization will accomplish this level of realism in simulations in the relatively near future, and then WE will be the ones who play God with our personal avatars, then it follows that the ones who created us, and are playing our game, were not likely to be the REAL civilization either. We may actually be at the tail end of a long train, or succession, of virtual/simulated universes, spawned inside of parent virtual/simulated universes. But it seems more than likely that the original creators, were people just like us, but with more advanced computers.
I also find it interesting to consider all the great mysteries that this could explain, aside from the nature of our universe, such as how people like Nostradamus and Einstein got their information... and why so many people have mental identity issues, such as feeling trapped in the wrong gender body, being plagued by unwanted thoughts, and voices in their heads, to things like channeling, Déjà vu, and re-incarnation.
