What if we all instantly awakened to learn that each and every trivial aspect of our ‘reality’ was merely a vivid dream? All our achievements and failures would turn out to be a trifle. Each and every matter that ever agitated us would vaporize into void. Yet, so would our sources of pleasure. All out joys and traumas would turn out to be a stimulation of our own intricate encephalon. Our undivided lives, from the moment we came into existence to the people we have become, would simply turn out to be an extensive fantasy.

What if we were nothing but one of the innumerable experiments of a far more formidable, noteworthy and magnificently intelligent species. “Lets create a novel form of species…” they would say, “with an instinct of survival that would give them the capacity of utmost violence yet a great proficiency to love and reason.”  I imagine that they would command natural selection and dominate its evolution to ensure that it resulted into the current Homo sapiens. And now, they sit back and observe their creation and ponder on whether it is love or greed that would be the victor of this thrilling battle.

What if we we’re nothing but a computer program? All our actions, decisions and feelings programmed within us through a keyboard. We would posses no free will for each and every attribute of ours had already been decided by another being capable of intelligent thoughts beyond our imagination? It would program consciousness and free will to be a mere illusion. There would be no escaping this computerized world.

What if we were the consequence of another individual’s thoughts and creative power? Each time a certain individual was to envision a diverging world; it would come into being in another parallel universe. Perhaps, The same analogy could apply to all of us. All our imaginations, thoughts and ideas would become actuality whilst we were heedless of it all. Seemingly, all extraordinary novels, movies and songs would be reality in other universes. And so, the beings in our creative would, would have their own imagination that would result into new parallel universe. And then their beings in those universes would imagine new worlds and so on, indefinitely. I wonder who was the very initial being to set off this everlasting chain of parallel universes. What would become if this very first individual (or being of any other species beyond our imagination) ceased to exist? Would the chain break and all universes see their end?

 What if another exceptionally intelligent species began observing us from the heavens? What would they make our peculiar behavior as we maltreated our home, put to death our own brothers and drooled greedily over wealth and power? Perhaps, they would throw their heads back (if they have any) and laugh at our endless imbecility. They would ridicule our seemingly feeble scientific theories and sneer at us as we drove ourselves unto the verge of extinction. What if they were currently amongst us? They would conceal themselves as human beings and silently observe, scrutinize and report our peculiar behavior.

What if each and ever remarkable discovery, from the vastness of the cosmos to the inconceivably minute particles of quantum mechanics was a mere product of our own brains? What if, our engine of curiosity was the very creator of our universe? We would turn out to be structuring and shaping the universe around us, as we hunt for knowledge. We believe we are discovering, where in fact we could be creating. What if its all in our head?