'Toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son'

"All life is a dream, and dreaming as well." - Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681)

This week, there've been posts doubting the truth and questioning the accuracy of memories.

There's been discussion of a remarkable syndrome called Charles Bonnet, in which visual loss is accompanied by hallucinations which "fill in" what the eye fails to deliver to the brain.

Finally, there's been reference to the near-realistic quality of the newest videogames, and their tendency to so immerse the player that it's "like reading a book and watching a movie."

What do all these things tell us?

Well, they tell me that it is becoming increasingly clear that we indeed create our reality and the world we think we live in, rather than simply inhabit it and pass through it.

If this is the case, then it should be quite reasonable to believe that we can indeed create our future, just as it appears we create our present and past.

It seems to me that there's a quiet, unstoppable revolution in our thinking taking place, which is going to result in an entirely different view of ourselves in the world.

I predict we will take an increasing role directing and framing our lives - not so much in what we choose to do but, rather, in how we choose to view and value what we do.