The Not-So-Invisibility Cloak

This cloak is the idea of self which we project to others – who are doing the very same thing. It has no reality, but we believe that others can’t see our disguise. Pure consciousness is x-ray vision, while we ignore this in favour of a mutually accepted social contract of behaviour.

When we’re young, we are taught to believe the dream, and ignore that we have a true reality. We play and act in others’ dreams. Just take watching a sport; first, we just see it, but then we watch others over-react and do the same. Instead of silent appreciation, we make gross noises.

That is the disguise we all wear, be it politics, entertainment, science, religion … we jump on the bandwagon of illusions, never admitting that we aren’t actually interested in the hoopla, and all the unnecessary fuss because we know that such an admission would upset those around us.

It’s all smoke and mirrors*; when examined closely, it proves to be an illusion.

This is our life.
But there is so much more.

*Smoke and mirrors is a metaphor, originating from 18th and 19th-century phantasmagoria shows, and describes deceptive, fraudulent or insubstantial explanations.