Would we ever know? I don't think we ever will, unless we would experience this seperate reality in a coma ourselves, and fall into the category of those who did not live to tell the tale. But what is death? Does it really matter what we think or believe? If this reality, or life we live, has anything that follows, would we be able to stop, start or inlfuence it?

"Morpheus: If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain"

It is possible that the reality we perceive, is in fact being created by ourselves. But not knowing about something does not mean it exists or not. Gravity did not begin to "happen" when Newton wrote an equation to describe it for the first time. It has been there all along.

I guess what I'm aiming at is to say that we can never be sure whether we would die for real if we died in a dream, never be sure if we would die for real if we died in this life.In fact by not being sure of reality at all, how could we be sure that the past or future is real, or that we existed at all?

(Back to my padded room and a benzo nightcap...)