Illusion is a word that we force our mind to think that everything is perfect. It can also be something we sight for desire. Illusion can be described as a hallucination, where people can see the future we appetite for. From the movie, The Matrix the character Neo is being introduced to the Matrix by Morpheus and Trinity, but has no idea what the matrix was at first. But soon to find out that the Matrix is the real world, but living on earth was an illusion. This movie can be a great example of an illusion because it describes that an illusion is something we see, touch, hear, smell and taste.
From the movie “The Matrix”, at the beginning Neo tries to find out what the matrix is, so Morpheus states: “The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.” And his perspective of the matrix was living in an illusion, where the reality isn’t real and our eyes are being force to think that the illusion is reality. But from Cypher’s perspective from the movie, the reality world wasn’t satisfying him, where his eyes were craving for the illusion where he can be satisfied with anything he wants. From the movies perspective an illusion of the matrix is something we can portray with our senses, just like cypher where his craving for money and food in the illusion world called reality. This can be a great example from the “allegory of the cave” by Plato, where he describes his perspective on illusion is being ignorant.
The “allegory of the cave” Plato describes how these slaves were in the cave from childhood and has no idea about what reality is to them. They think that reality and the world is in that cave, for instance Socrates states: “the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun and you will not misapprehend me if you interpret the journey upwards to be.” But from Socrates perspective, the prisoners were to decide if they wanted to be scorn by others, and live with the truth or to live in a lie and be ignorant and live in an illusion is what some prisoners had to decide to live with. This statement can be compared to the Matrix where Neo had to choose to want to know what the Matrix is, when Morpheus makes Neo choose if he wants to drink the blue pill where he will go back to the reality world in the illusion, where this can be compared to living with a lie and being ignorant and living in an illusion. And the red pill is where he can find out the Matrix, and this can be compared to living by telling the truth and being scorn by others. Socrates also stated: “and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive someone saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion,” In my opinion, this statement is that the reality is an illusion.
Hallucination is what we define as an illusion and what we portray in our brain. Neo sees that the real world was in illusion and from “allegory of the cave” Socrates also perceives that reality is an illusion as well. Illusion can also be a fantasy to allow us to see whatever we want to see, but in Neo’s case anything you plug into your brain is an illusion.
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