Reality And Fallacy

What is real and what's not? Looking at the kitchen clock which batteries are weak hence making the clock slower, I was lulled into a false sense of belief that it's still 7.15pm when it should be 7.30pm.

The Matrix trilogy was excellent in bringing across this point of "The Real" vs "The Really?". How do we know what you see is real because all is not what it seems (you cannot see love but you can feel it and you know it's there in your heart), looks can deceive. Even the heart can lie. How do we know that we are not inside some computer program like The Matrix, that we are only experiencing what we'd like to experience, what we THINK we are experiencing which is actually what someone or something else has programmed for us to feel?

Let's swop the Agents in The Matrix for God. God (Agents) is the one that created and planned us in this big play called Life (The Matrix). How can we be sure that we are experiencing what we ARE experiencing and not what God planned for us to experience?

So many things that seem real are actually unreal. A flower that blooms fades into nothing and it seems as if the flower was never there. Love seems real too until the one you love dies.

I've never had a dream in which I know that I'm dreaming although some people know they are in a dream when dreaming. No matter how ludicrous the dream is, my sense of reality will only hint at something that seems amiss but dismiss that struggle between the real and fantasy. Hence every dream I have feels so real. How then, do we differentiate between reality and dream if you feel that the dream is real?