It is not easy for me to release the tenacious grip I have on the illusions created by my mind. However, that grip is slipping. For many years I have lived in a world of virtual reality. I am slowly beginning to peek around the goggles that have formed this illusory world for me.
This should not be a big surprise for me. I often use modern technology that mimics the virtual experience that occurs so naturally for me. I often experience the presence of friends on FaceTime , using a technology that creates virtual reality. I have the assistance of a multitude of devices that send energy from where they are to where I am.
Using FaceTime, I sit in front of a device that displays a virtual image of them complete with sound. Just like that, I experience their presence, even though they are miles away from me. I feel their presence and respond to it, even though we are apparently separated by great space. Unaffected by a notion of space, I experience them as present.
The same would be true if they appeared in a recording. I can experience presence independent of time because devices have created an illusion which I respond to. Technical devices have created a virtual presence by transmitting energy and information.
It is easy for me to imagine that my mind makes a world present much like a DVD player makes images on the DVD present to me. I see and touch an ongoing hologram, and my mind creates the reality.