Life like the Truman show?

Question

Did the movie The Truman show seriously make you think twice about your life. It really freaked me because everyone in your life could be actors/actresses and watch you like Big Brother, but you wouldn't know, you'd have no idea. Just imagine it. It actually made me really paranoid for a while! I know its weird but can you just imagine if your life REALLY was like that?!

Answer 1

Shakespear put it very well. This is a very profound message about what are lives are like.

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lined,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything

Answer 2

In Eastern philosophy something similar is believed to be the case. Our 3-D world is an illusion hiding us from our higher reality as expressions of Undivided Consciousness.

Refer to the Advaita Vedanta philosophy of Indian mystic named Sankara (circa. 780-820 AD). Sankara is even referred to in the Indiana Jones Temple of Doom movie when Jones explains the meaning of the Sankara Stones. New Agers teach that we arranged things in each life with other recruited 'players' while still in between lives (incarnations).