es attempts to resolve this very problem in his Meditations where he tries to resolve the concept of reality, and how we can be sure that what we see is actually reality. In his different Meditations, Descartes uses several methods to establish some sort of "real." In this first Meditation, he uses doubt. In the second he simply tries to find something that he can be certain of despite deceit by our senses. These different methods continue through six Meditations, but even at the end of his works, it seems that Descartes has not reached a certainty that we know what we see at any given time is not a dream or deceit of some type (Pojman 73-94). Essentially, Descartes' arguments are extremely debatable, can be and are questioned at several areas, and are non-conclusive. It seems so far that we cannot be sure that what we see everyday and what we think we know is not a dream or deceit of some sort. Despite the arguments for either view of this problem, it seems impossible to prove or be sure that we are not living a dream.
             Another issue of the above problem that is pointed out in The Matrix is the so-called "Alice in Wonderland" effect. Basically, the reference in the film suggest that if we are living a dream, or deceit of some sort, would we not feel like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole if we were suddenly "awaken" and shown the "truth." This reference made in the film seems to hint at the concept that we may not be able to handle waking from our dream lives into what is actually real. Maybe "tumbling down the rabbit hole" would be too much for the human mind to handle and we are actually better off living a dream and being "content" in carrying out our everyday lives in what we perceive to be real. After the character Morpheus makes the reference to Alice in Wonderland by telling the character Neo that he understands how he is feeling, he offers him th...