Even though I have heard of similar concepts to the false memories in "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", I thought that they were more convincing in it than in any other stories about false memory that I know of. But more than that, I thought that the concept of Quail's repressed fantasy seemed very familiar. I have had cases where I have felt like my memory was wrong, but I never seemed really poignant. However, I have often had a feeling like something very significant I my mind was repressed, and even though I can’t tell what it is, I feel like I am very close to it- almost like my mind is somehow stifled. Has anyone else ever had this kind of feeling? It seems so “realistic” to me that I think that Dick must have. In a way, I think that their world, at least before the very end of the story, is an ultimate utopia and an ultimate dystopia. You can find, and fulfill, your ultimate fantasy, but you can never really know any kind of “real” truth.

Even more than that, though, I thought end of the story showed how we can never rely on any evidance- just those last few paragraphs change any thing. More than that, it made me think of something else- what if all of these illusions form an infinite loop- if so, there is really no such thing as reality. However, even if there is one level that is “real”, does that matter? If not, maybe reality is a meaningless concept, and only ideas have any of the significance that we attach to what we see as real. As I saw with how the end through me off, reality (as within the story) can be extremely arbitrary. But then again, what if our conception of logic itself is some sort of illusion- for example, if this is just a simulation on different rules of logic in some alien supercomputer. And I think that we can't just say logic is “fundimental” and the same to any possible reality, because we already have a counterargument to that type of reasoning- time. We cannot, for the most part, think of time as anything but fundimental to whatever could possibly exist, but we know now that it is just a dimention of our universe, and that it is possible that there are other universes. Some scientists have suggusted that universes can even generate each other, and that a universe could even generate itself, or its own “mother”. So, if time is not universally true, then maybe logic isn’t either, so we can't even reason with any confidence, and maybe there is no such thing as truth.