Alternate Reality

Alternate reality is usually a synonym for a Parallel universe.

It may also refer to:

  • Alternative universe (fan fiction), fiction by fan authors that deliberately alters facts of the canonical universe they're writing about.
  • Alternate Realities (Cherryh), an anthology of science fiction by C. J. Cherryh.
  • Alternate Reality (video game series)
  • Alternate reality game, a type of cross-media game.
  • Alternate Reality, A psychedelic dance music DJ/VJ team based in London, England.
  • Virtual reality, simulated reality.
  • A euphemism for "psychedelic experience".

Famous quotes containing the words alternate and/or reality:

    “I alternate treading water
    and deadman’s float.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “That reality is ‘independent’ means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.”
    —William James (1842–1910)