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:
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
—Henry James (1843–1816)
“Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one.... The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)