Whose illusion? Why, yours and mine, Slag! ;-) And everybody else's here. We all had to have bought into the illusion in the first place or we wouldn't even be here.

I'm glad you're enjoying your life. If one is going to have a dream, better that it be a happy one than a nightmare, right? My particular dream is probably a bit different than yours, but we've fairly much agreed on the larger aspects of the playing field in the dream...just not on our exact interpretation of those aspects, that's all.

In other words, we both agree where the fence is, where the 30 yard line is, where the goalposts are, where the grass is...but one of us thinks the fence is ugly and the other one thinks the fence is attractive. One of us thinks the game is the be-all, end-all, the other thinks it's probably a waste of time, one wants the blue team to win, the other doesn't really care, one wants cotton candy, the other would rather have a hot dog, and so on. Just a matter of individual taste, I guess.