Yes ... but is life 'real'?? It's a mind play ... all in our mind. Our mind receiving a hectic array of signals which 'convince' us we are in a real world. An array of signals which are controlled and altered by outside forces which are desperate for us to believe the scene before our eyes. But ... it is all the mind. It is the mind which sees. It is the mind which hears. It is the mind which tastes. It is the mind which feels ... the signals convince us otherwise ...
We merely witness and don't actually take part. We are connected into a mind scape ... but have been conditioned to believe we are really within this world. But it is only a virtual representation. It is a hologram. It is not existence. It is not life. It is not all there is. It may well be a replica of where we really exist. But ... with the moral situations we 'experience' here added ... the reason for our involvement and participation in the situation ...