Is This All Illusion?--A Paragraph a Day

The idea that what we consider to be our "reality" is actually illusion intrigues me.  I've seen many movies and documentaries that make the argument that what we see isn't really what we think it is, and I've read many books and articles that claim the same thing.  It's a fascinating idea to think that what we think is surrounding us every day could actually be all or mostly in our heads and our imagination, rather than what we think it is.  This is a hard concept to wrap our minds around, it's true, especially when we consider things that we consider to be "solid," like our houses.  Is it possible that the reality of our houses is simply an illusion that we all agree to, and which therefore manifests itself as reality in our minds, where it really matters?  The idea was explored in the film The Matrix, which shows our reality as a computer program that's being fed into our brains to make us think that we're actually living our lives, while in truth we're functioning as living batteries, a power source for the electronic beings that are now in charge of the planet.  I think it's important to consider such ideas as possible--even remotely--whether we actually believe them or not.  It's only when we look outside of what we've come to consider as "real" that we can start to appreciate the vast amount of possibility that this life provides us with.