Starfang_42 Posted:

I suppose it depends on your definition of illusion. You see, when I hear the word, I think of it in the sense of smoke and mirrors. You are perceiving objects and events which do not actually occur. On the other hand, what we perceive is normally there. It is only when we exceed, knowingly or unknowingly, the limits of our perceptions, that we find illusion. Based on this, I don’t think that the illusion lies within all the universe but our attempts to exceed our limits of perception.

Illusion is not only seeing something that is not there, it could also not be seeing something that is indeed there. The illusion of reality is not a simple series of parlor tricks, but the idea behind the stage magic of Las Vegas and many street magicians is the ability to warp these illusions further, or perhaps to dispel them. Magic is an alteration of perception, from simple glamers to the conjuration of solid objects from nothingness.

Either that, or sleight of hand.