Intro

"What do we know … of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have." - H. P. Lovecraft

The concept of factual reality is little more than fiction, invented by humans to comfort our lack of understanding of the world, and our irrational need to make sense of everything. 
There's a theorised notion of the "other", a nameless, shapeless and indescribable sense, the unknown and a term used to describe all that is indefinable, in short. Reality, and everything that pertains to it is more of a concept than anything else, there is no way to prove the irrefutable existence of reality beyond our own perception. One of the things I love the most about Lovecraft's work is his ability to not only understand this but use it in his literature, to play around with the notion of alternate realities and the fact that there is very little difference between reality and our own imaginations or psyche's.

This will be my main source of influence throughout my script and fiction when creating narrative designs within this blog and hopefully one day in a professional environment. My love of the fantasy genre is nothing new, it has retained a heavy influence throughout my life and toward most aspects of that life, however as much as I love the pseudo medieval fantasy worlds of witches and wizards, dragons, goblins, knights and elves, of the work of writers such as Chaucer, Tolkien, Carroll and the classic fable of Beowulf, my obsession with fantasy goes beyond just that.
Fantasy is, to me, the contrasting concept to reality, anything we identify to not be a part of the "real world" and so with that anything that is either conceived of or embraces the idea that there is no one true reality, or perhaps none at all. I've never believed it made sense to confide one's perception to the status quo of "this is reality" or "that's just how things are" nor to trust one's perception to provide proof to the existence of anything. Not dis-similar to the script and storyline behind The Matrix, though not limited to just that. In other words reality is nothing more than what our brains allow us to experience, there is no way of knowing if the people we talk to, the things we eat, feel, touch etc. are actually there, or what "there" even is.