Alternate Reality

Alternate reality is usually a synonym for a Parallel universe.

It may also refer to:

  • Alternative universe (fan fiction), fiction by fan authors that deliberately alters facts of the canonical universe they're writing about.
  • Alternate Realities (Cherryh), an anthology of science fiction by C. J. Cherryh.
  • Alternate Reality (video game series)
  • Alternate reality game, a type of cross-media game.
  • Alternate Reality, A psychedelic dance music DJ/VJ team based in London, England.
  • Virtual reality, simulated reality.
  • A euphemism for "psychedelic experience".

Famous quotes containing the words alternate and/or reality:

    “Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “However, it can’t be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they who gradually introduce reality which is so often the enemy of impulse. There is anger with mother and hatred is somewhere even when there is absolutely no doubt of love that is mixed with adoration.”
    —D.W. Winnicott (20th century)