In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave he discusses reality and how it is directly influenced by one’s own perception. The idea of my own personal reality is one I have spent many nights contemplating. As proposed by Plato, reality, even if it is a lesser reality, is still a reality to someone who hasn’t been yet been enlightened. Even though the one prisoner was released from the cave and discovers that everything he learned since childhood was false, he cannot return the cave and instill his wisdom into