Pulling the strings of the world

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Once I wrote this in another thread and now I'm hereby reposting this in this thread

I actually don't get the feeling that the world is real - or at least real enough for me. I am quite fascinated with the idea that an action can produce some sort of result - as if I was some sort of young child who plays with their toys - with this exception that my playing with those metaphorical toys - the one of an adult person with an adult brain and not the one of a toddler - is carried out on a much larger scale It's almost as if I played with the Sims from the popular video game, while interacting with other people from my environment - every action leads to the reaction, this reaction in turn leads to the whole fantastic world of so many different possibilities - I perceive this as some kind of great tree of possibilities, like a real tree with an infinite number of branches. Such a Terokh Jeruth tree from the Myst universe, to use the game metaphor When I do something, it's practically like I was a puppeteer, pulling the strings, the power behind the throne

Do you ever happen to experience a similar feeling?