By contrast, the internet is a kind of Wild West where it is hard to distinguish reality from fiction.
The novelist tells stories to instruct; the psychotic, because he cannot distinguish reality from imagination; the dictator, as a means of exerting dominion.
All Alarcón's characters shuttle disorientingly between art and life until it is hard to distinguish reality from performance, transcendence from escapism.
Classic developmental psychology theorises that young children are often unable to distinguish reality from fantasy but that this ability to believe in the magical is critical to overall development, including enhanced emotional awareness.
On the first of these occasions, some 7 months ago, a scenario from a war game set off an alert by straying into a real-world computer which could not distinguish reality from fantasy.
She seemed to accept the premises of two conflicting realities, a phenomenon known as "double bookkeeping," in which psychotic patients who are able to distinguish reality from fantasy go on living and believing in both.
With easy access to guns and little access to life except as depicted on television and in videos and movies, the teenagers talk like grown-ups and think and act like confused children unable to distinguish reality from make-believe.
One minute Mr. Bale's Patrick is a cowering corporate geek and self-described empty shell, the next an arrogant, name-dropping smoothie, the next a hysterical wimp unable to distinguish reality from fantasy.
Though the movie ("Match Point") is one in which Mr. Allen himself does not appear, it is clear enough that Germain might be one of his lost alter egos, a character ensnared by his own desires and a willful inability to distinguish reality from fantasy.
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