Trapped Inside This Illusion

If this was just a dream, then please let me wake up right now. I want to know what is real and what is not. Like what Descartes had said, everything can be doubted. I hope that I am not one who is trapped inside this illusion. [Image on left from Dreamsleep]

Remembering the movie "Beautiful Mind", the question about reality and appearance popped out of my mind. What if I were like the person in the film- John Nash- who had the disease? Life seems to be normal out here and nobody thinks that I'm crazy. But what if these were all just a part of my illusion? It might be that I'm still inside a dream, being deceived by an evil genius according to Descartes. I wake up from the bed yet I'm still asleep in the real world. This is just another dream. I cannot trust my senses- what I see, hear, feel, smell and taste. Even if my brother told me that the best way to know reality is through hurting the self (for when one feels pain he would wake up from the dream), all of these, including the pain, might only be created by my mind..my imagination. As what the Allegory of the Cave said, people such as me can be ignorant of reality and knowledge. I may still be trapped inside the cave, seeing the shadows that I thought were the only things in this world. A person could have escaped from the cave, but that might not be me. How then can I see reality? How can I ever be sure that I don't have the disease that the person in the movie had? Am I still dreaming? [Image on right from Crazyaboutmovies]

Maybe I won't be able to answer that problem. I'm not as great as the philosophers in the past. When my prof in philosophy raised the topic about Descartes' methodic doubt, I suddenly thought that I might be unconscious right now.. perhaps a sick person in a mental hospital who is trying to type on an imaginary laptop. But there's one thing that I can be sure of. There is something that makes the doubting possible. I agree with what Descartes had said. This subject matter which enables one to doubt is no other than the mind itself. It is an indubitable fact. If the mind exists, it follows then that I exist. I just hope that I would soon escape from this illusion..this state of ignorance (if I ever was). To those who know that they are not dreaming right now, please wake me up..bring me to the state of consciousness..if it were true..