Real life is a phrase or term referring to life in the real world. Life is a state that distinguishes Organisms from non-living objects such as non-life and dead organisms being manifested by growth through Metabolism It is most used to mean life or consensus reality outside of an environment that is generally seen as fiction or fantasy, such as something on the Internet, virtual reality, a dream, a novel, a movie, a hallucination, or a delusion. Personal life (or everyday life or human existence) is the course of an individual Human 's life especially when viewed as the sum of personal choices Consensus reality (rarely or mistakenly called "consensual reality" is an approach to answering the question 'What is real ?' a profound philosophical question Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Virtual reality ( VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a Computer-simulated environment be it a real or imagined one Dreams are the images sounds thoughts and feelings experienced while Sleeping, particularly strongly associated with Rapid eye movement sleep. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story A hallucination, in the broadest sense is a Perception in the absence of a stimulus. A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed False Belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false fanciful or derived from Deception Online the acronym IRL can mean "in real life", with the meaning "not on the Internet"^[1] (see below. Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are Abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name )

It is sometimes used synonymously with real world to mean one's existence after he or she is done with schooling and is no longer supported by parents, i. A school (from Greek σχολεῖον - scholeion) is an Institution designed to allow and encourage Students (or "pupils" e. the practical world versus the academic world. ^[2] A person with experience in "real life" or "the real world" has experience beyond book learning.

Real life can be a controversial term. Some people use it as a value judgement to describe "productive" activities, specifically jobs or the support of one's family. However, many speakers use the phrase in an ironic sense to describe an alternative to their own activities, which may be valued as more important. Irony is a literary or Rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or Discordance between what one says or does and what one means or

Contents 1 Online 2 In literature 3 See also 4 References

Online

The abbreviation RL stands for "real life", with the meaning "not on the Internet. For the HTML tag see HTML element. An abbreviation (from Latin brevis "short" " For example, one can speak of meeting in RL someone whom one has met in chat or on an Internet forum, or of an inability to use the Internet for a time due to "RL problems". An, or message board, is a Bulletin board system in the form of a discussion site

The phrase "in real life" is often replaced with the acronym IRL. Some prefer the expression face-to-face, abbreviated f2f. Some internet users use the idioms face time or meatspace, which contrasts with the term "cyberspace". Internaut is a common term for a designer operator or technically capable professional user of the Internet. Face time is interaction or contact between two or more people at the same time and physical location. Meatspace is a word referring to Real life or the physical world, and conceived as the opposite of Cyberspace or Virtual reality. Cyberspace &mdash from the Greek el Κυβερνήτης (el kybernētēs steersman governor pilot or rudder &mdash is the global domain of electro-magnetics accessed

In virtual conversations, "RL" is often used to refer to the nonvirtual world as if it were a separate place. This is especially true when the virtual location is realistic and engaging enough that someone might confuse the "real life" subject of the conversation with its virtual equivalent. Suspension of disbelief or "willing suspension of disbelief" is an aesthetic theory intended to characterize people's relationships to art

In literature

Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself.

—The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky^[3]

The Real Life comic strip is named after the concept of a divide between the internet and reality. The Idiot is a novel written by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky and first published in 1868 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, Dostoievsky, Real Life is a Webcomic drawn and authored by Greg Dean Begun on November 15 1999 and published on weekdays the comic is loosely based around

See also

• First Life
• Meatspace
• Off-line
• Quality time

References

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