Philip K. Dick spent his career writing about false memories, alternate worlds, and people discovering that reality wasn’t quite what they thought it was.

Then, in 1974, something happened to him.

Join host Robert Barber as we follow Philip K. Dick’s 2-3-74 experiences — a series of strange events that left him questioning memory, time, and the nature of reality itself.

Three years later, at a science-fiction festival in Metz, France, Dick would tell an audience:

“We are living in a computer-programmed reality…”

What happened to Philip K. Dick in 1974?

And how did those experiences lead him toward ideas that would later be compared to simulation theory?

This episode of State of the Unknown explores one of the strangest chapters in Philip K. Dick’s life and the mystery behind his belief that reality might not be as fixed as it appears.

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