Many people have had odd moments of deja vu or things that don’t quite make sense – and to some of them, it’s a clue that we are in a simulated reality. A new documentary from Dogwoof focuses on these people, and Paul Simpson chatted with its creator, Rodney Ascher

I had expected that it would be the story of say, six people, who all believed that we were living in the Matrix and that intercutting the moments where they first became convinced about it and how it changed their lives would be a fairly straightforward checkerboard. I had read a lot of stories particularly on Reddit boards of people who’ve experienced bizarre coincidences and seemingly impossible misadventures that made me think I was doing something that would be a non fiction Twilight Zone. But it very quickly morphed into something hopelessly complicated.

Click here to read the full interview, and for our interview about World on a Wire, based around a similar theme, click here.

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