Inside my brain – age 7

A: Please follow along…

1. Imagine a disco ball
2. Turn the disco ball inside out so the mirrors are on the inner surface.
3. Inflate the inverted disco ball so it is as large as your house.
4. Cut a door in the side of the disco ball, climb inside with your newborn child, and turn on a light. You are now inside your kid’s brain.
5. Continue inflating. As the sparkle-room expands, things around you slip through the door – a blanket, a stick from the yard, the neighbors cat, a piece of tinfoil, a kid from down the street, etc.
6. Look at how all the new things reflect off the mirrors of the disco ball, and how the reflections are then reflected by other reflections. It’s all very shiny, and will no doubt make your kid very happy.
7. Eventually a T.V. will slide through the door. If you turn it on, it will create a most magnificent show inside the room and your kid will be enthralled. But because it’s so bright, it will the only thing that gets reflected off the mirrored walls.

Does that help? If not, don’t worry. You’ll soon have much bigger questions to worry about, like “Should I tell my kid he’s living his entire life inside an electronically-generated multiverse, or should I just let him have fun?”

(The attached illustration was created on kaleidolism.com – try it yourself!)