Is This Real Life?

The kid in the famous YouTube video (the one where the young boy is still coming down from a dental drug high) expressed it well - "Is this real life?" I understand what he means.

I was driving down to the southern tier of New York State, rain spitting on the windshield, daring me to decide between slow wipers or moderate. I hit the middle of the state - some point where the valley opened up to display the Allegany Mountains, the fog rising up in places, reminiscent of the rain-dampened fires of so many Iroquois tribes from years past.

I wondered if I was here or back there. I wished I could command the car to hover precariously over this 19th century Romantic landscape. I wondered if I was there - or here - or anywhere, for that matter. I wondered if this was real life.