How to decide on an objective reality? In “The Yellow Pill,” by Rog Phillips, two men are in constant debate about what is real. Although they never agree at the same time, the two men change their minds as events progress. As the story begins, "Elton" examines a patient, Jerry, who is accused of murdering five supermarket shoppers, a police officer, and injuring two others. Jerry is convinced that the two men are on a spaceship and that he only killed Venusian lizard pirates in self-defense. Because Jerry is so sure and confident of this spatial reality, "Elton" begins to question his own reality. He takes a yellow pill and wakes up to find himself on a spaceship. The hallucination is broken; he realizes that he is really Gar Castle and that Jerry was telling the truth. Although the men never agree on reality at the same time, they both agree that the Yellow Pill cures hallucinations. Jerry says, “They [yellow pills] can only harm an illusion” (Phillips 2). Gar also states: “They [the yellow pills] almost triple the strength of the nerve currents coming from the ...