Serial Experiments Lain, is and will be absolutely an anime very ahead of its time, and also alludes to a current digital concept based on speculations of the past about technological advances and their establishment in society and how human beings have not developed with the digital concept. The series anticipated technological advances in reference to virtual reality, but at the same time delved into deeper themes such as identity within a digital world and how it seems that your real self does not share an ideal with your virtual self.

Currently, the "virtual self" is very recurrent to be able to hide part of ourselves, a sociological development has been generated based on digital identity, online behaviors and the psychology of identity, through the anime it is seen how the protagonist seems to be in a constant discord of her behaviors in reality and her behaviors in the network making it clear that the consequences that this can generate every action has a consequence no matter where you generate this action always attracts future reprisals, thus demonstrating how interactions in the digital age represent an individual.

"Physical reality is nothing more than a hologram of the information flowing in the network, that's why the body, brain activity, is a physical phenomenon caused by the synapse and its electrical impulses, the body exists only to prove our existence"

Lain's reality at some point becomes a simulation of herself, where her personality is guided by different aspects such as the ego, unconscious where she herself lacks the meaning of who she really is of those who are part of her environment, from that point we can say that her vision becomes monistic of reality and begins to question the nature of consciousness and human existence, in some way her body and mind seem to be separate entities; However, during the anime it is reaffirmed that the mind and body are nothing more than manifestations of the information that flows in the network.

"There's nothing you don't know, I can't tell you a story that doesn't exist (...) every event happens to a prophecy, an event exists when a prophecy exists"

Lain wants to investigate beyond what the network can offer her, however, everything that exists is known or perceived in some way, since reality is determined by information and perception.

"History is not made up of points that we simply travel on a timeline, it is connected by a line, perhaps it is better to say that they are forced to connect"

The story in conclusion of the anime refers to the fact that all connections are related to perception and in some way in the digital age everyone is conditioned or forced to connect. In general terms, the creator of the story innovated with the digital concept, the anime is full of sociological reflections that can currently be taken as debates, digital aspirations have been satisfactorily fulfilled over the years, the digital age has generated more people to connect who generate a virtual identity parallel to your real version, it has also generated that people want to get more involved with technology and explore and do things that they may not do.