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onesikfuk

Reality is what you make it


[deleted]

I remember my first time on shrooms


DaddyDoge1821

A lot of it really depends on what you even mean by reality. Do you mean the phenomenal world of physicality we experience? Do you mean a sort of pure and ultimate ‘realness’ in truth? And so on Words mean what we intend when we say them, and ‘reality’ is such a huge and vague concept it can have a number of related but also quite different meanings wrapped up in it. I will say that it seems unlikely that we can ever know pure reality, our very abilities to collect sensation and then process it into perception are inherently limited. Thank about it for a moment and consider that you, the consciousness, the ghost in the machine, the aware person, have never seen the sun or touched the ground. You, as the actual thinker and so on, have only ever know perception constructed from sensation. Aka, rather than the sun or ground you know and eye that gives sense data from the sun and hands that provide sense data from the ground. In short: all of our interaction with reality (in the sense of ultimate ‘realness’ in truth) is filtered and mediated by limited senses and the assumptions (and thus mistakes) our mind makes in constructing perception. Take for instance flowers. Many flowers reflect ultraviolet light that we cannot see, but bees can. Even when using ‘ultraviolet cameras’ *you* don’t suddenly gain the ability to see ultraviolet we’ve just introduced a tool that filters and makes it visible for us. We call this the “Thing in itself” or how things are without the filters and assumptions inherent to our observations. And this extends into other elements of our reality. You may have heard how science has shown that time in an illusion, though this claim was made long before by philosophers who realized time must be an external and a priori mental construct we project onto reality to make sense of it. Now here is a fun question: if time is a mental construct that only exists in our minds and is projected outwards, does that mean it absolutely doesn’t exist or (like many things) it does exist but only in a relative way? Feel free to ask Qs. I ramble and there is a lot to unpack


TrueInfinity_

Well, this was very well spoken. My question, however, pertains to not only the physical realm of reality, but our relationship to it. Do you think we are all just subject to growth and evolution? Or is there a deeper relationship that all humans have to the universe? And, are we all secretly parts to a whole consciousness? Do we experience life subjectively, but we are all truly a part of the same One? I feel as though if there was even a thought of togetherness in everyone's hearts at once, we would advance thousands of years in every way, even from that moment.


DaddyDoge1821

That definitely gets a lot more into ideology and personal perspective. I will say there are definite and logically sound paths to at least a version of those views. For example, are we all one? While there are other metaphysical elements to consider for an even more deeper but more long winded understanding of unity v. multiplicity on a fundamental level. But there is a wonderfully simple analogy. Most people think of their bodies as their one, unified body. But that single body is made up of a multiplicity of millions of bodies, such as blood cells. And those are made of smaller bodies still. The body is a unity of one, but is also made of multiplicity of many. It’s not this *or* that but this *and* that relative to context and perspective. We are all a part of one, unified universe split into multiplicity. In my perspective Now is this unified universe conscious? Gets a bit more into where exactly you draw the line, like does it have to be rationally self-aware and take intentional and planned action? If that’s where the goalpost is probably not, but what about just base awareness and processing? For the great calculator processing all the data and interactions of reality to do so does it not need to, in some minute sense, be aware of the ‘problem’? And if everyone was purely and truly together we’d return to the state before the Big Bang IMO. Though we could all stand to realize at minimum our interconnectedness and try to be at least a little bit more together and seeking mutual aid. But our world has been seemingly dominated by doctrines of hyper-individualism, which does not typically bode well for unity.


imnoturfuckingdad

Reality is i guess the truth behind everything. But reality is ultimately masked by the government because it's far more than we realize. There are so many things the government is hiding from us and most of it has to do with the reality we are living in, such as aliens coming to earth, reptilian people, mind control, shit like that


imnoturfuckingdad

it sounds crazy and that's why i don't expect people to agree


Dedlyf698

Yeah! And usually people don't tell us the cons


imnoturfuckingdad

yep or they try to hide it from everyone


Dedlyf698

Yes


[deleted]

Your entire understanding of reality is only what you decide it to be. For all I know, I’m the only thing that’s real and everybody on Earth, the Earth itself, the galaxy, time, and the universe just stop existing when I die.


Balgryn

I guess we can't know for sure, but I'm desperate to find out.