What do you think?

The Hard Problem mostly, and all of the obvious questions that follow, like for example .... how is it really possible that there is no fixed physical world, that the reality is - we live in a virtual reality that was created by our brain, and - matter doesn't actually consist of matter



And you? what kind of thoughts occupy your mind?

I poop at 9am every morning. That is my reality.

Interesting topic. How would it apply to our discoveries in science etc?

Or whos to say death isn't just life but inside out? Our brain releases a chemical called dmt 3 times in our life. Once when we're born, then through the middle every time we dream at night, then once more when we die. Some call it the spirit hormone. It's kind of funny we spend our whole lives trying to avoid the end. Just trying to hold on to the now as long as possible. But do we ever truly live in the now? And what is a dream? It's like a virtual projection of our memories, obstacles, and emotions. But the whole time we just want to make it to the end. To find the one thing that finally makes sense. Then the only thing that ends up truly making the sense is life, the moment we wake from the dream.

To me life is backwards from death. It's about trying to avoid the end and living in a physical world where we feel, and things have a reasonable explanation which we use to figure out the mysteries in life. Death is the complete opposite. It's just a vision in a non physical world with no really feeling, and all you want is to find the end. To find the light that takes you back to a physical place that makes sense.

The brain releases dmt upon birth because it's the last vision of the portal you came out of, dreams are just visions of where your conscious will eventually return, and death is the portal back to the place you came. Until your life day comes and your forced to face the physical world again.

Posted by GetMisted

I often think about the realities/perceptions of others. What are they seeing? What are they hearing? What would it be like to see the world through their eyes? Is it the same as my perception of the world, or different even though we're experiencing the same thing?

If a person is partially blind, or color blind, or nearly deaf, etc ....... how they perceive the world is completely different from how they would have if they weren't color blind. In fact, since matter is on constant flux, to see it now looks different from how you might see it 10 minutes from now.

I love it when I come across someone just staring at something .... it's this awe you speak of - what do they see?

Posted by jukey

... the idea that it's all a shared illusion ...

Mind boggling, isn't it?

And yet, that's exactly what it is .... so, even though we may believe that our consciousness is our own exclusive entity, really our consciousness is a part of a bigger collective.

Like a big woven carpet, and we are merely threads dangling and have been our whole lives, so we don't really acknowledge that we're actually a part of a ....


borg? lol

"The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics essentially states that an object in a physical system can simultaneously exist in all possible configurations, but observing the system forces the system to collapse and forces the object into just one of those possible states. Schrödinger disagreed with this interpretation.

So what does this have to do with cats? Schrödinger wanted people to imagine that a cat, poison, a geiger counter, radioactive material, and a hammer were inside of a sealed container. The amount of radioactive material was minuscule enough that it only had a 50/50 shot of being detected over the course of an hour. If the geiger counter detected radiation, the hammer would smash the poison, killing the cat. Until someone opened the container and observed the system, it was impossible to predict if the cat’s outcome. Thus, until the system collapsed into one configuration, the cat would exist in some superposition zombie state of being both alive and dead."

Schrodinger was actually illustrating the ridiculousness of all possible states being present at the same time.
There is a concrete reality, but our perception of it differs.
I am of the belief that discussions of heaven/hell are really about how we "set" our perceptions.
Ironically, a movie example would be "What Dreams May Come". The wife, in her despair, her perception of what was before her, became trapped in a "reality" of her own making. The Robin Williams character was able to break through that perception, and things changed.

Posted by Nemilicious
When the doors of perception are cleansed,
things will appear as they truly are...
-William Blake

Paging Jim Morrison......

I also think a lot about our (earthly humans) place in dimensions/other realities ..... maybe we are the ghosts to others.

Times when I know something moved out of the corner of my eye, or times when you feel things or sense things that you cannot rationally explain ..... instead of it being ME having weird stuff being done to me, as if I am the center of all .. in another reality, I'm being done to them, I am the apparition.

Maybe the corner eye movement, or strange happenings are alternate beings that's being haunted by me.


Maybe we are the dead to them.

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the nature of reality should be unconsequential to one's behaviours in life, one way or another

A truly Pisces thread.

Belief is such a thing. Its madness made real.

I think it all stems from belief. If you believe in a flat world, you'll live in it. If you believe that geography is tangible, then you can't equate it to a fluid world.