Reality is our own Creation

Collection of thoughts about reality.

I'm left with a lot of time to myself, to think.. as many have instructed me not to considering the direction my thoughts often to to take. And in my Psychobiology class, I have been continuously pondering what reality is.

Phantom limbs perplex me. Being able to FEEL a limb, FEEL the pain related with it, while the appendage is not actually there. With the scientific facts surrounding the topic, it causes me to question what reality is, and is it all just our own psychological perceptions. Could we all be the heroes of our own tales? Victories fought for and won within our own world, what would that all mean. Perhaps we are a species that wants this. We search for answers with faith and fact, however neither can answer everything.

Ask any scientist about the consciousness and they'll say "I ain't gotta clue". How can that be? Ask a man or woman of faith and they'll say "It's the soul, intangible but if you believe it's there, it's there". Even more out of reach.

Reality could merely be an illusion. There is a theory of the consciousness entitled: Mentalism. It states that what we perceive is within our own creation. That each of us control our own separate world. Everything seen or experienced within these worlds we have created. The only thing I would say to counter that would be that we cannot control these worlds if we are their creators, [oh how swell would that be!] Or maybe we can, we just haven't reached a certain level of understanding. Perhaps those like the Buddhist monks who have reached enlightenment have learned, and within our own worlds, they are our guides on how to take control. Perhaps the afterlife we so seek is through understanding our own world, not faith.

But reality seems so surreal. It just doesn't ever seem to sit right with me. I see things, illusions while driving. The fact that humans strive for time travel, yet we do it on a daily basis. Start driving and during that drive, miles will seem like feet, and minutes will feel like seconds. Another illusion.

The line between what is real, and what is imaginary seems to be as thin as a row of electrons. [That is if they are indeed REAL]

Any Thoughts?

Reviews

[roarke]

Lots of thoughts. Sounds like you do a lot of reading in between thoughts, cool. I get lots of ideas from reading, the internet is a great vehicle for creative writing prompts. As the old cliche goes, "Truth/reality is stranger than fiction" and I concur. Consciousness, Time, Perception, Reality... all broad strokes and being aggressively re-defined in the hype of the technological revolution.
Reflect on these ideas, save these writings and visit them again in a year, five years, ten years... how have your thoughts and words changed since writing this? In other words, where does this train of thought lead you? Some times you can answer that immediately, other times, it might take a lifetime to decipher. Keep thinking the big thoughts.

[Jūdan FyreHeart]

I'm a practising pagan so my take and understanding on reality most likely differs to that of the average or 'normal' person.

On the idea of phantom limbs, they (from my perspective) come down to what's effectively an energy body. This energy form can be projected and present outside of the physical shell. As you mentioned, it comes down a level of awareness etc.

The concept of being able to manipulate our surroundings (within my beliefs) also comes back down to this whole energy thing. We can alter and manipulate the energy around us. Different folk have different skills but it all leads back to that same basic premise. It's all complicated and not something I've got my head entirely around yet.

At the end of the day, we're trying to get our head's around something which is untangible, unquantifiable, it's all down to perspective. For people to truly understand something they need to be able to box and label it. The human mind (from my understanding) is a bit like a filing system. To be able to use and get around information it needs to first have it in the right folder so to speak. As this can't really be done with reality, consciousness and other big philosophical questions we find ourselves going round in circles.