[Pikku Myy]

I am confused about the entire concept now I feel like a person, I feel emotions, and I worry. I just can not get it in balance now. Help me understand your thoughts

[Travelinglady]

"Real" seems to be what people agree upon is real. (Does that make any sense?) I mean, folks seem to agree that the Earth's sky is "blue," for example.

Well, maybe that's a start in answering this question.

[RichardBrooks]

Science, religion, and philosophy are all attempts to answer this question, and not only do none of them have a clue, but they can't even agree on how to go about answering the question. In the end, there is no definitive proof beyond the cogito, and looking for one is an exercise in futility. That leaves us with two options: fall into the abyss of solipsism, or just say "fuggedaboudit".

[yumi]

To be honest, I don't know what reality is anymore I've even been studying the holographic universe theory lately and am even more confused of what reality is I'm beyond frustrated with life.

[Onward2wards]

Reality is very subjective. It is whatever we think it is (based on our experiences so far), modified by whatever everybody else says it is. Which reality makes you happier and more functional, without ignoring basic facts? Answering this question has kept therapists, philosophers, spiritual thinkers, and people who make infomercials occupied for years.

You want to get really deep and talk about vision... which is what our perceptions of reality are based on? No, let's not

[Gus1234U]

for a long time i have thought that Consciousness is the only thing that is indivisible, ie: real. i suspect that the strings in 'string theory' vibrate because of consciousness. at any rate, my teacher (buddha) said that the ultimate reality cannot be described, only alluded to. i stick with that.

I have a pretty mechanistic view of life. Human beings are merely another variety of life that happened to evolve on earth. If we could rewind the videotape of life & replay it, the chances that the human species would again come to be are vanishingly small. Anthropologists tell us 99.5% of all of the species that have ever existed are now extinct. So there is really very little reason to think that this will not happen to Homo sapiens as well sooner or later. Time is simply another "veil", so to speak, over the eyes of human beings, a construct of the brain, as is how we imagine ourselves to be living on a flat surface when in fact the earth is round. Yes, the concept of "now" is elusive. But, for me, there's nothing mystical about it. It's just another "outgrowth", if you will, a construct of the brain, that results from the fact that, for a brief time, we exist.

[Pikku Myy]

Just trying to see the blue sky Thank you for your thoughts