Let's talk about reality

What's your take on reality? Is the entire Universe just in our heads? Or is it entirely external? Maybe both? How can we be sure?

Personally, I think that the world can't be our own imagination, but I'd love to hear your view on the subject.

"Always remember, your focus determines your reality..."

Hope you don't mind if I leave this here for this topic...

http://www.templeofthejediorder.org/forum/47-Journals/48369-The-Book-of-Proteus?limit=10&start=60#92288

Kalkho wrote: What's your take on reality? Is the entire Universe just in our heads? Or is it entirely external? Maybe both? How can we be sure?

Personally, I think that the world can't be our own imagination, but I'd love to hear your view on the subject.

Reality is limited by your mind and your mind is unlimited. Of course it's in our heads. Where would it be if you didn't have a head?

I wonder what an amoeba's reality would be like? :huh:

Interesting topic.

I think it's a bit of both. There seems to be a real and tangible reality one that I can't change with my mind (not for others that is) but my own reality is entirely dependent on my mind. I can choose to have a wonderfully interesting reality or be bored and depressed. It's about which kind of attitude I choose and which parts I choose to acknowledge or reject. That rock in the middle of the road may be there, but that doesn't mean I can't deny that it is and even believe it to be true.

But who knows. Maybe you all are just a figment of my imagination ...and vice versa.

I tend to believe on first pass that reality is the result of physical senses intepreting some physical world, but then I remind myself that I perhaps believe everything is an illusion of relationship in energy, which is just movement, which is just the Force. That always leave me wondering how far does my subconscious reach because I use subconscious to basically mean anything I am connected to without knowing about it. Then my brain explodes.

What sort of question is that

If you me and everyone else we share consciousness with didn't exest would there be a reality? Is the force the only reality? Then of course if we weren't here would there be a force?

Wendaline wrote: Interesting topic.

I think it's a bit of both. There seems to be a real and tangible reality one that I can't change with my mind (not for others that is) but my own reality is entirely dependent on my mind. I can choose to have a wonderfully interesting reality or be bored and depressed. It's about which kind of attitude I choose and which parts I choose to acknowledge or reject. That rock in the middle of the road may be there, but that doesn't mean I can't deny that it is and even believe it to be true.

But who knows. Maybe you all are just a figment of my imagination ...and vice versa.

I can't remember all of it but it goes like this:
Do you exist? Yes
How do you know? I think therefore I am
So if you exist and I exist then what is real? Whatever we can both agree exists

Whyte Horse wrote:

Wendaline wrote: Interesting topic.

I think it's a bit of both. There seems to be a real and tangible reality one that I can't change with my mind (not for others that is) but my own reality is entirely dependent on my mind. I can choose to have a wonderfully interesting reality or be bored and depressed. It's about which kind of attitude I choose and which parts I choose to acknowledge or reject. That rock in the middle of the road may be there, but that doesn't mean I can't deny that it is and even believe it to be true.

But who knows. Maybe you all are just a figment of my imagination ...and vice versa.

I can't remember all of it but it goes like this:
Do you exist? Yes
How do you know? I think therefore I am
So if you exist and I exist then what is real? Whatever we can both agree exists

I like it.