sensory deprivation, LSD and psychosis. |
December 19, 2005, 5:38PM |
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by: Satchell topic: Philosophy bookmark this article view bookmarked articles go to archives |
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| How do you tell what is real, what is a dream or what is a hallucination? Dreams are a bit obvious because your asleep but then there are sleeping problems like insomnia. I hear you don’t know when you’re asleep and when you’re awake. Then there are daydreams which are mostly just fantasies but often turn into full fledged dreams where you totally forget about what is happening around you. Then there is drug use... I don’t take drugs simply because I have a hard enough time as it is figuring out what is real or not. Forget about how drugs affect people for a moment... the body is perfectly capable of creating its own drugs and giving you a high. Ever been in extreme pain or had an orgasm? You know what I am talking about. Sensory deprivation for example causes you to hallucinate because the lack of stimuli. You are quite literally left with yourself and you project yourself onto your surroundings. So with all this warping of reality how can you be sure of what reality is... what it really is? You cant. Not really. Reality is left with the experience of the majority of life. The common experience. Here is where it really gets tricky.
Collective consciousness is the river of information that everyone has access to. Everyone creates reality. The stronger minded ones are the lead designers while the lesser minded don’t do as much. With all this said you start to question math and science. How reliable can they be with all this twisting and manipulation of the world? Simple. Math and science are built on the concepts we think with. With math it’s a simple question of concepts and numbers. With science it’s a simple question of the dominant tendency, which is what reality is built on right? Right! With psychosis you don’t even need to take drugs. Your brain already has fun things in store for you. Here is the other side of the argument... if everyone thought one person could fly (actually 100% believed in them) they would take off in flight. Not because they were actually flying but because everyone believed they could. So with all these mind altering states where does this leave everyone? In a constantly changing and self-altering reality but how real is a reality that is made from the thoughts of people? This is where quantum physics kicks into gear. Matter as it turns out isn’t solid. Everyone knows that sandwiches are made of atoms. Atoms are made from protons, electrons and neutrons. Protons and neutrons make up the nucleus while the electrons fly around in this cloud around it. If you do a Google search of a picture of the atom you will see that they are round orbs. This is incorrect. They would have us think that these little bastards are solid but alas they are not. They are made of even smaller bits called quarks. Now remember that Google search picture of the atom? Very deceptive they were. They showed the electrons and protons and neutrons as being close but in reality they are quite far apart. If a proton were the size of a football the electron would be a football field away. Now we are breaking that even smaller with more space between parts into quarks. God knows what quarks are made up of. It gets to the point where you start to look at matter not as solid objects but energy. It has been proven before that even thoughts are made of energy. Would I be overly bold to say that matter was made up of thought? That your whole body is made of thought? Look up the book "Messages in Water by Dr. Masaru Emoto." he changed the shape of water crystals by using thought. This proves that matter can at the very least be affected by thought. What if this world we live in was not real? (No I haven’t seen the matrix one too many times) what if our 'souls' were using this place as a learning tool? Reincarnation... its all very possible. Thank you for reading. |
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