Perception is reality

Straight truth up in hurr.

 

Very happy to see this post. Many people around me dont understand this concept, for somereason this topic is not largely understood.

 

perhaps you should clarify what you mean by "reality"

 

Yes i suppose your definition of reality differs from mine. I consider reality to be a "set in stone", ultimate truth, without bias or opinion, what actually is. I consider reality to always be...real..as in, it always is..we just percieve reality differently than it really is. Subjective vs. Objective...reality is always the way it is, we just dont always(or perhaps ever)see it for what it really is.

 

you: perception is reality
me: what do you mean by reality?
you: reality is perception

i'm not "over-thinking," i'd like to examine your claim but, without your more clearly defining what you mean, it's impossible. seems to me you're not really making a philosophic statement but really just playing with words, idk

 

oh lawdy

 

Can reality be defined?
The way you perceive your existence is your reality. Reality is your perception of your existence. Two ways of saying the same thing. Change your perception, change your reality. It's simple, not complicated.

 

There's an individual reality as seen by a single person, and a consensus reality that contains details a majority of folks can agree upon.

I went through a psychosis for a few years. Made my reality pretty interesting - though now I don't really know who I am.

 

I think this too. But I think it's more than just believing complete lies... think about it, the only two things sure to be created in a growing society are language and religion; one to communicate and one to explain, a science. So if everybody's science is different, then they are all complementary to one another in some way. It's all the same experience to the same goal: divinity.

 

>asks if reality can be defined
>defines reality

anyways, you're working with a different definition of the word reality than me so there's no real disagreement here

 

Yup, we can't know what the world truely is because every creature has a different perception, our perception of things is just our reality

 

Perception is not reality.

There are all kinds of things in reality, that are going right in front of our senses, that we can not perceive

The senses we perceive reality with are lacking.
We see only a very small percent of the light that reality has in it.
We hear only a small percent of the sound spectrum.
And so on and so on.

It's possible perhaps, that we can indirectly perceive some things that our senses can't not actually sense.
You can not see the big black bird flying across the dark night sky, but you may surmise its presence by the stars it blots out.
Waves of stuff we can not perceive must be criss-crossing our perceptions all the time, blotting out little bits of what we think of as reality.
That is a more interesting concept, to me, than what the exact nature of reality is.

To make a long story short: We simply do not have the right tools to understand the nature of reality.

MindSlinger

 

Word.

 

you could get more complicated with that though. someone could believe their reality is a game with limitations and rules, like the 'brain in a vat' theory. there are experiences of constant fear from government abduction that plays an active role in a person's life even though the threat is never real. Rationality is dependent upon experience. Reality should be discovered, not defined.