Question that makes one wonder.?

Question

Do you guys ever feel that you're the only ones on this earth and everyone else is in your imagination? Like, how do we know everything is real and not just your mind telling it is?

It also feels like, when you can't see something or someone, it doesn't exist at all.

Answer 1

How do we know we didn't just end up where we are a second ago with all our memories intacted? How do we know what is here isn't a dream and what we dream isn't the "real world"? How do we know we haven't lived before and died and this is really heaven or hell? How do we know anything except with our senses. Do you believe you are real? Then you are. Can you touch the table in front of you? Smell the flowers outside? Hear the cars go by? Taste that ice cream you had? see what I just wrote? Your senses are telling what is real. Or something like that. Good luck figuring all this out. I'm still not sure :-)

Answer 2

I've thought about it before, especially after watching one of the Matrix trilogy. You could never be just a mind, floating in space, fooling yourself about a physical world. If you were, all of us, our questions and answers, your friends, school, higher education, the government decisions (especially ones you don't like) would all be in your mind. You would know test scores before you got the test; you would be telling that boy behind you to cheat off your paper. You would be telling your boss to give you, or not give you, that promotion, telling your spouse/significant other to cheat on you, or be mad at you, or to refuse to help with the dishes. You would tell the termites to eat your house, you would be telling your body to get sick, or the ivy to grow up the tree outside.

A real "Matrix" situation, where computers control our brains, use our electrical impulses as energy by using us as batteries? I don't see how it's impossible. I don't believe it, but not believing it is a preference; I've no physical evidence to back it up, one way or the other. In fact, there's no way to really prove it; even if we die and go to "Heaven", it could just as well be a digital Heaven that the computers built to keep us alive longer. God could still be real, of course outside the computer, but we'd never really meet Him.

There's one problem I have with Matrix being a real situation, though. That "if you die in the Matrix, you die in the real world" thing. If the computers put code in the connections for the wired, contained humans so that, when they die in the Matrix, then they are killed in their pods, that's one thing, and believable. But when Neo and his team are wired in, that's not a "proper" connection. It's a "rogue" connection; if the computer doesn't know they're there, it can't kill them when they "die". And I surely don't believe that their minds have the power to part their skin or short-curcuit their brains.

In either case, I have decided it doesn't do any good. Fun to ponder, but it doesn't make me run faster, or loose weight, or drive better. It doesn't change how I choose to live, what I believe; if anything, I can see only how it would serve to make me depressed if I could believe it. Believing that computers controlled me, what I could accomplish, and whether or not I die would make me claustrophobic, and feel hopeless to accomplish anything. So, for me personally, far from doing any good, it could actually do harm.

Answer 3

There are research studies of when people realize they are not the only ones. Babies realize things exist even though they are put out of sight, teenagers realize they are not the center of the world and learn to be part of the social group. Maybe you are encouraging yourself not to mature. It seems with TV, games, lack of play with others early on there is becoming a real, social interaction problem.
This maybe a brain chemistry phenomenon. DeCartes would be fascinated by the neurological studies.

Answer 4

Sandy higher up on the list mentioned solipsism: This is now actually a field of scientific study called"Quantum Physics".Its starting to look more like fact.But there are still many questions.Any article on quantum physics will help you understand that what you are feeling may in fact be true for us all.Dont let it scare you

Answer 5

yes I often like to think in that way. You already subconciously knew that I would say this though. You just wanted me to tell you this to help you understand the imaginatory world you have created for all of us. In actuallity, when you are not around all of the people outside of that area all stand clustered in storage units, waiting for their turn to present themselves to you. By the way, I like the trees, nice touch

Answer 6

I've thought about that. I've also thought about if one person sees for example the color blue, another person sees the color orange. I'm real and I just hope I'm not talking to robots on this site, lol - that was a joke!

Answer 7

atleast i think like this becaz u know i am the worst contry in the world and name is saudi arabia. this is my bed luck that i have to come here for earning the money and i m earning good but for the life here nothing . even i can not make any girlfriend here and without girl i dont think any boy can live.

Answer 8

Nope, I never think that way. I am here with all of ya, just one human to add the the 1 billion or so others.

Answer 9

Check out Solipism and Nihilism. These are two different approaches to answering this question.

Answer 10

Dude that happens to me all the time! It's a weird feeling...kinda like the whole world revolves around you...kinda selfish actually...but ya..it happens to me!!