How can your reality be different from mine?

Question

Reality is not something inside your head (those are fantasies and thoughts). Reality is the things that you can see, taste, smell and feel even if you stop believing in them.

How are the above mentioned different in your "reality"?

Is your sky not blue?
Can you live without food?
Do you bleed when you get cut?

Answer 1

Perception of reality is different for each person,how we view the world around us is totally different.For example,for most people the sky may be blue but for some its the color of the ocean,for others its no color at all in the case of the legally blind who may have no known concept of color,for them the sky may simply be a vibration a feeling of warmth when they lift there face.Being is the only reality,each of us knows what it is like to simple be......to breathe,to feel pain,pleasure,hot,cold,happiness and sadness..that is the only standard for reality.

Answer 2

Everything we experience is in the mind (although whether the mind is in the head or not is a different question). Even so called "outside" sense phenomena are experienced as mental images. All of "reality" is experienced mentally. So any difference in the way our minds process and produce information will make a difference in our perception, whether that perception is of thoughts and feelings or tables and windows. Often any possible differences are hidden by language. For instance, even if we both call the sky blue, you have no way of knowing if we both see the same thing when we say blue. We are ultimately agnostic about anything but our own awareness and existence.

Answer 3

There are two kinds (at least) of realities.

1. Actual reality. This is the world as it is. That is the same for everyone.

2. Preceived reality. This is the world as it appears to be to us. Since we all have different points of view, we may have different definitions of reality.

Sky? It's cloudy today, it's gray. If you are blind from birth, you may not have a concept of blue.

Food? I have fasted for as much as 30 hours (no water either), so you may live for a while without food.

Bleed? Some mystics can be cut and not bleed.

Do you know the story of the blind men and the elephant? Each defined it differently because of where he touched it.

Answer 4

Consider my daughter's version of reality over mine. She forgets her brand new Gameboy in a restaurant, but can't understand why I'm so upset about it. "After all," she shrugs nonchalantly, "You can just go and buy another one."

Perceptions of reality are as diverse as the people contained within it. Blue skies, food for fuel, and bleeding with injury are invariable because they represent certain hard and fast rules within reality: Light and gravity, and physiology and anatomy.

Jesus Christ was mortal, He bled when cut, He died on the cross. But it's how he was/is PERCEIVED that varies from person to person.

Answer 5

In your eyes,this is your world and in my eyes this is mine. The reality is the same it's just how you handle or see things ie: Take a baby to the top of a high building and it will have 'NO' fear! It is only when the baby has learnt or been taught that it's either wrong or going to hurt ( if they fall ) that fear comes in! Oh if you see that someone's reality is bad then try and make it better for them!

Answer 6

Absolutely. There is a god or there isn't. Your reality, my reality, the pope's reality - they're all the same.

The theists just continue to live in a fantasy world, where some invisible super-being is watching over them and smiting them with tsunamis and the like.

Answer 7

certainty is perception. What you think of certainty is, relies on your perception. certainty is a theory. that's no longer absolute. Your certainty and mine must be diverse because of the fact we come across issues in yet differently. We come across issues by way of a clear out it relatively is inspired by our age, gender, environment, own stories, the media, our family and human beings around us, religious doctrine, our exposure to academic aspects, intelligence, the checklist is going on. so which you will go searching the place you're and say "that's existence. that's the international." and that i will go searching the place i'm and say the comparable ingredient, and those 2 recommendations could be thoroughly diverse. Or, if we've been siblings maybe that concept could be rather comparable. We call it certainty even with the shown fact that that's rather "our" unique certainty.

Answer 8

Interesting

Answer 9

after all yes reality is in your way of percieving things and how you correlate them to each other to form your own concepts.. and it is called logic.. so whats reality?

it is logic applicaple to life.. it doesnt fit for some phenomena and falls to others.. it applies for all phenomenas and all experiences you may face in this world.

it reflects your nature as a human.. a human who has the well to choose.. so he sometimes do faults.. a well that makes him search for idealism.. which is not suatable to him as a human.. thus finds the reality in the middle.. because a good thing is something between two poles of sins.. (adultry - marriage - monks life) thus can find harmoney in his life..

a human who have to think to knwo.. and yet can never reach to ultimate knowledge which is only for GOD - ALLAH..

Answer 10

All your reality is inside your head, as mine is in mine. Perceptions might be similar, but even there you get differences depending on deficiencies or just different experiences.