Just a fun thought. How do I know that you're REALLY you? Or that I'm really me? How do you know that I'm really me? That I'm really here?
How do I know whether or not the computer infront of me is real? What about the desk? The keyboard?
What if I'm dreaming? What if this is a hallucination?
What if this computer that may not be infront of me is not really black at all, but, blue? What about the one infront of you?
What if everything going on RIGHT NOW... isn't?
Hah, have fun with anwering THIS one. ^_^
2006-09-26 07:06:32 · 11 answers · asked by Lady Myrkr 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wbyrnes2008 is funny and very correct...did you do it?
I like that school of thought-- "I hurt, therefore I am"
2006-09-26 08:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by endrshadow 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I wake up I'm lying in a bed that I don't recognize. The room is dark as pitch and I can tell nothing about where I am, how big the room is, or if there even is a room. What if I am hanging in the middle of an infinite blackness?
I reach my hands out and realize that I am tied to the table. I frantically look around. The blackness is creating a sense of unreality and I feel like the bed is turning around on its own. I'm sure this is just my skewed perceptions but it is disturbing nontheless. I tug at my bonds but I'm unsucessful at freeing myself.
My panic and fear are becoming tangible. I yell at the top of my lungs for help. I want out. I want to get away. I stop yelling and hear distant echoes. The room must be enormous.
As soon as the last echoes die I realize that I'm not alone in the room. I can hear soft padding of feet at various distances from my bed. There must be a lot of people in the room. How can they see? What is going on? What do they want from me.
Then fingers are running over me. I panic again and start screaming. The fingers continue their relentless probing like they are searching for some blemish, some defect.
The screams are stopped. I can't scream; I can't move; I can't do anything.
And I awoke.
FP
2006-09-26 14:15:07 · answer #2 · answered by F. Perdurabo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, am I really here. On some levels yes.
I choose where I decide to focus and have established an ego to fool myself I need to survive here. You are really me without our personified identities. But that doesn't make a very good story now does it.
The dream is but a dream within a dream. Circles within circles my dear.
The term right now is deep and honestly it is eternally happening.
The infinite is now, and our passions fold the sense of time and it stops happening when we do the things we choose to do and indulge ourselves into pure experience.
Everything exists in the now on the perfect layer, but we have no experience of the everything yet, so we can not recognize it.
There is nothing but the sphere and to realize you are the sphere just creates a larger sphere to explore.
2006-09-26 18:39:20 · answer #3 · answered by Corey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm a goblin living in your computer so i'm really here, i know your there you asked a question (duh) you used the computer the desk and the keyboard to ask the question so they are real, let me pinch you so you know it's not a dream, your computer might be blue i cant see it so i dont know,my computer is gray theres no mistaking it for any other color, it must be going on today is my last day off work it must go ON!
2006-09-26 14:15:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What ever is, is. If all of this is a hallucination, then we are all having it together and the hallucination is the only reality at the present time...... :)
2006-09-26 14:10:45 · answer #5 · answered by bobthrash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good questions. They make you think.
I have no way of knowing any of it. The only thing I know to do, the only thing I can do, is act as if it were all real.
2006-09-26 14:11:08 · answer #6 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is possible that some of the "people" on this forum are really artificial intelligence programs. There really is no way to prove that they aren't.
2006-09-26 14:14:52 · answer #7 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get a hammer and smack your finger with it and let me know if anybody feels anything. I think that will answer your question
2006-09-26 14:09:54 · answer #8 · answered by wbyrnes2008 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What difference does it make? It's still the only game in town...
2006-09-26 14:10:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Try pinching yourself. It works for me a lot.
2006-09-26 14:11:46 · answer #10 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋