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i know that everything that i perceive is real to me and that i create my own reality. but am i the only mind that truly exists??? for example i can perceive anything i want to, but the fact is, is that i am not the only living thing experiencing and thinking things right? you exist, animals are real etc right? regardless of how we perceive them right? this is just so confusing and i have been struggling with this for a while. the thought of my loved ones and everything as i know it, is just my imagination and none of it is physicaly real is just a downright scary thought.

is there a physical dimention in which we all exist? tere has to be right? or else what are we perceiving?

Answer 1

Ok, well, I can tell you that I exist. Obviously, you exist also. So we both exist, are both human beings, both inhabit planet Earth, both are on the computer, both have typing skills, and we both ponder the relevance of reality. That is our shared reality. However, I have my own reality that includes where on Earth I live, my name, my background, my own thoughts and feelings, etc. As do you.
We each have our own reality. Some of it is for our eyes only, some is shared with people close to us but not others, and there is some that is shared with everybody. Then there is a whole lot that isn't in our reality at all, but is in other's.

Hope that helps!
PS. Thank you for joining my reality for these few minutes.

Answer 2

Joe, I just answered a similar question but I'll answer yours as well. It is a very tough question you ask because there are many uncertainties and levels of human understanding. If you believe that you are the architect of your world and destiny, why worry about anything outside of yourself? The closest to truth you will come is what "you" believe to be true, right? If you say the sky is blue and I say it's red, who is "definitely" right? What if I really do see a red sky due to a pigment disturbance in my eyes?

It is not as scary as you think. Whether your mind is the only mind that truly exists or not, how does that change the world? People (imaginary or not) will still be going about their business and behaving like they always have. I believe the only thing that matters is your own perception of the world and how you deal with it. As long as you are free to create your own reality, why worry about other people's reality or alternate dimensions.

It is good for you to conceive these other possibilities but it sounds like you're really stressed out about it.

Answer 3

You confuse imagination with physical existence that consisted before you were conceived and will consist when you die.

Your "perception" of existence has no bearing upon physical existence unless you "physically" interact with it "through" your body.

You can imagine worlds all you want and be the god of your psychological universe, but unless your brain can move atoms independent of your body, all of that energy wil remain in your head.

You are allowing your imagination to become your reality, as if you were living in "The Matrix". If you cannot tell the difference between the dream world and the real world, you are trapped in the nightmare of your own creation.

You are on this Yahoo! Answers forum asking this question. You are not dreaming. You are alive. From this physical reality, measure the truth of what is and what is not.

Answer 4

I think, Therfore I am. That has been a philosophical question for many years.

There have been other theories along this premise such as the brain in a vat theory, (ie: we are all thinking brains hooked up to some mad-scientist's big vat and interact only with our own imagination...this idea later was changed a little and used as a premise for the Matrix)

but thinking and feeling are too real for all of this to be imagined or a dream, (although anything is possible)

Answer 5

ur question made me smile i dont know why
but somehow i think likr u but simpler a lot and with more perception

1st relax, i bet u r suffering from insomnia , because ur mind just doesnt stop

give urself a break and believe that we r only living in 3 dimentions
so we r not experiencing all the existing knowledges

because th universe is more than only 3 dimensions, 4 or 5 or 6 or more dimension no1 is sure!

so naturally YOU as a human being cannot be fully aware of everything happening around u

u even cant be 100% sure of your knowledge if it's right or wrong

the only solution to rest ur mind is to believe that our Knowledge is limited

Goodluck :)

Answer 6

You are not the first to have struggled with this dilemma. Get a copy of the works of Rene' Des Cartes (1596-1650) who famously struggled with this same problem and came to the conclusion, "Cogito ergo zum."

I think there is a reality out side my mind but have no proof other than: you and others seem somewhat like me and we agree on some things. Good luck.

A poem from the 17th or so century about the reality of the tree in the quadrangle of Cambridge Univ. in England:
A thought prayer:

There was a young man named Bod
Who said, "Isn't it extremely odd,
That the tree ceases to be,
when there's no one about in the quad?"

Answer:
"I'm always about in the quad.
That's why the tree
Never ceases to be!
Yours faithfully,"
GOD

Answer 7

Everyone has their own brain and thus their own faculties of thinking. Therefore from that vantage point, everyone has their own perception, just like you have your own, and I have my own. But I also believe that there are faculties greater than us that have a slight influence over how we feel to be as well. For example your cells have all their own lives, organs, they excrete waste, they eat, and interact, just like humans do with one another, but yet the function of the whole (aka you as a person) dominates their true action and intentions, their purpose if you will. Not that I know of anything that truly would have that type of effect over one another but I do believe our intertwining perspectives and expectations jurisdict the direction of the worlds fate, if it can even be called that. Meaning if enough people believe one thing, the effect of that intention will have a powerful effect on the course of things as we see them.In other words, that if enough people believe in god, then there is a god in that perspective respect of the term. Do you see the logic? It's all person to person or opinion-based, so in that sense there is no right or wrong, Simply what one believes or what one does not. I believe all things are one, so I do believe there is a connecting force within us all that drives us, some connections stronger than others. Like how identical twins seems to be able to read one another's thoughts at times. So in that sense of the phrase I think that yes, others minds are just as real as my own and that they are all connected, but yet all individual in their own respects. I believe there are many dimensions, as science likes to put it, that we all exist. Thus, you can't base it to one main phrase of theory because it could be many, if not all possibilities at once.

Answer 8

To answer your question one has to look towards Quantum Physics and the relations to all things to another. Although we may feel that we are our own thinkers and "destiny" we have to realize that everything we come in contact with has bearing on up-coming events. An example I like is..... If you pass by a homeless person and just look at them and they see you looking, in reality you have put an impart on their life as well as your own. We are creatures, mammals, that are programmed by learning, this is something to remember. Back to the Quantum Physics, our live are like the planets in that it rotates in an elliptical orbit and although we don't see it we influence many lives in our own. That person on the other side of the Earth can be influenced by us even though we may not physically see it. Think about it commerce reflects this. The person in China, on the other side of the world makes a shirt we wear the shirt and think it looks great on us and the shirt inspected by this person boost our ego, does this inspector not impact our life??

Answer 9

Consciousness exists as a spectrum, the frequency we are tuned into in the moment determines what we are or are not aware of.

Answer 10

This sounds like a GOD complex.
Thoughts are matter..therefore if you've thought something you have brought it into being. That's why we should be mindful of our thought process and always seek understanding.
You're as real as you THINK you are. A man is a product of his thoughts. As a man thinketh so he is. That's biblical.