i have a problem.......im freaking out about solipsism!!!!!?

Question

what if solipsism is right and only i exist? and everything and everyone are illusions created by my subconcious mind, but im expereincing everything through my concious mind? please, prove me wrong. its a distressing thought that wont go away!

if you need to know what solipsism is then please read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

Answer 1

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Albert Einstein

What you are experiencing is nothing new. It is only new to you. The ancient Vedics knew of this phenomenon thousands of years ago.

Here is a marvelous revelation:
Since your universe only exists to you, only you can have full control over the events and circumstances in it. Train your conscious mind to enter the realm of your subconscious to create the world you desire. Some people call it the power of intention. Some label it faith. There is no poverty, war, hunger, or despair in my universe. They do not exist. Children do not suffer here.

Time is also an illusion. It does not exist.
Eternity is not an unending line of time that extends from the past to the future.
Eternity is the absence of the illusion of time.

Einstein also said, "Time and space are modes in which we think and not conditions in which we live".

Separation is also an illusion. "I am my Father are one".

It sounds a little kooky, but it's true. Very few people are trusted with the insight you have gained. Only old and spiritually-advance souls are allowed. It's nothing to freak out about.
You are on a wonderful path. Enjoy it!

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Answer 2

I'm not spiritual, so let's cut the unprovable spiritual wack and get practical. I can't absolutely prove that anything exists outside of my mind. For a while that kind of bothered me, too. It doesn't worry me now because its not something that's practical to worry about. Here's why.

Nobody can 'prove' absolutely that the sun will rise tomorrow because that is inductive logic, not deductive, so we are generalizing from specific sunrises to the general rule that the sun always rises. Is it practical to worry that the sun will not rise tomorrow? Would my life be better if I acted like the sun might not rise tomorrow? No. Often its wise to make assumptions and jump to conclusions that aren't technically warranted, but follow common sense.

It's practical for me to bank on that sunrise. In the same sense, I feel that it's very practical and improves my life greatly to assume that there's a world out there and it's not all in my head. Now, if some sort of evidence appeared that supported solipsism, making it more than just something that's technically possible but seems unlikely, then I'd worry. Until then I'm sticking with the logical shortcuts that aren't technically right but turn out to be correct 99.999...% of the time, meaning I'll assume the sun will rise tomorrow and, furthermore, that there even is a sun.

Answer 3

Well if thats true then you best do your job as God and try to find a way to make thouse people in your mind real! lol or you could just accept the fact that everyone else is real and you dont need to work to make all of us real... I have had the same thought at many points in my life and its one I kinda have to squash pretty fast or it will start to get ta me. How I squash it is by the fact that I know im not God because I dont know everything and am not everywhere at the same time...

Answer 4

Here's something to help you out: If each of us is existing on a separate plane of consciousness, then we wouldn't know each other. However, we DO know about each other, we can feel each other's presences around us--even when we CAN'T see each other. And we feel in our souls that these other people are actually with us, and I doubt our minds would be able to concoct THAT. We can interact with each other, and share knowledge of experiences together. If we were living in a solipsistic universe, none of this would be likely.

Answer 5

'An epistemological position that one's own perceptions are the only things that can be known with certainty. The nature of the external world — that is, the source of one's perceptions; therefore cannot be conclusively known; it may not even exist. '

That is self contradictory in that something is known with certainty encompassing all that one knows to exist and at the same time that same one knows nothing of it? The Judgment is negative, the Will is positive.


'This is also called external world skepticism.
A metaphysical belief that the universe is entirely the creation of one's own mind. Thus, in a sense, the belief that nothing 'exists' outside of one's own mind. '

Everything about that 'nothing' or 'no thing' is your self. Why would you hurt you. What is this "I" you are talking about. Do you believe you are of the infinite age to have infinite wisdom, and yet you are self deluded negatively. The Judgment is negative, the Will is positive.

"iii. The course of the World's History
§ 60

The mutations which history presents have been long characterised in the general, as an advance to something better, more perfect. The changes that take place in Nature — how infinitely manifold soever they may be — exhibit only a perpetually self-repeating cycle; in Nature there happens “nothing new under the sun,” and the multiform play of its phenomena so far induces a feeling of ennui; only in those changes which take place in the region of Spirit does anything new arise. This peculiarity in the world of mind has indicated in the case of man an altogether different destiny from that of merely natural objects — in which we find always one and the same stable character, to which all change reverts; — namely, a real capacity for change, and that for the, better, — an impulse of perfectibility. This principle, which reduces change itself under a law, has met with an unfavourable reception from religions — such as the Catholic — and from States claiming as their just right a stereotyped, or at least a stable position. If the mutability of worldly things in general — political constitutions, for instance — is conceded, either Religion (as the Religion of Truth) is absolutely excepted, or the difficulty escaped by ascribing changes, revolutions, and abrogations of immaculate theories and institutions, to accidents or imprudence, — but principally to the levity and evil passions of man. The principle of Perfectibility indeed is almost as indefinite a term as mutability in general; it is without scope or goal, and has no standard by which to estimate the changes in question: the improved, more perfect, state of things towards which it professedly tends is altogether undetermined. "

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/history5.htm#060

Answer 6

If you are a believer consider this...
only one person in the world can be a solipsist and be correct in their belief. If two Solipsists ever meet, one of them is wrong.
Maybe God is the one true solopsist? hmmmm

Answer 7

so ...am I part of your subconscious mind..I hope my 2 points aren't an illusion.