illusion is the fake of reality. what makes you think its fake reality. what if this whole reality thing is a fake. the universe is like a tv show, it finishes in the end. as like us humans our show finishes when we die. illusion ends, and reality ends as well.
2007-02-09 05:34:00 · 15 answers · asked by mhshhaduw 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If you want to know the difference, it is easily obtained. Imagine hitting your thumb with a hammer. That is the illusion. Now actually hit your thumb with a hammer. That, my friend, is the reality.
2007-02-16 14:46:01 · answer #1 · answered by DAKal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reality is concrete. You experience it with your senses. You can see it & touch it. Illusion is intangible, imagined. You experience it in your mind only. You can not see or touch it. So yes reality & illusion are different. Sometimes however reality is so strange it seems like an illusion and illusion seems so real it seems like reality. There are things that can't be seen or touched which are nonetheless real (love, the spirit, God etc). When we die we pass into this new spiritual reality. In this world however we deal with concrete reality & assume the rest to be illusory or at least intangible and something that you believe in your mind or heart, or have faith about, not something that can be tangibly proven.
2007-02-09 06:18:23 · answer #2 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people say reality is a based on your 5 senses and how your mind detects, analyzes and understands the information from these senses. They determine your reality. If you had none of these senses, the world would not exist for you. However, if you couldn't hear, smell, touch, see or taste, a bus could still run you over. This "ultimate reality," may still be a collective illusion generated by our collective subconsiousnesses, a supreme being, or whatever. In the end, who the hell knows.
2007-02-09 05:50:00 · answer #3 · answered by I 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reality, as I understand, is refered to as illusion within the Hindu and Buddhist spectrum because the human view of reality is only part of the picture. You can be a scientist and go out and try to figure things out, but you still only have part of the picture... you are only making your illusion more complicated. To percieve reality instead of merely bits and pieces of it is not a capability of any living thing.
I don't know about that tv show stuff, although I think if reality is not what it appears to be it must be incomprehensible.
2007-02-13 11:10:13 · answer #4 · answered by ssmith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reality is the thing in itself in it's purest form. Illusion is the superficial perception of reality cluttered by delusions and ignorance and preconceived habits of assumption. Truth can be like an onion you have to peal through several layers before you can grasp the core! Thus until you can see the core you have only a rumour of reality, which is somewhat but not entirely an illusion!
2007-02-09 06:23:57 · answer #5 · answered by namazanyc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reality is the physical universe. Illusion is the individual's perception of it. It's an "illusion" because it doesn't contain the whole of the physical universe - only what we see from where we are, added to what we believe of the things we are told. That being said, we each create our own universe made up of experiences we accidentally have (which may be negative) coupled with counter-balancing experiences we choose.
2007-02-09 06:23:27 · answer #6 · answered by Miz Teri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One person's reality could easily be interpreted by another person as illusion. Isn't the important thing have to a personal reality, regardless of whether it is considered an illusion or not, by others.
2007-02-12 19:35:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An unnamed tectonic plate riding magma east creamed what would someday be Baha California and tore away again about that time the Indian Sub-Contient crashed ashore on Asia's underbelly. As Everest Grew an aforementioned mass that someday would amount to the American Pacific Northwest
halted where a Royal England would rule. This dirt I live on is real enough. That it is also going to be subducted under the North American Plate isn't my problem. But bigger things than man are happening on this planet and if you can't appreciate that I suggest your reality lacks imagination.
2007-02-13 16:04:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is semantic confusion. Define your terms. Reality usually refers to those things which are "out there" that we can represent in words and agree that we are talking about the same thing. Illusion refers to when a person perceives something that seems to be reality but does not check out as such.
Maybe you are referring to the fact that we can't prove that life isn't a dream. To that I say, okay, so if life's a dream, what makes us think there's something "more real" out there, that we can never know about? It's nonsense. Who cares. This is our life and we should live it.
2007-02-09 06:12:01 · answer #9 · answered by zilmag 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you can see, everyone has their own definition of reality and they will fight tooth and nail to protect it.
I believe reality and illusion are exactly the same and I have looked deep into the heart of it.
2007-02-09 13:49:13 · answer #10 · answered by q 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋