What is reality?

Answer 1

Reality is your present self-awareness. That is, when you are aware of what you are doing, thinking or perceive by your senses now.

Answer 2

Reality in everyday usage means "the state of things as they actually exist." The term reality, in its widest sense, includes everything that is, whether it is observable, comprehensible, or self-contradictory by science, philosophy, or any other system of analysis. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas existence is often restricted to being .

According to the less realist trends in philosophy, such as postmodernism/post-structuralism, truth is subjective. When two or more individuals agree upon the interpretation and experience of a particular event, a consensus about an event and its experience begins to be formed. This being common to a few individuals or a larger group, then becomes the 'truth' as seen and agreed upon by a certain set of people — the consensus reality. Thus one particular group may have a certain set of agreed truths, while another group might have a different set of consensual 'truths'. This lets different communities and societies have varied and extremely different notions of reality and truth of the external world. The religion and beliefs of people or communities are a fine example of this level of socially constructed 'reality'. This is well-expressed in the famous quote by Henry Thoreau, "It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak and another to hear." However, humans are fallible and are limited to individual experience. Truth cannot simply be considered truth if one speaks and another hears because individual bias and fallibility challenge the idea that certainty or objectivity are easily grasped. For Anti-realists, the inaccessibility of any final, objective truth means that there is no truth beyond the socially-accepted consensus. (Although this means there are truths, not truth).

Answer 3

The mutal acceptance among humans that certain standards are to exist in defining our world. Things such as pain, marriage and cellulite are part of this reality. They are the rules in whcih we as modern day humans have defined our lives by, and our reality will always be changing.

Before there were planes it was supernatural and unrealistic to dream of human flight, today it is more normal then peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches.

Reality is just the unspoken argeement to function with a certain mindset and understanding of this world.

Answer 4

Reality is what you do not want to see. The fact is, we hate to see reality, which is an entailment of wrongdoings, and out of pride, or self-centeredness, refused to acknowledge and even ignored when told of our incoherence. Intelligible response or not, in the meaning of reality, is best kept alive on the imagination of those befitting the description.

Answer 5

It is the concept of the human psyche.
Reality is the duration of an incident in the evolution of a finite universe.

Answer 6

Real Reality? An unobtainable truth.
What we claim to be reality? A created world full of assumptions.

Answer 7

A TV show that proports to represent real life while staging fake scenarios.

Answer 8

The universe as it truly is without delusional glasses.

Answer 9

Sellin' houses.

Answer 10

That which can be known with the senses.