What is reality?

Answer 1

Multiple choice question.

What is reality?

A. All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you.

B. The state of being actual or real.

C. The state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be.

D. All of the above.

Answer: D

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” - Douglas H. Everett

Answer 2

What is reality, we all ask ourselves this on a daily basis
Is it a state of mind
or a state of being
this is a question that cant be answered correctly because
reality is the state of being real, everyday living going on with your life kinda real BUT you can have your own alternate reality it is really complicated and hard to explain on a keyboard but i tried my best and
hope i answered your question correctly but reality is whatever you make it, you can set your own reality
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Answer 3

Oh, for crying out loud.
Wittgenstein said that the world is everything that is the case. This isn't a bad answer for reality in general.
I'm still reeling from the answer above that claims that truth and freedom don't exist so reality doesn't either. Where did this come from, "The Golden Book of Undergraduate Intellectual Masturbations"?
Oh, for crying out loud.

Answer 4

Reality is what exists. However what we deal with is our perception of it, which exists only in our own mind. This is true of everything from trees to people, but it doesn't mean that our "reality" does not exist - for us. We certainly discover the reality of trees if we walk into one, or the reality of people if we offend them (well, THEIR reality, anyway). So people can live in all kinds of illusions, until reality makes its presence or effects felt sufficiently to demand attention (e.g. climate change). When we believe in our own illusions without questioning them they become delusions, persistent and potentially dangerous. It pays to remember that our perceptions depend on our particular senses (sight, hearing, touch, etc), and what we believe, or think we know - all limited. And that other animals see things differently, yet function well enough. It takes courage to live in an uncertain universe, acting upon it and responding to the results intelligently without dogma or assumptions - but it's exciting and rewarding.

Answer 5

Reality is whatever you believe it to be. Whatever you take in with your senses. Whatever you experience. Or you could argue that reality is whatever is agreed upon. If you & I see a black cat & agree that we see it, then it's real. If I see it but you don't then you would say that I'm imagining it. If I see it, then it's real to me. But if it's dark & I mistook an object in the distance for a cat then once I know the truth (confirmed by my senses) then that is reality and my thought was an illusion. In the tangible world, we have to rely on our senses (though faulty they are our best gauge of what is real.) Your thoughts and dreams because they are intangible could be illusion but they are still real to you, you experience them internally. Since there is no agreement with someone else they will not be real to anyone else. Your feelings are intangible but nonetheless real, just harder to prove because there is no agreement. No one else really knows how you're feeling. You can tell them but it's not the same as them experiencing it.

Whatever is real to you, is real for you & that's what matters most since you are the centre of your universe. Just follow your heart, mind, intellect, instinct, common sense, experience and senses.

Answer 6

Well, even if we all came to an answer that we could agree upon, how we define reality could still all be an illusion. When you think about it, we could all be just a dream, and maybe the dreamer is a creature of some entirely different universe and when he wakes up he is gonna think that we were the weirdest dream he ever had. This would implant our universe in his memory, which would mean that in a sense we exist as long as he (or she/it) exists, and when he dies, (if he dies,) we die with him/her/it...

Answer 7

Your perception is your reality. It's different for everyone. It's different from one moment to the next. Reality is an illusion.

Answer 8

The place around you that you reach to perceive with your senses. Everything that you can smell, see, touch, hear and taste.

But exist another reality that you cannt perceive. The metafisic or unperceived reality

Answer 9

reality is not a state of mind, that is a mistake that many people make, (eg if im colour blind and i dont see red, does that mean that an object isnt red)
reality is infalliable truth!

Answer 10

i dont think there is a way to answer this for sure

perhaps there are multiple realities?