What happened to reality?

Answer 1

Reality is still around. It just depends on whose version of reality you are talking about. The mistake people make is assuming there is only one objective view of "reality", when in fact each of us have our own perception of reality.

Most people falsely assume that they are in touch with reality in its true form, what they don’t realize is that the very process of interpreting reality alters it in some way.

“Each person paints their picture of reality with a brush dipped in the pigments of the past.”
— Jerry Andrus

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
— Arthur Schopenhauer

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are
— Old Talmudic saying

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
— William James

All the time we are aware of millions of things around us--these changing shapes, these burning hills, the sound of the engine, the feel of the throttle, each rock and weed and fence post and piece of debris beside the road--aware of these things but not really conscious of them unless there is something unusual or unless they reflect something we are predisposed to see. We could not possibly be conscious of these things and remember all of them because our mind would be so full of useless details we would be unable to think. From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and call consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it. We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
— Robert Pirsig, (Zen & Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance; p.69)

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.
— The movie: “Adaptations”

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
— Jon Wynne-Tyson (1924)

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble across a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it representative of a whole class.
— Walter Lippman

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.
— Edward R Murrow

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
— Albert Einstein

We must train ourselves not to see the world only through our own eyes.
— Michael Levine

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

Enlightenment is illusion-free reality.
— Buddha, [Siddhartha Gautama] (?563-?483 B.C.E.)

Answer 2

It went died about the same time as Common Sense did.

Obituary -

Today we mourn the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense. Common sense lived a long life but died from heart failure at the brink of the millennium. No one really knows how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He selflessly devoted his life to service in schools, hospitals, homes, factories and offices, helping folks get jobs done without fanfare and foolishness.
For decades, petty rules, silly laws and frivolous lawsuits held no power over Common Sense. He was credited with cultivating such valued lessons as to know when to come in out of the rain, the early bird gets the worm, and life isn't always fair.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn), reliable parenting strategies (the adults are in charge, not the kids), and it's okay to come in second.
A veteran of the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, and the Technological Revolution, Common Sense survived cultural and educational trends including feminism, body piercing, whole language and new math.
But his health declined when he became infected with the If-it-only-helps-one-person-it's-worth-it bug. In recent decades his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of overbearing federal regulation. He watched in pain as good people became ruled by self-seeking lawyers and enlightened auditors. His health rapidly deteriorated when schools endlessly implemented zero tolerance policies, reports of six year old boys charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate, a teen suspended for taking a swig of mouthwash after lunch, and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student. It declined even further when schools had to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student but cannot inform the parent when the female student is pregnant or wants an abortion.
Finally, Common Sense lost his will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses, criminals received better treatment than victims, and federal judges stuck their noses in everything from Boy Scouts to professional sports.
As the end neared, Common Sense drifted in and out of logic but was kept informed of developments, regarding questionable regulations for asbestos, low-flow toilets, smart guns, the nurturing of Prohibition Laws and mandatory air bags.
Finally when told that the homeowners association restricted exterior furniture only to that which enhanced property values, he breathed his last. Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by three stepbrothers: Rights, Tolerance and Whiner.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

Answer 3

We just ignore it as it no longer fits into our "perfect" world.
Do we really want to think about all the starving people in the world while we feast in a fancy restaurant?
Do we really want to think of all the child slave labor used to make our comfortable shoes and shirts.
Do we want to think about the environmental damages we cause as we go for a joy ride or a cruise.
Do we want to think of the displaced and extinct animals as we buy our new homes in new neighborhoods.

Reality? we are monsters that destroy our world and enslave our own kind. do you want to face reality now? dream you little dreams, and live your perfect lives.

Answer 4

i have no idea. people now a days are so caught up in the lives of celebrities and other ppl (hence reality tv shows) that i think they get lost in it and lose sight of their own realities.

Answer 5

Things like multi-tasking and mood-managing meds have changed everything.

Nowadays, you have to wonder about what "reality" the other guy is coming from...'cause you know fo' sure it ain't gonna be the same as yours, noooooo.

Answer 6

Reality has worsened to the point that people need more escapes than ever to extract themselves from it.

Answer 7

often we dream what we dream because of the fact our genuine environment is appearing on us. Like in the occasion you provide approximately dreaming you're in an rather heat place. The room temperature is merely too heat and so which you dream you're in a warm place. as quickly as I ought to pee, I easily have desires the place i ought to apply the restroom. in case you're dreaming approximately drowning, perchance you have sleep apnea and have been keeping your breath which led to you to dream you have been drowning. in spite of the actuality that possibly you have been dreaming you have been drowning first and then it led to you to hold your breath for genuine. and you at the instant are not meant to die in case you're falling and hit backside on your dream. What could be there for genuine to kill you? this is merely a dream. this is merely photographs on your head. possibly in case you had an rather vulnerable heart the phobia ought to set off cardiac arrest at maximum. i've got been shot at in my desires and not died. I even think of I had a dream i became into falling as quickly as, I hit backside and did no longer die. I dreamed i became into on a airplane that exploded too. desires are merely the concepts's way of sorting via psychological junk.

Answer 8

reality is still there. People simply began to understand that they did not truly understand. then they lost it.

Answer 9

It settled into our subconscious. Many use their superego now and don't really give a damn about anybody but themselves.

Answer 10

it never existed in the first place