If something is natural to me, but not to you... does that make me unnatural, or supernatural?
I guess my question is....
What really makes reality? Is it the things you experience, or is it your beliefs in the way you perceive them?
2007-09-29 21:06:03 · 7 answers · asked by JestandIllusion 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
External reality is unaffected by the individual experiencer.
It is the individual him/herself and his/her perception of reality which differs; not reality itself.
2007-09-29 21:13:28 · answer #1 · answered by michele 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. here's a for instance:
When you experience an event - and I walk off the stage of your life - you make some presumptions about what I am doing.
Occasionally. What I experience is out of alignment with what you expect. Sometimes, this departure is so dramatic that this actually results in a split and branch of reality itself.
Now there's a notion of a 'consensus' reality. But this concept breaks down with enough pressure applied, because of 'the greater good'. When the greater good overrules your free will and choice and you let's say - everyone wants to die when you still have yet to live your life..
This causes a branching in space and time, ripple effects, and quite literally can lead to you getting 'pushed out' of the consensus 'linear' reality so youc an experience your journey of life on your own.
Take for instance - Paul Walker. Do you think he thinks he died? Or Eddie Murphy. I've yet to shape the man's hand. I think he's dead.
How do you think a chick knows to poke his 'head' out of his shell?
He realizes there's more out there and the 'consensus' of cells form a single entity with a single mind called a chicken and life goes on....
2015-04-15 08:27:01 · answer #2 · answered by Q The First Timelord 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reality always begins with beliefs. its our belief in any giving moment that make us experience the same thing as some one standing right next to us and see it in totally different way.
2007-09-29 21:30:27 · answer #3 · answered by BLOODHOUND 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they are. I cannot see what you do, even though we are looking at the same thing. We will see a similar thing not the same thing, our perception is not the same, because you perceive things different to the way I do.
2007-09-30 01:14:03 · answer #4 · answered by djdundalk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reality is your belief or perception of life in action.
2007-09-29 21:14:46 · answer #5 · answered by bountyhunter101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have a bit of training in counselling. one of the basic general lessons we learned is that a person's experience is unique to him or her. plainly, there's only one of you, only one of me. nobody else will experience your life except you. same thing applies to me. we all have perceptions. based on our personalities, temperaments, the way the Creator wired us. the proximity of seeing the REALITY behind one's experiences, i believe, would be contingent on one's willingness to face the TRUTH about ourselves and the world around us. hope this makes sense. :)
2007-09-29 21:20:37 · answer #6 · answered by VelvetBrick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is one persons reality may not be yours. Everyone has there own reality, sometimes we share the reality , sometimes we don't.
2007-09-29 21:15:32 · answer #7 · answered by oldhag 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋