Reality is Subjective

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“Remember, we all live in separate realities, and that’s a really a very important thing to remember because you can listen to whatever a friend is saying to you, not what you think, but what they think and then you start listening to what people really say. You’ll be very very surprised at the beauty that lies behind the word, what they are trying to convey”. — Sydney Banks, Separate Realities Video

“But everyone thinks that.”

“Are you sure”?, I said. “Everyone”?

My dog looks out of eyes that seem to be like mine and yet he does not see what I see. His colors are muted, less vibrant, so they say. How then, do I know, that what I am looking at is true? Why would I think that it is?

What I see is a function of what my brain creates. And yet, do I assume that it is real? That when I look out of my eyes what I see is reality?

Because it is not.

Of course, there is a chair there or a tree or a house. But what shapes the details? What shapes my experience of an observation?

It is the same for every one of my senses.

Why do I think that what I smell is real and not a product of my brain translating particles into an experience?

And touch? And hear?

Why do you like a smell or a taste or a piece of art and I do not? What is the difference between us other than the content of our thoughts? Our opinions?

There is no reality that is not subjective, created by the unconscious functioning of a brain sending an image to my consciousness.

And then we sit in a conversation and think that we are hearing what others are saying. And we leave a meeting only to discover that each participant has had a different experience. Of what they heard, of what they thought, of what they remember.

Because we live from the inside-out. Constantly fooled into thinking that we live from the outside-in. Playing the victim to our lives. The lives of a…