What if Nothing Actually Exists?
What if Literally Nothing Exists?
What if physical reality in its entirety was a lie, a dream, an illusion? What if there was nothing at all, nothing that could be experienced, nothing that could be known by us?
Nothingness is one of the most perplexing and mind-boggling concepts that the collection of human minds totalizing the vast expanse of history have ever dreamed up. At first, it seems quite simple, really: nothing. No thing. Absence, rather than presence. But how did we come to the concept of nothingness? Absence isn’t the same as a nothingness, because, with absence, there are still things, albeit with one thing that we presume should be there which is not.
Nothingness is, by definition, the cessation of all existence — literally, nothing exists, at least as we know it. That’s what this story seeks to discuss, and raise the question, “What if literally nothing exists?”
What if virtual reality was the only reality? And, what if there was no actual extension to reality into an objective physical reality? The fact is, this may very well be the ‘reality’ that is ‘existence.’
“O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”
