Anyone have alternative views on reality?

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It seems everything we see, touch, taste, smell, or feel is achieved via the medium of electromagnetic energy. And we still cannot say what that is. So if we cannot understand the medium by which we view reality, then we have no idea what reality is.

I like the multiverse theory because it explains why there seems to be so much empty space in the universe. I also like the idea of higher dimensions (like 4 dimensional space), and that at the moment we are limited to only seeing 3D space, but this thing called time is actually moving us through a 4D space but we can only ever see snapshots of 3D space at any one moment.

There is no empty space in the Universe.
When atoms are removed from a vacuum under lab condition the space is still not empty. Research Quantum fields in a vacuum.

Well I am pretty much a hippie metalhead, so I imagine I have a rather different view on reality.

Not to derail thread but what types of metal do you like?

me two

I think, so I am. Either my brain is in a jar or not, I am real, of that I'm certain.

-Sometimes I wonder if life is one big dream and you wake up and you're actually someone else with a different life.
-Sometimes I wonder if we all see colours differently than everybody else.
-Sometimes I wonder if after we die we go on to a different life on a different planet. The life we're living now is only our first life basically. Maybe it's like a computer game and this is just level one and after we die we go on to level 2 and it gets harder.
-Or maybe we're just one big science experiment to a bunch of giants somewhere in our universe almost like The Truman Show except the whole world is a reality show for someone else in the universe

Keep going! I love you ideas!

How can "they" come and get you when they dont exist either?

Forgive me, but Im having trouble visualizing how these non existant thugs could beat the non existant crap out of you.

I believe that there are many alternate realities you visit during the span of the universe' life time. Heaven, hell, and time (time being the present reality) Aerials apparently invented Time. I also believe I sold my soul to the devil a long time ago without realizing the implications. My horoscope said my time will come soon, very soon. That's not good for a schizophrenic to see.

One time i heard an UFO sound coming from my closet.

What are Aerials?

There are 13 signs of the zodiac. Anyway i don't believe in horoscope even if it was the first book that i've read. Time for what?

Ugh I thought I had to ruin everything to get to a certain point of neutral karma so the aliens won't take me, and I did, and now I want to go back and start over.

We do. Well, not necessarily from everybody else, but between two individuals they may be perceiving the same color differently in their head. Assuming neither person has any observable difference detectable on an objective test (such as the Ishihara Colorblind Test), there could still be differences in perception that we wouldn't be able to tell unless we were able to see from another person's brain/eyes. Perhaps one person's red-sensitive cone cells (in their eyes) are stronger than the other person's. They might see all colors shifted slightly to the red side of the visible spectrum (the first person might see a hue in-between yellow and green as more yellow, but would still call it yellow-green since their perception of yellow is actually slightly orange, if compared to the second person's point of view.)




I would sure hope not. I got quite a lucky leg-up in this "level" by being born in a developed country. All those babies out in the third world that die shortly after birth likely wouldn't be able to imagine the next level getting harder after that.



Like in that episode of South Park?

I don't have any alternative reality theories, but I do find it fascinating to hear about what others think...

I'd like to say, "That must be so frustrating", but considering that you don't believe I'm real, I'm not sure how much that could help you. Though if we (other people) were to believe it, what difference would it make? Would it benefit my artificial life? I doubt it would give me the opportunity to turn my life into something "real"... I'd like to know, out of curiosity. Is your urge to convince others due to us having some sort of benefit if we realized it, or do you just want somebody to agree with and understand your side (despite our opinions being nothing but an illusion anyway?)

I decided for the computer game one, I'm going to make my own religion and turn it into a cult with my friend. We're on level 1 right now and after we die we go to level 2. A glitch might happen in your life and you'll get "frozen" between level 1 and level 2 and you'll stay that way forever being able to see everything but not being able to move a muscle or talk. That could be "hell." I'm going to make my own bible and everything. Just kidding.....maybe.......

That's pretty interesting. I know that there are colour blind people but I didn't realize what you just mentioned but it makes sense.

I developed depersonalization and derealization after smoking a lot of strong marijuana. I've had a lot of the thoughts about reality. It's pretty crazy. I don't have schizophrenia for sure but I think people with Asperger's can have similar symptoms. When my depersonalization and derealization was really bad I thought I lived in a holographic universe or matrix and started losing it.