How many times have you woken up in the middle of the night thinking you're still in the dream?...how many times has a dream felt SO real?...You can feel the things you touch, hear the people talking to you, you can even feel it if you're falling...How many times have you woken up from a dream, gone about your daily activities, and only came to find that you were still asleep?...Surely you really got up then...or did you really?...
One theory I have is that people, in their randomness, have developed their own thought patterns...their own distinctive brainwaves...For example, take into mind that, though human, we are still a higher level of animal and yet in our superiority we have seemed to forget that natural intuition that we call "animal instinct"...we've seperated ourselves from nature...So now when we go off to slumber, I think that perhaps we revert back to that natural and intrinsic mind-state, sleep/dream/think on the same level, and kind of reside within a mental network...Something like the internet, where there is no ONE server that we connect to, but instead, we connect to everyone but through our own thought process and not a computer...
So then, what exactly is reality?...Is that reality?...And if not, why?...Because there is no physical self?...Because we can't seem to remember what goes on, so it must be imaginary?...When we sleep, we don't remember what is going on in the real word either, so that idea is commutitive between both worlds...Man is no more than a ghost in a shell...A personality with physical attributes to express itself...If we were to be a part of this mental world wide web, is that no more reality because we cannot use our bodies?...
Now to one person, they might say that all this here, this world, is the only reality because they know so....But then one must ask how they know...Is that based off of evidence from this world?...If that's the case, then of course it's reality, because it says it is, but not because it truly...That's like saying I have three arms because I say I do; it's based off of my definition, my understanding, my belief...So then that brings a new point...Reality is therefore relative...Something is only real if you choose to believe it is...Otherwise, if you don't want to believe it is there, it's existence is nothing to you...Now, this doesn't mean that reality is independant and arbitrary...There are still laws to the physical world....
One might say that if you close your eyes, don't beleive a wall is before, yet walk into one anyway...would that then be proof of reality without believing?...True, but that is then the tangible world...I mean, if you didn't want to believe you existed, would that then be suicide?...The example such as the wall is the microspective look at this...I'm speaking of the macrospective...When you speak of the physical world, you are speaking of all its characteristics and attributes...When you speak of the intangible world, you are speaking of all of its own as well...What applies to one does not apply to the other...That said, how then can we apply laws that hold true such as gravity and time to a world where there seems to be hardly any boundries?...That's like enforcing Canadian laws in China...
Ahh, so now the defining line does not seem so easy to draw anymore...In this world, things are real...While you sleep, those things are real...Reality is based off of "local" law...Then what is imaginary?...Is there imaginary?...Maybe it just defines things that don't apply to the current mind-state residence (sleep/awake)...If "real" and "imaginary" are all relative concepts, perhaps they are no more than just comparison words...What is large to Rosie Perez isn't neccessarily so for Michael Clarke Duncan...What is fast to the tortoise isn't neccessarily swift to the hare...One world's "real" is another world's "imaginary"...So then everything is real in their own respect, and all things otherwise, anything against "local" law, are therefore imaginary...
That's how I really see things...But then again, it could all be apart of my imagination, couldn't it?