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Originally Posted by DQueens  Subject reality seems like an interesting concept, but it means that we're completely alone in this world. All your friends, your family, your neighbour, your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/husband, your children are just a part of you. So what is the point? what is the point of getting married, of meeting someone to spend the rest of your life with, and of having children? Why not just shut yourself up in a secluded building, in the middle of nowhere, and live your life there. To me, other people and other consciousnesses make me feel whole, if i dont have human contact i feel depressed and lonely. Lonliness, to me, is the worst condition to be in, and the worst feeling to feel. |
I also felt quite lonely when I was first trying out subjective reality. I mean if everyone else that you know doesn't even exist, what's the point of interacting with them? Not sure if this is how you saw it, but for me when going through this thought process I saw that I was still thinking of me as my body, my mind, whereas all the other bodies and minds(other people) were just imaginary. In that sense, everyone else didn't matter because they were completely imaginary. But, when I changed my understanding of subjective reality I stopped feeling lonely. Instead, you realize that your actual body/mind is only a part of yourself, just like every single other thing in reality is a part of you. The physical body that you directly "control" is no different than any of the other bodies walking around in the sense that they are all equal parts of you, consciousness. If you encounter two people having a conflict, that's viewed as two parts of yourself being conflicted.
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My point is, that if you are the only consciousness, then what is the point of living at all? My passion is to help people and to make a difference in the world. But, if the world is only me, if i am the only consciousness that exists then why do i care if i can help some girl overcome depression? Why do i care if my friends are happy? They are only part of my consciousness, and therefore, i dont need to help them. They dont even really exist, in a sense. I only need to help myself and, if this is the case, then why dont i just spend my entire life sleeping (of lucid dreaming as you say).
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The girl having depression, can be viewed as a part of you that's suffering, caring about friends being happy can be seen as caring that those parts of yourself are happy. I noticed in your post that you said you wouldn't need to help say your friends, but you would need to help yourself. Realize that helping any other part of your consciousness is directly helping yourself, because you are only consciousness, not your body, your body even your brain is just one of the many parts of your consciousness.. like everything else.