Hey ho!
I just want to share an interesting experience I made these days:
1.I was in the movies watching "The Eye" a few days ago. It was quite scary. At least there was some kind of monster that quite scared me. When I was at home at night I thought of course of this monster. I thought about it standing in my flat and I became afraid.
Then suddenly I saw the surroundings: I saw my book shelf and became aware that
this is real, while this monster just exists in my head. Now I wasn't scared at all! Also all of the things in my room looked more real. I realised that I had reacted to a reality that existed just in my fantasy.
2. I was lying in bed, trying to sleep. In my mind I created a sound pattern of a rock guitar which played a cool melody. It played again, again, again and again.
Suddenly I realised that this sound is not real. I became very aware of the sound of my computer and the silence of the room. I realised how void the sound of reality was - so completely different than the loud noisy reality in my head. It was awesome and seemed special to me. I also noticed that the sound I had created in my head had been very realistic so that I wasn't really aware that I had created it in my head.
These two experiences were so interesting. They show to me how you create your perspective on reality. Besides it's a good example of how much you are in involved in percieving reality, reacting to it and creating feelings.
So if you're in a negative state, in which you don't want to be, you might try to get out of your mind-created perspective, let your thoughts go, and watch.