Great questions SecretSeven. I really liked Shindra's and ethereal's explanations, so I wanted add this additional way of looking at this. (And I'm also open to critique.)
I read some similar questions recently in a book and the answer helped me a lot with crystallizing my own understanding of the multiple-subjective-realities idea. I'm not quoting the book here, this is just my brief summary. So there's a chance this summary may be too simplistic to be of any use to anyone. But hopefully this helps.
Quote:
- Consciousness/Universe/Mind/Spirit is Infinite.
- "Infinity" is not synonymous with "limitless", "unbounded", or even "non-dual" (as the word is commonly used).
- Infinity is beyond any and all conception. There is no such thing as "seeing infinity", "understanding infinity", "arriving at infinity", or for that matter "leaving infinity". There is no such thing as "infinity + 1" or "infinity + infinity".
- When others say that you are the center of the universe and only your perspective is the true perspective (i.e. subjective reality), they are right.
- And when others say that the person sitting there next to you is also the center of the universe, and the only true perspective of reality, they are also right.
- And when others say that the blade of grass by your feet is also the center of the universe, and the only true perspective of reality, they are also right.
- Although it's a paradox, Consciousness contains infinite subjective realities. There are infinite centers of the universe.
- How can there possibly be more than one subjective reality and more than one center of the universe? And if there can be more than one, how can there possibly be infinite centers of the universe?
- This is possible because Infinity contains an infinity of infinities.
- It's infinities all the way down, all the way up, all the way out, and all the way in.
- If this wasn't the case, then it couldn't be called Infinity.
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Not sure if that helped or just made things worse.
Hmmm... now that I'm thinking about this topic more, here's some more info on infinity if it helps.
I guess the "Infinity contains an infinity of infinities" idea I read a while back helped me out because I've been interested in the nature of infinity a lot lately. I'm not sure why.
I mean, I always thought that when people said "infinity" we all meant the same thing, but it turns out that really isn't the case.
Everything is subjective, even infinity.
For instance, a couple months ago I came across a
heated online debate about the nature of infinity which was pretty confusing at first, and seemed like a total waste of time. Because from my (noob) perspective, I thought infinity was just, well, infinity.
However, there's more to it than that. For instance, some people say the sky is infinite, and goes on forever. That sounds right at first, but others say that the sky is simply limitless, and not infinite at all. Same goes for the "figure eight" symbol itself. A perpetual loop, although commonly called an "infinite loop", is not really infinite either, because you can still break out of that so-called "infinite loop". And I'm sure there are other assumptions about infinity that I'm not addressing here.
Anyways, the more I think about the nature of infinity, the more I like the idea that "Infinity contains an infinity of infinities". Which in turn helps me better understand the multiple-subjective-realities idea.