Is reality in my head?

[DaveTyler]

Does the world exist?
I'm so confused and feel like just escaping reality if it's just in my head in the first place...
Reality is not ME?
I am not reality?
Do all of you exist just like I do? With thoughts, feelings, perceptions?
We just percieve it right, it is real? someone PLEASE convince me this is the truth, I feel trapped in the universe if it's jsut in my head

[Jack]

Hihihi
I have the same questions too and confused like you Are you my mirror or am i your mirror,or are we both mirrors of each other,or we are not mirrors?
Also,are substances God or not?Is reality form of God?Are feelings God?Is fear or pain God too?Am i God or a part of God?Am I a part of Universal Mind or am I Universal Mind?And have many other questions too like you

[DoAnyOfYouExist]

How many ways are there to ask the same question....infinite ways apparently. You need to look inside Dave, no one here can convince you of anything.

[zoowise]

Everyone interested in personal development is looking for the answer to the fundamental questions. Who am I and why am I here.

You're like Neo in the Matrix, you feel there's something wrong with the world, but you don't know what it is.

It can be very stressful to have all these thoughts of you being god, not being real, being everyone, creating everyhing on the fly, etc, but the real trick is to not let any of it send you nuts.

My advice to you is to relax, calm down and go somewhere peaceful where you can just empty your head of all these crazy ideas. Go out into nature on your own, somewhere where you can be on your own and just try to empty your mind of anything you are unsure of. Take a friend, but only if they can support you.

Just think about being alive, without wondering how it all works, just be in the moment. Look at the trees, the sky, birds, whatever. Marvel at it all and see how wonderful it is, just to exist.

Empty your mind of anything that is of no practical use. Is thinking your god and alone and making it all up as you go along practical? If it isn't then let it go, if it can't help you it will hurt you if you let it.

This website has some very big and hard to grasp concepts and ideas, it should come with a warning sticker! But you need to rid your mid of anything that is of no immediate practial help.

Try the nature thing, it's pretty cool place.

Cheese

Zooy

[stroodle]

hi Dave, i think i'm feelin the same way you are on a lot of this based on your posts

sometimes i stay focused with understanding all this stuff.. but then sometimes i just revert back to the begining...of WHAT WHAT WHAT and WHY WHY WHY????? it's a total mind scrammble, and it feels like my mind could just explode.

i'm even considering leaving this forum and just going back to 'so called life'. ignorance is bliss, right? but i won't, cause i know that the best thing i can do as a person, is to learn more and understand the 'truth'.

and i agree with Zooy, I think there should be warnings of 'Truth Bombs'

[MindReality]

Originally Posted by DaveTyler

Does the world exist?
I'm so confused and feel like just escaping reality if it's just in my head in the first place...
Reality is not ME?
I am not reality?
Do all of you exist just like I do? With thoughts, feelings, perceptions?
We just percieve it right, it is real? someone PLEASE convince me this is the truth, I feel trapped in the universe if it's jsut in my head

Yes the world exists.
Reality is You and You are Reality.
We all exist too. Yes we are all conscious beings.
The universe is in your mind and your mind is the universe.

Stop confusing yourself already. *Order! Let there be order!*

Read this:

True Theory of Everything in the Universe

[ZHereford]

Dave is asking himself the same questions philosophers beginning with the Greeks have asked themselves for centuries.

The real question is - can I trust my senses?
If I can't, and maybe I can't, then what is real?

The philosopher Descartes said "I think, therefore I am". That's a really good place to start. Take it from there.

And of course being practical is always good idea.

Dave, I think you're going through the confusion most of us go through at a certain age. You question everything beginning with your existence. That's okay and the good news is.......you will find the answers.

[DaveTyler]

Thanks, so yeah, no matter how much I believe I can fly I'd die?

It's better to say God conciousness with subjective perceptions... isn't it?

[ZHereford]

Well do you believe you or anyone else can fly?

[DaveTyler]

Well ofcourse not, Law of Gravity exist nomatterwhat, I'm not God.
God is all of us....
I know of people who thought they could tho, and RIP to them...

[ZHereford]

So what are you suggesting then? That if you believed it enough you could?

[DaveTyler]

I'm not suggesting that, that's Steve Pavlina's words, he say you can fly if u just believe it

[ZHereford]

What do you believe?

[DaveTyler]

That's it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ whether or not I believe it.
And no, that's not what's creating reality, God made reality, if U believe ur God, fine, go a head, I won't

[ZHereford]

Well actually, I don't believe that I am God, but I believe that God exists in all of us. We are all connected to God through our souls.

As for the flying question. The law of gravity only exists here on earth so if you really wanted to fly, you could always go to another planet where gravity doesn't exist.

The point is that we all have brains and we should use logic. There are things we know to be true, deep within us, even if the evidence cannot be experienced with our five senses.

[DaveTyler]

yeah going to another planet would be easy:PPP
yeah logic is the key, Steve Pavlina's articles isn't truth, so really just forget about them if they make you feel mad.

[Lychee]

The world exists.
You are reality, and you are a part of reality, though this world is not the ultimate reality.
We all exist and have thoughts, feelings, perceptions.

sometimes i stay focused with understanding all this stuff.. but then sometimes i just revert back to the begining...of WHAT WHAT WHAT and WHY WHY WHY????? it's a total mind scrammble, and it feels like my mind could just explode.

Same here.


The best thing that you are doing is that you are questioning. People go throughout their whole lives without asking themselves these sort of questions. Our words can only provide some solace for the turmoil which I'm sure you're feeling inside.The right questions will lead (God willing) to the right answer.

[stroodle]

Originally Posted by Lychee

The best thing that you are doing is that you are questioning. People go throughout their whole lives without asking themselves these sort of questions. Our words can only provide some solace for the turmoil which I'm sure you're feeling inside.The right questions will lead (God willing) to the right answer.

but lately i've been thinking
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we can't answer these things, we're not equipped to

i think humans have been foolish in thinking that we CAN comprehend life and that it's explainable. we think in the short-term, when the truth is longterm (so long that we can't comprehend it). so therefore, anything we come up with will never be correct.

i think what we call god is 'the furthest back we can think (or imagine/comprehend). but that's not to say it's the 'answer'. we have to remember that we're only capable of so much, we exist in a certain amount of dimensions, and therefore can't be aware of things beyond the ones we experience.

this idea of a 'creator' is the best thing WE (not me, just the majority of ppl) can come up with. but why do we assume that we CAN even try to answer anything.


ahhh my mind is scrammbling again.........

[ZHereford]

I think we can comprehend life and existence. There have been plenty of wise teachers and philosophers who have paved the way for us. Everyone from Socrates to Buddha, to Jesus to others, in every culture.

We don't have to re-invent thinking.

There are also people born with special abilities and insight that can help those of us who are struggling and trying to define ourselves.

There are answers, you just have to seek them out.

What you shouldn't do is give up and throw in the towel. There is purpose and design to all of our lives.

[Bloah]

there is a famous Psychologist George Kelly.
He ones said:

"there is no reality outside your head"

[ZHereford]

He, and everyone else who says that, means what is "real to you" is what matters.

How you perceive or choose to perceive an event is how it is real to you.

It doesn't mean that reality doesn't exist.

[Groundless]

How many ways are there to ask the same question....infinite ways apparently. You need to look inside Dave, no one here can convince you of anything.

I second that motion.

[Groundless]

He, and everyone else who says that, means what is "real to you" is what matters.

Not always.

Input the phrase "I am" into your brain over and over and see what the brain returns to you.