Subjective Reality: On Perception

[Pike]

So I was driving through town recently, and it was a nice warm early summer day. Going through my head was all the information I'd been absorbing recently predominantly through Steve's articles, blogs and podcasts about the nature of reality, and particularly, subjective reality.

To me, it's becoming more clear. I was very depressed for a long time, for instance, and later I came to understand that I was (unconsciously) choosing the negative aspects of life - "bad" job, unsatisfactory material situation, and the like - to define my reality. Some counterarguments would be, hey, I have my health, two legs to walk with, eyes to see, ears to hear... but I chose to ignore the positive aspects, and/or just take them for granted.

I digress. On to my summertime drive and musings on subjective reality.

So I'm looking down the road, and I see all kinds of things - cars, green grass and trees, blue sky, people, etc. I thought, if I were to take a singular focus, I could define my drive as any of the following:

• It was a nice drive, there was lots of green on the trees and summertime is in the air. (ask me about traffic or the weather and I might not have noticed either.)

Or

• It was a nice drive, there was lots of blue in the sky, no rain today. (Ask me about the leaves on the trees and I might not have noticed how green everything was.)

Or

• It was a lousy drive, the cars were backed up and I was late in getting to my destination. (Ask me about the environment and I might not have noticed any of it, focusing rather on road rage.)

The list could go on, actually, depending on how you'd like to define it. This thought also reminds me of the well-articulated concept of multiple perspectives.

I'd guess it's all been said before, but just thought I'd throw that out there.

[Akashic_Librarian]

The world is what we choose it to be.

[Max Power]

Originally Posted by Pike

I'd guess it's all been said before, but just thought I'd throw that out there.

SR is a noodle baker did you realise when you were driving down the road that everything you were aware of was actually inside a container of conscious creation and nothing outside of it exists? Very challenging to think like that, but it makes sense from a consciousness/awareness POV

Something else about SR that I like is, that if it's wrong, it's still an enjoyable belief system, because everything that is created is significant and you are everything created.

[DaveTyler]

Still seems to me that you believe awareness is your senses, remember every human being gots the same senses and consciousness so the world does infact exist all over.

[Max Power]

Originally Posted by DaveTyler

Still seems to me that you believe awareness is your senses, remember every human being gots the same senses and consciousness so the world does infact exist all over.

From my POV that is incorrect, so we'll always agree to disagree

[DaveTyler]

Yes I understand and its cool.

Im still not sure where we disagree but its not important.

I just see it as this "imagine going blind" would the world cease te exist? no, if you became deaf would sounds cease to exist? obviously not. Senses is made to GET A FULLER experience I think. Im not sure but, it seems there is a God who created this universe and gave us all senses to have a full experience, but then theres the disabled people so it makes u question it, theres karmic explainations or evolution...
Whatever scientists can never create ANYTHING perfect like nature... Even the empire statebuildings beauty and "perfection" is nothing compared to a small snow flake

[Pike]

Good points, thanks for the perspective.

It was written as an analogy, or at least to illustrate my interpretation of the malleability of "reality" at a certain level. Often situations are generalized as "good" or "bad" or whatever. Take a traffic jam. Traffic jam "bad". But lo... you'll see one fellow enjoying himself, listening to tunes and soaking it all in. In his reality it's just a fine day. Guy behind him however is fuming, getting more frustrated by the minute, and when he finally gets home he paints a picture of the world out to get him whilst pouring a second shot of whiskey...

But in any case I'm clearly out of my element on the whole SR business!