Sometimes I wonder a lot about what is real and what's not... last night I had an ongoing dream about me involved in this all too real Jedi world... I know, I've been playin way too much KOTOR again. Anyway, the thing is that the dream was very very real... I know "it didn't happen", but this morning when I woke up, as I was brushing my teeth and all, an idea poped into my head...
When you read something from Ramachandran you realize that the ultimate definition of YOUR reality is on your own mind, to us reality is what our brain perceives... our only connection to the world are our "sensors" that let us perceive it... yet those can "fool" us... Take for example this short tale by neil gaiman. I know it's a piece of fiction, but can we deny the reality of the experience of that one person?.
Then you realize that "our" perception of reality is just a consensus... an average of what most people believe to perceive of a certain event, and this we accept it as real once several others have agreed upon the same perception. Somethings which are a little "odd" we get to deny in groups, if a bunch of people "find a ghost" while walking on a forest they may be able to deny the experience and say it was "collective histeria"... kind of a collective nonsense, they all agree on ignoring a perception believen that it was just induced by folk tales or whatnot. Still the perception was there...
If a group of people is chatting, and one of them sees a "cartoon chimp" dancing in the middle of their group, he may decide to not comment on the event because it is so unlikely to happen... but it his mind the chimp is there!!!... And since our reality is in our minds, the chimp is real for him... just like dragons and elfs can be to several others. So... about my fantasies?... probably I've been to all those places for real, I've meet all those fairy folks, and kissed all those women... in my mind those experiences felt VERY real, so they must have been....
What I have to learn though, is to accept the fact that the "consensual" reailty is another issue, and probably a bunch of people will not believe me when I say I fought a dragon last night... it's just that my fantasies are not in the "common" realm, that place in which most of us wander most of the time, that doesn't mean though they are not real... at least to me. When an experience is strong enough it is real no matter what...
Hmmm... maybe.
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