What Is Reality?

  Last night I was in a forest of incredible beauty. Trees that seemed to stretch to the heavens indefinitely, never seeming to stop. The trees had fruit growing from them in every color imaginable, from round green fruits that tasted like coffee to white fruits that tasted like ice cream. The floor of the forest was covered with the most lusciously soft moss that would put 70’s shag carpet to shame. There was all sorts of different animals that could communicate with me without exchanging any sort of words or sounds. And the whole time I was in this forest the song Eddie Vedder by Local H was playing extremely loud on repeat, and I continuously sang along never seeming to get tired of the song. I never once questioned why I was in that forest or if it was possible that I could have been dreaming. Of course I did wake up and realized what I had experienced was in fact a dream. The fact of the matter is the same concept applies to how we look at the “real world.” The real world as we know it is what we have gathered in our life time and also what we as humans have experienced. But we rarely ever stop to question our reality, just as I didn’t stop to question my dream. Who’s to say that my dream was only a dream? My dream could have just as easily been another dimension of reality. Reality is not only what we as humans have experienced but more of what we can imagine!  

   A great way to explain my Theory is through the placebo effect. Say I have a close friend that struggles with depression and I explain to him that I have a pill that will cure his depression and make him happier, instead of giving him Zoloft or another antidepressant I just give him a plain sugar pill. It’s very likely that he will become happier because he will be expecting an uplift in mood from the pill but really it’s all in his imagination. If you believe in things they have incredible power. No one completely understands the universe or why we are here, the whole universe might be someone or something’s imagination. 

 No one really knows what is real and what isn’t, people may believe they know why we exist or what is real and what isn’t but they are nothing but ideas that we create to give us a sense of safety and comfort. We humans create various different religions and they all start by imagining and designing theories. Some may say that they are just that, a theory, and no one can ever be sure of their religion, but they can. What you believe in is what you are imagining so there for you are creating your own reality. What you believe in has incredible power.

  What we consider real is only what we are accustom to. Say you were in a car accident and all your previous memory of everything that has ever happened or you have experienced is completely erased. You would wake up looking at the world in an entirely different way. Everything would be completely mind boggling. People flying in planes, modern medicine, nature, stars in the night sky would all seem like some crazy psychedelic trip. The only reason we don’t think of everything in such a way is we are already accustom to it. What if our whole existence is some sort of psychedelic trip? The possibilities are endless.

  Tim Burton once said “One person's craziness is another person's reality.” Reality is not what science has proved to be real or proved to be impossible. Reality is not what you see on TV or what you read in a book. Reality is whatever you want it to be. Reality is not only what we as humans have experienced but more of what we can imagine!