Define Reality.

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is it what you think it is? Is life speeding up the older you get? do the boundaries of reality contract or expand?

Have you made concessions?


Is it all an illusion?


The most miniscule particle of matter is over ninety percent energy vibrations. Our material surroundings are energy. \

What is reality?


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[Heidi]

1. Did you _mean_ to post this in the Lounge?

:rofl: :spray:

Hi, Skip Intro! :hi:

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2. Is this the lounge? Are you sure?

;)

[Heidi]

3. Since it _is_ the Lounge, the answer is,

"No, I can't be sure." :rofl: :spray:

[Rosemary2205]

4. Reality is when

you realize the kids have been "cleaning" the dishes by letting the dog lick all the food off and then putting them away in the cabinet for quite some time now.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Oh no!

:D

Jeff and Akbar deathbed confessions:

"All these years, I've been peeing in the sink."

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Reality is thought given form.

It is exactly like dreaming, but we are the dreamt, not the dreamer.

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7. ex-cellant

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6. a continuation -

what is real and what is not is a matter of perception, and belief.

that seems a fundamental truth


what is real??? Is life what you thought it would be? By now? No? Deal with it tho? Different perceptions of reality. Changing perceptions of reality. The bigger picture we only get fleeting glimpses.

The only certainty is that it does end.


And a salve, a balm to move you right along exists, and is on sale, at walmart.





all the little ants are marching,,,



meanwhile, a higher reality - the real truth, human truth, screams for attention...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. I think, therefore you are.

To quote a character in an old John Brunner novel, "Christ, what an imagination I have!"

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9. Yay, a "Zanzibar" fan.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. I'm actually re-reading it at this time

for the umpteenth time- all of Brunner's works from that particular era hold great significance for this age and should be mandatory reading for one and all.

I just finished Shockwave Rider a couple weeks ago- I HIGHLY recommend that one too.

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. Brunner certainly defined reality well.. As you say, his social predictions are coming true.

[El Fuego]

13. I think the reason life speeds up is a data compression algorithm in your brain

that you develop as your brain learns to more efficiently process information.

A data compression algorithm works something like this: if you had binary data (0s and 1s) and there's a string of 101 zeros, you'd encode it to just say "101 zeros" instead of actually having 101 zeros in order to save on memory space.

When you're a little kid you experience every single moment equally, so school days are an agonizing eternity, and summer vacations are gloriously long. As you get older the compression algorithm kicks in, and your brain starts compressing incoming information because it's identical to previously stored information. And life seems to speed up.

[Inchworm]

14. If you can piss...

and it ends up on your biscuit...

reality

[Neoma]

15. It's the thing we're trapped in.

[Guava Jelly]

16. something that is quite irritating

I prefer fantasy

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. Reality is the ultimate act of letting go...

letting go of all notions
letting go of all prejudices
letting go of all definitions...including definitions of reality

My own glimpses of it have been fleeting.

[Ikonoklast]

18. Reality is an artificial construct

Used by carbon-based life forms to explain their existence in the four dimensions that they are trapped in.

There will be a new definition of 'reality' once the bonds of causality are broken and existence in higher dimensions is achieved.


We are, after all, mostly composed of empty space, and so is everything in the known universe.

Physicality is an illusion.