Is our personal perception of life subjective? If so, what is reality?

There is a reality, but we cannot perceive it from without our paradigm.

Yep, it’s one of those tree-falling-in-the-forest situations. No one can experience “true” reality… therefore, does it exist? I think it does, but it’s interesting to think that no one will ever know what that reality is.

@fireinthepriory I like your logic. I agree with you. Thanks.

Reality is different for each person. Through life and experience, we have a perception filter. That perception filter (only) allows in what we want to believe. Very few can face reality without it.

I think our brains are far too tiny to grasp it. The best we can do is see it through our individual lenses.

Quite a good question. I’d say yes. Subjective to the nth degree.

We can’t really even perceive the world around us as it really is (not only due to our lacking ability to absorb stimuli, but our lacking ability to agree on what the world around us really is).

For example, what we see as the colour red (assuming we all see it the same way, more on that in a moment) is merely the interpretation of a certain section of the spectrum by our eyes and brain. While the little man on the DON’T WALK sign looks red to us, it isn’t really that colour. But since we have no ‘objective’ set of eyes to look through and see what everything really looks like, we just have to assume that it’s how we see it.

And on the topic of the colour red. I’m partially colourblind. To the red/orange section of the spectrum, I’m told. You and I don’t see the colour red in the same way. But since we aren’t really able to jump out of our body and see it as the other one does, we’re unable to notice the difference. For me, red just looks like red. As I’m sure it does for you.

Now I’m just ranting. Back to the topic of reality.

In the practical sense of the word, there is such a thing as reality. It’s what we’re experiencing right now. But in a deeper sense of the word, there is no universal ‘reality’ which can be objectively experienced.

Reality isn’t what you see around you. Reality is what you feel in your gut.

You can call it a butterfly or a pterodactyl. It doesn’t change the fact that it is flying past you.

“As no two people ever experience things in exactly the same way.”

We all die.

@daemonelson Aren’t the “don’t walk” signs orange? ;)

@ChazMaz Yeah, we all die, but not in the same way.

@DrasticDreamer Well, here they’re red. I think different countries may have different colours.

Yes everyone’s opinion is subjective . I believe intelligent people do a decent job viewing things objectively .

@daemonelson I know. :) Just thought I’d throw that out there in fun since it applied to your post about everyone seeing colors in a different way.

@DrasticDreamer Oh, right. I thought perhaps you were talking about the colourblindness thing :P

I’ll have to go get high and then get back to you on this.

“we all die, but not in the same way.”

Are there other forms of dead?

Reality exists outside of perception.Existence exists.A is A.A cannot be A and B at the same time.Aristotle’s Law of Identity.

@ChazMaz Dead is dead, yes. My only point is that we all don’t die the same way. And for all I know maybe dead isn’t dead and we don’t all experience it the same way.

The reality is that there is no reality. So in essence we are experiencing reality either way.

@DrasticDreamer – I’ll give ya that. :-)

If is reality, then it is subjective. If it is subjective, then it is reality.

The two opposite sides of the coin. In this case I believe to be a win/win or lose/lose situation.

The way I see it, what “you” perceive (really, what I perceive) IS reality. It is the whole truth. And this isn’t a “maybe” it’s really reality. There isn’t anything else except what you perceive. Anything that you happen to remember being true IS true, until you learn otherwise. If you don’t learn otherwise, it technically (like really, as far as you know) isn’t true.

When you talk about “reality” you are speaking about “that which you perceive to be true” in all cases. Hence, you are “it.” If “you” die, “it” as far as “you” are able to define “it” ends.

@Sonnerr Very Zen. Thanks.