I'm seriously wondering if this blog has any audience whatsoever. It probably doesn't. I probably don't care either. I'm already having fun looking back at a few of these posts.
Anyways.....
Last night I saw the movie Inception. It really grabbed me, and I mean really. It got me thinking, as I often do, about the nature of perception and reality, and the fine line that is drawn between the two. I have always been very interested in studying altered states of the mind, dreams, and perception of reality. I have also had a few... unique experiences (which I won't get into specifics about in this blog) which have made this subject particularly interesting.
A question I often pose to myself is whether or not "reality" is constructed entirely by our perception. For example, if my sky is blue, your sky must also be blue. But, is our perception of the color blue actually quite different? To say that blue looks the same to me as it does to you would only be assuming that our perception of the world is the same. Perhaps each of us sees our own pallette of colors, so that we all may name the sky blue, but not necesarily see the same sky.
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| Could this be a reality in someone else's percieved universe? |
In altered states and in dreaming our minds are capable of constant, absolute creation. Which means that our brains are not limited by the boundraries set by normal life. But what if the world that we live in, or, better suited to this arguement, the world that I live in, is nothing more than a projection of our own perception? Is this life a "percieved reality"?
If we are to believe that our reality is 100% based on perception, what can we say about our own being?
Take for instance, a person on DMT. This compound is secreted when we dream, meaning that our dreams are, quite literally, a hallucinogenic experience or "trip". When a person is either naturally or artificially under the influence of this chemical, they are physically in one space, but their reality exists in another. The user is totally immersed in a "percieved reality" that is at once both made up of the user's abstract thought yet to them, perfectly real.
To accept the theory that our world is entirely made up of perception is to say that we ourselves actually exist in some alternate plane, where we are simply imagining our world. This may concide with some world religions whose dogmas are based on the notion of an alternate state of being and the existance of the soul as a seperate entity from the body.
Can perception be so strong that it can become the perciever's reality? Is there really any difference between the two?
These are only questions, and of course I am no one to answer them. What are your thoughts?
