What is Reality?

Really, what is it?

Unicorns do exist. The question is "in what reality?"

"What is reality?"

Let me ask you: are you a real person?

What makes a person real, then? Consciousness?

Okay, let me ask then: Are you conscious?

Yes? Prove it.

Yes, that's it. You can't prove it. But you think you ARE a real person, right?

Where is real?

Ever had a vivid dream that felt so real you don't even consider it "just a dream" anymore?

Or just any dream that you remember but vaguely?

What makes us say that those experiences weren't real?

"Those aren't real, they just happened in my head."

Hmmm, isn't what's happening to you right now as you read this thing just happening in your head as well?

Remember what Albus Dumbledore said:

Just as all of what you're perceiving now is just in your head.

Reality is only what you perceive it to be.

Is reality lucidity?

Let's get back to the point I raised a while ago. If you've had a vivid experience or a "lucid dream" especially one you can control yourself, good. What do you think of that? Was that real?

If you haven't had an experience of lucidity, I recommend you trying this method called "The Phase" by a very helpful guy named Mike Raduga, who shared his research for free:

• The Website
• His Book

Now, I'll share my experience:

I did a WILD technique (Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming) in which I had to stay complete still as my mind stays awake and my body falls asleep.

I woke up in the middle of the night, then I went back to bed with a slightly waken up mind and an empty bladder. I picked a spot, stayed as completely still as possible and then waited for the experience to happen. It happened after a few minutes that my body got heavy. It was the sleep experience process and I was aware of it. My mind was awake, my body was falling asleep. After my body completely fell asleep. I experienced getting up and out of my body in a dream body, and then flying around my house and my village. I even ended up making this magic powder that I instinctively knew I could make.

The experience was so lucid that I awoke and still remember all the details, not like a hazy dream.

Felt real too.

Is this real?

I ask you. Is what you are going through right now "real"?

Prove it... But, how can you prove or disprove that this is real?

What makes it real?

What is "real" anyway?

You tell me.

As far as I know, "reality" is not really just something that we can necessarily grasp as a solid and , because reality is such a subjective thing. 

We are all subjects having our own unique personal experiences in this "reality".

We all look out into the world with our own eyes, our own perspectives.

What is reality, then?

What we perceive and experience may be beyond our control after a certain extent of choosing, but how we perceive and how we view our experience of life is a choice.

Reality is what we make it to be.

Victor Frankl

I'm reading this book by Victor Frankl called "Man's Search for Meaning." 

I highly recommend this book to people who are looking for meaning and purpose in one' life and all the sufferings in it.

In that book he said this:

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” 

Victor Frankl, a Jew in the time of Hitler, still chose an attitude that made him survive even if he experienced beyond-copious amounts of intense suffering in a German torture/work camp.

Even if his reality sucked, he still maintained an attitude that got him through the sufferings and he found the light, and in his words:

“What is to give light must endure burning.” 

The book tells a lot about how Victor Frankl found meaning in his suffering and even developed a mode of existential psychotherapy called logotherapy from it. Awesome read.

How much (or little) do we know?
I want to share this movie which makes one think about reality and how much we really know about it.

It tackles research on quantum physics and how everything is energy and matter has differences only because of the rate of vibration and stuff like that.

What DO we really know?

I think the info in there is outdated already, what with the advent of new information and research on quantum physics and all, but I think it's main message is still applicable about reality.

So yeah, what the ^*#)$@) do we really know about reality?

What do you think?