What are your opinions on reality?

I am in favor of it.

If it turned out not to be real, I’d want to know that, though.

It’s over-rated. I’m against it.—-Hi Lisa. Muah.—

Define reality.

@ragingloli I can’t define something that doesn’t exist so just guess.

It is what it is.

We are blessed and cursed to see reality through our own distinctive eyes. There are a rare few that see the paradigms shift and transcend to a little truer reality.

Look at a billionaire’s reality verses a homeless person’s reality. The homeless person’s reality is a bit smaller, most of us can probably understand it, but a billionaire’s reality? That is a level most of us can’t fathom, even if we watch ‘lifestyles of the rich and famous.’ In this case it is not necesarily a better reality or a truer one, but they are definitely different!

Does it exist? Is there such a think as objective reality?

My feeling is that we each define reality for ourselves, based on knowledge, experience, and guts. Sometimes your reality and mine coincide, but more often than not they are different.

Bottom line is that there is no universal reality, much less a universal Definition of reality.

When it occasionally bites, it’s best to escape from it for a while.

^^It’s fun to escape from reality, whatever it is. I love nothing more than retreating into my own world.
I reckon each of us has a unique path to walk/run/trudge through so I suppose reality is a relative concept.

( ...I was hoping @zensky might post an answer with no words! Some kind of koan… )

All of the above, the hard parts the soft parts the external parts the internal parts… all in my reality. The known the unknown the mental the emotional the scientific the intuitive… all in my reality. My opinions your opinions the facts the inventions… all in my reality.

It sucks. Let me live in my own little world.

Opinions and reality don’t play well together. As Dazu Huike put it, “Do not go searching for the truth. Just let those fond opinions go”.

Yes, reality exists. The question is can we perceive it?

The question is what are reality’s opinions on me?

I think reality is a pretty good model that helps us survive. But I’m always looking for ways to improve the model.

PS @janbb, I asked my reality model what it’s opinions about you are. I’m afraid I had to shut down the run before it finished. There was too much black smoke and it was starting to choke me to death.

Great words from Oscar Gamble: “They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.” LOL

There is perception and then there is universal reality.
If I perceive your shirt to be green and you perceive it to be blue, well, it is both green and blue based on perception. If I perceive you to be a jerk, regardless of your opinion of your jerkiness or lack of, well, I’ll still dump your ass because my perception trumps your opinion. lol

On the other hand, if I perceive the IRS to be a fraudulent organization, well, that may or may not be true in reality, but what is true is that if I don’t pay my taxes the reality of impending fines and imprisonment will effect my reality. lol

What I do know is that fighting with reality causes suffering.
No amount of internal complaining and resistance changes reality.
Dead is dead, broken is broken, taxes are taxes, things change, and no amount of resistance changes these facts, sooo, best to accept reality and drop the mental BS of why reality is bad, wrong, unfair. It just is.

Small, marching, gravity defying, purple elephants for everybody!

It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright!

Hey, wundy! Leave our little penguin alone!!!!

@marinelife Now why would you say that? There’s no telling why the model was smoking. It could be because of the penguin’s awesome wonderfulness that was too much to handle. ;-)

I think I’ll vote for it this time, but I may change my mind next election.

@Sunny2

LOL…funny! Yes, I am not a supporter of reality in this election.

Reality is what you experience when you can’t rule in anything else.

The Allegory of the Cave. There is no such thing as one true reality. Things people, places, life, spirituality, everything only has the meaning we give it.

@SuperMouse True. Except for death and taxes. ;-p

Ah, another chance to bring out my favourite quote:

“Without inwardness there can be no external world, and without imagination there can be no reality.”

Franz Werfel

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
—Philip K. Dick

Over rated.

As far as we understand and define existence, reality exists as we perceive it, I guess. Whatever lies beyond the limits of our comprehension though, I couldn’t say. Maybe we only think it exits, because I think therefore I am and all, but in that way, it’s real, even if it’s something else entirely, or nothing at all. If you think about a dragon, I guess it exists in your head, even if there are no actual dragons. But if reality isn’t anything, it sure is complicated for all the facets you can explore.

It isn’t real. LMAO

It poses significant danger to health and happiness and ought to be eradicated whenever and wherever it is discovered.

If it isn’t real, at least it’s consistent.

According to quantum mechanics matter isn’t real. The atoms that make up matter are pretty much empty space. Perhaps we do live in a truly holographic universe where the only reality is Mind.

@Paradox25 First of all, there’s no such thing as “according to quantum mechanics.” At best, there’s “according to one of the several interpretations of quantum mechanics.” Second, no interpretation of quantum mechanics says anything as bold as “matter isn’t real.” Some say that matter is not what we once thought it was, but we’ve known that since Einstein. The ontological import of the various interpretations, however, is a philosophical matter—and one that has not been resolved.

The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all—Paul Watzlawick