do you think that everything around you is your imagination? it could all be my imagination. i could be imagining people into my life? could you be imagining people into your life?

Solipsism syndrome. I haz it.

Quote from: Natasha on April 05, 2008, 10:14:01 PM
do you think that everything around you is your imagination? it could all be my imagination. i could be imagining people into my life? could you be imagining people into your life?

I imagine that everything and everybody is real.

In the event that I am wrong and you are imagining this existence, I'd like to ask that you try doing a better job of it.  I'd prefer to not need anti-anxiety/depression medicine if you don't mind.



Your old foe,

Rebis

Quote from: dawn on April 05, 2008, 10:31:13 PM
Solipsism syndrome. I haz it.

i sorta do to.

-Ellie

I imagine many things, but my reality is my reality. 

I have had episodes where my mind has left my body, especially when I experience a great deal of stress, then I lose touch with reality.  In this state I feel like nobody or anything is real, what is going on around me is not real.  But I eventually come back and everything is like before, probably even more real than before!  The mind does weird things to protect oneself.

So no, I don't think my reality is my imagination. 

Quote from: ell on April 05, 2008, 11:46:11 PM

Quote from: dawn on April 05, 2008, 10:31:13 PM
Solipsism syndrome. I haz it.

i sorta do to.

-Ellie

I really love your new icon, Ellie.

I think that's part of my reality.  "My reality."  Hmmm... That's solipsistic if anything is.

Quote from: Lisbeth on April 06, 2008, 09:25:59 AM

Quote from: ell on April 05, 2008, 11:46:11 PM

Quote from: dawn on April 05, 2008, 10:31:13 PM
Solipsism syndrome. I haz it.

i sorta do to.

-Ellie

I really love your new icon, Ellie.

I think that's part of my reality.  "My reality."  Hmmm... That's solipsistic if anything is.

Thank you, Ma'am.  *Blushes*

-Ellie

Quote from: buttercup on April 06, 2008, 12:02:45 AM
I imagine many things, but my reality is my reality. 

I have had episodes where my mind has left my body, especially when I experience a great deal of stress, then I lose touch with reality.  In this state I feel like nobody or anything is real, what is going on around me is not real.  But I eventually come back and everything is like before, probably even more real than before!  The mind does weird things to protect oneself.

So no, I don't think my reality is my imagination. 

Do you think you may be disassociating?

Nothing has actual, concrete reality until it is observed, if quantum physics is to be believed. Only by observing others, and ourselves, for that matter, are we given form from the background noise of probability.

Dontcha just looooooooooooooove where physics is headed?! 

~Simone.

Posted on: 06 April 2008, 14:27:59

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Of course, the question then pops up: If my mind, thoughts and feelings, arising from physical and chemical processes, also have to be observed for them to become real ... who or what is doing the observing? 

~Simone.

There is a physical reality that we do not have the ability to fully comprehend and there is a mental awareness that has both imagination and senses input. We subjectively sort things out. There more skilled tend to do this more successfully.

Quote from: Rebis on April 06, 2008, 11:04:14 AM

Quote from: buttercup on April 06, 2008, 12:02:45 AM
I imagine many things, but my reality is my reality. 

I have had episodes where my mind has left my body, especially when I experience a great deal of stress, then I lose touch with reality.  In this state I feel like nobody or anything is real, what is going on around me is not real.  But I eventually come back and everything is like before, probably even more real than before!  The mind does weird things to protect oneself.

So no, I don't think my reality is my imagination. 

Do you think you may be disassociating?

When that has happened to me, it has been very frightening.

As a child, one of my best friends and I pondered this query.  Why we, as ten-year olds, would contemplate the idea? I don't know. We finally decided that it was not our imagination.  However, to a certain extent, it may be, for our reality is our reflection of it.  But unlike schizophrenia, you are not likely to walk on air if you walk off the side of a skyscraper, so some of our imagination is an actual physical reality.

tink

I have imagined that I really am dead. It happened 20 years ago in the real world.  Ever since I simply live on in my imagination which is a parallel reality just for me.

I have imagined ...