Some people argue that nothing is real and everything is just happening inside of our head. Some people argue differently. That things have a physical form in the world with or without us.
Some people believe variants of these two extremes. Where thoughts can in some way or shape influence our surroundings. Or that we are all a perpetuated single being splitting itself into several enteties. Only one is real the others just figments of the imagination of a mastermind creature.
What all of the above are talking about is what I will henceforth refer to as the "Scale of reality".
See I really like scales. I'd even argue that scales are the natural order of things and there exist no such thing as binary.
What I mean is that binary is simply two points along a potentially infinite scale that we extract to try to make sense of the world.
And why is this important?
Because on the "Scale of reality", going by the above mentioned logic it would make no sense for the world to exist all objectively and cold as it is.
Neither does it make sense for everything to just be subjective.
In truth, our subjective experience and deduction has to coexist alongside sensory intake.
To answer the question of where we are on this scale. First I think we need to question if we need a solid end to all answer?
Would you be ok if I told you it's dynamic. That every intelligent being on earth is in a constant battle of sorts between what is outside and what comes from within?
It's pretty widely accepted today that consciousness is always changing. The notion of "me" comes from a stream of new memories and sensations becoming old memories and sensations.
It's hard to analyze our reality without bringing our sense of ego into the picture.
What type of world does an animal without a sense of ego percierve? It will likely act according to it's biological needs and fears.
If we are truly just one being living and creating everything inside our own mind. Then for what reason was the ego created? From reason alone the ego stems from a deeper connection than that which only responds to external biological needs.
By deduction that is another reason to follow the logic that every single individual land differently on this scale.
Those who move so far, indeed that we no longer can relate to them, are seen as mad. They loose touch of our common perception of reality.
Our common percecption is different from our internal scale. It's the scale we conform to to allow ourselves to exist on the same plane of reality as everyone else.
For me personally when I go into my artistic zone. I kind of create a heterotopia where it's just me and the task at hand. Sometimes that is accopmanied by a sense of flow, however that is another topic entierly.
Arguably there is an element to flow most people don't think about. But that is the ultimate balance between what is outside and what comes from withing.
We tend to be in the mindstate where our focus is outside. What we project, what we want to show and express.
A lot of people who do drugs (I'm not advocating drugs in any way, just speculation at this point). They easily express themselves as feeling flow. Perhaps precisely because drugs can help some people dissolve the barrier in a world that favors the external reality.
But enough about flow.
And to wrap this up I urge people to explore the world within us. All to often it takes the backseat and like most things in life I think people would feel good if they moderated their reality.
It is after all, the space in which we in some form dwell.
Signed, Mireneye
