What is Reality?
We are all unique. We all have our own way of thinking, seeing things and interpreting them. Not one person sees things the same way you do. We may agree on some things but that does not mean we see it the same way. Therefore, I believe we all have our own understanding of what reality is.
In the article “Is our Universe Fake?” Lawrence talks about the three types of reality.
1. Phenomenological reality: Subjective experience, whatever we see becomes real.
2. Consensus reality: We believe in things based on opinions and observations of other people.
3. Non- reality : Nothing is real
Out of those three, personally I believe in phenomenological reality, or subjective experience. If I do not see it, I do not believe in it. This touches in all aspects of life. One example could be that I do not believe in ghost because I have never seen one. I have watched a dozen movies about ghost and I have heard people tell me a thousand …show more content…
His first experience was dreaming his aunt was dead and waking up to realizing her aunt had been dead for seven weeks. He then goes to a dream specialist who attempts to help him, but ends up using George’s ability to his advantage. Throughout the book George changed reality several times all through his dreams, which the dream specialist controls. Not many of us are able to dream clearly but if you ever experience it you will realize it is actually kind of fun, or relieving. This tends to happen to me a lot, another example is when I’m having nightmares, I realize I’m dreaming and I try my hardest to wake up until I do. Most of the cases the lucid dreams you have tend to be weird and emotional. Back to the “Lathe of Heaven” where George would dream about aliens to stop wars and humans turning gray to stop discrimination, although George wasn’t aware he was dreaming his dreams would turn reality into a weird
We are all unique. We all have our own way of thinking, seeing things and interpreting them. Not one person sees things the same way you do. We may agree on some things but that does not mean we see it the same way. Therefore, I believe we all have our own understanding of what reality is.
In the article “Is our Universe Fake?” Lawrence talks about the three types of reality.
1. Phenomenological reality: Subjective experience, whatever we see becomes real.
2. Consensus reality: We believe in things based on opinions and observations of other people.
3. Non- reality : Nothing is real
Out of those three, personally I believe in phenomenological reality, or subjective experience. If I do not see it, I do not believe in it. This touches in all aspects of life. One example could be that I do not believe in ghost because I have never seen one. I have watched a dozen movies about ghost and I have heard people tell me a thousand …show more content…
His first experience was dreaming his aunt was dead and waking up to realizing her aunt had been dead for seven weeks. He then goes to a dream specialist who attempts to help him, but ends up using George’s ability to his advantage. Throughout the book George changed reality several times all through his dreams, which the dream specialist controls. Not many of us are able to dream clearly but if you ever experience it you will realize it is actually kind of fun, or relieving. This tends to happen to me a lot, another example is when I’m having nightmares, I realize I’m dreaming and I try my hardest to wake up until I do. Most of the cases the lucid dreams you have tend to be weird and emotional. Back to the “Lathe of Heaven” where George would dream about aliens to stop wars and humans turning gray to stop discrimination, although George wasn’t aware he was dreaming his dreams would turn reality into a weird