Sometimes I think about thinking. What is it, anyway? What is thought? How do our minds work? And what is it that makes us so different than a dog or dolphin or parrot, anyway? Do we know? I don't really think we do – I'm not sure we ever will.
But I think about thinking. If one practiced, I wonder, would it be possible to create and define your own world to live in? I don't mean like a madman does, mind, and I don't mean drugs. But could you perhaps withdraw into such a world until your mind did not know which was real and which false? Would it be possible to recreate the million subtle scents and tastes of this world until they were as real, in your mind, as to your bodily senses? Could you fool yourself that way? The only thing is that it would be an uninhabited world, unless one was sufficiently schizophrenic to imbue personas, also, with their own lives. Would people pay for such a potent elixir of withdrawal?
Oh, but they do all the time. They call them books.
4 comments:
o.k i am intrigued..
consider the thought that all thouse who claim to have left their bodies in a near death experience, have no physical body, no grey matter, no electrical synapsis' and yet tell of extrodinary sensory experience. smell, taste, sight, all of it and total self awarness. now the idea is where is thought actualized or from where does it come from. Is the physical mind more like a hard drive and the thought process more like the internet, which passes through, exists within, but is independent of the hard drive?
So if thought and spirit is "more real" than the hard drive then your question should prove true, unless of course it is impossible to create such thought reality while in the body...and Judeo Christian tradition / scripture is not fond of us having intentional out of body experiences..
hmmmm
Dad
To address the issue of creating your own reality:
My first answer to your question of whether that would be possible: Yes. It is possible. The mind is a powerful tool. Have you ever heard of lucid dreaming? It is a state of dreaming that must be worked on in order to achieve it, but when achieved it allows you to control your dreams and your actions in dreams as though it was reality. Now, as for doing that while awake, it would be possible, but people who are able to accomplish such will do one of two things. 1. Sit around dwelling in their mind until they die of starvation or dehydration. 2. Their body will act out the "mind-reality" resulting in chaos, since physically they are really still in this world.
I almost experienced lucid dreaming once. I actualy realized I was dreaming while still asleep one night and then wanted to try it. But before I could do anything I woke up. I was disapointed.
You were close!
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