147. TOPIC: People Can Create Their Own Reality

Quite honestly, I find this to an incredibly stimulating topic of discussion. It opens many doors and windows of philosophical possibilities and forces one to test the maleability of their own beliefs and compromise their sense of security. In order for this to take place, however, one must ask, "What is reality?"

If one was to ask the average person to explain what "reality" is, they'd most likely peg it as anything with tangible and visual characteristics. Some may, in addition to the aforementioned, claim that this supposed "reality" must be experienced by multiple people in order to achieve its rightful validation.

What many people don't know, is that everything you experience using the five senses are simply electrical impulses being interpretated by our brains. Naturally with this understanding, the substantial variables become almost inmediately apparent. The amount of elecetrical stimualtion each person is able to recieve, the function of their neurotransmitters, the amount of myelin coating the axon's of one's neurons, all these things play a direct role in the reception and interpretation of these stimulants. It would be illogical and naive for one to believe that these seemingly insignificant variables have no affect on the overall interpretation.

Taking, now, this concept of reality as well as the infinate number of variables into consideration, can anyone truly believe that they are experiencing precisely the same things as the person next to them? Acknowledging this, is acknowledging the fact that each person sees, hears, tastes, smells, and feels things differntly than every other person in existence. When reality is simply everything that one can sense, wouldn't that clearly show that there is no true reality and that there are, in fact, over six billion different realities all existing simultaneously? I believe that this is precisely what this shows.

With the understanding that each person operates on a seperate reality, the concept of its creation can be adressed. The idea of "creating" a reality appears to many as the ability to have complete control over the colour of the grass or the laws of gravity. In actuality, however, it really just boils down to the concept of total narcissism and self-absorption.

Every person in existence is the center of their reality. Everything revolves around him or her regardless of whether or not it is acknowledged. Because of this, one's personal beliefs have a direct affect on their immediate personal reality. A man or woman that believes in the concept of Heaven and Hell will live their life making decisions inspired by their particular desired afterlife. To a person who has never experienced this concept, it simply does not exist. If one doesn't know something exists, how can it be a part of their reality? This would be an example of an unintentionally created aspect to a particular reality.

As you can see, every person can and does create their own reality. It just isn't in a way that the average person expects. The real question, however, is can one truly change their reality?



Essay from my English mock that got me another six. Aww yeeeah.