Let's discuss reality!?

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dee

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I read this somewhere - and I can't for the life of me find the link! Sorry!

Something like "If we were asleep and dreaming more often than we were ever awake, what would we call reality."

To me, that statement embodies the fragility of reality and how much of it is based on our perception.

I don't really have a question - I'm just curious as to everyone's personal definition of "reality" :)
 
I prefer the story of the Chinese Mandarin, who said "I dreamt I was a butterfly, and when I woke I wasn't sure if I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I was a man."

As a good Berkelyite, I believe that reality is a communication between God and man and so the nature of it is less important than the CONTENT.
 
True reality is complete oneness with the All. All else is illusion. What we perceive is dreams we generate to hide this from ourselves so we feel unique and special. There is only One of us, and we are All there is.
 
Reality: changes from moment to moment with no warning. It's different from person to person, and you never know when you're all wrong, or all right.
 
Reality is what hurts in some way. We only start to pose such metaphysical questions to ourselves when things become problematic for us and we want to get away from some of them. If we were asleep and dreaming, and then occasionally woke up and had a much more vivid experience of waking life with its stronger sesnse-data and clearer narrative, we would say that we had just experienced a "higher reality". It would be like Plato's cave-dwellers catching a glimpse of the outside world, or people in The Matrix understanding something of the computer. Meanwhile, the other sleepers in our dream would think us mad, or gifted, or enlightened.
 
I found your question to be a reality to me as I am answering it. However that fact is a fantasy because all answers would be the fantasy of the answerers because they do not know if this is mental gymnastics on your part or genuine curiosity. You now you asked the question (your reality) but I am not answering it (my fantasy). And yet, the question remains.
 
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