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This might sound kind of crazy, but this is something I've thought about for a while.
I wondered what reality was, and I decided whatever you believed became your reality, because reality is just how one perceives the world. Believing that, however, makes reality be very transient, and perhaps reality should be something stable and unchanging? And I believe that you experience motions because you decide to have them. If I'm happy it's because I decided to be happy. If I'm sad, it's because I've decided to be sad, and outside influences can't decide that for me, but maybe they can make me lean towards deciding one way or the other.
An example is how you did something as a child.. went somewhere, played a game. then you did it later in life, and had a totally different experience. Maybe the play basketball hoop in the playground was 100 feet high when you were seven years old, but then when you're twenty, it seems three feet tall. One way of interpreting the basketball hoop would be to say.. according to a tape measure, it is three feet tall. That seems factual and correct, but, is it really? For a seven year old, couldn't it be one hundred feet tall? Facts and evidence can provide one idea of reality, but everyone has their own individual interpretations and beliefs which contradict facts, and facts themselves are only arbitrary perceptions forced upon the masses. Is there any stable point of reference or is reality completely subjective?
I can't find a stationary point of reference, which led me to my conclusion that everyone has their own reality.
(I hope I made sense ._.)

Heh here in my house we used to talk about these kind of stuff and many other filosofical facts (dont know if i can call them facts ) with a couple of friends; ussualy these disscusions are loads of fun
Well i guess reality is different for every different beign. There was a sf book about ants and it precisely described there perception of reality (completely different to that of humans) we've also discussed something similar in a thread about dogs which i also think percive reality in a different way.
About humans, i think everybody percives realty differently: it whats makes us individual persons and is a human trait; there are lets say similarities between the realities which are common because where are members of the same species : the metric system (though its not a good example, the only thing that comes to my mind right now).
I really hope people with post on this thread; its a good discussion and it would be a shame if it doesnt recive importance. Heh it sure is better than that disscusion about toilet paper

Well like Einstein said everything's relative, so for a short 7 year old the basketball hoop will seem taller than it does for a full grown adult, even though factually the height is the same for both of them.

People do perceive things differently, but imo the facts around us are all the same, and the means with which we look at them (eyes) are the same, but the inerpretation differs (depending on your background), altough even then there is a set of defined rules that are followed in the brain.


Emotions on the other hand can be very much out of your control, and if people had a choice in the matter no-one would feel bad. Emotions have a reason, for example to seek the company or possession of those things which make you feel good. Outside influences are central to humans, and the way we perceive ourself is determined by how we think others perceive us, and I don't see why emotions would be any different, after all they are also central to how we feel.



Philosphy is interesting, but it can be dead tiring to discuss as anything is possible and there is no absolute right.

As i thought nobody is giving this topic the needed attention; i really feel depresssed...