What life is just a dream that is of our own creation? What if we could become lucid in our waking life and change our reality to whatever we can imagine?
I have often referenced Steve Pavlina's article on Subjective Reality as an introduction to a point of view I have found to be quite powerful.
Subjective Reality (SR), as I describe it, is the perspective that your true identity is the dreamer having the dream, so you are the conscious container in which the entire dream world takes place. Your body-mind is your avatar in the dream world, the character that gives you a first-person perspective as you interact with the contents of your own consciousness. But that avatar is no more you than any other character in the dream world. This perspective is also not objectively falsifiable, so it cannot be proven wrong. However, I find it a very rich and empowering way to interact with the dream world of reality on multiple levels.
What I find fascinating about this perspective is that it makes each of us 100% responsible for the world around us. Rather than complaining about someone else we need to view everything we perceive as reality as a reflection of our inner self. Attempting to change other people is like attempting to reach into the mirror. We must change ourselves and then those around us will change. Be the change you want to see in the world..
Law of Attraction
Many serious people find the Law of Attraction to be a lot of mumbo-jumbo nonsense.
The Law of Attraction simply says that you attract into your life whatever you think about. Your dominant thoughts will find a way to manifest.
Ironically the Law of Attraction and Subjective Reality tell us that if you do not believe in them, then you will manifest a world where you never get what you want. You will attract powerlessness. Worse yet your deepest unspoken fears may manifest.
Scientific Theory Supporting Subjective Reality and Law of Attraction
I was recently introduced to a mind-blowing TED talk by @andrarchy. This TED talk demonstrates that survival of the fittest results in an evolutionary process that favors those who do not see reality accurately. It shows how everything that we perceive is an abstraction we create of reality and not reality itself.
The metaphor he used was a computer desktop. The file shown on the desktop is not the actual reality, but a representation of bits of ones and zeros. He goes a step further and says that if you look at the file under the most powerful microscope it will appear to be composed of pixels. This is what happens when we attempt to discover reality using tools such as telescopes and microscopes. We just dive deeper into our desktop metaphor and we will never discover the electrons on the hard disk.
The desktop metaphor gives us an easy and intuitive way to interface with the complex reality that is our computer's memory banks and circuits. Likewise, our vision of the world is a desktop metaphor that our brains use to make us a better fit for navigating a complex reality.
What if we could Change our Desktop Theme?
We have the power to choose how we perceive things. How we perceive things in turn changes our reality. Two people can experience the same tragic event, say the murder of their family, but one can come out the otherside with love for the attacker and the other with hate. Two people with the same standard of living can feel either poor or rich depending upon what others around them have. Their happiness depends not on the reality of the stuff they have, but in how they choose to view what they have.
We have a very powerful ability to change our perceptions in ways that best serve us. The changing of our perceptions and intentions result in complex interactions with the true reality. In other words, the Law of Attraction and Subjective Reality are the natural result of gaining more experience with how reality really works.
It is like learning how to pilot your life. Initially we all just bumble around and think that life is a series of random events that are completely beyond our control. What we don't realize is that we fell asleep with our head on the space bar. Once we wake up we can start actively controlling our experiences in this life.
Conclusion
We now have reasonable proof that what we think is reality is just a mental abstraction that is difficult to see through. The true nature of reality is far more complex than we can imagine and our minds and bodies interact with this reality ways are far removed from what we think of as reality. If you have previously rejected new-age mumbo jumbo such as subjective reality and the law of attraction, I hope this TED talk causes you to rethink your world view. You might just find the key to getting everything you ever wanted.
"You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know when I put it in my mouth the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years you know what I realise? Ignorance is bliss" --Cypher
Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?
Morpheus: No, Neo. I’m trying to tell you that when you’re ready, you won’t have to.
"What if we could become lucid in our waking life and change our reality to whatever we can imagine."
I have evidence that this is possible.
This post kind of freaked me out because I just re-watched the Matrix. Not only did I re-watch it like for the 8th time, I focused specifically on the images you chose to capture in this post. I finally got the meaning of why Neo could stop the bullets and even though I had a vague idea before about it, life has altered significantly since I last watched the Matrix, so much so that I can now comprehend it on an entirely new level.
What you speak about in regards to the Subjective Reality is dead on. Not only do I understand this intellectually, but I can say that I've experienced it in my life. It's returning, after receding for several years, but it's coming back. I can sense it now.
Life inside a human has more in common with the energy that exists in nature. So, what I mean by this is that by harnessing one's natural thought energies, and talents, and natural inclinations, one exists within a seamless flow of life. One stops questioning whether the path is correct? or what does so and so think of this?, Instead, life becomes a flow of ideas, connections and newly established connections whose outcome leads to more energy and synergy between others who are resonating on that level. Once this happens, growth becomes accelerated for the ones who experience this same level of synergy are open to creating new valve systems and new connections. The energy multiplies. Problems still exist, but a new level of support exists where there was once nothing. This is described as resonating in a higher level of energy, which exists outside of identity or ego. This kind of energy is formless and therefore, can be redirected without effort.
It's weird, because I've been thinking a great deal about the flow of life and how I've managed to now turn my thought energy and easy mental exertions into income. This started way before Steemit, but I chose to take an unknown plunge about 5 months ago by accepting a low-paying job as a writer for a science website. The idea that I could turn thoughts into money was exciting beyond measure. That excitement has died down, and now I see that on the horizon are the dreams I secretly cultivated over my lifetime. I've always wanted to exist as a covetless, non-jealous person, someone secure in their identity as I knew suffering like the back of my hand. I see that releasing my fear of the unknown and realizing that jumping off the cliff is the way to go, because on my way down, great hands have mysteriously appeared from the cliff's interior that help me along the way. If I hadn't jumped off the cliff, I would never have seen the hands.
I had wild visions of being the person who anonymously leaves the tip that perhaps changes the destiny of one hard-working waitress. Or leaving books in bad parts of town with hundred dollar bills attached to the interior of the last page. So many dreams I've already done from somewhere unknown inside myself, from the part of me that's not jaded by the snarling eyes of last night's darkness. I've done many of these dreams, and more are still to come.
Dreaming and existing can merge. I have lived it once. It's coming for us all......
Thanks for this post. It made my little troubles vanish and reminded me to think more deeply.
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@stellabelle, I wonder, was it the thinking you did by itself that produced the results or was it that the change in thinking made you change what actions you took or did not take and were thus led down a different path by your actions which then led to the wonderful changes in your life?
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I can't wait to read what you think in 5 years. ;)
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The reason I say that is that I used to really be into this line of thinking back when I was reading stuff like, "Acres of Diamonds", "As a Man Thinketh" (and many other books on the topic) and was really into the whole philosophy surrounding the "Law of Attraction", "The Secret", Eckhart Tolle and many others including Rav Laitman (Dr. Michael Laitman).
Once I began "advanced Authentic Kabbalah" classes something changed within me. I really began to question everything I had learned over those years. I realized I was being taken down a path and I realized my path was changing once again. Shortly after that I became an atheist or so I thought. I use to agree with most everything I read in the #philosophy section here on Steemit, but that was 5-10 years ago. Then things changed, again.
I don't remember what it was that made me begin to question everything all over again, but something did and it was a ferocious awakening (that's the best way to explain it). I began to dig deeper into the origins of what I had learned over those many years and my entire world was turned upside down. I came face to face with my worst fear and then began the slow process of changing my entire thinking process once again.
That's my personal story and yours will be different. However, I have witnessed many people I studied with coming to the same independent conclusion years later, and knowing you are the kind of person that will continue seeking the truth I feel that within 5 years you will look back upon this time and your current philosophy very differently.
This is the reason for my statement above. I truly do want to see how your thinking has changed within that time, if at all. If it hasn't, well I guess you've found your path. That said, I would be willing to lay down a few Steem Dollars on a bet (because I cannot for the life of me shake my gambling habit) that your current beliefs/philosophy/thinking will have changed within the next 5 years. ;)
Like I've said in the past on the BitShares forum when you misconstrued a post or two of mine, I use to be you; meaning, I use to think everything you currently think. I've been there, done that, studied everything you are currently getting into and beyond and I see the path you are going down; because I have walked that path and know it well.
I also assume (or know by your post) that you're a free thinker and therefore I believe that you will eventually see things from a new perspective down your path, but it will take time. You have a ways to go it appears, judging by the things you openly express publicly. Everything is still new to you as far as your post indicate; this new found perspective is exciting to you, it's very freeing and brings you calm.
The best advice I can give to you (not that you asked, but I feel obligated to say because I care for you and your well being) on your journey is to be ready for an eventual storm of knowledge beyond anything you could have ever imagined. Your world may be turned upside down in a few years due to your own growth, not only in years but spiritually, knowledge and experience.
I don't want you to once again misinterpret what I'm trying to express to you. I'm simply not very good at expressing what I'm thinking or feeling inside. I'm no writer and have taken too many blows to the head over the years to be intelligent enough to articulate what I'm trying to get across. You're a unique person with a big brain and an even bigger heart and I only want the best for you and I hope that is what you take from this comment. I wish you nothing but luck on your journey and pursuit of happiness! :)
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Touche :) What a wonderful, wacky journey it is is it not? The awakening process is utterly fascinating and the magical phase is soooooo cute! I'm currently in the FUN phase.
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Tuck speaks :D
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something like that. yin and yang. cycles.
you start discovering create-your-own-reality. you have success and manifest what you want. then eventually you're being reminded that there are aspects which you have no control over, aspects which you have not yet understood, aspects that are bigger than yourself, and there is much more out there than everything you believed you had always wanted. you're being made humble again. and you have to re-start re-rediscovering yourself.
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RemindMe! 5 years
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^ This was posted hoping someone would make this bot for Steem. ;)
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I really like this article. what I got from it is that there is always a deeper level of reality hiding just under what you can percieve. For example what we see is just compounded and dense energy.
I also like your style of writing and wish you the best in your dharmic journey! #1love
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Watashi wa ai ni.
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I agree! Perception is reality!
I like what Alan Watts says,
"Most people think when they open their eyes and look around, that what they're seeing is outside. It seems, doesn't it, that you are behind your eyes, and that behind the eyes there is a blank you can't see at all. You turn around and there's something else in front of you. But behind the eyes there seems to be something that has no color. It isn't dark, is isn't light. It is there from a tactile standpoint; you can feel it with your fingers, but you can't get inside it. But what is that behind your eyes? Well actually, when you look out there and see all these people and things sitting around, that's how it feels inside your head. The color of this room is back here in the nervous system, where the optical nerves are at the back of the head. It's in there. It's what you're experiencing. What you see out here is a neurological experience. Now if that hits you, and you feel sensuously that that's so, you may feel therefore that the external world is all inside my skull. You've got to correct that, with the thought that your skull is also in the external world. So you suddenly begin to feel 'Wow, what kind of situation is this? It's inside me, and I'm inside it, and it's inside me, and I'm inside it.' But that's the way it is."
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I have to say that this is the most profound description I have read on the relationship between our sense of sight and the surrounding physical world. Thank you for sharing this @mars-eve
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I need to make sure I don't miss your new account. I like your stuff.. rrrright up my alley.
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@dan, here is why what you say is true:
Have you ever had a dream that felt SO real - a lucid dream or semi lucid - and woken up wondering, why did the dream feel like your hometown, but everything was laid out differently? (evidence of a multiverse) or, why did you not go into that dream wondering, "where am I? Why am I here? Who are these people?" WHY does it seem like the dream always has a backstory? When you are in the dream, you KNOW everyone you see, everywhere you are and are going, and you don't question anything. Weird is it not? WHY is it that in some dreams, you somehow KNOW you can fly or do amazing things, even if others in the dream cannot? This should make you think a little. I know you are busy but if you want to know more, I have personally delved a little farther than most people into this kind of information and I would be happy to comment more. If you want, I will make a detailed analysis of the heaven or dream dimension here on steemit. Your thoughts?
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@kingtylervvs , I have had many dreams where I felt that I had been there before and sometime during the dream I become conscious of this fact and start to wonder about it and then remember also that I have another life when I wake up in the morning. Now I can tell you that I have this memory of having this feeling as I am awake and writing this response to you but I can't remember the details of the dreams where I felt this way. In the same way, I remember also that while dreaming many times that not only that I had been there before but had been there with the people in the dream many times before and could, while dreaming know what had happened with all of us before.
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This guy kind of reminds me of seeing journalist Robert Wright speak about "natural selection has evidence of meaning."
Funny and cute but um - NO, not really :) Nice work on the article!
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@dan, I love this video of Donald Hoffman's Ted Talk and enjoyed reading your thoughts here . I'll agree that our minds create the cube when in fact it resides on the flat screen. I agree also that this creation by our minds to perceive the cube is really a reconstruction of the flat surface on the screen to look as though it has become a 3D cube.
I enjoyed the arguments that there is a difference between taking what we perceive as serious but at the same time, this reality that is taken seriously is not being accurately perceived and that when we close our eyes the objective reality as we perceived it when eyes were open is still there but may not be like it is the way we think it is because our perceptions of it made it look a certain way.
The joke relating to the Australian Beetle leaving the female for the bottle was a good chuckle.
My joking question however has to be this: Can a rabbit use positive thinking to believe that a steak will be good for him and if he could or did eat the steak would it in fact have good health afterwards because he believed he would? I believe the answer to this is No!
With this question, I wonder if the Law of Attraction has limitations. I do believe that changing our mindsets to a mindset of possibilities which is itself a positive mindset does not by itself manifest the reality we desire but it conditions our actions so that we move towards more positive outcomes and this to me is the true magic of the Law of Attraction.
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure
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I watched half of that Dan Hoffman video a while back and it was interesting. Could not recall his name and haven't had time to check the YouTube history. Interesting post and there might be something to it.
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Wow
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오래전에 쓰여진 이 글을 지금 읽고 한글로 댓글을 쓰게 되다니 감개가 무량하군요.
암호화폐에 표상된 자산이 과연 실체를 갖고 있는 것인지에 대해 고민하게 하는 글이네요.
매트릭스라는 영화가 함축하고 있는 바가 많네요. 저한테도 많은 영감을 주었던 영화였지요.
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