How are we sure that we're all perceiving things the same way? For example, the colour blue that I perceive might actually be what you perceive to be the colour pink. But we'll never actually know because we can't see through each other's eyes, and even if someone gets a transplant, their brain's already made the association between a certain stimulus and how it should interpret it. The same applies for sound, smell, touch and taste. Is this why everyone has different preferences when it comes to pictures/music/food? And do popular things arise because they're more likely to be interpreted in the same way across a population?
True as some people said. I know it sounds dumb but I have tried to imagine a new colour since I was little. I literally sat and tried to think about it for a few mins then realised I couldnt
Also, many times I thought that everyone around me were playing on me. Like its all staged and I am the victim.
The thing about different perceptions.I used to think that we see, hear and smell things differently but we dont know. As someone stated above. And if we see things as the sizes they actually are. Like my sight may be a little bit wider then yours? Or the TV I am looking at maybe a little bit bigger in your eye?
A baby girl is mysteriously dropped off at an orphanage in Cleveland in 1945. “Jane” grows up lonely and dejected, not knowing who her parents are, until one day in 1963 she is strangely attracted to a drifter. She falls in love with him, but just when things are looking up for Jane a series of disasters strikes: First, she becomes pregnant by the drifter, who then disappears. Second, during the complicated delivery doctors discover that Jane has both sets of sex organs, and to save her life, they most surgically convert “her” to a “him.” Finally, a mysterious stranger kidnaps her baby from the delivery room.
Reeling from these disasters, rejected from society, scorned by fate, “he” becomes a drunkard and a drifter. Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well. Years later, in 1970, he stumbles into a lonely bar, called Pop’s Place, and spills out his pathetic story to an elderly bartender. The sympathetic bartender offers the drifter the chance to avenge the stranger who left her pregnant and abandoned, on the condition that he join the “time traveller corps.” Both of them enter a time machine and the bartender drops the drifter off in 1963. The drifter is strangely attracted to a young orphan girl, who subsequently becomes pregnant.
The bartender then goes forward 9 months, kidnaps the baby girl from the hospital, and drops the baby off in an orphanage back in 1945. Then the bartender drops off the thoroughly confused drifter in 1985, to enlist in the time traveller corps. The drifter eventually gets his life together and becomes respected and elderly member of the time traveller corps, and then disguises himself as a bartender and has his most difficult mission: a date with destiny, meeting a certain drifter at Pop’s Place in 1970.
According to quantum physics, the likelihood of there being an infinite number of other universes is highly probable. This multiverse theory is supported by really sophisticated mathematical formulas. The probability is also high that in an alternate universe, there could very well be a planet exactly like our own with the same people inhabiting it, etc. Also, the reality we perceive could only be a small component of the alternate realities that exist elsewhere. For example, if you fail a test today, in an alternate reality, you may have passed the test, and so on. There are an infinite number of possibilities.
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Also, time is an illusion. Time slows down for people when they're moving, in relation to people who are standing still. We don't detect the slowing down because it's so insignificant. Also, theoretically, all moments that have ever happened or ever will happen all exist simultaneously in this thing called spacetime. So, what we perceive as time going forward is just skewed perception of time.
It is mind blowing for me to actually know the world is a big big place with over 6 billion people. So many undiscovered places and so many people to see/meet, cultures to learn etc.
Something I think about a lot is like what if I fell asleep in like 7th grade, and my whole life from then until now is just my dream and I'll wake up and still be in 7th grade Or what if I was in a terrible accident and I'm in a coma or something and don't know it and this is all just a dream.
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I always wonder when I'm walking or something, who was walking in this exact spot 300 years ago or 1,000 years ago.
Like it's so crazy so much before us has happened.
Yes! Me too! I used to go camping a lot with my family when I was a kid. And I remember there was this old HUGE rock that we used to hike to, then we'd climb up onto it and eat lunch up there. And I used to wonder how many people over hundreds or thousands of years had climbed up that same exact rock.
Something I think about a lot is like what if I fell asleep in like 7th grade, and my whole life from then until now is just my dream and I'll wake up and still be in 7th grade Or what if I was in a terrible accident and I'm in a coma or something and don't know it and this is all just a dream.
Have you ever read Renee Descartes? He was a famous philosopher. Anyway to know if the world around you is real you have to remember the human mind cannot create things in a whim. All those faces you have seen in this dream or coma cannot be created without seeing it in real life. Which is why when you dream you don't create new people, these are people you've seen before but may or may not remember. There's other stuff to it. If you get a chance read it!
im always thinking of just how many people there are in the world, how much we can learn from everybody else. yet we are only exposed to such a small group of people in our lives. our expierence and knowledge is limited by this. there are people out there that can give such amazing advice, or help u in such a great way, or make such a huge positive impact on your life, but u never meet them, so u never gain their wisdom. there is so much to expierence and see out there and all of us only expierence a fraction of it. i want to meet so many different types of people, i get frustrated thinking about having to see the same small group of people almost everyday.. i want new people and new expierences. school gets so reductive.