I need help on reality?

Question

ok so i started learning about perception and reality and everything got twisted for me i started viewing all sorts of things differently and now things are getting confusing and weird. reality crisis dealing with the concept of perception. please help.

Answer 1

take a deep breath and remember "where ever you are, there you are". everything might seem all messed up, but remember that you are still the same person, and a new perspective can't change that!

Answer 2

You can gain different views of reality. But you cannot let go of the old view. You've got to come back. A cold shower sometimes helps.

Answer 3

Truth is additive.

If you're becoming confused (and this would be a natural consequence of drug abuse), you first evaluate yourself:

are you able to function economically, at work, at school?

If not, you are functionally impaired or dysfunctioning.

If you are having difficulties relating to the normative real world as noted above, seek counseling, either at school/work, or, more easily, by calling 1-800-525-LOVE http://www.klove.com 24-7 and 1-800-232-6459  http://www.focusonthefamily.com M-F business hours, ask for Counseling dept., tell your story, let them make suggestions.

Medication is a sadly ambiguous source of help, in too many cases, so rather than being medicated, try the 1-800 numbers first.

If you're able to read coherently, "The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet,

"Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer,

"Kundalini West," Ann Ree Colton, are helpful.  The latter shows how awakening of awareness is best handled as a moderated process.

"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock,

"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves,

"The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis, and

"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi, also good.

Answer 4

Where'd you learn about that in the summer? Well keep in mind that what we perceive becomes our reality. Perception=reality. With no perception, we would not conceive reality? I suppose you're seeing that there are many perceptions/possibilities to life outside your own? Is that your crisis? Feel free to message me fellow philosophical bud.

Answer 5

Just don't stop or go backward. One perspective isn't better  than another. They're accumulative and complimentary. i.e. more perspectives are better than less perspectives.

Different perspectives show "different" realities and the more perspectives you achieve, the easier it is to detect "change". Or, rather, the easier it is to detect otherwise hidden currents, patterns and relationships in your environment.

Reality is like a dance. It's a living thing. It isn't a state or a photograph. There isn't a "picture" of reality. "Pictures" are what people want, not what is. People tend to view reality as a movie with special attention on individual frames. They seem to experience reality as just the "boring" frames between the pretty, fleeting pictures they always seem to miss.

Most people have NO perspective. They simply aren't paying attention. They're either striving for "pictures" of the future or mourning "pictures" of the past. They're seldom in the present. They mourn past "pretty pictures" because they are so busy chasing better pictures that they don't see anything until it's already gone past them.

Perspectives aren't everything but they are key. And so is the present.

Answer 6

I could write all of this from memory, but it's better that you read the original. This is my source of info for perception and reality etc. I hope it is what you need right now, and that it helps you take stock of what is and what is not.

http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pe...

http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/se...

http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/ex...

There are actually 2 indexes. The letters at the top of the screen; and "conceptual index" under "About the Lexicon." Or you can use the built in google search for anything on that site only.

Answer 7

The greatest realization about this first step you're taking into a different understanding about life is...you realize you never knew anything, while at the same time you realize there is so much more to learn, you actually STILL don't know anything...welcome aboard.

Next thing you realize is that the world is full of lies and hypocrisy and you will then try to right that global atrocity and lead by example and not be a hypocrite, do EXACTLY what you say you're going to do, and EXACTLY what is on you mind and attempt to NOT fall into that world's trap of lying, deceit and selfishness at which point you, in fact, WILL become a different person and you'll have a very difficult time relating to the situations you used to support, as well as see people differently until you eventually become annoyed at how the clock ticks as everyone stays in their little "cog" box in this world and no one speaks their mind in an attempt to IMPROVE people's understanding about their perception of reality and...people don't like to have those conversations...

yet, it has now become your life's mission and overriding purpose to spread this seed of knowledge you've been blessed with and watch the people run to their very segmented and categorized brain euphemisms, habits and rote learned material spoon fed to them by their, well, pick a poison...government, religion, parents, culture, teachers, media, tv...and we live this carefully woven tapestry with one another knowing that you're basically one illness, accident or meal away from leaving this existence, and suddenly...BAM!! We've reached a different perspective...BUUUUUT, it doesn't mean a sack of horse fertilizer to anything or anyone if you don't APPLY it in your life...

yeah, people don't like talking to people like that b/c it makes them realize they've been chasing the world's lies, thus, they too have been lying to themselves...

enjoy the ride...and spread the word.

peace,

Baldy

Answer 8

Hehehe.  Take a few graduate-level courses on Relativity and/or Quantum Mechanics and you'll start to wonder if the word 'reality' even -has- any meaning.  Perceptually or otherwise ☺

Meantime, just remember that everything works out for the best in this, the best of all possible Worlds.

HTH,

Doug