Your reality is a lie

The world is not the way we perceive it. Our perception is based on the five senses and our filters. By filters, I mean the lens of memory and imagination that we are endowed with. Not only do we ingest reality, but we also even toy with our memories and make them in a way that we like to narrate our story. Most of our perceptions are visual (about 90%) which means limited to the frequency of light a.k.a. the visual spectrum. A bat perceives the world through ultrasonics. A cockroach views the world through a mosaic. Some insects can view infrared. We just understand reality through the limitations of our senses. While this may be an approximation of reality, it’s not the real world itself.

What we are looking at is the user interface. Nobody knows what is inside the hood. Take your mobile phone for instance. What do you see? Lots of apps. Do you think deep inside the phone there is something called apps? No. It’s just a representation that we understand. If you see a file manager app, do you think there are folders and files inside your phone? In computing there is an architecture called MVC (Model-View-Controller) The Model is the program running behind the View and the Controller is coordinating between the two. Your access as a user is to the View, which is eye-candy. When you swipe up, do you think deep inside the phone, the posts are moving? Just some bits are shifting.

We are all wearing a VR (Virtual Reality) headset. As a species, there are some commonalities. But deep down we are spinning our own version of the truth. Like in a computer game, there are Avatars, likewise, we are also avatars in this grand game of life. Do we control it? It may seem we do. But most of the process is automatic. For example, take your breathing. Do you control it? It’s in ‘Auto’ mode. There are a trillion cells in your body each doing 3 trillion operations per second. Are you even aware of what is going on within yourself? Forget about the outside world. The only thing we are privy to is our consciousness. We are all aware of ourselves as somebody.

The body, thoughts, and emotions feel so real that we forget that this is our psychological reality, not existential. The reality that we see is nothing but a projection of our minds. The mind is a prediction machine. It’s trying to project the future every second and it fails miserably. There are so many unknowns in this game that the limited mind cannot handle. The only time when we see the real is in deep sleep. (Delta) The problem is we are disconnected from this world at this stage. No body. No mind. No attachments. When we wake up (beta), our consciousness gets squeezed from an infinite to a finite focus. Then the mind chatter continues. And we are back to that song by the Beatles called ‘Nowhere Man’.

He’s a real nowhere man

Sitting in his nowhere land

Making all his nowhere plans

For nobody

God Bless!