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Originally Posted by Charbucks  I think that perception is only reality to the person perceiving it. If I, say, eat some mushrooms and hallucinate that the walls are closing in on me, that is quite real to me, and pretty scary at that. That is my own experience. If Voice perceives the experience of communicating with the universe, that's fine, but that doesn't make it a reality for everyone. Someone watching me trip out on shrooms might tell me that the walls are not actually falling over, and no matter how adamant I am that they are, because that is what I perceive, it is still not the case. |
You had it right until the end, where you say "it is still not the case". Who is to say that? And by what authority? How do you know that the walls you perceive are not merely an illusion, and the shrooms are allowing the other guy to see what REALLY is?
In fact, there is no one official reality. All realities exist in infinite spacetime (all possibilities and outcomes exist, as QM would say). The way we create our reality is through filtering out most of those possibilities, and 'collapsing the waveform' to create our local and personal universe. We do this by choosing perspectives. Perspective creates perception (experience).
Your belief that there is some common reality to which most people subscribe is an illusion. All realities are unique. As some people choose similar perspectives, their experienced realities are similar... until they diverge again. That is not to say they are the same, and it is not to say that this makes it THE official reality. There is no absolute reality, except the entire quantum soup of possibilities, and even that is but a small piece of a larger context. (Even God has a God.)