| What kind of egotistical madman would even dare | | | | the red that you see is part of your reality, but |
| to type such stuff about him or herself? Well | | | | to me, I will never see or experience red how |
| madman I may be, but I am far from egotistical. | | | | you see it therefore it just isn’t part of my |
| Yet why else could I be writing such a title? The | | | | reality and vice versa. |
| answer is simple. When you read the title ‘I | | | | So if I was to ask you how you felt about the |
| am my own God, therefore I am my own | | | | colour red, what would you say? Do you like it, do |
| reality’, in your own mind, are you hearing it | | | | you hate it, does it give you a warm fuzzy feeling |
| as your own voice, saying it as if it was yourself | | | | inside? I, for one, am not a fan of red. I much |
| that had written it, or are you hearing a | | | | prefer blue or green. I would even go as far as |
| pseudo-voice saying it about me, the writer? More | | | | saying that I dislike the colour. In my reality red is |
| than likely you are hearing the pseudo-voice | | | | a nasty colour. Yes that is opinion based on an |
| saying that I, the writer, am my own God. This, | | | | emotional response, yet my opinion is part of my |
| however, is not how I meant it to be heard. This | | | | reality. If you like the colour red, then you’re |
| is something each of us should hear as if it were | | | | reality is different to mine as you would perceive |
| about our/yourselves. | | | | it as a positive colour. |
| Confused yet? | | | | Basically what I’m getting at is that reality is |
| Ok. Let’s break it down. So what is reality? I | | | | dependent on how things are received by our |
| know, i know... Some simple light thinking right | | | | senses, interpreted by our mind and clouded by |
| there... The dictionary claims reality is the world or | | | | our emotions. One could say that reality is what is |
| the state of things as they actually exist, as | | | | left once you’ve stripped away our emotions |
| opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. | | | | and our interpretations of our limited senses. |
| Or the state or quality of having existence or | | | | Would there actually be anything there? We would |
| substance. | | | | never know because the only way we can know |
| So I guess the next question would be, what | | | | things are there, is by sensing them and then |
| actually exists? This is where things start to get a | | | | interpreting them... It is a vicious cycle. |
| little dicey. Does the screen you’re reading | | | | If I could not see, how could I be sure that there |
| this on exist? How about the chair you are sitting | | | | were actually things to see? |
| in or the roof above your head? What about the | | | | So if so much of what we class as reality, is up |
| people you’ve met and the relationships | | | | for different interpretations, does that mean that |
| you’ve formed, do they exist? And what | | | | reality itself is limited to the individual perceiving it? |
| about you? I’m sure that most of you will | | | | To take it a step further, if reality is a process of |
| concur that all of these things, including | | | | interpretation by the individual, then isn’t the |
| yourselves, do actually exist. | | | | individual responsible for creating his or her own |
| Ok, so what about some slightly more intangible | | | | reality? |
| things like, colour. Does red exist? How about | | | | Do you see where I’m going with this yet? |
| turquoise? At first, I’m sure you want to say | | | | If you are the creator of your own reality, does |
| of course they do. But isn’t colour just a | | | | that then make you, your own God? |
| matter of perspective? Let’s take me for | | | | So back to one of my early questions. Does the |
| instance. I am colour blind. I can see all the colours | | | | chair that you are sitting on really exist or is it |
| and can point out the difference between red, | | | | just a creation of your own reality? If I was to |
| green and blue. But I see them differently to | | | | tell you that the chair does not exist, are you |
| anyone who is not colour blind. Although I can | | | | now sitting on the floor of your imaginary house, |
| recognise and identify something that is red, I see | | | | looking up at a fake sky, wondering how you got |
| it differently. Therefore is red part of reality when | | | | into your own head and how the hell do you get |
| different people see it quite differently. To you, | | | | out of it? |