You know from time to time I get in this weird mental head space, where I feel like I’m living in a hologram or a dream of some sort. I feel like nothing is real and all of the things I see are just a product of this simulation… I really don’t know how to explain this, it’s kind of distressing and the more I think about it the less I can shake it off as a delusion. For example, this happened yesterday. That whole day I kept thinking, “if nothing is real what does it matter?” or “This isn’t real it’s just a simulation.” Has anyone had this before? Just curious.
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Plenty of people have had this. It’s been called “solipsism” through out history. Nowadays people bring the whole simulation thing into it.
There are certain things and thinking about them will drive you bananas and the meaning of life is one.
It’s probably best to leave things like that to philosophers.
Concentrate on surviving the day to day stuff.
Just my 2 cents.
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Thank you @everhopeful, I was wondering why the f*** I couldn’t shake this belief off. It was weird… Hope you have an amazing evening!
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It sounds a bit like some form of dissociation and maybe some anhedonia. when depressed I fail to find meaning.
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I felt the same way… Everything just didn’t seem real anymore. Maybe it is a form of dissociation and delusion… Then again I’m no psychiatrist. I’m not very keen into negative symptoms. But I really appreciate your insight @Richard888!
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I sometimes dissociate. It happens a lot due to ptsd flashbacks. I sometimes believe that I have been put here to help everyone by being subjected to traumas. I don’t think that’s the case, now, but I get delusional about it
…almost like it’s preordained.
I hope I didn’t hijack this thread. Thoughts?
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You didn’t, @JustTrish. I personally think purpose is what you make it and if destiny is laid out then you can assure yourself no matter what you do, you will reach where you were meant to be.
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What explains so many solipsists?? The same reason there are so many religions. People are looking for explanations.
Sometimes I think it’s weird to be multiple solipsists. Like there could only be one person that truly created the universe with his/her mind. So there’s fake solipsists out there??? People that aren’t real claiming to be all that’s real?? Well I know I am real. I could just be computer simulated to say that though.
I’m starting to more doubt the simulation theory and just settle with I don’t have the answers ever. At least not now. Although I do find it interesting
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I agree, we won’t ever have the answer in this lifetime in my opinion.
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This sounds like dissociation to me. I dissociate a lot but my pdoc doesn’t understand this.
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I think so too. I hope he opens his eyes one day. I hope mine does, today.
I feel this way all the time like my dad isn’t really my dad just a mimic of him. I don’t talk about it much bc there’s nothing I can do about it.
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All solipsists are ultimately the same person, which is not a person at all but a primeval non-archetypal monster lurking at the very depths of the universe, co-created by the said creature and the Devil. I’m not so much a solipsist as an occasionalist with an alternative view of the old standing philosophical problem of how can other minds exist. I’m really glad no one is calling this delusional.
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We’re all right, the simulation -or the Cartesian “malignant demon” if you prefer- is a fact, best explained by Berkeley’s idealism than by Descartes, though.
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I am a helpless solipsist.
Some times it’s distressing,
other times it makes me have grandiose ideas
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I feel real, but as far as existence, the world we live in,
either everything is holy, or nothing is.
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I’m still trying to get a solid idea of my beliefs, without delusions taking over completely, I do accept a hint of it, though. Anyway thanks for your reply @Om_Sadasiva.
@Daze I understand. Wish you the best. Thanks for your reply.
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It happend to me once and things went crazy from that moment on!
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