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Then what are you? Are you just a thought, or a chain reactions happening between bits of matter/consciousness transforming in a space-time reality? If you think that you are just a thought, then I guess I'm just having a pseudo interaction with a fictional character. I doubt that's the case tho. What I said was that I need no proof that the walls in my room are solid. This awareness comes from my direct experience with the matter itself, through bodily senses, sight, perception, sound, thoughts etc. And the current scientific explanations provide enough evidence/data that work, I did not find other satisfying explanations yet. If you don't think matter is real, then the tree exists only in your imagination. Period. What answer would you expect to hear if everything is just paradigm? Please watch the video from my previous post. There are different interpretations, nothing is certain. That doesn't mean that matter is a hallucination. There could be infinite realities where "you" could be that tree and the tree could be "you" watching it. That doesn't reject the existence of that tree. The definition of consciousness is highly debated but I tend to take the panpsychist approach and say that everything has a degree of consciousness (self awareness is another thing). To me, all the matter is conscious and exists in multiple forms that are interconnected. These interactions create our space time reality. So I don't reject matter because it creates my reality. Even if I dream stupid coconuts healing my body, they're still part of my reality so I'm not rejecting that either.

I'm talking about the physical reality/present moment, not about the fundamental reality. We can't experience everything at once because we are finite. That's why classical physics still work for our macroscopic world. If there are no particle interactions then there is nothing and thoughts would make no sense. Maybe you will give this video a try when you have time, of course if you want to. We also work according to the physical laws of nature, what makes you think that you're not made of matter? I don't need proof that things are solid as long as I'm not able to walk through walls lol. So current scientific explanations make perfect sense. If you have any other better explanation, then I would like to hear it. Thoughts don't create reality, as far as I can tell.

I see no reason why I would think that particles are imaginary as I know from direct experience that matter does exist. Everything that you interact with exists, everything is interconnected. There's no such thing as "I didn't see it, it doesn't exist". Even though you can't see your future, it still exists... you are just not there yet.

Physical world is made of particles, what are you talking about?

I am aware of particles lol, otherwise I wouldn't be able to experience anything at all.

An observer doesn't change reality, all the possible worlds could exist in a quantum position (tree fell/didn't fell/you see the tree standing/on the ground). We are no different than a tree. We could be dead or alive or doing some weird shit in another reality. Nothing collapses, everything exists. We have no choice.

If everything is within awareness, then the tiniest particle should be aware in order to exist. Reality doesn't need a reason to exist, it just simply is. Thoughts are not necessary.

Are you sure that brain is just a thought and not something physical? Why do you replace objective reality with thoughts?

If thoughts exist, does a brain exist?

Thanks for sharing I guess you must be a saint if you experience this 80% of the time because this sounds like some advanced stuff... and I guess it takes years of practice to reach to that level. Only a few times in my life I guess that I was able to feel something similar but it humbled me so much that I felt more like a ghost walking among humans. Lol. I will try to meditate more then as my mind is truly savage (last night I dreamed that a coconut did some magic to heal my body, so yeah, even though sometimes it's funny, other times it is not ).

Do you think there's a way to shut down bodily senses such as meditation and experience ego death? And what would be the purpose of this, after all? I mean, we die anyway. Would that make us suffer less?

Do you experience oneness all the time, or it's just one of the thoughts that arise in the consciousness? I guess that these kind of experiences are not common or permanent and you still feel 'you' in your daily life.

When I'm looking in the mirror, I see an alien on the other side. It stares into my eyes and makes similar movements. Yet we can't shake hands. Is that my image or there's some weird entity trapped on the other side of the mirror?

What are you if not your body? The self awareness makes you recognize your image in the mirror, while consciousness could have many definitions. I agree that consciousness could be expanded to many things but not everything has self awareness.

@Preetom So do you think that the body consciousness has nothing to do with our material bodies? For example, can you transcend the actual form or bodily functions through meditation or mind altering substances? From my perspective, our body is intelligent enough to know when to wake up and keep the heart beating without any conscious effort, so we could say that body has its own consciousness without being self aware.

Body consciousness = physical body on autopilot?

If God is reality, then it doesn't hide... it is in plain sight. But it would be interesting to hear why a mule is considered inferior to a human... maybe because we humans think so?

Death is a sensitive subject, so it's understandable why so many people avoid it. But it seems to me that there is something truly profound about it and maybe through meditation you could achieve that state before dying physically. I have no idea how it works but I've heard that Nirvana is similar to death.

I had a similar experience, some people might call it ego death but it was similar to unconsciousness. So I totally get that.

I guess I'm a mule and the devil (sarcasm). Yet, we are One and God is Love.

As long as I can't change my eye color or anything specific to my body, yes, I'm in/the body. If you're free to shape shift your personality/appearance then show me the proof. I'm sick of judgemental people telling me "I'm the devil".

I used to think like you, too. This is not my world, we're all programmed to react in a certain way. You're not as free as you think.

You can only if you can. But what if you can't?

We have no choice. Free will is an illusion.