Sugarcoat

I don’t know if the self is purely mental. But it creates the sense of a real physical reality too. It’s like the base appearance, maybe the base illusion, then everything else comes as a by product of that.

I don’t get it lol but it’s okay. The title made me laugh a little. Like what is this forum😂😂 One thing I can say about 3D is that it’s the self that creates the perception of 3D in my experience. So you feel like “I’m here”, and the world is away from you “over there” so it creates the perception of depth (3D). You don’t see 3D with your eyes, you only see 2D, but 3D is like a different perception

That I can stand behind

So reality is limited to my little perspective yea sure

And asked the bartender for “one with everything “

I’m wondering the same

I see Maybe it exists apparently but not really I understand . It’s one way of defining solipsism .

There’s a major difference. One is saying reality is consciousness, I’m saying: I posses consciousness, I am conscious of myself (subject) and of other (object). Consciousness having no attributes, it seems to exist because there’s a subject and object (duality).

Here there’s a difference in how people define consciousness too. I use it in a dual sense “subject and object”. Some, like you it seems, use it to describe all of reality.

But if we define it like that, why even use the word solipsism then? It becomes useless. Why not only say “there’s only everything, there only oneness”. To say the higher and lower self is not really separated, is another way of saying there’s no separation, meaning the lower self doesn’t actually exist. This is the part I don’t believe. This is how I think of solipsism. Maybe ego is just an appearance. Like how a stone is a form. So it’s all absolute yes.

I’m confused about what people define as solipsism. Because i don’t see how having higher consciousness would make you realize “you’re the only experiencer”. They must have a different definition than us

I can’t with your silliness 😭😭😂😂

How do you define solipsism? Because if it means “I’m the only self conscious experience “ then I don’t see how that requires higher consciousness

You’re funny.

Open mindedness is a good trait yes

Hahahahahhaaha asking the important questions

It seems people define solipsism differently. I think of it like when people believe they are the only self conscious being and others lack self consciousness. It doesn’t seem to apply to what you said. Because I’m not talking about realizing “you are everything that exists”. But I guess your point is that this human form, the body and brain, creates such a complex self structure, and it just makes sense to us that we exist, everything seems to suggest it, so makes it harder to break the illusion

Hahaha like a universe with triangles and squares bouncing around or what you mean? I don’t see how that connects to solipsism

At the end of the day, most people feel real. And they feel like others are real. And for most it stays like this throughout their whole life. And that’s what matters. Whether you are actually real or not, illusion or not, whether you believe in solipsism or not. Those things don’t really matter because they’re just ideas for you. It doesn’t change the fact that you feel real and you feel others are real. Now if you could actually change that sense of realness, maybe get a glimpse of non duality, then we are talking, then those things are no longer just concepts. See. Direct experience is what matters. Not what ideas you hold. So take it with a light heart when you’re playing around with these ideas, and be honest with yourself when it’s just ideas vs when your actual experience is starting to change. Sometimes maybe questioning things can alter your experience, then that’s what matters, how your experience changed. If it’s just on mind level it makes no real difference. Why freak out over a concept in your mind like solipsism when you still feel like others are real? See, it most likely didn’t change anything. Your reality remained the same.

You mean reality is infinite so includes the forms “objective reality, self and other”?

😂eheh

I swear. Like you really think you’re the only self illusion in all of reality

Lol

Nobody walked into a bar…. - Taoist saying

You and your questionable word choices