Reality: The quality or state of being real. What is real to you may not be real to me, therefore reality can be said to be plural. One question many ask is if there is one definite reality, and the answer can be confusing. Ultimate reality would be the state of being real in a world with multiple realities. Think of your reality as a box. In this box you have everything that you feel is sacred. Your political views, religous biases, societal beliefs, prejuducies, mood, thoughts, ideals, etc. act like a filter for everything that goes in your box. If you have a filter on your box how can you witness everything? You cannot, but you can catch glimpses. These glimpses can be called reality shocks...moments of insight. These reality shocks serve to shake up your reality filters. Once your filters have been shaken up several things can happen. The most common is a feeling of anxiety. The most rare is a feeling of love and understanding. For example, lets say two friends reunite after a three year haitus, one friend was always the dominant one in the relationship. When the two meet up for lunch the dominant friend goes back to his old ways of territorial bickering. The other just sits and smiles. After a few minutes the dominant friend realizes his domination techniques are not working and begins to feel nervous. He does not know why he feels nervous. The other friend notices this and laughs. Now this nervous feeling becomes one of anger and fear. The other friend notices this too and out of love for his friend begins to act submissive. The relationship returns to normal for the rest of the time they spend eating. The dominant friend could not accept his friend being himself because it did not fit through his reality filter. When his friends actions clashed with his reality filter his mind interepreted the action as threatening to his existense (his reality). The other friend had removed all of his filters and was seeing the world for what it was, therefore he was able to react with love and understanding. He understands that his very presense was a reality shock to his friend, he understood that his friend was feeling anxiety due to this shock and was able to act accordingly. You control your filters you control your reality.
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I liked the part about the friends it was definately interesting. I always notice friends that seem dominant or passive for their quirks and appreciate them all at times. THe loudest person in a room is often the weakest.....listen! Also don't take advice from tools, its a website, that stupid shit gets under my skin. I think I Need my filters cleaned, sorry...be back later.
Thanks for the reply, I'm new to these forums and indeed forums in general. Long time reader first time poster.
