Dreams and reality
If "reality" exists relational to things like fiction, fantasy, the imagination, ideation, dreams, psychosis, etc, and if what makes up reality and how reality is understood by most people can change over time, if the nature of reality can change because of a person's imagination EG: J.K.Rowling and Harry Potter, then is it possible that "reality" in a metaphysical sense is simultaneously those things too? Simultaneously in the sense that fiction is already part of reality, and fiction informs reality, and therefore fiction and reality influence eachother (or one another) reflexively, then is there some kind of exclusively existing domain of fiction and / or fantasy that has come into being, or is it and always will be a subset, reliant upon the initially existing reality for it's existence?
I'm not necessarily suggesting that they are 'equally' these things, no equivocation; they are distinct. (I think) @_@
But also if fiction constructed through reality as matter is built through the mind, and if fiction also has the potential to change reality, as matter and what matters can change a mind, but if memories and fiction is intangible and phenomenological, that they are not the same in essence or mechanics as atoms and particles in quantum physics are recognized as definitive and empirical building blocks of tangiable things as they are verifiable and therefore a greater degree knowable (or as some may argue solely and exclusively knowable), then where do dreams come from? What are they? Are they made of anything? If not then what are they then?
Also, do you believe that "life is a waking dream", or that "reality is all that exists"?
Sorry, I didn't really word any of this well, I'm basically asking a few different things. I don't really know what I'm asking. Reply if you want, sorry if this is another confusing thread.. >_>; @_@
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hmm...really makes you think
i sometimes think of this too, like what if life was just a simulation
then i realized that "they" would never waste processing power to simulate a life as inconsequential as mine
Wow. Okay. You are really, really misusing so many terms and concepts. A lot of what you say is really incoherent and hard to follow. I can go into more detail later if you would like, but I strongly suggest reading and understanding philosophy and how these terms are defined and thought of before asking a question like this. Descartes is a great place to start as he deals with epistemological and ontological questions like this.