i sometimes see things situations where i'm with a person i have not met yet, doing something i don't foresee doing. ages later, i'll be in the moment and look around and realize i am doing exactly what i saw i'd do, with the person i hadn't met at the time, but who is real and next to me now. generally when i "foresee" the person, i don't see their face, but i know who they are - a friend, a coworker, who "feels" a certain way to me. so that when it really happens, they "feel" the same way and i know it is THAT person and it is THAT moment, coming true.
Your thoughts form your reality.
You better ask someone if you were born under the caul.
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I haven't had a chance to read this whole thread, but I would say that reality is fixed, however, ones perception of reality is formed by ones thoughts. For example, in the movie The Number 23, Jim Carrey's character finds the number 23 in everything. In reality that was there prior to his finding it, but he didn't perceive it to be there, or twist it so that it was obviously there.
In the same way I, for example, can perceive a song that someone might see as a happy song as a song that depresses me, and in reality it might be happy song, but because of how I think, or because of what I think about, I perceive it as depressing.
The interesting thing comes in as to what reality actually is. Because I perceive it one way, can I actually know, at any point in time, what reality is in its truest form, or are my perceptions/thoughts always going to cloud how I view reality.
In the same way I, for example, can perceive a song that someone might see as a happy song as a song that depresses me, and in reality it might be happy song, but because of how I think, or because of what I think about, I perceive it as depressing.
The interesting thing comes in as to what reality actually is. Because I perceive it one way, can I actually know, at any point in time, what reality is in its truest form, or are my perceptions/thoughts always going to cloud how I view reality.
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He wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish he'd go away."
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I believe our thoughts help form our perception of reality, but, it seems silly to me that the material world that surrounds us is actually created by our thoughts.
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Originally Posted by thmilin
what does that MEAN?!
Originally Posted by thmilin
the space time continuum exists, friends, realities exist, with or without our knowledge or understanding of them. they exist whether or not we want them to. they'll go on existing after we're long dead or forget about them. the world is, but that doesn't mean there aren't more WORLDS that ARE.
Originally Posted by thmilin
6 months later i'm in my first apartment after graduating. i wake up one morning, and open my eyes. everything around me is exactly as i saw it when i woke up in my dorm room 6 months prior.
Originally Posted by thmilin
i think our consciousness is indeed connected. i think the world is greater than all of us and sees what we want and sometimes is influenced by our thoughts and desires. i also know that the world being greater than all of us, sometimes it has designs beyond us, and sometimes they coincidentally touch and bind us.
Originally Posted by Sedai
I believe our thoughts help form our perception of reality, but, it seems silly to me that the material world that surrounds us is actually created by our thoughts.
Remember the line from Titanic:
Thomas Andrews: "The idea was Mr. Ismay's. He envisioned a steamer so grand in scale, and so luxurious in its appointments that its supremacy would never be challenged. And here she is... *knock* willed into solid reality."
Anyways, not trying to scientifically prove my case, it's just what *I* believe.
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Born under the caul means that a baby is born with the placenta over it's head.
I'm on the January 1984 cover of Vogue In Utero, in fact. If you have one that isn't in too terrible of a condition, it's a collector's item.
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