I’m very happy with the responses I got on my Subjective Reality post.  I’m seeing a lot of open minded people that are willing to at least consider different theories of life and reality.  I think Sara of A Sharing Connection said it best, “I would hate to think I was just one of those vacant people walking the streets in the Matrix unable to see…I much rather be Neo.”  I agree, even though I know I’d be giving up the easy life within the Matrix, I’d rather choose to enter it at my discretion.  Plus, when you go back in the Matrix, you get all kinds of cool powers over your world.

Have you ever felt like the people around you in this world were vacant?  I have.  I see people just plugging along in their world, with no desire for anything above the basic necessities.   They might want more “stuff” but they never try to improve themselves to achieve their goals (if they even have any goals set.)  I feel a small sadness when I see people like this.  However, if our reality is subjective than it’s possible those other people aren’t real at all, they are just figments created to complete my world, and therefore, they don’t have to strive for anything better.

Recap – Subjective vs. Objective

I think I should recap a little since the terms subjective and objective can get confusing.

Objective – Not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; existing independent of thought or observation.

Objective Reality – A world that is concrete and defined.  Even if humans did not inhabit this planet, it would still exist.

Subjective – Existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought; relating to the nature of an object as it is known to the mind and distinct from the thing itself; there are no facts.

Subjective Reality – The world exists differently to each individual.  The world I see will differ from the world you see.

Subject Reality Fun – Questions from Readers

Let’s address some the comments that came up from the last post.

Raul form Alien Ghost added to the fun in describing another type of subjective reality where we each have different types of subjective realities.  His example was that he creates a world and others may inhabit the world that he created, while someone else may be in a world they created and have no other sentient entities in their world.  That’s the beauty of a subjective reality; we could each have completely different realities.  It would be like sitting in a computer lab, and some people are playing together in a multiplayer game, while someone else is flipping blocks in Tetris all by themselves.  They are all experiencing a reality, but some share and some don’t.

S. Ali Myers of Soulful Body and Mind brought up the topic of energy beings.  This is an interesting component of any reality, subjective or objective.  Everything we see and touch is made up of energy.  As far as we know, we are all made up of atoms, which are constantly moving.  From our perspective, and without a tool to see at the microscopic level, we see solids.  Yet those solids are vibrating, spinning, moving, and oscillating.  Consider that we can manipulate certain types of energy, like directing it through an electrical cord or turning on a lamp, it’s not too much of a stretch to think that we could control other types of energy.  And some of that energy could be in the form of manifesting things into our lives.  Whether it be creating solids from energy, attracting things with thought, or manipulating the weather.  If it’s all energy it seem to me there must be some way to control that energy.

Viewing energy manipulation from a subjective viewpoint makes the whole process a little easier.  In a subjective world, since everything exist as we see it, then we just have to change our view to change our world.  Then by directing our energy of thought, we can really put the law of attraction in action.

Sara from A Sharing Connection has many great thought.  First she has some questions about the implications of a subjective reality.  She says it’s “scary,” and I agree.  It can be scary.  Espeically since it goes counter to what we have been taught about reality.  All through our lives we are thought about reality and the science of our objective reality.  Now to consider that it was all wrong is just as scary as finding out the Earth was round.  I’m sure people were once scared to consider the world as round, figuring people on the bottom of this big ball we live on would simply fall off.  Without the concept of gravity, they could not perceive a spherical Earth.

Subjective reality can be very individualistic. Or it could be a cooperation.  It depends on how you look at it, and ultimately on exactly how you define your own subjective reality.  Ultimately, a subject reality is individualistic in that you’re reality is defined by what you perceive.  That doesn’t necessarily mean that other people don’t exist.  You could have a subjective reality where we are all sentient beings, but we simply perceive things differently.  If you think of the world we live in, you can see some of this already, especially in politics and religion.  Everyone seems to perceive those things differently.  I think if reality were completely objective, there wouldn’t be any difference of opinion, as there would only be one right way, and everyone would have to agree on that one right way.

How does subjective reality deal with people who join together to fight for a cause or to make a change in a world? Whose world is receiving the change? Joining together is just as you see it in our world.  If you are the only sentient being in your reality, then you are joining with yourself to fight for a cause or to make a change.  Interestingly though, you would also be the opposing faction.  Therefore it would be an inner conflict, manifesting in your subjective reality.  It’s like an indecision that you often work out in your head.  Should I where the black belt or the tan belt.  You may go back and forth, but the conversation is in your head.  In a subjective reality, that conversation manifests into other people fighting back and forth.

If your subjective reality has other sentient beings in it, then you would cooperate with them just as you do in our world.  I believe in the case of cooperation, you would each see the changes in your own worlds, although you each may or may not perceive that change to be the same.  Subjective is always a personal view, so even if you entered into someone else’s world, you still have your own views of that world.  The mixing of world can be confusing, huh?

Sara asks, “How do we handle things in our world that require cooperation?  How do we deal with war, oil spills, terrorism, and genocide?”  This also depends on the type of subjective reality you think we might be in.  If we are the only sentient beings in our reality, then all these acts and events are part of us.  They are created by us to experience them in this world.  This can be a very scary thought, and part of the reason it’s scary is because of something else you mentioned.  How does subjective reality deal with the concepts of good and evil?  From a very early age we are taught the concept of good and evil.  Then, just to make sure you get it, we have religion to hammer that idea home.  And boy, do they take that concept and knock it out of the park.  The very first chapter of the bible hits you with the evil serpent and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Good and evil are engrained in our world, but do they exist outside of the human world?  Religion would have you thinks so with God and the Devil, and angels and demons.  My feeling, and many agree with this thought, is that good and evil is a man made creation.  I personally don’t think it exists outside of the human realm.

In any case, what are the implications of good and evil in a subjective world?  You are correct when you questions if we create them.  I think in a subjective reality, the concepts of good and evil would be created by us.  Once we create them, we are bound to the consequences of our belief.  On the flip side, consider a subjective reality where good and evil doesn’t exist.  In this type of reality, you, or any other sentient beings in this reality would simply be.  They wouldn’t be bad our good, they would just be.  Imagine that murder or death by murder were simply an experience to be had.  It’s like in video games, where we often like to play the bad guy.  Most of us don’t get a chance to be bad in our world, so we take the chance to be bad in the video game.  Consider a subjective reality, where you dream up the world, would you take an opportunity to experience doing bad things?  In such a case, you aren’t bad, you are simply experience a different variety of feelings and emotions.

I touched on good vs. evil in another post, you might find that interesting also.

Preeti of Happy Heart and Mind didn’t say much about subjective reality, but I wanted to give her a link because she always stops by to comment, and I really appreciate that.

Yu Omori of Blissful Burden tried the dream world experiment and sounds like he had some good success with it.  I was amazed at how well things fell into place when I looked at this world as a dream that is under my control.

Yu had some trouble with an open source reality in which we are all creators.  He said it might have been because he was tired, and with that section being towards the end of my last post.  I have the same trouble after a long day of work; it’s hard to keep that brain thinking when it’s telling you it would rather take a nap.  It finally clicked for him though after it had some time to stew.  I’ve actually heard this theory before, but not necessarily as related to the subjective.  I have heard of experiments where a group of people will get together and mediate or concentrate on a certain thing.  Perhaps healing someone that is sick, or perhaps praying for someone, or in one case I heard of people trying to change the weather.  It’s like anything we do in cooperation.  We agree to the outcome we want and the steps to get there, then we all work together to make it happen.  Like building a sandcastle.  We all agree on a design and a method for construction, then we all grab our buckets and shovels and manifest a castle from a pile of sand.

As a side note, I sometimes feel like weather is one of the easiest things to control.  Most people assume the weather is out of their control and therefore nobody tries to control it.  I like to take that opportunity to put in my very own weather requests.  Many times on the way to the beach, I’ll see a bunch of white puffy clouds that are going to mask the warmth and hide that beautiful sun.  On the way there, I’ll concentrate on sunshine, and usually by the time I get to the beach it’s clear and sunny, and stays that way for the rest of the day.  I like to think that I can move those big puffy clouds around with the power of thought, and as far as I can tell, it works pretty well.

Yu also mentioned that it seems the open source world would require some type of physical world.  In a way it does, but then what constitutes physical.  Can a subjective world have physical components if we define those properties?  I believe it can, and likely does.

Barbara Swafford of Blogging Without a Blog talked about “rock star” parking.  This is a great example of law of attraction.  You think of that great parking spot up close and somehow it appears just as you are pulling up.  I’d like to see some folks supercharge that by using the dream world technique to imagine a constant rock star treatment.  If anyone gives it a try, please let me know!

Patricia of Patricia’s Wisdom had a long comment and sidetracked a bit into a short Walmart rant.  I have the feeling that Patricia is on the right track with everything she’s working on, but like in her comment, she gets a little side tracked.  She has all the basics down, and has a great foundation, with work in affirmations, positive thinking, energy healing, and law of attraction.  In many ways, it mirrors the path I have taken.  Plus she’s already using the lucid dream technique on the highway, which is a great place to experiment!  I like to imagine people moving out of my way so I can get home faster.  I bet Patricia does something similar.  After all, if this is my dream world, I don’t have any need for traffic to slow me down!

The things that are sidetracking her progress are illness and financial woes.  These are two biggies that can be difficult to overcome.  I’d be willing to bet they are two of the biggest problems that people have to deal with in our little world.  So, the question is, how do we deal with these in a subjective reality or a dream world?

First, understand that believe plays a huge role in a subjective reality.  Belief is hard to overcome and takes time and/or effort.  We often place limits on ourselves due to our beliefs.  In several of the books I’ve read on law of attraction recently, they discuss our beliefs about money.  We often believe there is a limited supply, or that we have a limited ability to earn money.  This is a self limiting belief.  There is more than enough money to go around and we can have as much as we belief we can.  This is especially true in a subjective reality, where we set our own rules.  The one caveat in a subjective reality though, is that the beliefs affect us big time.  Since it’s our beliefs that create and define the world, they can also be our limiting factor.

Most of the times I’ve found myself stuck, it was because I wasn’t clear in my desires, or because I was sabotaging my positive thoughts without noticing it.  I can give you a great example on clarity.  When I was unemployed last year, I wanted to find a job before my savings ran out.  I did find a job, but I hadn’t been clear on the type of job I wanted, and the job wasn’t a good fit.  After being there for a couple months, I got real clear on the extract type of job I wanted.  I wasn’t even sure a job like that existed, but I got clear on it anyway.  Within a couple of weeks, I received a call for a job interview.  I was shocked to find out it was the exact job I had imagined.  Getting clear on what you want is absolutely necessary.

As far as sabotaging my positive thoughts, I finally caught myself.  I found myself saying that we couldn’t have certain things.  It was any variety of things, like a toy for the cat or a book for me.  I was sabotaging myself by saying that I couldn’t have these things, when really I could have them, I was just choosing not to.  Saying I can’t made it more definite.  Saying I chose not to, made it a possibility that I chose to forgo.

To roll all this back into a subjective reality, it’s easiest to consider a lucid dream world where you control everything.  If that’s the case, then decide that you control your health and your income, and recognize that for a while you had been limiting that income and health so that you could have certain experiences.  You have experienced some sadness, some illness, and the emotions that go with financial issues, and now that you’ve had those experiences, you are ready to move on to new experiences.  Get real clear about what you want.  Envision it, write it down, draw pictures, or cut out pictures and words from magazines, to create as much clarity as possible about where you want to be.  You are taking control of your dream world, and it’s time to move on to a more enjoyable place in that dream.

On a side note, I just added “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” to my Netflix queue.  I’m not going to commit to a boycott, but I’ll at least take a look at the issues.

Falling Down the Rabbit Hole

I hope by answering these questions I’ve brought a little more clarity to the world of subjective reality.  I’m reminded of a couple of things from the movies every time I think of subjective reality.  One is the part of the Matrix where the little girl says, “There is no spoon.”  This reminds me that I create my reality, and the spoon only exists if I say it does.  The other is Alice in Wonderland, which my daughter has been watching lately.  Alice falls down that rabbit hole, which is something I often hear associated with subjective reality.  It’s an exploration within, and the world is sometimes topsy turvy but is always dependant on the thoughts we put into it

I love the comments and questions, so keep them coming.  I also love to hear stories of manifesting abundance, law of attraction, and dream world experiments.  Please share these in the comments section below.  Also, be sure to visit the blogs mentioned in this post.  These are all open minded individuals, and these are the leaders of the Reality Perception Revolution.

I’m going to end with my future Wikipedia entry crafted by Raul of Alien Ghost, because in my reality I darn sure have an entry in Wikipedia!

“There used to be a unified world where people, out of blindness, lived in a standardized concept of reality, until a man named Eric Watermolen started the movement for “Reality Perception Revolution” which eventually led to the disassociation of physical beings by the creation of “Personal Realities” that created our actual “Physical Variable Reality” where infinite realities interact among each other, dependent on the people’s own perceptions and controlled thoughts. – Wikipedia, 2030

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