Nothing is Real

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I'm skeptical most of the time. Sometimes I overthink to the point where I just lost it. The philosophy behind skepticism is intriguing. The whole concept really makes you think deeply than what's considered normal.

When I was younger the way I justified my Solipsism was "I can't and never will experience another person's life so what even is the proof that they are experiencing life as the way I am."

Solid video, one point: You put on your own oxygen mask first so that you don’t pass out before you get a chance to put masks on the kids.

As a child I thought this all the time, but concluded that it may make me narcissistic/entitled to believe my experience/perception/being is the only real one

Ask yourselves. If you can’t tell the difference, does it matter? Life is simply an experience, and that is the only thing you can be absolutely certain of.

I wake up every day and my memory is All but wiped this is a terrifying existence and no nothing seems real

Bro you can’t be dropping a vid like that when I just learned about concept the other day…. That is absolutely wild

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Constantly being in a state of skepticality makes you crazy. Having some sense and agreement of certain things makes you accept a form of reality we live in which gives comfort. I always lived in scepticality and it makes me stressed and depressed.

Under the assumption that only our own mind exists, I'd say then everything is our mind. I feel a greater sense of connection to everything since it doesn't make any sense to separate other concepts. Others' emotions under this lense are therefore also my own. There is no actual reality, just reality.

existing is weird and full of goosebumps!

I used to really believe this as a kid. It made me have some of my first existential crisises

great piece. ego, narcissism going off the rails

I’ve used solipsism—or something like it—as a sort of antidote to nihilism. The one thing that I’m absolutely sure exists is me. The only thing that that “me” can actually do is to experience. I experience the world. Whether the world is real or “just in my head” does not matter here. Either way, I experience the world. I experience myself. I experience my thoughts and emotions. So I know that at least I exist, and that the act of experiencing exists. If solipsism is correct and nothing else exists, then the act of experiencing—being the only possible act—must have meaning. Therefore, nihilism is incorrect. Existence has meaning. The meaning of life is experience. I admit that the preceding argument is a little bit corny. I doubt anyone actually believes solipsism is literally true, no matter what they might say. But the argument works shockingly well. No matter how depressed I get, there is always something to experience. To the extent that I have free will, I can choose to guide that experience in one direction or another. But even if I have no free will at all, I can still experience. Even if I is the only noun and experience the only verb, that experience has meaning. It is meaning. All by itself.

I was abused and neglected as a kid and was always very alone. I learned not to trust others because they would hurt me if I was vulnerable. Because of this I became very philosophical, it was a way to cope with a world that didnt make sense. I started to think this way at around 13, although I would dissociate for years before that. The thing is that even though when I'm not thinking like this I can understand that this way of thinking is counterproductive, when I fall back into it there's no way for me to pull myself out. No close friends? Nothings even real, why care. You look and feel like shit? Who cares, their thoughts are your thoughts therefore they cant hurt you. It was unhealthy but it was one of my very few coping strategies. If I'm the only real consciousness then nothing can hurt me but myself, aka controll.

For me, this is the only logical explanation of existence and reality. I barely have any doubt about it.

Wow the timing. Me and my dad where talking about this after watching A Beautiful Mind together this night

Heh. Look at you, putting the ad right there in the thumbnail. That’s amazing.

one random thought; when everyone watching this video has conscious, and can relate to having a real, personal life, how can it only be one person? how can we be dreaming of our world when we are all watching this video and feeling?