That’s usually what comes from it. When I zoom out too much it feels…odd.
Even today I’m not used to the fact that there isn’t really objective ways to feel about something. That everyone reacts differently to the same thing. That lack of objectivity has me thinking that how I feel and what I feel isn’t real or true and just a fiction of my mind, that I live in a dream world.
It started as a kid when I noticed how we humans have built and constructed this world around us. The systems, the buildings, everything about it. As I got older it sorta dawned on me how this is our little world that we made up that matters to us, but in the grander scheme it doesn’t.
Even further out when I think about the vastness of the universe and everything beyond the planet and that part about us made of matter and being sentient, I guess I’m just not sure what to think about it. I’m not really sure what to strive for if there is no objective standard to live by.
Not really it’s more like how if something makes you feel like you’re flying and no one else that makes me think it’s not real because I’m the one feeling like that and no one else is. like it’s all in my head. I keep going back to what those people said in the “things don’t make you feel” and I think it’s related. I just don’t know what to make of it. It doesn’t seem right though, like I’m missing something
I don’t know. I always just did what I was supposed to do. But now growing up lots of people have thoughts on what’s supposed to be and I don’t know what to make of it. It’s like I said before, how do I know if I’m right or doing the right thing? I don’t want to end up like one of those narcissists who doesn’t think they can fail or can be wrong about anything.
No, it is called “relativity”. an observation made from your perspective.
When the majority of relative observations agree, we call that reality.
When you can place yourself in another’s shoes and observe reality exactly the same way, that is called empathy.
Figuring out how to know right from wrong is the constant process of growth. You get told for a while and you get taught how to do it for yourself. Nobody gets a perfect voice that follows them around and tells them what’s right. Nobody. If you are waiting for it to get easier, then you still haven’t grown up. I’m assuming you are under 27.
They do in literature. I am not talking about physics.
What is the literal meaning of relativity?
: the quality or state of being relative. b. : something that is relative. 2. : the state of being dependent for existence on or determined in nature, value, or quality by relation to something else. Relativity Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
I’m actually 33. And you are right in that I am waiting for it to get easier. The more I think about the future the more anxious I get, even more now that my feelings are all mixed up thanks to that pathwaytohappiness site.
The “nothing makes you feel” reminds me of there being no objective meaning. And that it comes from you makes it sound like you can just make yourself happy all the time.
Because everyone has their own dream world, depending on their POV.
Remember, the brain can only make a “best guess” of what is out there.
You know the famous example of 2 people standing along a railroad a distance apart and a train is traveling between them, away from person A and toward person B.
When the train blows its whistle person, both people record the sound of the whistle .
When asked what was the pitchof the train whistle, Person A says I recorded the pitch as “C”, and person B says I recorded the whistle as “E”.
Who is lying and who is correct? They are both telling the truth and they are both wrong. The actual pitch of the whistle ON the train was “D”.
Relativity dependent on the POV of the observer.
Both observers can come to an agreement that the train whistle was indeed “D” and reality was arrived at by agreement on the doppler effect altering the pitch for each observer from their POV.
Well, you can’t. You have some control over your emotions but it’s not a simple formula and “happy all the time” lacks any logic. If we were happy all the time, how would we know what happiness is? It’s the opposite of sad. We have a spectrum of emotions.
Of course dreams are physically generated from memory, just like waking thought.
Difference is that waking thought has additional sensory input for comparison.
Remember, “controlled hallucinations” v “uncontrolled hallucinations” ?
how could I forget the thing that you have posted twenty times?
it’s not what darkness is talking about. saying dreams are physically generated does not make them fit with your definition of relativity. Unless you are talking about physics, which you said you weren’t.
You are right.
Dreams are not related to any external sensory input. That is why they are uncontrolled and your brain is free to invent a relative scenario. i.e. you have no control.
That is the definition of “uncontrolled hallucination”.
This is why Descartes’ thought experiment holds true. Feeding the brain false environmental information creates a “controlled hallucination”, but it is a hallucination nevertheless.
The brain itself is never aware of any POV . It becomes only aware of its relative POV of its environment via sensory input compared to “known” memory.
IMO all values (properties) are only effective relative to their environment.
A 200 lb wooden log is impossible to lift. But place it in water and it floats! You don’t have to lift it at all. All you need is to steer it. Everything is relative to everything else.