How do you question reality?

How do you question reality?

Here I am going to experiment a bit and try the Byron Katie query method called "the Work" to answer the question of "what is reality" - so Is reality true? Can I be absolutely sure that it's true?

The fun part of this second question is that not many things are absolutely 100% full-proof true.

There is a simpler way in dreams though, by just watching your hands – by extending the two hands together in front of your eyes – you will then see during dream-time, that they are deformed.

You might have 4 fingers in one hand, and 6 fingers on the other, and then you become lucid.


But so far, I haven't find a similar simple trick to wake up during 'daily life' – I just know I'm not dreaming because another particular quality of 'daily life' is a possible feeling of boredom, this feeling can't happen in dream-state. In the dream things are shifting, things or events are fluids ; in physical awaken time – you can get this feeling of being stuck and being bored.

Does this mean "Reality is boring" ?

And that isn't true either, for truly awaken people – reality can be as exciting as the dreams, and that's when things are starting to manifests and both reality and dreams are starting to mix.
What is the risk of mixing the real and the illusion?

I guess there is a step forward into the interaction of the reality given as a sandbox and the potential of acting in this sandbox in a more interesting way, than being a mere consumer or a victim of reality. The step forward is to realize that we are creator, and by exercising this power we can bend realities (just like in the dream-state).
And then the question pop-up again .. what is reality?

It can't be only perceptual, because as human beings our sense spectrum is not optimized – it can't be in the mind only because for the brain reality, fiction, illusion are all the same .. informations driven experience...

What about emotions?

Reality will raise emotions, and so will books, movies, etc .. there's a whole industry taking advantages of this "feature". The emotional center is responsive to informations, everything that will provide informations is creating an emotional response. Music in particular can generate a huge emotional influx, just the vibrations of notes, can make somebody become very sad and cry or nourish an internal anger, or laugh – music has this capacity over words that are in many cases powerless when it comes to variety of languages or the audience capacity of understanding.

Music is universal, it doesn't have to go through the door of understanding – it goes directly into the emotional center.

Is music real?

Are the emotions real?
What is time?
Is time real?
Is the experience real?
Who am I?
What is this thing we call reality?
Things are created twice, once in the mind and once physical
Things comes in threes … some believe that good or bad things come in threes.
I believe that if we believe something strongly enough, we will find proof that will enforce this belief.
That means reality is not a finished product, it evolves through beliefs.
On top of that reality is subjective and it can't be any other way – since beliefs are subjective.
When we get rid of beliefs, then reality is stripped from some substance and then what is left is the true reality – the stripped reality.

Then it could be inside.

The outside is just a manifestation of the inside – we are projecting.
There is a common adage saying 'garbage in, garbage out'
If the inside is garbage, the outside is garbage.
That makes sense, people that are messy inside tend to make a mess of their life.
People that are loving inside, tend to be loving outside.
Everything start from the inside – in the mind.
Is it true?
Which mind?
The collective mind?
All this doesn't have to make sense, this isn't a requirement of the system.
Is there any requirement?
Why would there be?
Free-will is the requirement (at least for this Universe)
… and that's a belief, I collected from my readings
is it true?
How can I prove this?
When a picture is sent into a lens and projected on a screen – there's light going through some kind of a filter – the filter is sending informations in the light to create the image, if there's no information then only light goes through and then the screen is filled with light.

Plato explained this in his "Allegory of the Cave".

I sense that the inside is sending this first signal – then we are like little bubble of reality that we create, and sometime we bump into each other, and co-create something.
We are like brushes on a gigantic canvas, thinking we are exploring a universe, while we are creating it.

Is there a neutral point?

If there is, it represents the very figment of this reality, his substance, and that is love
Love is the substance that we are all made of
… and that's a belief, I collected from other people
is it true?
How can I prove this?
Fear doesn't create – It destroys
It does nothing, it prevent creation
I think we can agree on this

Love has to be expressed

Additional reading : Life After Death in Kamaloka (the Astral World) -- Below a comparison of Blavatsky's views with Leadbeater's rendition