Paranormal
How do you know you really exist? I mean, really exist? What makes you so sure that you are a real entity in this environment that we refer to as "The Universe"?
Or, maybe you do exist. But what makes you so sure that the things you see, the people you meet, and places you go actually exist, and aren't just a part of your imagination?
Stop and think about this for a minute. There's a possibility that your existence is just a part of the imagination of some guy named Steve locked up in a mental asylum. When he dies, you will cease to exist. His world is just the same as yours, except that his world is real, and yours is not. Every action you perform, every thought you think, is merely his thought being manifested. Even you reading this right now, questioning your own existence, is him imagining it. And I am not writing this. Steve is.
How else do you think that you have always been aware of your immediate surroundings, but never anything beyond that? You see things passing by, and soon they are gone. That's a very single-track line of thought, isn't it? Have you ever considered that in Steve's world, a human is aware of more than just his immediate surroundings? That all things could exist in a union? But then, maybe you can't think of that possibility. Steve won't let you.
Maybe the above possibility isn't correct. Maybe you are real. But I'm granting that to you. You have absolutely no way of proving that you are. Your only answer may be that you 'feel' that you exist. Sorry, but 'feeling' something or believing something strong enough doesn't make it the truth. Nevertheless, I'll give it to you, that you do exist.
But what part of your existence is real, and what isn't? There may be people, places and events in your memory that may never have taken place. Falling down the stairs as a kid. Visiting Paris. Your coworker with the weird glasses. The old lady across the street. Your own parents. These people existed only in your mind. You saw them do things, but nobody else ever did. Right now, you may be thinking that it's not possible, since you have seen these people interacting with other people, who are real. And you're also thinking that you did visit those places, because other people were there. But, like I said, you don't know if they're real either. Some of those people and places may be real, and you could have seen them doing things you wanted them to do or how you wanted to see them. Basically, all you've ever seen is what you wanted to see. To preserve that appealing illusion of your mind's reality. Your mind is trying to avoid a harsher, crueller reality out there, one so disturbing that this insanity is preferable to it.
I don't exist either. Neither does this article. You are sitting in front of a blank screen. Or looking at a blank piece of paper. Imagining that someone wrote this. There is nothing here. Wake up... It's time to wake up.
Wake up to reality.
Sincerely,
Steve
