creekmary wrote:
So you've seen things...and believe that they're real and really happen, you just think it's all psychological?
But this is equally true of the cup of tea my wife brought me.
The theatre of the mind and other similar metaphors are useful to explore our experience. Then assuming our theatre is real then we can say that our experience of the "outside" world is at least a reflection of that world.
Okkk.....Soooo.....if seeing your grandfather's ghost is as real as a cup of tea....based on perception and however it works.....I don't see any difference of opinion. I think it's real too.
So there must be more of a difference in thinking than that. I just don't see it yet.
I don't think it is any less reasonable. I know people who do that are supposed to be crazy, but I don't think it is any less reasonable based on their more unacceptable perception. Maybe they are not necessarily all that crazy. Maybe their perception is just more broad, just not as accepted. I don't think my perception is any more valid, they are just outnumbered.It could be argued a person muttering away to themselves is being being perfectly reasonable, based on the inputs (voices) the brain is receiving. Is this any less reasonable to answering your spouse based on the air vibrations reaching our eardrums, being converted into electrical signals and interpreted in the brain? In the first case the signals are generated internally and in the second externally
Maybe that's why crazy people tend to like me.....which I prefer better than not.
If you argue with yourself, are you both sides?And yes I do talk to myself, and I'm not aware of internally generated voices.
Susan