What life is just a dream that is of our own creation? What if we could become lucid in our waking life and change our reality to whatever we can imagine?
I have often referenced Steve Pavlina's article on Subjective Reality as an introduction to a point of view I have found to be quite powerful.
Subjective Reality (SR), as I describe it, is the perspective that your true identity is the dreamer having the dream, so you are the conscious container in which the entire dream world takes place. Your body-mind is your avatar in the dream world, the character that gives you a first-person perspective as you interact with the contents of your own consciousness. But that avatar is no more you than any other character in the dream world. This perspective is also not objectively falsifiable, so it cannot be proven wrong. However, I find it a very rich and empowering way to interact with the dream world of reality on multiple levels.
What I find fascinating about this perspective is that it makes each of us 100% responsible for the world around us. Rather than complaining about someone else we need to view everything we perceive as reality as a reflection of our inner self. Attempting to change other people is like attempting to reach into the mirror. We must change ourselves and then those around us will change. Be the change you want to see in the world..
Law of Attraction
Many serious people find the Law of Attraction to be a lot of mumbo-jumbo nonsense.
The Law of Attraction simply says that you attract into your life whatever you think about. Your dominant thoughts will find a way to manifest.
Ironically the Law of Attraction and Subjective Reality tell us that if you do not believe in them, then you will manifest a world where you never get what you want. You will attract powerlessness. Worse yet your deepest unspoken fears may manifest.
Scientific Theory Supporting Subjective Reality and Law of Attraction
I was recently introduced to a mind-blowing TED talk by @andrarchy. This TED talk demonstrates that survival of the fittest results in an evolutionary process that favors those who do not see reality accurately. It shows how everything that we perceive is an abstraction we create of reality and not reality itself.
The metaphor he used was a computer desktop. The file shown on the desktop is not the actual reality, but a representation of bits of ones and zeros. He goes a step further and says that if you look at the file under the most powerful microscope it will appear to be composed of pixels. This is what happens when we attempt to discover reality using tools such as telescopes and microscopes. We just dive deeper into our desktop metaphor and we will never discover the electrons on the hard disk.
The desktop metaphor gives us an easy and intuitive way to interface with the complex reality that is our computer's memory banks and circuits. Likewise, our vision of the world is a desktop metaphor that our brains use to make us a better fit for navigating a complex reality.
What if we could Change our Desktop Theme?
We have the power to choose how we perceive things. How we perceive things in turn changes our reality. Two people can experience the same tragic event, say the murder of their family, but one can come out the otherside with love for the attacker and the other with hate. Two people with the same standard of living can feel either poor or rich depending upon what others around them have. Their happiness depends not on the reality of the stuff they have, but in how they choose to view what they have.
We have a very powerful ability to change our perceptions in ways that best serve us. The changing of our perceptions and intentions result in complex interactions with the true reality. In other words, the Law of Attraction and Subjective Reality are the natural result of gaining more experience with how reality really works.
It is like learning how to pilot your life. Initially we all just bumble around and think that life is a series of random events that are completely beyond our control. What we don't realize is that we fell asleep with our head on the space bar. Once we wake up we can start actively controlling our experiences in this life.
Conclusion
We now have reasonable proof that what we think is reality is just a mental abstraction that is difficult to see through. The true nature of reality is far more complex than we can imagine and our minds and bodies interact with this reality ways are far removed from what we think of as reality. If you have previously rejected new-age mumbo jumbo such as subjective reality and the law of attraction, I hope this TED talk causes you to rethink your world view. You might just find the key to getting everything you ever wanted.
"You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know when I put it in my mouth the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years you know what I realise? Ignorance is bliss" --Cypher
Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?
Morpheus: No, Neo. I’m trying to tell you that when you’re ready, you won’t have to.