Paranoia...kinda.
 

Does anyone else have thoughts that nothing actually exists...in some sense of the word...and life is actually a giant prank being played on you.

I usually think it when I'm a bit confused/depressed.

Like...there are lots of possibilities.

a) Everything I encounter has been scripted, Truman Show style. And it's all for laughs at my expense.

b) I don't actually exist. When I die someone else will be started.

...I'm not entirely sure what I mean. But maybe that's a good thing...if I suss out the truth you'll all kill me for knowing too much ;)

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha, all the time!!!

yeah I totally get this. I often have thoughts that I'm in like a Truman show type situation, that there are cameras everywhere and that my family and friends can see my every move.

i'm ****ed up LOL.

Sounds like dissociation and good old fashioned ego death. I used to get it loads back in the trippy days. It's a common side effect of depression. It's really all on you to drag yourself back in and convince yourself that it's real.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derealization

All...the ...time

Yeah, I've basically thought this since Joe made a thread months back. It's certainly an intriguing theory.

I think I've managed to get to a place where 'nothing' exists...in a sense. That sounds weird, I know, but I have. I sort of picture the world, zoom out into the universe and then just imagine that it wasn't there. Nothing. None of it. It's hard to explain but for a few seconds I fall into this 'zone' where absolutely nothing exists.

Pretty ****ed up stuff.

yes! me, jordy and jack had a similar conversation last week, it's kind of scary thinking about it.

We know nothing other than that we exist because we experience.

i often swear at people in my head to see if they hear me lol

This, it was a good chat.

We thought that maybe its just 1 of us imagining everything going on, and when we are unable to stop imagining, is when we 'die'.
Like Jack said, how do we know other people are around unless we hear them or can actually see them?

Scary thought indeed. :/

Oh dear, Stu. It says it could be a symptom of sleep deprivation...early nights in order for me I think...

no i think people r people

I sleep like 10 hours at a time. Bish plz.

pmsl.

The brain is always at it's darkest when it's dark. Chances are you are far more likely to feel this kind of stuff at 4AM rather than 4PM because human contact is dead all around you and your left to yourself. It's a big factor in solipsism.

Yeah, that was another interesting thought.

It's like that philosophical question, 'if a tree falls in a wood, and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?'. Applying that to this situation would mean that if your mum, for instance, was calling you from another room, you might just be imagining her calling you, and everytime you walk out of the room, she disappears, as does everyone else, until you see them again. As if they don't exist, and they only exist when you see them.

Well done you, sounds like you have sussed meditation, this not-knowing is the true secret of Zen. Now grasshopper look within and see who you really are. Once you can overcome or negate the nothingness, you are truly on the path to enlightenment.

There Is No God.

In your opinion.

Im agnostic, the idea is nice but I dont think there is a God, but you shouldnt pass it as fact.

No in the Whole Universe.

No, but sometimes it feels like I'm dreaming and I'm not actually here. Not that often though

It should be fact until it is disproven though, otherwise we can say the same thing about plenty of other things.

Are space wolves, spaghetti monsters, and whales inside the core of Jupiter a real possibility just because we can't disprove them?

Yeah
Infact, I have thought many times that when I die you all die.
Before I was born the world didnt excist.
And all the history is just being made up to make us belive the world has been going on for years.

I think when I leave a room and leave a person, they are non excistant until I return.

Stu why are your points always so good? :hugesmile: Thats true, I guess.

Wonderful , from theology to quantum mechanics (the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox and Schrödinger's cat) all within 23 posts on a thread.