Thread: Magical world with glasses off

Makes sense

Originally Posted by JoannaB

This evening I was walking again without my glasses on, paying attention to the world around me. The world looks almost magical for someone as near-sighted as me without the corrective lenses.

And it occurred to me not for the first time (mostly jokingly, but with a bit of wishful thinking wonder): what if those of us who are near sighted or far sighted see certain aspects of reality more accurately? What if corrective lenses just correct so that our vision is closer to the norm of what most people see, but what if what we see shows some aspects of reality more accurately somehow?

I was looking at the light as it shone through and onto leaves and tree branches, and it looked like pixels of a matrix that was low resolution and sometimes parts of branches were almost invisible and shimmering, and other parts were an (un)natural golden glimmer, and there were hexagonal shapes of silver and various shades of green. It looked so cool, and truly reminded me of a digital landscape more than anything.

Some people postulate that maybe we do live in a virtual reality. What if they are right? And what if some of us can see beyond the illusion?

Our perception can fool us plenty of times, for me I am far sighted and sometimes I mistake many little things far away. I also heard that lucid living trains you to see what you want to see or the dream appears in front of your eyes while you're awake. Knowing these type of things I would find it hard that the way people who are far sighted or near sighted are actually perceiving how Reality is suppose to look like as it could just be another delusion our brain has pulled upon us. If we did live in a virtual reality and that you were seeing in pixel then you would be going through everything here as nothing would be physical. In video games people can not fully collide with one another to mimic physical reactions, sometimes if you watch carefully you see them going through each other while they fight. I also find it that anything that is not physical also can not fully mimic the physical reactions and you shall go through it, dreams are also an example of that. If we truly are living in a virtual world then all those claims about people being possess by some spirit or as some call demons must be hackers who can manipulate things to their will. Earthquakes must be the result of someone downloading a new server as well to keep updates and install new pixels in to this world. I'm not going to fully say it's wrong to think this way as I can't say I know we're not in a virtual world but I would find it highly unlikely that is the case.