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according to the pros, that's insane!! Sarajane

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LOL!

Laura

It's -your- reality, no getting around that. The interesting part starts when someone standing next to you is having a different experience based on the same sensory input.

Ever argue with someone over what color something is? Or to use the introvert/extravert example again ... an extravert may come home at two a.m. really jazzed and ready to split wood rather than go to bed, thinking "Great party!" while their introverted partner is thinking "I'm exhausted!" and not only wants to go straight to bed, but to stay there quietly until noon tomorrow.

It was the same 'party-experience', but then again, it wasn't.

Deirdre

But try arguing a schizophrenic out of their reality-experience by telling him it's crazy...

As far as he's concerned, his reality is -right in front of him-, just like the pro's. (Neither is likely to think of reality as 'right inside him' instead.)

Deirdre

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:09:26 -0400, Deirdre S. wrote (in message ):

Yes, at "Pleasure Island" in Walt Disney World. DH and I stepped off the boat and into the crowd. I started freaking out, and kept saying, "We have to leave, Now!"

DH had no idea what on Earth bothered me, and I was unable to put my finger on it, it's just that the feeling completely overwhelmed me. We ended up leaving within 10 minutes of arriving, and I was a nervous wreck for hours. DH was seriously pissed off, but went along with me, because I insisted.

Even now, 9 years later, I shudder and get the creeps when thinking of that place. And I still don't know why.

Kathy N-V

Well, yeah. That's because each person's experience (reality) is filtered through their own mind.

Laura

Yup. And no matter how ineffable (and invisible to others) the roots of your experience were, the experience itself was totally real and compelling ... even though no one else shared it.

Deirdre

Uh huh. But then we have some folks insisting that there is something called 'objective' reality, that doesn't go through any such filtering process.

Trouble is, the folks who believe the most fiercely in objective reality tend to assume that it is a match for -their- subjective experience.

Deirdre

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. :

]Ever argue with someone over what color something is?

ALL the time!

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's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

That is exactly what drives me absolutely bonkers about journalists (it's mostly television news that gets me). For crying out loud, the very fact that a decision was made to *cover* a certain story demonstrates subjectivity ....

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Tina

This reminds me of something. Objectivity and subjectivity. People often criticize subjective thinking as "being all about you". Subjective thinking is about how something is experienced from inside, but not necessarily from inside the observer. I can think subjectively from your POV. Some people value objective thinking more highly, where no POV is considered.

Tina

One of the privileges of being an American. Dissatisfaction.

Tina

Go not to the Buddhists for counsel, for they will say both no and yes...

Celine

Nicely put!

Celine

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:58:10 -0400, Diana Curtis wrote (in message ):

Naah, you do "carriage dancing" in the stereo aisle at Costco to "Shake Your Grrove Thing!"

Amazingly enough, DD would be embarrassed if I did that today. I don't know why -- we did that every Costco visit for _years!_ :-) Must be because 13 is a constant dramatic moment: it's tough to be in the spotlight all the time. (Only later do we find out that the world is not watching us, they're all looking in the mirror themselves)

Kathy N-V