Philosophy: Reality does not exist‏

What is reality? I have heard thousands of times the phrase: "Please be realistic." I usually answer to this saying: "In your reality or in mine?". 

Reality is defined by experts as:

First degree reality 

Is the reality that is physic and objective, the reality we can all, as humans can see. For example: It is raining , the sun is in the solar system,  universe is huge........ nobody doubts about this reality although it is not so clear for me either as it is also relative in a way. Ask a proton how it sees the first degree reality, it will not believe that the sun can exist as it beyond its knowledge and imagination. 

Second degree reality

It is defined as the reality your brain constructs taking into account your genetic intelligence, parent teaching and social learning. We all made up our own rules , values and identity which shapes how we see the first degree reality and how we choose to construct the second degree reality. 

As you probably know in some cultures it is a motive of happiness and celebration when somebody dies as it is believed in their culture that they will go to a better place. In my culture if a loved one dies you must cry and be sad for a certain period of time in order to be accepted by the group/community.

What your brain chooses to feel is controlled by the brain itself and the good news is: It can be controlled with focus, discipline and time.

Reality: A construction of your mind

Let me share some scientific information in order to be able to talk about this point:

Perception (from the Latin perceptio, percipio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs. For example, vision involves light striking the retinas of the eyes, smell is mediated by odor molecules and hearing involves pressure waves. Perception is not the passive receipt of these signals, but can be shaped by learning, memory, and expectation.

"The brain processes 400 Billion bits of information a second. BUT, we are ONLY aware of 2,000 of those." -Dr. Joseph Dispenza, D.C.

"The infinite information that the brain is processing every single second tells us that there's more to the world then we're perceiving." -Dr. Joseph Dispenza, D.C. 

"All of our sense of so-called "reality" out there is filtered through our sense organs."

It is now clear that second degree reality is chosen by our brain and we can learn how to control our brain, we can all do it if we are committed to. Dont let others tell you this is not possible. 

Let me ask you a question: 

Imagine that you are in a plane crash and you survive. You are now in the middle of the Andes without food, proper clothing or training, in fact it is the first time you have ever seen snow in your life. You are hungry and you are over 100 kms away from the first civilized town and the terrain is abrupt, one of the highest on most dangerous mountains on earth.

How do you feel? How can you be "realistic"? How are you going to survive?

People die in this situation when they choose to be afraid and let the brain paralize you, waiting for rescue as , in their map of reality , it is impossible to survive, after all even trained chilenian mapuche soldiers have died when lost in a snowstorm, trained , with proper clothing and with food.

People survive in this situation when they choose to do so by starting to think how to get out. it is a curious fact that all people that survive find a reason to do so and are ready to do anything to live.

I recommend you to read the book; Alive: The story of the Andes to learn more about this.

Perceive with all your senses, think, control the emotion of fear and find the best reason to survive, you will be called a miracle, lucky, etc...... the reality is anybody can do it. 

Train your brain and choose the reality you wish to live!!