Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the very maintenance of this chain that produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist. Haruki Murakami
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Reality is an illusion. There are many realities in the universe. There are so many different points of view that it is almost impossible to determine what the truth actually is. To try to judge what really happened in a situation or event can be next to impossible.

We can only come up with our own opinion on what really happened in the situations we encounter every day. However, in our minds, we seem to have a sense that there is something real about each of our reality that we call “ourselves”. However, our beliefs about reality are all based on memories, thoughts, and beliefs created by others.

Source: South Of The Border, West Of The Sun

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