life help: Do you ever have days where you question reality? - Help.com

At times. But the longer I live, the more confident I become in reality. When I was younger and things were new, I had more things that were uncertain. But the older I get, the more my experience allows me to no longer need to question the same things as much.
I believe in God, and so I consider many things about supernatural realms and how they might interact with reality. I’ve experienced things beyond physical understanding, and I believe there’s more to our existence than we know. But that doesn’t make me question reality as much as it makes me question my understanding of it.
For example, there are many cultures and places I haven’t been, and I do not hold all of reality in my mind. My understanding would change if I went those places. Likewise if there was something else other than a physical place, my understanding of it would also change if I had experience with it.

I question reality. But I don’t think there are demons running it, or a mad scientist, or a god, or spirits or a computer program. That is an easy way out. What I question is why things are the way they are, how are people living their lives, why? What is this all for? What does it mean? Nothing? Everything? Is this chaos or is this order? What is the reality around me? Is it the same as my neighbours? Is it the same as yesterdays or tomorrows?

There are so many questions about reality, and they are so complex and branch out in all directions.

You’d have to be crazy not to question reality.

You’d have to be even crazier to think you had an answer.

I definitely understand the point you made about sometimes feeling like you’re looking through glass at someone else. Sometimes this happens to me and I find it so amazing and interesting. If I focus hard enough I can actually make it happen but it only lasts for a few seconds. I probably need to focus more.

I don’t remember questioning reality, but I take it for granted that what is real is at least partially defined by people and agreed upon knowledge, so I’m not surprised when things seem different than how I knew it to be before. I remember that when I first left home it was a bigger deal because suddenly there was reality despite whatever my parents might say, because they weren’t even there to say anything any more.

Also, most of the more serious problems people bring here do not have a possible answer, based on their undersanding of things, their understanding of what “reality” is doesn’t permit a solution, so I tend to toss out ideas to try to help people feel that more is possible than what they might have known before. At least to get them over their own blocks to any life improvement or solution.

president mindhealer wrote:
I don’t remember questioning reality

Actually, thinking more on it, I remember some days when that was my only question, “What is real?” And then if anything ever surprised me, like people yelled hello out of a truck window and surprised me, I noted that as an indication that I hadn’t known what was real, at least in that small way that I had no idea that an unexpected event would happen. I did that walking all over the place, thinking, “what is real?” — and to great degree, I knew, and could use the knowledge to survive and maneuver through a dangerous world, but just on a simple walk I reached the limits of my understanding of what is real over and over again. But they weren’t such necessary understandings, and I didn’t look deeply into them.

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory…