What is Reality?

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I have been deep thinking about philosophy as of late and wanted to share with you some of the theories that keep me awake — I even dream about such ideas, but what is a dream really? Anyway…

What if we are not actually here on Earth experiencing hunger and love and passion and sadness and fear. These emotions are just fed off our souls, not our bodies. Our souls inhabit these bodies and do what they can to urge life force into these puppets, but do we truly feel emotions? Or is it just a facade so we can feel superior to Mother Nature and our coinciding inhabitants we categorize as stupid animals. Are we not also just stupid animals?

What if our brains are in a vat somewhere beyond here and we only think we are experiencing life? We would never know, would we? Or rather than a brain in a vat, what if our souls are beyond our bodies, but our minds trick us into thinking we even have souls that reside in our bodies?

Or what if the sun doesn’t rise tomorrow? We expect it will because it has in the past, but what if tomorrow it doesn’t? But in all actuality, the sun does not even rise. It is just an illusion: the Earth revolves around the Sun and rotates to keep up this illusion. But the thought hardly crosses our minds before setting our alarms, awaiting the anticipated sunrise so we can begin yet another day in this seemingly never ending life cycle.