What is reality?

[weedguru_animal]

death has been haunting me,
a dark shadow stretching across all i know to be LIFE.
and i have encountered problems....
in terms of dealing with such an unavoidable shadow.
in terms of dealing with the FACT, not PONDERING...
that we are born to die...
that whatever we do,
whether we are Good or Bad,
we die...
we turn to dust...
and everything we leave behind matters less and less and less and less...
as time moves ever onwards.

But sitting here now,
drenched with russian firewater,
retracing my steps,
along the Pharcyde path of Bizarre Ride II,
I conclude...
that other than leaving my legacy in words,
for posterity,
my only other aim,
must be...
pushing this existence to the hilt,
dancing over the Edge as constantly as possible,
traveling to foreign lands and smells and sights,
embracing every fierce impulse whether perverse or savage...

Whether I return to this Earth as a tree,
or killer wasp,
I am damn sure,
that i will make the most of my current incarnation...
for BOTH good...
and ill.

[AbbyRoad]

animal your poems always seem to resonate with me.


and on another note:
i am a firm believer in a multi-dimensional reality. and i am a firm believer that we ,as beings, exist beyond our physical bodies. we have what some people would .call "a soul".
a theory, concerning both these beliefs, occurred to me quite out of the blue on my way to work. which leads me to believe my subconscious was working on it for sometime.
the basic idea that hit me was our "souls" are nothing more then the part of us that exists in a higher dimensions of reality.
im having difficultly expanding on this idea because i am limited by vocabulary......
what i am trying to say is that we know we exist in the dimensions of length, width and depth. but i think there other "forms of measurement" in other dimensions that would make the existence of our "souls" obvious.
heres a way i kind of think about it. in other dimensions new shapes would appear, more complex versions of cubes and pyramids etc. so whats to stop me from theorizing that other objects in our dimensions wouldnt have corresponding more complex forms, that are difficult if not impossible to imagine given our 3D life and vocabulary.

thats all i have for now on the subject. hopefully i get another kick of insight, but this time not on a bus to work before an 8 hr shift. i feel like ive lost so many of the details between when i had the moment of clarity and when i sat down to write about it.

[Mate]

That was fuckin real.

[weedguru_animal]

And do you, Abby, believe that non human creatures...cats, dogs, fish...trees...plants...have 'souls'?

[Mate]

i think if you believe humans as souls. then you need to believe everything else has souls. Otherwise it would be like incomplet beliefs.
i can't say i am christian and deny everything about the bible.

what you think about that theory dan ?

[AbbyRoad]

i think everything has a "soul".
but i hesitate to even use the word soul because it has specific religious connotations attached to it in many peoples minds

[Mate]

Souls are the epitome of utopia tho. Beliefs in souls are strong because it's what people would want.

Some vital forces that goes from bodies to bodies living forever in an infinite universe.
i like the idea.

[omnific.dc]

Im up really high amazed by the light..

[cutthecashflow]

Reality is what you make of it and I believe we all have a different perspective on the subject.

Give me some time and I'll contribute a little more.

[omnific.dc]

I want to live in a dream..that would be better...

[cutthecashflow]

I live in my dreams every night. I have come to the point where I can control most of my dreams (lucid dreaming) it really is not that hard if you work at it, but it does take some time.

[omnific.dc]

My memory is so bad, I don't remember my dreams..

[Weedguru Higher]

I live in my dreams every night. I have come to the point where I can control most of my dreams (lucid dreaming) it really is not that hard if you work at it, but it does take some time.

Ya, I can do the same thing. I wake up out of dreams, and then can fall back asleep and continue my last dream if I want to

[omnific.dc]

Wow..

[AbbyRoad]

I live in my dreams every night. I have come to the point where I can control most of my dreams (lucid dreaming) it really is not that hard if you work at it, but it does take some time.

Ya, I can do the same thing. I wake up out of dreams, and then can fall back asleep and continue my last dream if I want to

ive never had a lucid dreaming experience. but the falling back into the previous dream thing does happen