• Question: Is it possible that life is just a figure of our imagaination and when we die we return to reality?

    Asked by jewlz to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Like in the Matrix?

      I think that our individual experience of life is a mixture of our imagination and what is really happening. Try watching a video of yourself, it will always seem different to how you remembered it (or is that just me?)

      I don’t think that when we die, we will return to ‘reality’, although I am sure it is a comforting idea.

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      The thing that has always boggled my mind since I was a child is that everyone’s brain potentially processes the world around them in a different way. What we see with our eyes and hear with our ears is interpreted by our brain to make sense of it. So what you see when you see the colour pink, might be different from what your friend sees. And you would never know, because you would always have been taught that that is pink.
      Of course, that’s a tangent, but I think it’s the closest thing to your question that is possible. Just think about the “reality” you would wake up to – what would it be like? Good or bad? Would things still be made of atoms? Would the laws of Physics still hold? I think we know enough about science to know we’re not just dreaming, but maybe that’s arrogance on my part!

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Perhaps, but it’s a really vivid imagination if that’s true. Personally, I don’t believe that.

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