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by Halskiisaklink on February 2nd, 2007

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Is it possible to be a figment of your own imagination?

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  • by Stableboy on February 2nd, 2007

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    Not only is it possible: it's inevitable.

    We're all figments of our own imagination, in the sense that it's the mind which cooks up the notion of "myself" as some distinct entity separate from the whole of our experience.

    There is no "self" without this capacity of the mind to discriminate between "me vs. other", and this discrimination is actually quite arbitrary -- i.e. it's imaginative.

    I don't mean there's no body, or no thoughts, or no feelings, or memories -- of course all of that stuff exists. But there's no absolute ME which is the "owner" of all that stuff. That notion is purely abstract, and the reason we believe it (and feel as if we're "somebody") is because we don't observe our experience closely enough to discover the truth.

    There's great irony in the fact that most of our efforts to "protect ourselves" and "be ourselves" are centered around a "self" which is a figment of our own imagination.

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  • by Firebrand on February 2nd, 2007

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    My imagination is not that good i could not imagine anything as messed up as my life at the moment

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  • by hershey_squirter_ on February 13th, 2007

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    When I think about people with multiple personality disorders it sure seems possible for your personal identity, or identities to be figments of your own imagination. But as far as whether or not your basic existence in reality as perceived by everyone and everything else in reality is imaginary...then no.

    An imaginary person is not real, therefore an imaginary person can not imagine. Likewise if I'm real to begin with, which would mean I can imagine, then I've already established myself as real and not imaginary so I can not be hallucinating myself or making myself up.

    Of course this is all based on playing by the rules of reality as they are presented to most of us.....assuming we are not perceiving reality wrongly or being tricked. But if ya wanna bring alternate realities into it, or parallel universes, or a Matrix style existence....well then there are endless scenarios in which it's possible simply because we don't know for sure and it can't be disproven.

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  • by CincinnatiDrummer on February 2nd, 2007

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    I don't belive so. While sometimes I feel that it would be nice...i'm fairly certain that we are all living in the here and now, as depressing as that may be...

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  • by anonymous on February 2nd, 2007

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    I feel like that quite a lot of the time. I don't know if it is possible though, unless this is currently a dream, and if it is then it REALLY sucks as most of my dreams are more interesting than this

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  • by justme32 loves the weekends on February 2nd, 2007

    justme32 loves the weekends

    I feel as though I am at least once a day.

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  • by Empress of Everything Ever on May 1st, 2007

    Empress of Everything Ever

    Gee I really hope so, because if it is not possible then .... what? I disappear???? I vanish, stealing softly away in the night?

    Phew...just as well I have a great imagination now if only I could figure out how come I am so twisted that I imagine myself like I am, why am I not incredibly super beautiful and really disgustingly rich and sought after by millions of men?
    I can't make up my mind - (but that's another story!), am I a psychs nightmare or dream?

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  • by Sunblynd 5.0 on May 1st, 2007

    Sunblynd 5.0

    There is one person I admired that really explains it well.

    "Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves." - Bill Hicks



    To see the video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX1CvW38cHA

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  • by the general on May 1st, 2007

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    i m sure that it is,you ll often meet people who have such an exagerated opinion of themselves that you leave thinking,that person is a legend in their own mind.

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  • by @roshi@ on February 12th, 2007

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    No because if you were a figment of imagination, then you wouldn't be real so you couldn't have an imagination and you wouldn't be alive.

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  • by cami1211 on February 3rd, 2007

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    I sure hope so, it would would be sad If I really am as crazy as I think I am.

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  • by smart9426 on February 2nd, 2007

    smart9426

    On AB, anything is possible!

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  • by kitty loves you on February 2nd, 2007

    kitty loves you

    Sometimes I wish..!

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  • by Alaskacatalog on February 12th, 2007

    Alaskacatalog

    Ask all those ppl on "Lost". Seems some of them are-- the mental institution?

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