Hello, my name is Nadin. I’m from Gaza. I’m a graphic design graduate, a wife—and now, a mother.
I finished my design studies just before the war began. I had dreams of starting a small studio, of creating art that told stories. I used to think about colors and fonts and the future.
Then, the war came. And the future became something we tried to hold onto, moment by moment.
On October 22, 2023, I learned I was pregnant when a missile destroyed my husband’s family home, killing 25 members—his mother, siblings, nieces and nephews—entire branches of our family in seconds.
We were displaced twice. Everything was gone—home, safety, routine, rest.
A few weeks later, I gave birth to our daughter. There was no crib, no celebration—not even stillness. But she arrived, quietly and beautifully. In her eyes I saw something I hadn’t felt in weeks: life that still wanted to grow.
Now, our days are shaped by decisions that could dismantle the future we are trying to build together.
Today, Israel’s government is discussing plans for a full military occupation of the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City and southern regions. The stated aim: to eliminate Hamas and later hand governing control to allied Arab forces—not Israel—but with no clear path to peace or normalcy.
The humanitarian fallout is devastating. More than 61,000 Palestinians have died in this war; hunger and malnutrition are rising sharply. Hospitals in north Gaza have shut down, and 193 people have now died of starvation, nearly half of them children.
Aid remains blocked, water is scarce, and many risk dying of hunger or disease long before future promises arrive.
We Don’t Know What Comes Next
There’s no clear path forward—only uncertainty for our daughter’s life and our ability to survive another day.
My name is Nadin, and I’m a mother from Gaza.
How You Can Help
I’m asking for support—not for comfort, but for survival:
Help us meet basic needs so we can breathe, heal, and preserve a world for our daughter.
Support us as I try to stand again on my own feet—even a glimmer of stability matters.
If you’ve read this far, thank you. If you can give—thank you. If you can’t—just sharing this post is a lifeline I will never forget.
The statement "reality is a hallucination" is a concept from neuroscience, particularly associated with neuroscientist Anil Seth, who describes it as a "controlled hallucination".
This theory suggests that our perception of reality is not a direct experience of the world but rather a consistent, shared construction by the brain based on its predictions about sensory data. When people agree on these shared predictions, it is what we call reality.
Perception as prediction:
The brain doesn't passively receive information; it actively generates our experience by making constant predictions about the causes of sensory input.
Controlled vs. uncontrolled:
A "controlled hallucination" is a perception that is constrained and guided by sensory information from the world, which is why we generally agree on what we perceive and it is useful and functional.
An "uncontrolled hallucination," like those experienced during psychosis, is when these predictions are not properly constrained by the external world.
Shared experience:
We call our collective perceptions "reality" because we agree on them. If everyone were colorblind, for example, color would not exist as a perceptual reality, though the physical property of light frequency would still exist.
Active construction:
This process means we are not simply reading the world as it is. Instead, our brain is doing the hard work of "explaining away" sensory signals to form a consistent and coherent model of what is happening, both internally and externally.
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