Ideas On Reality No. 1
So... I always get these weird ideas about reality when I lay awake at night. I know they aren't real (...maybe...) but they still stick around. Here's one of the first (It may already be out there, but I really need to write this out). What you perceive as reality is really just a memory. Your "present" is really the past. You are dying, and your brain is playing back every event up to when you started dying. Everyone you meet isn't really there, they are just figments of your imagination. Everything you perceive is a downgraded representation of what really happened, nothing is as vivid as when it really happened, you have a compressed version of the reality at the moment. You are dying and your brain is reliving everything, and all you know is what memories you have run through already, and what those memories contain. What you think is present free will is really just the decisions you have already made. Everything you "choose" has already been chose, everything you do has already been done, and you have no choice in the matter- you just feel you do.