I get you, Kevin. For me, perception is how we experience reality, but it’s not the whole of it. The world doesn’t vanish when we close our eyes—it just keeps going without us. The strange part is, we’ll never know how much of what we see is the world itself, and how much is just our mind’s version of it.
Love that angle, Kevin. But here’s the paradox—nothingness doesn’t actually exist. The moment you call it “nothing,” it’s already something. Empty space is still space, darkness is still black, and even in a perfect vacuum, quantum fluctuations hum. Maybe “nothing” is just the faintest form of “something” — or a superposition, waiting to collapse.
Dreaming vs. waking is a perfect example — we can never be fully certain which is which. What feels like “nothing” from one state is “something” from another. The boundary is perception, not reality.
Light would not exist without the dark. What significance would joy have without suffering?
Thank you for sharing. 🦋💚
Thank You for being.
I get you, Kevin. For me, perception is how we experience reality, but it’s not the whole of it. The world doesn’t vanish when we close our eyes—it just keeps going without us. The strange part is, we’ll never know how much of what we see is the world itself, and how much is just our mind’s version of it.
Love that angle, Kevin. But here’s the paradox—nothingness doesn’t actually exist. The moment you call it “nothing,” it’s already something. Empty space is still space, darkness is still black, and even in a perfect vacuum, quantum fluctuations hum. Maybe “nothing” is just the faintest form of “something” — or a superposition, waiting to collapse.
Dreaming vs. waking is a perfect example — we can never be fully certain which is which. What feels like “nothing” from one state is “something” from another. The boundary is perception, not reality.