What is real, what is not? Our eyes trick us thinking that things have colors, but it is just perseption?
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People have different perceptions/realities, based on personal experience (including auditory, sensory, visual) and knowledge. We are greatly limited in our knowledge by perceiving only three dimensions. So, the answer to your question is : ALL THINGS ARE A PERSONAL REALITY .....Unfortunately, too few humans are open-minded enough to realize that their own reality is not a universal truth.
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Yes, we are. That is what the senses are. There are no real things out there, there are just clouds of possibilities. Quantum physicists are finding out the universe is much more complicated and unbelievable than once thought. Our perceptions actually modify reality.. that means there could be a universe out there for every potential choice we make in our lives... it's a mind boggling concept, but people are realizing theres more to this world than meets the eye, so to speak.
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I think, therefore I am.  Right?  \n\nIf I think about what color socks I'm going to wear, and I put on the color I think about, then my though of wearing red socks has just become a reality.  \nNothing happens unless we think about something and act on those thoughts, so yes, thoughts do create reality.
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There is no color that can not be seen on earth. Either it exists naturally or can be created because; as has been noted many times, humans can only see within a certain spectrum range. We know the wavelengths of light and can recreated them, so no color we can see can not be seen right here on earth.
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Your question indicates that you have a very active imagination! Virtual reality is something humans have come up with during the last blink of cosmic time. Actual, physical reality is much more astounding. Actually, it isn't necessary to postulate a virtual reality in order to understand this amazing universe. The real - not virtual - universe is so vast and so strange that it's hard to comprehend what's going on and our relation to it. The realities being steadily revealed by scientists boggle the mind. Fascinating stuff! It takes a lot of inquisiiveness, open mindedness and courage to face up to what all of it means. Are you up for it?
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The cat or the room?\nLight does not give us color. Our color was predetermined by our DNA. The light just potentiates or enhances what already is.
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It's all shadows on the wall, man, shadows on the wall.  We think it's the real thing, but it's not.  It's illusory.  The *real* world only exists in the pure forms of beauty, truth, and justice.
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Absolutely. There is some subjectivity to all experience.  We frame the experience based on our frames of reference which are previously imprinted within our brains.  There are times when we truly believe we see or hear something that we later find to be false.  \n\nWhen I am scanning answers I sometimes think I see something that I don't.  I've found myself quickly voting or rating an answer then seeing it more clearly and wishing I'd voted differently.  In these cases I was prone towards seeing the answer I thought I saw and then upon closer review finding the actual answer was something different.
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You cant. What you are seeing is an illusion. You are the only think that is real in the universe.\n\nJust kidding.\n\nThe above concept, by the way, is called Solipsism, i believe, that you are the only thing that is real, and all else is an illusion.\n\nBut seriously, the only way you can believe anything is to test out the theory that it is true. So, test out the theory that what you see is truly there. If you can touch it, taste it, experience it, then even if it is not there objectively, it is there subjectively, which is all that is important.
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This is a question I've actually thought about before, but the problem is, there is no way to tell if everyone sees the same colors.\n\nFor example, I could be looking at a stop sign.  It is red.  I know what red looks like.  But what if another person had a different perspective of colors?  They are seeing, we'll say, what is green to me, but their whole life, people have called that color "Red," so they think it is red.  They have no way of knowing what red is to me, and vice versa.\n\nI'm sure there are some tests, but if you're just mixing up colors, it would be hard to tell.\n\nWhat a weird thought, huh?
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Your eyes aren't actually changing colors. What colors you're wearing, the lighting, even the colors around can affect how you perceive things. Like when people say things like, "Oh wow, that color really brings out your eyes!" What that means is that whatever color they're talking about makes it look as though your eyes are brighter, even though they aren't actually brighter.
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We have entered the age of HYPERREALITY. The 'real' is now only simulated by signs...\nThe sign (in our capitalist world is MONEY), starts off as a reflection of our basic reality...\nThen it masks and perverts reality...\nThen it makrs the absence of reality...\nFinally, it bears no relation to reality whatsoever; it is a pure simulacrum.\n\nSimulacra can still dictate our existence, but the existence they create is meaningless and inexplicable.
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The voices in my head tell me what's real.  Just like this question.  It's not real.\n\nNice try though.
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Biology will tell you no, but think about this...\n\nI have always wondered, what if the color you see as yellow is the color I see as green?  See, we are all taught colors, so if I was seeing "green" but my parents had always told me it was "yellow,"  I would learn to call it yellow.  So colors could theoretically be relative.  We are taught that they sky is blue, but if we had always been told that they sky was orange, we would think the color blue was called orange.  See what I mean?\n\nThere is probably some biologist out there who can find some way to argue with me about wavelengths of light and ours eyes and something else to try to prove that we all see the same color, but for arguments sake, I like the theoretical argument better.
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We're limited by our imagination & what we can detect by our senses or tools
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Very philosophical.  Everything is already in our head and is relative to the beholder.  The same can be said for life and all that applies.\n\nThere are three positions on what reality is:\n1.  Reality is Hidden\n2.  Reality is Attainable\n3.  No one agrees as to what reality is\n\nSee the source below for full details.
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Stereotype. Sometimes, what we think and see is not what it really is.