Is it normal to get like a sensation that life isn't real

Just a proper feeling in your gut and you just feel like you can't connect to reality... Not all the time, just in spurts. Thanks :)

Edit: too be clear it isn't an idea or thought more of a feeling and certainly not intentional

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  • I feel that way when I think about the size of the Universe and especially "beyond" it. It's a feeling of being trapped because I don't know who made me and the dimensions of my existence. Feels so weird, I exist but I don't know why and how. I think these feelings are part of the natural process of exploring and discovering the world we live in. We are here to rediscover the place we live in (most likely we were intentionally placed in such a situation) and it is natural for us to do so and to feel that way about it.

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    • nikkiclaire

      There is no beyond the universe. The universe is all encompasing.

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      • You can't prove it so it will lead to endless useless debates. This is why we have science, to establish things once and for all

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        • nikkiclaire

          Except my argument is that science is bullshit. So is math. You already know that. I can tell.

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          • Ok then our communication is inutile since we have different and contradictory systems. I will never believe that what helped us develop ourselves in a spectacular manner, including your own access to this website to say that is wrong, is bullshit, but what internet chatrooms tell me is right and "step out" of science books to believe an obscure world is the right way and I should be a useless ignorant rejecting science and inventing my own theories out of frustration, like about gender and friendship, since are so popular among liberals now. That sounds like a test you want me to take, like those guys who were told by other people on the internet to kill themselves and they did. Science is always the correct way to go, and whoever thinks something else cannot understand this because their system does not allow that by being against it. Like trying to update the latest Linux on a Windows machine. Also you state that science always changes, which is wrong and shows that you didn't fully comprehend it, which is a stronger reason to reject your claim. Science is always the same, no matter what you do. You just write it differently, but it's the same and even Descartes demonstrated that.q

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            • nikkiclaire

              Science and math break down at the level of quantum mechanics which is the level this topic was discussing really. You can continue to believe it answers everything but we both know it doesn't. Math is a human construct and fails at human limits. I wish more people could understand that instead of resorting to calling me ignorant. I guess when peoples foundations are questioned it's natural to get defensive.

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      • paramore93

        What about universes beyond ours? We know nothing about our own universe so how can we assume ours is the only one?
        Multiverse theory.

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        • nikkiclaire

          The universe is all existing matter, so another parrallell universe or multiverse is the same universe. Multi dimensional, still the same universe.

          There is no universe beyond ours since we are assumed to be a part of it.

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          • itachi_uchiha

            Knowledge & perception are both equivocal so it's not a certainity that nothing exist beyond our universe

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            • nikkiclaire

              That's just semantic. There is A universe. The term is all encompasing, many, multi, whatever, universe is universe.

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          • paramore93

            If the universe is 'all of space and everything in it including stars, planets, galaxies, etc', we don't know what lies beyond what we consider space. We probably never will :P
            Yeah we're a part of it but what we consider as our universe could be the tiniest spec of dust in comparison to what else is out there. Think about your body. It takes trillions of cells to make up a human body and none of those cells know life outside of your body, so in that sense our universe could be the equivalent of one human in something indescribably huge (metaphorically).
            We can't define something as the universe if we don't have a clue what it is ;)

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            • nikkiclaire

              I understand what you are saying but if the universe is defined as all matter then there is no beyond. How to you go beyond infinite? It's very definition is ALL.

              I think scientists confuse people when they say shit like multiverse. There can only be one. They use it for explanatory purposes to try to explain their theories.

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            • paramore93

              Maybe I should go to bed

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  • Pumpurrnickel

    Sounds like depersonalization.

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    • sydslytherin

      Yes! Sometimes I feel like nothing is real and I have that

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  • nikkiclaire

    I actually thoroughly believe there is no reality outside of your perception of it. I don't even accept an outside reality because no one has ever proven to me it exists.

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    • Try Cartesian methodology.

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      • nikkiclaire

        Why

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        • Descartes did the same thing. He reconstructed the world using only proofs and doubted every single aspect of life including the existence of
          the outer world itself without having a proof for it. He started only from assuming that he exists, considering his own thinking as a proof of self-existence. Then the rest of the world is debated and certain aspects are proven to exist with no doubt, while the rest is excluded. This seems to stick with your assumptions and can help you develop your system of certainties.

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          • itachi_uchiha

            Like to know something of certainty first you have to doubt everything you know

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          • nikkiclaire

            Well they aren't my assumptions. One cannot view the world without filtering it through themselves. Even if an outside world exists, I can only view it through my lenses which changes the perception and therefore object.

            I don't know what Descartes goal was but to start with the assumption that he existed was probably foolish.

            Thanks tho. My point to the O.P is that cognative dissonance is quite natural and normal.

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            • NormalIsAsNormalDoes

              What makes you think that you can truly isolate "I" and "world"? You say your view of the world is filtered through yourself, were you not molded by the world?

              Do you think that everything you believe is something that can be proven?

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            • Descartes argument of existence is not foolish and it is not an assumption, it is a proved fact. You have to read if you insist on judging him, since he is one of the greatest scientists of all time and elaborated a system of thinking which revolutionized the world. I am personally following his exact methodology and philosophy and I replaced religion and any other assumptions given by the society with his rationality. On short, his work made me a Mathematician and gave me a strong vision upon life. So I will defend him at all costs.

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  • Iszzy123

    Some times I feel like where in somekinda high tech virtual reality
    Like the matrix or even worse we're all just some program randomly generated

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  • DandeLION777

    Read into quantum mechanics. Your purpose is to simply be here. Technically without an observer the universe would stay as a wave form never existing as more then a collection of possibilies. An example of this is the slit experiment

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    • nikkiclaire

      I have it's strange stuff.

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  • itachi_uchiha

    Yeah!! I thought I was insane even for having these thoughts sometimes but good to know I am not

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