Does Reality Exist? Or Is It An Abstract?

We all, at some point, have heard of the concept of relativity. Before I dive into the main topic of this post, let's give you a brief physics lesson.

Albert Einstein (yes, the "E=MC^2" guy) proposed and published the Theory of Relativity in the early 1900s. It encompasses two interrelated theories - special relativity and general relativity. In the Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein determined that time is relative to your frame of reference. Essentially, the General Theory of Relativity is a theory of gravity. It is the basic idea that instead of gravity being an invisible force that attracts objects towards one another, it is a curving or warping of space. The larger the object, the more it warps the space around it. However, for the sake of this post, we are going to look at the Special Theory of Relativity.

Observers in two different frames of reference may not always agree on how to describe the motion of a bouncing ball. They also don't always agree on when an event happened or how long it took. What they observe varies, so their "reality" differs. Keep this in mind as I go through the next few examples.

The sky that humans observe, the clouds, the rate at which rain falls, not only differs between each one of us, it's completely different for insects. Animals too. What they perceive about the sky is not the same as us. Honey bees like many insects, see from approximately 300 to 650 nm. That means they can't see the color red, but they can see in the ultraviolet spectrum. When they see a flower from afar, their vision of it differs greatly from what we see. Bullfrogs and snakes see using infrared radiation. Thus, their experiences of life and observations differ greatly from that of humans. Stay with me, I have a few more examples. Bats, on the other hand, use the echo of ultrasound to see, hunt and experience. Chameleons can move their eyes in different directions because their eyeballs swivel on two different axes. Can you imagine what the world would even look like to bats, bullfrogs, or even chameleons? I know I can't.

So what does all of this mean? Simply put, it means there is no such thing as reality. Reality simply does not exist in the same way for everyone. In reality, (no pun intended), there is no such thing as one set of colours, sounds, or textures. The world is a radically ambiguous and ceaselessly flowing quantum soup. It's just a fluctuation of energy and information in an infinite void. I know this sounds like a bunch of complicated jargon, but jump back to the prior paragraph. What we see differs completely based on our frame of reference and the physical vessel our soul is in. Whether our soul is in the physical vessel of a honeybee, bat, snake, bullfrog, or human, our "reality" is contrasting.

While Einstein proposed the Theory of Special Relativity to explain physics concepts, a simplified version of it explains a huge concept about life. Reality. The next time you are thinking about reality, I want you to know that reality is just a projection of consciousness. How aware are you of your surroundings, what do you observe, feel, think at any given moment? It's important to understand this because you'll realize that "reality" becomes what YOU make it out to be.