Many of us get confused when not committed to 1 reality? Rather: many of us get confused when not committed to a handpicking (by those who came before us; that is, for a large section of us, and by the constraints or conditions of one’s contexts) of one construct in the multitude of constructs within reality; or do we?
These constructs are our #stories; from reliable, to less reliable, to unreliable ones: each equally and feverishly defended by its followers (that’s you and I); each struggling for territorial relevance, almost-agnostically camped against the engagements of other followers of the other story (that too is you and I).
All these stories are creating infinite doxastic worlds (I hereby do not equate ‘world’ with ‘Earth’ nor ‘planet’). Are these real virtualities yet to be transcoded into nascent hyperworlds; into (not entirely, and perhaps increasingly less) segregated virtual realities ? Let this be a next story to explore while the virtuality of one’s stories could, to some, bring to question the validity of one’s experiences within judging one’s behavioral #act with and within the real.
What of us, segregating one construct from the other? Perhaps this is a mechanism of mental #compartmentalization. At least it is a story thereof, since the brain’s “parts” themselves might not be disconnected from their interconnected plastic and physical self.
The narrative process might be allowing the constructs — the stories— to coexist in segregated mixed degrees of harmony and dissonance; an interconnected compilation.
If however, we firstly equate an experience, within this compilation —with one of these constructs; a story— and then, secondly, we equate that same one story with our perceived version of reality (perceived individually, in seeming intertwining with the collectively perceived) ; thirdly the perceived reality as the entirety of reality, then: the story is reality; however non-sustainable it may be: it is not heralded as such.
Should one want to change this equating mental process? If so, then how? If it were desirable for this to be changed then how to change something a majority does not seem to recognize as existent, let alone perceived as needed for change?
attached: “on the beaten path; off the rails” . photo-edited digital photo . —animasuri’21