Thoughts Of Illusion (Again)

It's always funny what the human mind can do. The power of the mind can make the body do superhuman things, on the other hand, make the body do very human things as well. They say perception is greater than reality; this is true enough, since perception relies heavily on the mind as well.



This also applies to general well-being of the mind, in this schizophrenic Freudian era... how the mind is and how the mind thinks it is can be two seperate states altogether. If you think you haven't had enough to eat, then you're hungry, despite the fact that your body has received enough sustenance. Those boiling-hot calamari rings fresh from the kitchen would look good anytime, especially with appropriate relish, regardless if you're actually hungry or not. Well, unless you had a ton of calamari rings for several meals in a row. And that again, is the suggestive power of the mind; even if you're hungry, you wouldn't have any appetite for something you've been eating over and over. (I must say, this does not often apply to myself, to the astonishment of many friends).



So... if your mind says to you you're happy, then you're happy, regardless of what is actually happening (or not)... and the same applies when you're sad. If your mind says you're sad, well... you're sad.



We all are apparently are slaves of our own perception of ourselves and others, you really never know when what really happens is actually what your mind registers as reality. Then again, as postulated in the movie The Matrix and various philosophical texts before, what, actually, is reality itself? We only have our brain and our nervous system to trust with data input from the surrounding world. And just like when you're playing a video game, say a plane shooter game, you tend to move your hands more than needed for the effort of moving the plane quicker on the screen. That's only a two-dimensional screen, and it can have that effect. Imagine what would happen if a totally 3 dimensional world complete with the proper nervous stimulations were "plugged in" to our nervous system, wouldn't that be reality to us then? As there is nothing else the brain receives than what it receives through the nervous system and the five senses.



I don't want to stumble into a more metaphysical discourse, as that would be another matter altogether...



All I am saying, right now, whether actual conditions are permitting me to be happy, or if it is only a perceived state, an illusory state, in the mind that tells me to be happy... in the end, it doesn't make any difference. Doubts aside, I think I'll just be happy.