The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

not precisely sure we’re on the same page regarding how thoughts work

Most people don't notice because nothing in their being is outside of consensus reality (ie, there are large and agreed upon datasets defining how they experience things so of course they end up experiencing normality), but some people (usually accidentally) get outside of it.

consensus reality isn’t wrong, tho it just has no authority greater than individual reality (which has no authority over reality, of which we have no direct experience)

Reality is being perpetually cannibalized and reconstituted by a process of bottomless recursion known as human perception.

I want you to think of reality less as a sequence of events and more like a brain that has suffered a cataclysm, leaving the hapless owner to confabulate past experiences according to shaky logic. Or a forest that mostly burned down and then regrew in a completely different way.

why privilege the real over the imaginal anyway? > real things tend to last longer { but are no more meaningful as a result }

why not? anything can be imagined, but without a criterion of quality about what *should* be imagined, why imagine anything at all? even solipsists and hedonists (tacitly) privilege reality, just the reductive, comfortable, parts of reality (their own cope)