Discussion Does anyone have anxiety for solipsism?

[theguineapigking]

I cannot, with absolute certainty, prove to myself that you guys are truly conscious beings. I'm not talking about the matrix, although I fear that too. But what I fear is that I'm trapped in a simulation of some sort. Reality feels so fake. Setting aside depersonalization and derealization, it is still very fake. Awareness is way to low. You can't feel someone else's "life force". All you can do is assume that your family and everyone else is truly real.


This isn't just my opinion. What I said is 100% fact. There is no possible way to disprove it... at least not yet. What if I kill myself and the afterlife is just a continuation of a simulation? Maybe reality feels more real in the afterlife(if there is one) because of heightened senses. But what if those senses are false signals from your simulated body. What if you can connect on a spiritual level to other consciousnesses in the afterlife? That makes it seem like it is real after all. Or, it could be fake signals to my real body or brain or whatever.



This is causing me insane anxiety. It flares up sometimes. It's bad now. It makes me more suicidal and less at the same time. I'm going nuts. All I can do is hope that the people in reality aren't fake.


This is serious. I'm not delusional or overthinking. The fact is that there really is no way to know anything. That's why I'm losing my mind.

I'd love to see if others on this website feel this way too.

Thank you

 

[MissingIt]

Real or fake, what effect would it have on you? None, as far as I can see. Put it in the same category as religion, except in this case there's no penalty for believing one way or another.

 

[TheDevilsAngel]

It is really frightening and I understand how you feel. And the constant termination..

 

[Wayfaerer]

Solipsism makes no rational sense. Think about it, why would you be the only consciousness that exist in the form of a hairless ape?

 

[Deleted member 14386]

I get worried about this quite a lot too, especially if I already feel anxious or paranoid. Like I also don't know if the simulation (if it exists) will continue when I ctb or if that's then end of that simulation. It's just questions on top of questions so I just try and shut it off, it doesn't effect me unless I let it so far anyway, I can't do anything either even if it is a problem.

 

[Epsilon0]

If your mind is the only one that exists, then I bow to you reverentially, because you wrote this post. Oh, and you also wrote War and Peace... which is absolutely brilliant. Well done, you!

 

[Cashewmilk]

I get what you mean. Sometimes it truly feels like I'm living in a completely different reality from everyone else. Sometimes it feels like it's not even real, like I'm totally alone. Nothing exists until I've really seen it or can comprehend it. But mostly it feels like I'm experiencing life totally different from everyone else.

I have at times, in moments, felt like my sister/friend/whoever was standing infront of me or in the same room, they were just a simulation. Not real, everything as soon as I opened my eyes was not real. But then I think about touch. I can touch everything too, people can touch me I can touch them. I get physically exhausted. So it brings me back to reality. I think I'm just seriously broken maybe, or maybe it is all in my head? Even the senses? I don't know. It's a mindfuck. I just want out!

I also think about my dreams. Sometimes I can't tell the difference between a dream and reality. I don't think I am creating my reality and solipsistic world, clearly something else is controlling it.