04-23-2010, 12:00 AM
When I was growing up I believed all things and all people were created in my mind. None of it was real. I had the "I am" but I never believed in "you are" and still to this day I have this nagging doubt about it. I would watch people and not understand them. I would talk to people and they seemed so different then me and I could not believe they were real. Everyone seemed slow and lifeless and robotic. I thought the world was a projection of my mind into a physical reality. I was so immersed in this I just about went crazy. What we know is what we experienced through our perceptions. Isnobad wrote a good response. I find it interesting because the question asked by SHMadman is the one which starts the seeker on the path to find Knowledge.