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reality/perception

If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around... if anything happens, but no one sees it, even if no one feels the direct effects of it... it must have some implication. Our realities are comprised of what we see, feel, and experience- they're comprised of hearing of other people's stories, from their own realities, but mostly from direct experiences. I think that if a tree falls in the forest, we may hear it on some level. I want to believe- or think, that everything that happens has some effect, and not just some effect, somewhere in the universe, but some effect on each of us individually. I want to think that we're a lot more complicated, a lot more complex, a lot more perceptive, than we think we are. I want to think that not a lot gets by us- that it's only a matter of time before we begin to understand- to find the receptors- to discover the universe around us. I keep thinking just how..amazing.. it would be, if one day, someone discovered some combination of things that hadn't been tried before- eating some foods in some specific combination, walking a few steps here and there, and then looked up at the sky, and saw all there was to see- that some code had been unlocked, and that the universe was there, figured out. Maybe this is my reality... my desire to know. So I think, if a tree falls in the forest, maybe we don't know, maybe we consciously don't think about it, but, on some level, I want to think it has an effect.

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