Shared Reality Quotes

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.

Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?

We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views

The thing of being able to share somebody's reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know. Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody's reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically. The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go? If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which... you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

No one individual can tell the truth.

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it 'jal', others at another place and call it 'pani', and still others at a third place and call it 'water'. The Hindus call it 'jal', the Christians 'water', and the Moslems 'pani'. But it is one and the same thing.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.