Is Reality Even Real? Part 2 | Self-Deception, Consciousness & Objective Truth

Self-deception occurs when an interpretation becomes familiar, so emotionally convincing, and so constantly reinforced that it doesn't feel like an interpretation at all.

It feels like the truth, and it is extraordinarily difficult to separate yourself from when you're inside of the system.

If our perception is constructed, emotions influence our interpretation, memory is reconstructed, attention is selective, and if self-deception can be indistinguishable from reality itself, how do I even know what's real? Blah, blah, blah, mind melt.

This is the moment that we call reality vertigo, and I do not think you can get to a healed state without facing this head-on.

[dramatic music] Your brain is wired for deception, but here's the truth.

Patterns can be broken.

The code can be rewritten.

Once you hear the truth, you can't go back.

So the only question is, are you ready to listen? Hey, everyone.

We are back with part two of Is Reality Even Real? Before you watch this episode, you have to go watch the one before it.

So if you didn't watch part one of Is Reality Even Real?, don't watch me.

Just turn me off.

Go back to the other one or, or pause me.

Don't listen to me.

Whether you're watching or listening, just go back.

Trust me, because I'm quite literally picking up where I left off on the last one.

I'm not gonna go back and fill in any gaps.

I'm not gonna bring you along for the ride.

So just do us all a favor.

Go back and listen to the one right before it.

You're welcome.

Self-deception occurs when an interpretation becomes familiar, so emotionally convincing, and so constantly reinforced that it doesn't feel like an interpretation at all.

It feels like the truth, and it is extraordinarily difficult to separate yourself from when you're inside of the system.

If our perception is constructed, emotions influence our interpretation, memory is reconstructed, attention is selective, and if self-deception can be indistinguishable from reality itself, how do I even know what's real? Blah, blah, blah, mind melt.

This is the moment that we call reality vertigo, and I do not think you can get to a healed state without facing this head-on.

[dramatic music] Your brain is wired for deception, but here's the truth.

Patterns can be broken.

The code can be rewritten.

Once you hear the truth, you can't go back.

So the only question is, are you ready to listen? Hey, everyone.

We are back with part two of Is Reality Even Real? Before you watch this episode, you have to go watch the one before it.

So if you didn't watch part one of Is Reality Even Real?, don't watch me.

Just turn me off.

Go back to the other one or, or pause me.

Don't listen to me.

Whether you're watching or listening, just go back.

Trust me, because I'm quite literally picking up where I left off on the last one.

I'm not gonna go back and fill in any gaps.

I'm not gonna bring you along for the ride.

So just do us all a favor.

Go back and listen to the one right before it.

You're welcome.