A Snippet (Ep21): All Reality is Real and Never True. (3min)

From the QUALITY OF MIND Podcast

Part of the 'Not Even 5 Mins Series'  Episode: 21

In this short Quality of Mind snippet (episode 14), we explore one of the core implications explored in Quality of Mind: Real but Never True.

Everything we experience is real in the sense that it is vivid, felt and alive. We can feel it in the body. It can look obvious. It can seem to be happening to us.

But that does not mean it is ultimately true in the way it appears.

Using the example of a vivid dream, this snippet points to how an experience can feel completely real while it is happening. The body can react, the heart can race, and the experience can seem undeniable. Yet when we wake up, we recognise that it was not objectively happening to us in the way it appeared.

Quality of Mind invites us to consider whether waking life is more similar than we normally assume.

Not fake.Not imaginary.But a perceptual creation.

Real as experience, but not true as a fixed, objective reality happening outside the mind to a separate “me”.

This matters because so much of our stress, pressure and reactivity comes from believing that our wellbeing is determined by external events and circumstances.

The difficult email.The bank balance.The work issue.The family drama.The thing that did or did not happen.

When these are taken as objectively determining us, psychological freedom narrows.