r/solipsism

Hello friends, my name is Ömer, I am a Turk,I've always wondered why we humans came to this world. Since childhood, I've thought that the creator who sent me here was evil, and sometimes I can't help but think that I could have been created as a cow or even a cat. But now I realize that I am a human being, and possess something that animals don't have: consciousness, soul, or whatever you want to call it.

Sometimes I begin to think that I always existed before this world, that my soul is immortal, and sometimes wonder if I really wanted to come to this world just to have an experience, but if that were the case, there would be a way out of this world, but they only leave us with one option: death.

So what I want to ask you is, am I any different from animals, or am I no different from them, and does that mean I will cease to exist when I die?

If you'd like, I'd like to ask you a few questions. If there's anyone knowledgeable about this, they can talk to me. I'll start now:

1-My coming to this world is to give energy to the demiurge who created us, I mean, is this a prison and do they feed on our energy? I think they call this loosh.

2-Who am I really? Where do I come from in this world? I always think I existed before this world.

3-The creator who made my physical body might be evil, that's not the problem, but where does my soul come from, and is it truly immortal, and is my consciousness separate from time and space.

4-Did the Creator really create me for His own benefit?If the creator is so evil and he's the one who created this prison, then why didn't anyone stop him? It means my soul was more powerful than his creator's, and I exist to satisfy his ego.

5-Why was it necessary for me to come into this world? Why did I have to exist and be a slave to this life?

6-Do I have a divine spark, an essence independent of my body and ego?

7-Is death the end, or will I be reincarnated again and again in different bodies forever? When will this prison end? Is there no way out of this prison? Why do they send our souls to different bodies and erase our memories? Why do I have to start everything over again? Is this to prevent my awakening? And is there a possibility of being reincarnated forever?

8-When will I be free from this burden? Do I have to disappear forever, or does my individual self have to vanish? Perhaps I need to return to where I belong.

9-And in addition, I would like to ask this: how is the soul breathed into me in the womb while I am still a zygote or fetus, before I am born? Where does the soul come from? Or is the soul present in the sperm and egg?

10-Or am I a product of a consciousness created by my brain? I think I always existed before the world. What do you think about this? Or is the life I am living now the only and first life bestowed upon me? Did I exist before this world?

Thank you in advance for your help.

I’ve recently read The Last Answer from Isaac Asimov and was pondering about it .

I feel like i am the only real human and everyone else are just robots or npcs and it's so lonely and scary.

Like it's a prison. This god is definitely very evil imo. Like what even is is trying to do. God why you throw me in this fake world. Why are you so pathetic and evil. Why you have fabricated this fake world, just to play with us.

The idea that our true selves are fundamentally separate from a physical body is obviously a popular belief. That the fundamental form of consciousness is something unbounded by time, space, and physical matter. The question of “why” we’d inhabit these physical bodies has always been so confounding to me though if this is true.

Prison planet theory is a popular and nihilistic view on this topic. Claiming that our true selves are forced to inhabit these limited, biological bodies in a sometimes cruel world, possibly to service some non-human intelligence that feeds off of us, etc.

What if we took the other side of it? What if our true conscious selves *choose* to be here? An unbounded consciousness could possess enormous knowledge and awareness but still lack embodied experience.

For example, a consciousness can fully understand how fire is made, the chemistry behind it, etc, but wouldn’t know what the warmth from it *feels* like.

The body could perhaps be an interface we willingly inhabit in order to experience this physical world. Not only do we see, hear, feel, taste, but the constraints the body places on us is an essential part of the experience. For example, we can only experience anticipation if the future is unavailable to us. Or physical intimacy if we are truly separate from someone else. The answer to “why would an unlimited consciousness choose to inhabit a limited and finite body?”…well that’s kind of the whole point.

The other question that lingers…”well if this is the case, why do we not come into this world knowing this from birth”? Well if we knew we are truly an immortal consciousness, then this human experience would lose all stakes. Risk wouldn’t feel risky. Death wouldn’t be frightening. We’d lose the idea of limitation that makes this experience “human”. Forgetting what we are may be a necessary mechanism of physical incarnation.

Maybe we aren’t here to learn lessons as many like to say. Maybe experience itself is the point. Maybe we simply wanted to know what gravity felt like, what food tastes like, what exhaustion feels like, what it’s like to fall in love with someone when you don’t know how things will turn out.

Horrible things happen in this world not because a higher power seeks to punish us, but because for this concept to work, it requires randomness and freedom.

If we take this view, **death might simply be the end of this temporary, localized experience rather than the end of consciousness itself.**

I don’t know about you. But I like this idea much more than any prison planet theory.

How are people actually believing in this, you would not like it if i called you guys a robot, would you? And there are many posts saying "solipsism is true" which means is fake because many people think they are the only human not just 1 person, and i am 100% real so solipsism is fake

They either negatively distort how it should be understood, or downplay its significance. This subreddit is a prime example.

Is this a sign? That or im looking in the wrong places

Help needed, stamped: The Self

Signed: I AM

Print: Yog'Sothoth

Stained; Brahman

Honorable mentions; Azazoth

Like its giving me that vibe and it has been giving me that vibe for a very long time. I don't even feel like my body is mine. My mind got hijacked and was having intrusive thoughts that were feeling like they are bulling me. Like my own mind was bullying me it felt like.

People have been reading my mind like just people everywhere. Everyone or most people feel peculiar and like very wierd . Everything feels scripted or clutter. Either it is something directed at me like someone saying something at me or it's just pure clutter. Basically filler content . Life feels like a simulation that has only one narrative and that is centred around me. Everything is either clutter or filler content. Everything that happens is not random but has agenda towards me and only me. People are all actors imo and the only person real is me . They dont have nuance even I feel like I don't have nuance and this body of mine is a fake facades on my soul.

What is it. Everything feels fake for real. I feel like I am in a matrix with fake agents of matrix. Every person I have seen feels like a fake decoy that has an agenda towards me. There is no life in this world , people act like they have a life of their own but they are fake agents of the matrix. Not real , decoys with agenda towards me.

No one has a nuance even I feel like this body of mine is a facade and fake. What is going on.

Am I in a simulation. Or is this a alien simulation where I got trapped. Is there any other real person?

It has big eyes, it swims seamlessly through the ocean. The ocean is its world. You would assume something is in there viewing the eating the breathing the pain of being caught from a fisherman and being pulled out of its world. Now ask yourself is there something in that great big fish that is having its own experience? I say no. But I can never be certain. Why have such great big eyes and abilities but not an eternal viewer? I say because it's a projection or construct of my own sovereign consciousness. That is Solipsism.

Ever wondered who are those others that claim to be solipsists / show interest in solipsism? Looking for a place to discuss specific topics in relation to solipsism? For grounding from "others" that understand your viewpoint (disclaimer: Not a substitute for therapy)? Join the 'Solipsia' Discord server now! Solipsists, non-solipsists, undecided folks... All are welcome. Just keep it civil.

EDIT: For some reason the link doesn't show up next to the title. So here you go.