Your Reality

Reality is something that is defined by only you. It is your view of the world. Philip K Dick said "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” The movies like The Matrix show us another reality but that becomes our reality. Again from Phlilp K Dick,

“My first story had to do with a dog who imagined that the garbagemen who came every Friday morning were stealing valuable food which the family had carefully stored away in a safe metal container. Every day, members of the family carried out paper sacks of nice ripe food, stuffed them into the metal container, shut the lid tightly—and when the container was full, these dreadful-looking creatures came and stole everything but the can.
Finally, in the story, the dog begins to imagine that someday the garbagemen will eat the people in the house, as well as stealing their food. Of course, the dog is wrong about this. We all know that garbagemen do not eat people. But the dog's extrapolation was in a sense logical—given the facts at his disposal.” (How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
by Philip K. Dick, 1978)

This is because the reality for the dog is all he knows. Our Knowledge and understanding of the world is our reality. What we read and what we learn changes what we are and our perception on what is reality. A person born without sound can only learn about sound from other people. Their reality is different to ours before they haven’t heard sound just know what others have told them.

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. And that led me wonder, If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe, it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too diffrently, there occurs a breakdown of communication... and there is the real illness.” (How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
by Philip K. Dick, 1978)

We should then learn to adapt to their reality and learn from them. If their reality is causing delays and problems for other people should we not teach them the wrongs of their ways by allowing them to adapt to our understanding the understanding that their actions are wrong. The whole of the How to build a Universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later by Philip K. Dick can be found at http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm Enjoy I sure did.