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How can I prove that my experience is not just a very vivid dream?

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Since the age of fifteen I have had the bothersome obsession that my mind is all that exists and that everything is just me experiencing it in my imagination. 
Weirdly you will always have instant proof that this is delusional because you sense your own reality as the most intense one. 

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  • A famous philosopher call Descartes asked this same question in 1637!  He questioned everything about his experience and eventually ended up with "I think therefore I am" and built everything back up from that. 

    He pointed out that senses and reasoning are both unreliable and sometimes trick us, so the one thing that we can be certain of is that by thinking we know we exist.  And philosophers have been considering this question ever since, so you are in good company!  Have fun going off on a deep dive into googling philosophy.  

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  • A famous philosopher call Descartes asked this same question in 1637!  He questioned everything about his experience and eventually ended up with "I think therefore I am" and built everything back up from that. 

    He pointed out that senses and reasoning are both unreliable and sometimes trick us, so the one thing that we can be certain of is that by thinking we know we exist.  And philosophers have been considering this question ever since, so you are in good company!  Have fun going off on a deep dive into googling philosophy.  

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