How real is reality?

I actually read an article not too long ago that suggested just this. But I'm skeptical Time actually exists even though we have proof of material things in decay.

Iain said:

proof that time is non linear and our perception of it is all that is making it so.

Would recommend: The Janus Point (A New Theory of Time) by Julian Barbour. Am currently reading on of Rudy Rucker 's lectures on Infinity. Hyperspace is another good one.

I think it's common for Autistics to conceive of boundlessness in regard to space-time, which is apparently a Right brain experience of time. Possibly at the expense of executive dysfunction, where linear organisation lies. 

I actually read an article not too long ago that suggested just this. But I'm skeptical Time actually exists even though we have proof of material things in decay.

Iain said:

proof that time is non linear and our perception of it is all that is making it so.

Would recommend: The Janus Point (A New Theory of Time) by Julian Barbour. Am currently reading on of Rudy Rucker 's lectures on Infinity. Hyperspace is another good one.

I think it's common for Autistics to conceive of boundlessness in regard to space-time, which is apparently a Right brain experience of time. Possibly at the expense of executive dysfunction, where linear organisation lies. 

If I start thinking about how fast we're spining through space my brain goes biggledy so I don't do it anymore, the worlds confusing enough as it is.

I'm no longer sure about right brain/left brain stuff and I think there are a few neurologists that are questioning it too. If someone has a severe brain injury the other side to the one injured seems to take over and do everything. I'm quite able to organise myself and others in time and space, or who needs to be where and when in plain language.

I do see time as boundless and I think I always have, I've always had "the sight" as have many others in my family. I don't think of it as something all woowoo as many people do, but as something normal, because for me it is. How it works I dont' know, are bits of the past or future leaking into the now? 

I've also spent a fair bit of my life learning magic, shamanism, meditation and differnt spiritual stuff from around the world, I think Hindu beliefs are theat when one os enlightened one can see in all 10 directions at once, this seems to be a reccuring theme in a lot of more mystically inclined belief systems. As does experiencing other worlds, dimensions, beings etc. Another common and ancient belief is what we would call Mandlebrot Sets and fractals, the end in the begining and the begining in the end, the universe s one big mandala.

Another thing I want to cast into the this somewhat metaphysical discussion, is; did you know that the number of sighting of angels and fairies has decreased in a similar proportion to the increase in sighting of UFO's and spacepeople?

How much of what we think we know is actually consensus reality? If we all had a collective brainfart in our sleep and decided 2x2 didn't make 4, would all our buildings and creations that rely on maths suddenly fail?