My Critical Thinking

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The mind is an unknown thing to everyone. Much of it is unknown and much is not understood. With this, I try to grasp as much of my mind as I can, but the thing about the mind is that I will never be able to fully grasp what my mind is doing or if what I am thinking is actually what I thought or if what I’m think is something that someone else implanted in me. I first started to realize that I should not believe everything that I am told was my first year of highschool. This came about due to a certain teacher that I had. His name was Mr. Middleton. The subject he was suppose to be teach me, human geography, was not actually taught to me. Instead, I learned much about the way the world is. His sayings such as, “The only true way to …show more content…

From my thoughts, I think about how the mind works. I would think about what occurs through the mind and how to remain conscious or just there, to actually know if what I see is actually real. It raises multiple questions, some being, am I actually conscious right now living in an actual world or is what I am doing just a dream or simulation that I am in or trapped in. There is no way to fully know which is which. The mind can cause illusions on sight, so that raised another question of am I actually what I think I am? The thought of being someone with a mental disorder living in a normal world is something that has crossed my mind. If the mind if strong enough to creates images, then why can it not create a world. There are those to believe they are normal when in reality, they has something mentally wrong with them, so who is to say that I am not one of them. This is a thought that also relates to reality. To say that I am a normal person, that does not mean I am shielded from my mind. The actions that may be negative may be removed or changed and that would warp the reality of the mind. To the person, reality is the same as dreams. There is no for sure way to differentiate it. The only way to live with it is to accept