Insanity
Is God Swedish? Is Santa a better person than Hitler? Who gave us gonorrhea and what is the meaning of life? I was gradually coming back to reality when I realized that all this is only happening inside our heads. There are some things happening out there also, and in the heads of the others as well, but our perception of those things is severely delusional. Someone else could see pink as black and hear all the sounds completely different than us, but if all the time the same way, we could never understand how fundamentally different our experiences of the world were. Even our own experience varies over time and in different situations; our favorite music and food usually changes with age and the same face might in different states of mind look either appealing or repulsive to us, same make-up either stylish or grotesque. Some animals see infra-red light, use echolocation and sense the earths´ magnetic field or other animals´ electronic fie...