Common sense reality is the reality that’s outside of us–in the physical world of atoms and particles and gravity and energy. In connection to this reality, our thoughts manifest themselves through behaviors, and those behaviors are part of the physical world.
But what about the reality of the mind? Although it exists in a non-sensory world, they still have a connection to the physical world. How you may ask?
Our thoughts can produce moods and feelings, which in turn effect how we act and behave (as well as direct our speech). But more than that, they form a reality that’s as real to us as the common sense world, yet we’re the only observers of it.
Imagine all the ideas you might come up with when planning a project. Whether that project be a book or a song or a startup, those ideas become part of your awareness–a bubble of intangible things that exist on their own.
Or think about all the ways you can formulate an idea into a sentence. Those formulations takes shape in your mind as entities of thought–of something you can reorganize and tinker with and shift around.
Consider all of the emotions you might have after something upsetting happens. They conjure up thoughts that may never manifest themselves in physical reality (i.e. such as quitting something or scolding someone). These thoughts stay with us, impact our personal reality.
We internalize these thoughts, and they seep into our mood and outlook. Even if they’re non-sensory, they’ve impacted our consciousness as well as our subconsciousness. And this reality is just as real to us as the physical world.
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