How do you know you exist? - James Zucker

How do you know you’re real? Is existence all just a big dream? Has some mad scientist duped us into simply believing that we exist? James Zucker investigates all of these questions (and more) in this mind-boggling tribute to René Descartes’s "Meditations on First Philosophy."

Lesson by James Zucker, animation by Stretch Films, Inc.

[syertqu]

I'm over here thinking... " why tf do they blink one eye at a time??"

[hiiloveu]

Sometimes when I'm in public I suddenly realise that every person that surrounds me right now has a life just as complex as my own, with thousands of events that led them to this very moment and will continue to lead them on to an unknown path no one can predict, and there are so many unpredictable paths like this. It freaks me out and fascinates me

[Bob-qyoc]

"I doubt therefore I think.
I think therefore I am."
~Rene Decartes

[hitrapperandartistdababy]

Anyone who has had that feeling of looking into a mirror and just thinking. This is me, i am looking at a Living human like my family but it is myself, and the ponder about how you look and Sound and it feels...off?

[IceFried]

How do i know i'm not dreaming?
Simple.
I get laid sometimes when i'm dreaming.

[marcar]

Every time I ask myself the question in the title I'm like "what if this is someone from the outside or my own unconscious self trying to wake me up?"

[iMilanSpinka]

"You can't be nothing if you think you're something, even if you think that something is nothing. Because no matter what you think, you're a thinking thing." 😂

[ThomasRiver]

This opened more questions than it answered!

[noor-hdzd]

Sometimes i look at something for a little while and start to think is this all real? I mean that all these memories and history in this one soul and it was all prewritten is honestly beautiful and scary at the same time.

[trinine]

had these thoughts too, yk 'what is real?'
after several existential crisis sessions and coming up with various stories i noticed that it doesnt matter what is real or not.
if i give something value, a thought, then it is real to me. and that is all that matters. i am right here and i cant change that. so i just do my best with what i have with me in this moment even if it were to change or leave my reality. it doesnt matter whats real because i am still experiencing it.

[qaddams]

that pic of the scientist popping up scared the hell out of me.

[tfoprincess]

Sometimes I talk to people and they ignore me so hard that I begin to legit doubt my existence! I'm not even joking. .-.

[juliannevogt]

1:27 to 1:28
Me when I realize there’s homework due tomorrow

[mel-onfg]

Before watching this video i often think that i'm probably the only person who lives in this world and everybody is just illusions. That's why i don't really give a damn about what i do or what they think of me.



Wait- i think i finally know why my life is so messed up

[humbertojimmy]

When i was a kid i would always have a weird idea, a question that puzzled me: i wondered if there was a big secret about reality for me to find out, something that would shake the very way i perceived the world. I would often think about that, and get sad that, if such secret did exist, i had never discovered it. But then a doubt would come to my mind... What if i had already found that out, perhaps many times in fact, but everytime i did, wicked entities that controlled reality just erased it from my mind and replaced it with false memories of me doing something else except finding the truth (?)
I just had no way of telling...

[aurus]

What if everybody was just you from another timeline?

[SuperTushar]

Ever since I was a child, I just thought that the life I'm experiencing right now is me in the future writing an autobiography remembering each and every moment and one moment these memories would end and the book would be finished.

[lairjuniortv]

When I have this doubt I just left one unpaid bill and someone will find me and let me know I exist.

“I own, therefore I exist.”

[Ghosteriz]

Imagine when you grow old and is dying, after you close up your eyes and suddenly wake up and found out you are actually in school like around 8~9 years old and all the past & memories are just a long long dream~

[kylecampion]

WTF IS WRONG WITH THERE EYELIDS WHEN THEY BLINK