The Universe Is Not Real - And Nothing Actually Exists

When we think about reality, we often assume that what we see, hear, and experience is an accurate reflection of the world around us. But It's NOT.

As Carl Sagan put it, ‘We are a way for the universe to know itself’. From the very first moment humans had language, enabling them to think and imagine things, we were speculating on reality and our origin. Gradually we became more successful at it. The ultimate goal of the game is finally discovering our origin and giving it all meaning, including the universe and its emitted information.

0:00 Intro
4:26 Infinitesimal
9:07 Broken Brain
13:21 Consciousness
17:36 Simulated Universe

[andyhoughtaling]

Imagine you are an alien from a distant star system, and your entire human experience has just been a drug hallucination, and you have only been hallucinating for 10 minutes.

[joseluisalcantarasanchez]

What if, instead of a computer simulation, the universe is a thought?

[Bludvane_]

Ahhhh...Nothing beats an existential crisis before bed.

[militantpacifist]

“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.”- Tim Burton

[Asad-mtlmanz]

“We’re not seeing reality, we’re seeing a story that’s created for us”

[RaveGD]

When I try and imagine some things such as WHY we exist my brain just hits a wall, you simply cant imagine it because you don't have ANYTHING to base it of.

[SimRacingVeteran]

I struggle everyday with the question of “what is this? Why am I here?”

[JariDawnchild]

"The universe is real, but only when you're looking at it." I want this on a t-shirt.

[mylifemyrule]

Stunning visuals
Classic editing
Meticulous narration
Thought provoking concept

Truly awesome content 👏

[The..Dark..Knight]

I love how everyone in the comments section are all the deepest of philosophers and have all in their own way figured out our reality and decided to leave the meaning of life written here. I've spent my whole life trying to figure it out and had no clue that all I had to do was come here. Now I just have to figure out which of the hundreds of answers is right.

[smoshfan]

A while back I tried to tell somebody the universe wouldn’t exist at all if there weren’t people to observe it and they didn’t believe me. This was before I had a more solid grasp of quantum mechanics and I was mainly just being philosophical.

[DeidreL]

I have DPDR (depersonalisation and derealisation) and this kind of content really begins to make sense: the more I hear, the more I want to hear. For me it began when I was very young, with a simple jarring feeling of being me, but inside this outer me…and the thought, is my green your green? It makes you feel you’re losing your mind…but now, so many people are voicing that they think the same and have the same experiences.

[bassassintv]

“We are a way for the Universe to know itself”

[JBSCORNERL]

Reality is a eternal Mathematical structure. And it manifests as this thing we call “Life”. Life is simply a story being told over and over again in an endless loop.

[GabrielSBarbaraS]

The more I learn, the more I find out how little I know.

[murnngtar]

Me scrolling through YouTube at 2:30 in the morning: **sees this video**

Also me: *"Perfect."*

[tomgreaney]

My personal day to day reality is a nightmare… why would my brain create this life for me?

[freespirit-]

I believe that we live in a virtual reality. When I’m dreaming, I’m only aware of the dream reality, unless it’s a lucid dream, so my theory is that the body is an illusion.

[CarterQuillenP.E.]

We don't have the processing capacity to understand the workings of the simulation we have been manifested into by an incomprehensible creator. Embrace it, enjoy it, and be grateful for the opportunity to experience it. Love is the glue that holds the universe together.

[JJones-cldm]

I think this is all a dream. I think dreams and DMT give us hints that there's way more than our plane of existence. and I think the second we die we wake up from this dream in the place that we came from, wherever that is.