“Though you would not expect it, the sudden intrusion of additional domains of meaning and relation in your experience… would result in you experiencing something … at least conceivably… ‘more real’… than the relatively inhibited reality of our common daily experience.

In other words, there are situations that are more or less real than others… and some of them are meta-real… it’s not just one degree, one domain… of reality around here. Change the recipe? You get new features and contexts for reality to be meaningful in.

Language is deceptive. It pretends there’s one reality with relatively known scope and properties. Nothing like this was ever the case… and nothing other than a verbal description could be that far from what is actually going on…”

— infraheard