HOW REAL IS reality? is reality ALWAYS SUBJECTIVE? 🫧✨
the NEUROSCIENCE of reality shifting/law of assumption
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in reality shifting/law of assumption, we often say that the 3D CIRCUMSTANCES don’t matter because reality is subjective and everyone’s reality is their own individual, unique experience of reality. but is there any scientific truth to that?
this post discusses scientific evidence that reality is EXPERIENCED, not just observed.
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🌸✨ objectivity in science vs lived reality
in research, objectivity often means getting MULTIPLE OBSERVERS to agree (ex. in inter-rater reliability). if two people observe the same behavior in an experiment and record it similarly, it’s seen as “objective.”
but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re accessing a pure, external truth.
we’re accessing SHARED SUBJECTIVITY: perspectives that just happen to align (o’connell, 2012).
even in science, reality is INTERPRETED, never just received.
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🌸✨ the brain is WIRED for SUBJECTIVE REALITY
neuroscientist riccardo fesce (2020) argues that subjectivity isn’t ADDED later by consciousness — it’s BUILT into the way your brain processes information from the START.
emotional and motivational relevance is part of how sensory data is processed
the hippocampus contextualizes this info: where you were, how it felt, what it meant
that processed, personal experience becomes your reality
^ you can literally see this in fesce’s diagram, where DATA BECOMES personal experience through neural pathways connecting the hippocampus, limbic system, and associative cortices!
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🌸✨ subjectivity is not a flaw. it’s the FRAMEWORK!
this isn’t just one researcher’s theory. other experts agree:
• feinberg (1997) showed that internal (subjective) and external (objective) perspectives of consciousness are mutually IRREDUCIBLE.
BASICALLY: you can’t FULLY explain the inner experience just by describing brain activity.
• bajic et al. (2021) revealed how alzheimer’s patients shift into more INTERNALLY constructed realities.
BASICALLY: this means that reality is ALWAYS, in part, a mental construction, and it changes as brain states change.
take this quote for instance:
“Even though we cannot perceive reality as an objective truth, as we always make our personal version of reality … this apparent objectivity cannot be characterized as dealing with things-out-there, as independent of mental contents-in-here” (Bajic et al., 2021).”
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🌸✨ so WHAT does this MEAN for shifting + law of assumption?
it means you’re not imagining things when you say “i create my reality.”
you’re not being delusional, you’re being deliberate.
science BACKS UP what your soul already KNOWS:
your consciousness filters, colors, and chooses what BECOMES real.
you shift realities not by forcing the world to change, but by CHANGING how YOU contextualize, interpret, and assign meaning to it.
and that process happens neurologically and energetically (your thoughts + emotions literally carry energy!)
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science doesn’t cancel your power. it CONFIRMS your role as the one who chooses the lens through which YOU view your reality. neuroscience shows that your brain CONSTRUCTS your perception of reality, not reality itself. it filters what you experience based on your beliefs, focus, and assumptions.
but it’s your consciousness, your SOUL, that chooses the reality in the first place. the brain just processes the version of reality you’ve aligned yourself with. it’s not the creator, just the interpreter.
you are the operant power. you choose the lens, the identity, the timeline. your brain and body simply respond to what your awareness has already declared as TRUTH.
you are the observer, the chooser, AND the experiencer.
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• Bajic, V., Jukic, M. M., & Bajic, M. B. (2021). Alzheimer’s and consciousness: How much subjectivity is objective? Neuroscience Insights, 16, 26331055211034912. https://doi.org/10.1177/26331055211034912
• Feinberg, T. E. (1997). The irreducible perspectives of consciousness. Seminars in Neurology, 17(2), 129–137. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2008-1040917
• Fesce, R. (2020). Subjectivity as an emergent property of information processing by neuronal networks. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, 579000. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.579000
• O’Connell, M. (2012). Subjective reality, objective reality, modes of relatedness, and therapeutic action. Journal of Analytic Psychology, 45(3), 391–410. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2167-4086.2000.tb00581.x
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✨ NOTE: i recognize that not everyone reading these posts may come from a scientific background, or even desire to dive into the full technical details of the neuroscience mechanisms and topics discussed. for that reason, the content of these posts are intentionally simplified to make the core ideas more accessible, while still staying true to the scientific literature referenced.
if you’re interested in a deeper dive, i HIGHLY recommend giving the original papers a read! i always cite them at the end of each post 🫶 additionally, while i integrate scientific findings into these posts, my overall discussion remains interpretive and spiritually oriented, reflecting the bridge between neuroscience research and manifestation philosophy, as well as expressing the correlations i observed between the two.
i write about the relationship between science and manifestation with the intention of providing clarity and reassurance regarding these topics, but please remember that you do not necessarily NEED physical proof in the traditional scientific sense (experiment, statistical analysis, etc.) in order to manifest. you ARE the proof! reality is subjective, and your experience of reality is purely your own.✨
furthermore, there are many inherent limitations to science itself as a means of measurement and explanation. it cannot measure the spiritual, and it certainly cannot measure every individual’s subjective reality experience. given this, i strongly (but lovingly!) urge you to refrain from seeking a post about conventional evidence (in the scientific sense) of shifting/manifestation, because you simply won’t find it. and that’s okay! science and spirituality go hand in hand. they are two sides of the same coin that is reality.
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i hope this post brought you some insight, reassurance and clarification! 🥹✨
sending so much love and light <3