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Have you ever wondered if you're the only one that actually exists and other people are just phantom images?

Or that other people are just robots or obstacles that God forces you to deal with to test you? Yeah, I know it sounds pretty stupid and narcissistic for me to think that, but I'm like, then why am I trapped in this random body all of the time? What if I really AM the only real person? lol


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Actually I used to think about this a lot because I was introduced to existentialism by a guy back in hs.
Anyway, try reading Jean Paul Satre, he is a big existentialist writer, but I have to tell you, that after reading a bunch of their genre, I found myself very depressed and I read that a lot of these writers were depressed or suicidal, so I wouldn't read to many of them if I were you. The play "Eight Nails", Huit Clos in French, is a Satre play, where his premise was that hell is other people. It's about 4 people who can't stand each other and they a put in one room together for eternity and that is hell for each of them.

On a complete different twist on this try reading some quatum psychics books. These were very interesting because they present that there are many layers of reality side by side.
After reading many books, I also found that the characters in many books were "more real" than many "real people" so I said that they "igist" as opposed to "exist" as they are some how in another dimension.
Also what if people that have very cardboard sort of uneventful lives really do exist less than others do they "ezist" as opposed to exist. As in does the person who is more fully alive and self aware exist on many of these different planes while the person who just goes through a menial life day by day have something on only one plane of reality? Or would they be like people going through the same motions on different planes of reality while the self aware person is actually effecting changes on mulitiple layers of reality.
All the worlds indeed a stage, we are merely players.

I think that we both think too much.
And now I've given you even more to think about. lol