If Your Mind Creates Reality, What Does That Make Other People?

The law of attraction and manifesting your desires is fun until you realize you’re the puppet master and get lost in the possible explanations.

Jun 01, 2024

When you start playing with the ideas of living in a mind-made simulation or begin accepting that your mind is responsible for everything you see, hear, and feel in your perceived reality, you inevitably encounter a problem.

If your mind created everything, did it also make all the people?
If not, how do they exist in your mind-made reality?
If this reality is not mind-made, why does our mind have such an overwhelming power over everything?
If we can manipulate people into doing what we want them to with our minds alone, are they puppets? Are they even real people?

When I first experienced a literal expression of my imaginary acts, where other people did and said things I envisioned them to and have not mentioned or done anything else to inform them of my wishes, it felt wrong.

I felt like I was manipulating them somehow as if I had taken away their free will.
It made me wonder whether people outside my mind exist or are they just figments of my imagination.
I wondered how I could make other people do things with my mind alone and what that meant for everything.

What kind of mental manipulation over people are we talking about?

First, I must ensure we understand each other and what I’m implying. When I say that you can close your eyes and imagine someone saying or doing something they never did or would never do, and then they do it in a matter of days before your very eyes, I mean that literally.

You imagine your wife suddenly going all crazy for you and calling you names she never had before in bed, just like you imagined them. Maybe she called you her “Sex God,” or perhaps you imagined her apologizing to you, which she hadn’t done in the last twenty years, or something similarly unlikely.

You might have envisioned your boss calling you into their office to tell you what a great job you’re doing and that he appreciates it, offering you the raise you wanted. It could just be a friend telling you something you would never expect them to.

The point of the exercise is that, in order to facilitate the understanding that your imaginary act caused a person to say a specific thing to you or do something ultra-particular that you only saw in your mind, eliminating any doubt and the possibility of coincidence, it has to be something improbable.

Strictly for experimental purposes, of course. There is a learning curve in order to make it feel real in your mind, but past that, I’m sure anyone can do it.

I’ve personally experienced similar things on multiple occasions. I emptied my mind and then visualized having a very unlikely conversation or seeing a scene I wanted to experience in real life. Lo and behold, it happened exactly as I saw it in my mind. If you haven’t experienced this yourself, you’ll just have to take my word for it at the moment.

You’ve done it before, you just didn’t realize it

On second thought, I’m pretty confident you have experienced something similar yourself. You just didn’t think those thoughts intentionally to create this experience in your life, so you never connected the dots.

Have you ever thought about someone you haven’t seen or heard from in a long time, and they almost immediately called you? It’s like they listened to your thoughts, right?
Have you ever been afraid of something, or perhaps you created a judgemental image of someone or some situation that played out exactly as you have “predicted,” but it made sense since you always sort of knew they would happen? What if you didn’t predict it but instead created it?
Have you ever experienced a “deja-wu” where you could have sworn you saw this exact scene play out sometime in the past?

When these things happen without your intention, you assign them to coincidence and luck. But things get interesting when you do them intentionally, and they play out like literal plays according to your script.

How is it possible to manipulate people with your mind?

In the material universe, where we are all separate beings, and the matter is solid and independent of our minds, it’s simply not. It would require special techniques with subliminal messaging, hypnosis, or superpowers. But remember, I said I only ever did this in my mind. I never told anyone and never hinted at what I wanted to experience. And no, sadly, I don’t have superpowers.

We would call them crazy coincidences and never speak of them again. Some would explain such experiences with the Law of Attraction, which is fair. Your energy attracts what you are in your life. As within, so without, but that’s just a principle that doesn’t explain how something like this is possible, only how to make it happen. Then you might come across ideas that we are all somehow connected, maybe with an invisible field or via some higher dimension. Fair again.

But here’s the thing. Attracting things doesn’t make sense in a material and independent universe, no matter how much you want it to. Wishful thinking and goal setting can, of course, help you achieve great results, eventually making your dreams come true. Your thoughts and beliefs influence your actions in the right direction, sort of explanation. This is understandable and, on the surface, potentially explains a lot of success stories.

Here’s where things get tricky, and you lose most rational, logical thinkers firmly grounded in a material reality.

What if you didn’t have to do anything to make something incredibly unlikely happen? It came to you in the most surprising way and you didn’t lift a finger other than the work done within your mind.
It involves other people and free will. If you wanted to be with someone who doesn't like, know, or perhaps even hates you, and they suddenly walk into your life as if guided by some secret potion?

What freaking, then? You can’t explain that away through a thought-action connection. If they are independent, separate people with a mind of their own, how the hell did you make those people love you, contact you, decide to give you money, hire you, etc.?

Theories and possibilities

In a strictly material reality, none of that is possible.
The only viable explanation is that we are crazy for suggesting it and need to see a psychiatrist because we’re hallucinating.
In a material reality where vibration is king, and the law of attraction is the force that governs all, most things would make sense and could work, but not all.
For example, things that would violate other people’s ideas, beliefs, and desires. Especially literal script reading from people who would never say such things.
They may want to please you, and you may vibrationally match with other people who want the same thing and will like you, but you can’t exactly make other people do anything they don’t want to do or wouldn’t do naturally. They are real people with individual desires and interests, not to mention free will.
In a quantum reality, ignoring the whole multiple worlds theory and quantum jumping, where particles are in a state of superposition (wave, not particle) until an observer collapses them into one defined state, it may be possible.
The observer determines the particle’s state; "loves me” or “hates me” are just possible states. We could theoretically collapse that person - a sum of trillions of particles into the desired state.
The problem is, then, how can those people exist in a state of superposition if we’re not looking at them? Are they rendered into our reality, like in a video game? Are they even real? Where or how do they exist without an observer present, and doesn’t that just mean it’s all a giant simulation and the people are NPCs (non-playing characters)?
In a simulation theory, other people would have to be NPCs, as mentioned above. If this were a multiplayer simulation, you can’t influence or manipulate what other people say or do simply by imagining it. Indeed, the only way that works is if the simulation is actually in your mind somehow, but then what does that make all the people in your head?

My best guesses that don’t conflict with this idea

I’ve talked at length about two interesting options that would easily explain such experiences:

What Is Quantum Jumping and the Multiple-Worlds Theory?
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What if This So-Called Reality is Just a Dream?
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Here are the two ideas summarized:

Door number one: If this reality is a dream-like reality, then everything contained in that dream is nothing more than your mind’s images being projected on the screen of your mind, just like when you’re dreaming.
The people aren’t real but merely a figment of your imagination. You’re the one who creates your whole world.
Door number two: If we live in a Quantum Multiverse where all possible outcomes branch off into infinity, creating new and new separate universes every time a variable (like a decision) is introduced, then all versions of all people exist in all possible scenarios.
One where they love you and one where they don’t. When you imagine them loving you, you’re simply jumping into another universe and meeting that version of them. You’re not creating things with your mind. You’re choosing the ones you like and surfing the multiverse.

In both cases, you’re not manipulating anyone or stepping on anyone’s free will. In the case of the dream world, those people aren’t real, and in the case of quantum jumping, they are real but exist in all possible iterations of themselves.

Which one do you like more?

Are people NPCs, or perhaps artificial intelligence, or just another part of your mind?
Is this a single-player simulation, and we just think it’s a multiplayer?
Do we all exist in some sort of superposition until observed?
Do we exist in infinite parallel universes and are jumping seamlessly between them all the time?

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