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[Lilac]

Good one, Gurdur! In other forums, when the topic of "life advice" comes up, my best advice is always the old saying: "attitude is everything". It really is. Example from my military days: if you go to a new base thinking it will be great, lots of opportunities, new places and people and food, fun things to do, etc etc, then hey presto! you'll have a great tour. If you go to it thinking it's going to suck, then no matter what happens, it's going to suck.

We shape our own reality.

And we shape our own past, as well. What is our past except our memories of it? And memories aren't simply stark recordings of events, they are shaded and manipulated by emotions, hidden fears, perceptions, other information before or after, mental filters, a thousand and one different things. Dreams are merely different data. They are the bits and pieces of our subconscious, scraps of memories and tv shows and other data, thrown up at random at a million bits per second, and formed into a semi-coherent narrative by our poor struggling sleeping [insert the part of the brain I'm not familiar enough with to guess at] brain.

Why is this any less "real" than our warped, filtered, multi-influenced, emotion-laden memories of "real" past events?