When I was in grade 4, I remember sitting on the classroom stairs with a couple of friends during the lunch break. They were talking about something silly, like, what if they were ninjas who could climb buildings and jump over walls. As I listened to their conversation, I remember feeling that what they were saying was just a dream. It was a strange feeling. For that moment, I felt that I was just listening to an automated script and that I had no idea what was real and what was not. That feeling stayed with me for a long time and it wasn’t until a couple of years ago that I was able to put a name to it, Solipsism. Solipsism is the idea that the only thing that is sure to exist is my own mind. That is, there is no way I know for a fact that another person is real. It could all be a figment of my imagination. Consequently, there is no way that another person can prove to me that they are real as what they are saying or doing could equally be a figment of my imagination, too. During my life so far, I have mostly felt that everything around me is real. That is, other people are just like me, living their lives and having their own experiences. But just occasionally, something happens that makes me feel that others are not real, or more specifically, I can’t prove that they are real and nor can they prove to me that they are real. Or, I get the feeling that everything around me is being controlled in some way, and not playing out in a natural way. In this video, I talk about a number of possible hypotheses that I’ve come up with over the years that explain this strange feeling.

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