there’s no such thing as a shared world. not really. there are people. and there are their thoughts. and the thoughts generate meaning. the meaning generates emotion. and all of that creates reality—but only for the person inside it.

every human is living inside a full feedback loop of perception, association, memory, and belief. what you call the world is just what that loop reflects back to you. and it’s different for everyone. you could stand in the same room as someone else and be in completely different universes.

western models like to pretend there’s some neutral plane we’re all standing on. some fixed structure we’re experiencing together. but that structure doesn’t exist outside of language. outside of belief systems. outside of habit.

indigenous frameworks understood this already. they didn’t separate mind and body. they didn’t draw a hard line between experience and experiencer. they knew it was all one movement. one being. you’re not observing the world. you are the world, seeing itself from a particular angle.

it’s not philosophy. it’s not a theory. it’s just what’s happening. there’s no objectivity. only the dreamer and what they dream up. and you don’t have to like that. but you’re still doing it.