but neither sound nor lightwaves are actually what you experience , right ? You experience sound and see sight actually it ' s even less than that but that works for now . For the most part I think I understand what you ' re saying with this . But I don ' t understand how you made the jump toSo then you never actually come into contact with either sound or lightwavesMy understanding is that lightwaves hit your eyes , soundwaves hit your eardrums . What do you mean by ' contact '? So then what a sound actually is is a different question , subjectively speaking . The only thing that will ever be real about soundwaves and lightwaves from my perspective is the thoughts about them . Why is this so ? Sound waves and light waves can be measured with machinery , and will produce consistent results . Doesn ' t this provide a fair amount of evidence that sound waves and light waves are there and that it ' s not just our experience or thoughts of them ? So then what I mean by nothing is real , is that everything you experience is essentially subjective , but since everything is subjective the distinction between subjective and objective becomes meaningless . I also do believe I exist , so then the only possible solution is that I am everything and everything is only ever itself . I can agree that everything is subjective to an extent , but I don ' t see how this should cause the belief that nothing is real other than yourself . If you accept the fact that no two humans are exactly the same , it should logically follow that we can ' t all experience exactly the same thing . I ' m still trying to make sense of your belief that ' you are everything ' and solipsism in general . What if you were to go on a mass killing spree in a country where a crime like that is punishable by death . You get caught and get executed . Would your ability to experience anything cease completely ? Or would something else happen since the people convicting and executing you don ' t exist outside of your mind ?