Yeah it ' s a form of solipsism that resolves itself in a really odd way I think . Eastern shit is just what got me thinking about consciousness and the nature of reality . I guess that led me to explore weird ideas . Alan Watts , Zen , that kind of thing . It ' s about consciousness , but the trick about consciousness is that only consciousness can know consciousness . That ' s kinda far down any line of argumentation though . The sound waves thing is interesting . You assume that those soundwaves exist in space around you right ? Well , that space has the same reality that the sounds do . The sounds are what you ears make of what you call soundwaves , and the space are what your eyes make of the lightwaves , 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 . So then you never actually come into contact with either sound or lightwaves , so you experience is essentially apart from them except when you think about them . 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 . 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 . You can call this indivisible everything a computerscreen , but that doesn ' t make it anything separate from the rest of your experience , which is what you are and always have been . So it flips the scrips . You aren ' t a conscious person , you are consciousness pretending to be a person .