Life being a hallucination is in fact one of the hallucinations that can be caused by meditation.
These are called derealization hallucinations and are reported in meditators.
These are called derealization hallucinations and are reported in meditators.
The "reality" that we experience is a predictive model of what we believe is about to happen. This is required because it takes a quite some time[1] for stimulus to be received and processed by our bodies! If we didn't have this predictive mechanism the universe would seem very strange indeed.
But but because we hallucinate our reality we get the illusion that what we experience is instantaneous in respect to the cause!
[1] depending on the circuit it can take >100 msec for a nerve signal to reach the brain, and that's not accounting for the subsequent processing
Kuijpers, Harold JH, et al. "Meditation-induced psychosis." Psychopathology 40.6 (2007): 461-464.
> stacking shit like rocks on top of each other
They still do in India. Cow dung cakes are a rural fuel.
I am not doubting that India is likely the first to write about derealization. But it was mistaken to be the ultimate reality.
And which European historian furnished you this tidbit?