Personal Narrative: What Is Real

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We only know what is real by what our senses tell us is real. But how our senses tell us what is real is through our brain’s interpretation, so really our brain tells us what is real. Our brain defines what is real to us, however determining what is not real is not so simple. I am struggling to define what is not real. Your question is too broad for me to determine what is not real, if something does not have physical shape, color or size it cannot be real in a materialist world. I believe anything and everything you can think of is real to some degree. A character you read in a book is real, even if it only existed in our minds. A fragrance is also real, even though it does not have a size or shape that can be definable by touch, or sight.

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