The Mirror Effect of Reality (the TRUTH about Reality)
In this video Aaron Doughty presents his "mirror of reality" framework, arguing that reality itself is neutral and acts like a mirror that reflects back the beliefs, definitions, and meanings we assign to experiences. He explains that the brain can only process about 2–4 million bits of information at any moment, and those bits are filtered by our existing belief systems, creating a self‑fulfilling prophecy. Language and personal labels further limit perception, causing separation from others. By recognizing that events are inherently neutral and that we impose meaning on them, we can consciously choose positive interpretations, thereby shifting the subset of information we notice and altering our lived experience. Doughty also emphasizes our collective connection—every person is a mirrored pearl in a shared consciousness—so what we put out is what we receive. Practical steps include becoming aware of limiting definitions, re‑framing experiences positively, and using a 21‑day meditation to raise vibration. The video ends with typical YouTube calls to action.
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This video, I'm going to be showing you the mirror effect of reality, showing you the truth that maybe you haven't heard of before, and I'm going to show you exactly how to use it to transform your life. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron and I help people expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I'm going to be sharing with that with you of understanding the mirror of reality. What reality really is, understanding this simulation that we live in, how we're all living within our own world, but then also collectively within the world and its dream itself as well, and how this understanding can totally change your life. So the part that I think can help us understand what really makes the change in our life is understanding first off that reality is a mirror. And this isn't necessarily a metaphor. Actually, it is a metaphor because if reality were just a mirror, I guess it'd just be like there's a mirror right behind the camera right now and I'm looking at it and I'm like, is that how reality is? But the, the mirror of reality is understanding that we may be right here. This is us, my handy dandy stick figure. Look at me. I can draw. You like that? So as you see me right there, that's a stick figure. It's got a very long torso and then very short legs as you can see. Now this person will look out into reality and what this person will see— first off, this person has an energy field around their body and this person will look out into reality, the mirror of reality. And we'll see a reflection that is equal to that which it believes to be true. Our beliefs are reflected back to us. Now think of this. The brain can only pick up on so many bits of information. I think it's like out of the billions of bits of information that are around us, the brain can only pick up on 2 Is it 2 to 4 million bits of information? 2 to 4 million bits, 2 to 4 mil bits. And the billion, the 2 million to 4 million bits of information it picks up are, are going to be the ones that resonate with whatever the belief system is. So understand that there are many different probabilities. In reality, but we will only experience a reality that is equal to that which we believe to be true. So in reality itself, when we go out, we experience the reality that's equal to— now think of it like this as well. There is no built-in meaning on the mirror of life. The meaning is what we give it. You see, this is a very powerful idea because anytime something happens in your life, If you give it a negative meaning, you will shift yourself to reality where you get a negative effect, but if you give it a positive meaning, you will see the 2 to 4 million bits of information you see. If you give something a positive meaning, will be more integrative. Both probabilities exist. Imagine that there's all these really long torso, short leg versions of you everywhere. There's little I'm going to do a lot of these little long torso, all these. That one's normal. Okay. I'm going to throw one in there that's a little bit more the way we're used to when it comes to these stick figures. I make myself laugh. Okay. That's all that matters. Uh, there's all these different versions of us and these different versions of us that we will perceive of will be the ones that are equal to our beliefs. Now in the beginning, In the beginning there was a word and the word was God. This is what, this is what a lot of people refer to in the Bible. Now this is also a metaphor. The word is a metaphor or a symbol for vibration. The vibration of what we speak out and what we think of creates that of the different versions of us. So our definitions and language creates our dream. Our definitions and our language creates our dream. I sometimes, I wonder, I wonder if we didn't have the language that we had and we didn't have all these fancy words to kind of put us into these little boxes, if that would actually expand us because then we wouldn't be limiting ourselves so much. Anytime we have a definition, It's somewhat, it's at some level, uh, a limitation. And sometimes you'll even feel more disconnected from people. The more definitions you have, you could be like, well, I am this type of person. I am a sports fanatic who likes only the Dodgers and the Lakers and anyone else who likes sports. I don't really care because they don't like the same teams that I like. And not only do I like the Dodgers, but I only like these 3 guys on the Dodgers team because everyone else is just a dummy. You see, the more detailed we get with the definitions of what it takes for us and what we like, the less, the less room we have to like everything. When it's like, you'd be like, you know what? Yes, there's a lot of people that don't like the Dodgers. There's a lot of people that don't like the Lakers, but you still like sports. I have more in common with people that like sports, even if it's different teams than I do with people that have no aversion to sports, what's, I have no care whatsoever of sports. But you see our definitions, the more defined we get, the more separated we feel from other people. So the, the bits of information that we pick up on are going to be equal to the definitions we have and the definitions we have. Here's the thing about the definitions we have. And the beliefs we have. Okay? It's a little bit of both. The thing with the definitions, the belief we had is almost all the definitions and the beliefs we have come from our parents. They come from who raised us. We had, we had grown up and we had seen people that said, oh, this is the way the world works. Most likely Rick, who likes the Dodgers and the Lakers, has and likes the Dodgers and Lakers because he grew up in the environment in LA, or his parents or somebody he knows also like the Dodgers and the Lakers. So then that belief system was handed down to Rick. Rick does not have a long torso. He is proportional and he is very proud of it. So there's Rick right there. And his Dodgers. Yay Dodgers. I have no idea what the Dodgers symbol is because I do not watch baseball, but I know who they are because I hear the name all the time and I, yeah, I mean, how can I not know? Or the Lakers. He's like, yay Dodgers, Lakers. Yay, my sports team. Yay. And then looking at everyone else, he'll resonate with people. And he'll meet a lot of other people that do or don't like the Dodgers and that'll cause, that'll cause him to feel whatever way, you know, but most likely that definition or that, that like that he has came from his environment or it came from somebody he knew growing up. So the definitions, the belief he had may not even be exactly his own. Now this happens even beyond sports. I use that because that's a pretty neutral idea, neutral example. But if you were to look at something like, um, like, I like money is bad. Money is bad. The 2 to 4 billion bits of million bits of information you're going to perceive of are more and more evidence that money is bad. You're going to watch the news and see that greedy— what is that greedy show on something like something in greed where it shows American Greed or something where it shows like people that are taking money from other people. You might even watch that show. And then conclude, wow, there's so many rich people that are greedy. And then what you might do is you might go out and be like, rich people are mean. And then you go out and you see something happen and you're like, that guy was mean, he's probably rich. 'Cause look at, look at, he was wearing nice clothes or something. Confirmation bias. We continue to get that bias over and over and over again. Now the key to this is being aware that the only reason we are experiencing these 2 to 4 million bits of information, because there's many different probabilities, is because we have some type of definition or belief that that is the way reality works. Everything in our reality is a self-fulfilling prophecy. So if we believe something to be true, we will go out into the world. In the mirror of life, we will pick up on the 2 to 4 million bits of information that confirm whatever definition we have or whatever belief we have. We will look for for it and guess what? We will find it because even though there's 4 billion bits of information, we're going to find the 2 to 4 million bits that correlate with that belief system. So if we change our belief system, we pick up on a different 2 to 4 million bits of information. So understand this as well. Not only are most of our definitions and beliefs hand-me-downs from our parents that just simply haven't been looked at and decided, hey, maybe this doesn't resonate with me anymore. Not only that, but beyond that, the reality that we live in itself— I don't know why I want to do the symbol, but I feel like doing it right now. Everything— here's the, here's the thing, here's the mind blower of reality itself. Everything in life is fundamentally neutral. It has no built-in meaning. We impose the meaning. We impose definitions. We impose the language. If we experience some type of embarrassment when we were young— I'm trying to think of an embarrassing time. I, I had this time when I went in front of the class and I was in like 9th grade and I had like a big part of this school project I was supposed to do. And it was a group project and I was lazy and I didn't really do any of it. And all these people in my group were looking to me to like perform at this, um, this like English class thing. I go in front of the class, I look out at everybody standing there and I just totally freeze. I can't remember what I'm supposed to say and it's the most awkward thing ever for like a minute. I'm just like, I just couldn't say anything. Okay, so I'm embarrassed. Now from that moment going forward, I thought I just wasn't good at speaking in front of people. I was like, dang, I can't— like there's something that locks me up when I go in front of people. So in that moment, the meaning I gave that was that was very embarrassing. But here's the thing to understand. I'm going to, I'm going to flip back some pages and we're going to blow our minds right now. You ready for this? Okay. I gotta find this page though. I know it's here somewhere. I've been writing a lot of stuff. Okay. I think it's here. There we go. All right. Here's the thing. There's what happened in the story and interpretation that we tell ourselves about what happened. So reality is neutral, right? I have that experience when I was young and I'm embarrassed and I'm in front of the class and I say to myself, wow, that was a very social— I was like social. I don't know if it's social trauma. That was very socially embarrassing. Now that thing that what happened was actually neutral, totally neutral. What really happened? What happened was I got in front of the class and that was it. And then I didn't get in front of the class. That was it. That's all that happened. But I have a story that I've agreed to. Maybe every, maybe a lot of people would agree with me too. They'd be like, yo bro, you went in front of the class. It was embarrassing. You didn't know what to say. You're locked up emotionally. But guess what? I would have to agree to the definition that that was an embarrassing situation. Yes, maybe in the moment I felt that emotion, but I was defining that emotion. I was overlaying the meaning of that happening, of it being something that was embarrassing and something that was a very high importance, and that's why I locked up. So even when we go through a lot of these things in our life that may be very difficult, we are the ones that generate the meaning. We are the ones that generate it. We have to first agree to it to then experience that energy pattern disruption. So we are creating it. Somebody else may have gone through that, maybe have gone to the front and done it, and maybe they had a totally different interpretation of it. Maybe they just would have thought it was funny. Maybe they did lock up in the moment, but like, That wasn't social embarrassment. That was people realize that I don't have to speak because I'm so cool. I could just stand there and people are in awe of me in the front of the class. I know it's very egoic, but somebody may have given a different meaning. Just like somebody may have gone into work one day and they said, you know what? Hey Rick, you're fired. He's like, no problem, bro. I'm going to watch the Dodgers. Okay. And I don't know why he has a Brooklyn accent or something. I don't know what accent that is. He's like, I don't care. I don't need my job. I'm just going to go watch the Dodgers and the Lakers anyways. So you see, he's like happy that he lost his job or he didn't lose his job. He's happy. He just— that what happened, he went into work one day, he's not going to work anymore. That's what happened. But the story we tell ourselves is going to be the emotional charge that then experiencing— that then experiences the bits of information that either positive or negative. All right, so we create it based on agreement and based on that of our definitions. Now we're going through our reality. The moment something happens, I don't know why I'm always yelling at my YouTube videos. I don't care how bad I just love yelling. So there's this, um, sorry about that. I just felt like saying that. Um, so this, this right here, something happened in the moment something happened. We can give it a positive definition or negative definition, and then we will experience the 2 to 4 million bits that are equal to that version of us. So you could say this is— there's one version of us, really long torso, still nothing's changed. Okay, nothing's changed. And maybe he's very happy because he experienced something positive, but then there's also a version of you, still has a long torso, is sad. Now the definition says yes. No. So each one will depend upon what it's overlaying with reality. Now here's the thing too. When you have these definitions and you go out into the world, people will feel this expectation off you. They will feel this energetic pull on you and they will reflect that back to you. So if you go out and you say, you say, have you seen that Gloria is always giving me this? She was giving me this weird look and then I, she's, um, I know she's thinking something negative about me. It's probably talking gossip about me and, um, and she's always, she's always bringing up negative things. Okay, so you go out into the world, you have this belief about Gloria or maybe it is you have this belief about people in general. You got into the world, the 2 to 4 million bits of information you're going to notice is you may even interpret Gloria when she's not being negative, but you'll interpret it as negative. Or you interpret it as related to you when really, man, man, nothing to do with you at all. So you see these definitions we have and these expectations will pull out of different people, different characteristics. I was at the gym recently in the sauna and there's this guy that's always negative. I have this story about how he's negative and going in, I was going to sound like, ah, he's here. He's going to talk my ear off. I don't want to listen to it. I was like, just had this story. Cause he's, cause I'm sometimes I'm trying to listen to my audiobook and he just wants to talk about weird things. He wants to talk about like, uh, let's talk about how corrupt the government is and stuff. And I'm like, dude, I don't want to go here right now. I just want to sit in a 180-degree sauna. That's it. But then I listen. I'm like, oh, okay. Is that your reality? That's your story. Okay. And I understand that the government is corrupt. I understand that, but I don't necessarily care to focus on it. I got other stuff to do. Okay, I got other stuff to do in my dream of life. So I listened to him and then eventually I was like, you know what? I have this story about how he's always talking about stuff I don't really care about. I said, you know what? I'm gonna steer the direction in a different way. So I steered it into talking about what I'm passionate about. I was like, yeah, I'm making a program right now about how our stories create our life and everything you always talk to me about is a story, bro, just so you know. And I was like trying to show him like everything he says is a story. He's like, yeah, I know, you know, working out's hard. When you work out, you come to the gym and there's parking. Oh my gosh, there's parking. You gotta park and then come in. I'm like, dude, this is your story, bro. I get parking wherever I get parking so easily. It's your story, bro. Losing weight's easy for me to do. That's your story, bro. Blah, blah, blah. You see what I mean? But I directed it because I changed my story about this person. And even if it didn't, they kept talking about stuff, I would just have fun with it. So the mirror of life, the mirror of life is that the 2 to 4 million bits of information we're gonna pick up on are going to be the ones that are equal to the definitions and the language and the beliefs we have. And when we change that, we change the reflection. I'll leave you with one little thing. Imagine we got a big ball, a big ball. Okay, we got this big ball right here. We got a whole bunch of balls in it. You're like, what are these balls? Where's Aaron going with this? What kind of analogies Aaron going to talk about here? We had this big bowl. Let's say it's a glass bowl. Glass bowl. And say inside this glass bowl is a whole bunch of mirrored pearls. They're mirrored. Okay? And in this, there's a reflection of all the other mirrored pearls. That in a way is like reality. There's this reflection. We're seeing the reflection of all the other pearls, which are also us. Here's what I'll leave. Maybe I'll do another whole nother video on this. Every single person on the planet, We are all connected to everyone else. We all are connected to everyone else. It's not really a hierarchy like this, but just to give you this example, we're all connected to everyone else and at the greater spiritual level, we are all one. That is why what you put out is what you get back because we're all connected. So the mirror of reality is understanding that because we're all connected, we will always get that reflection back. And the key is being aware. Of the definitions and what you're putting out, because what you're putting out, you are getting back. You put a lot of good out in the world, you'll get some good back. You'll get a lot of good back if you put out a lot of good. So be aware that everything in reality is a reflection because we are all the same being at a greater level, dreaming that we are separate. This is a dream. We create our own dream and then everyone has their own dream as well. And then there's a dream of the collective consciousness. That we call society. So be aware of what your dream is, and if you don't like a dream, change the way you interpret the dream. If you change the way you interpret the dream, you will then choose which 2 to 4 million bits of information, and you'll start to see the happy view. You will be okay with having a long torso and little legs, okay? You're gonna be totally okay. You might run like this because you can't spread your legs too far, but it's still okay. You want to know why it's okay? Because you can interpret that whatever way you want. You can interpret the 2 to 4 million bits of information that your brain is picking up. You can perceive of the ones that you like. So it's okay that you got long torso, little legs, because damn it, can you run? And you— that run you will. Okay, run you will, and you will enjoy your life. And if you like the Dodgers, if you like the Lakers, whatever it is, just be aware that that may have come that you may still play that game. You might be still the game. I still like sports, Aaron. You're not gonna convert me to not like sports. I'm not trying to. I'm just trying to show that a lot of our definitions, a lot of the things that we like come from our environment, come from our parents. And we realize that we can start to take more direct control and decide, no, to choose the meanings we give things in our life. The moment something happens, give it a positive meaning. You experience the positive timeline. Both probabilities exist. You can only pick up on 2 to 4 million bits of information and you will perceive of the one that is equal to. That positive thing. If you give it a negative meaning, right under that pearl bowl, there we go. Negative. Uh oh. So give things positive meaning. You'll experience more of a positive thing. The 2 to 4 million bits of information you pick up on will become the probabilities you prefer. The more you realize that what you choose to perceive of is going to be the reflection that you get. So we're all connected. I hope you liked this video. If you liked this video, let me know. Do you want more with the easel? You guys like the easel? You guys like my really cool drawing stick figure stuff? Does it help wire in these ideas? Let me know below. Also, I have a meditation that will help you to raise your vibration, raise your vibration. Listen for 21 days and it will transform your life. It's in the top description box below. Also, I got a, I got an Instagram page where I do a lot of live Q&As. Sometimes I talk in accents, sometimes I don't. If you want to see more behind my life and stuff I do with my easel, well, I sit here every day and I draw and I paint. Like, uh, like that Bob guy was a Bob, was a Bob guy with the fro. I forget. Uh, Bob, Bob Hope. No, that's someone else. 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