Reality Check?

The Wisbech Discussion Forum is certainly a fascinating place worthy of research if not discourse analysis. Difficult to analyse contributions that are just irrelevant comments on the character of the contributor, and many contributors are showing high levels of self-obsession, but we must try if we are to understand the community online.
One strong message is coming from the comments made about the street drinkers.
These street drinkers are perceived as 'problem people' because they have fallen or drifted outside of mainstream society. The reasons for their ways of living are not being reported, just that they aren't behaving 'normally'.
The message that is so strongly coming from the Wisbech community is that too many people just have no idea how a brain works, no idea that reality is something we have to create for ourselves and that we are extremely blessed if we can happily share our reality with others.
This is a frightening thought because we all have brains and at any time in our life our brain could malfunction.
Our only reality we experience is delivered every minute of the day by our brain.
The moment your brain falters, for whatever reason you may or may not recognise that you have a problem. Even if you do recognise you have a problem it may not be possible to share your reality with other people.
When Jill Bolte-Taylor experienced a brain malfunction she was in a privileged position as her understanding of the situation was exceptional. Few people watching her struggle to deliver an explanation of what she felt during the time of her stroke would fail to be impressed by how she coped.
But imagine for a moment if a brain malfunction of a much smaller magnitude happened to a person with no knowledge of how their brain works? Would any of us expect that person to understand what is happening, or even to see how reality has changed?
Reality is not a fixed stable condition, it is fluid and nebulous for us all. Data enters our brain and is resolved into our own very personal reality every moment we live. We are blessed if the reality our brain creates is acceptable to other people we meet, but do we deserve to be damned if it isn't?