How do you define "real?"

Past and future are not physically real. It just seems to be light and the kaleiscope of its interactions.

The Western paradigm is of some singular element, be it God, or "matter," as in materialism, but it seems, at least to me, more a yin and yang. The absolute and the infinite. Nodes and networks. Organisms and ecosystems. Desire and judgement. Energy and form.

The western concept of time is of the future in front and the past behind, because we see ourselves as objects moving through our context and thus toward the future and away from the past. While the Eastern view is contextual. It sees the past as in front and the future behind, as what is in front and the past are known, while the future and what is behind are unknown. Which accords with the fact we see events after they occur, then the energy/light goes onto other observers, events.

Philip K. Dick described reality as what doesn't go away, when you stop believing in it.

I try to stick to just perceptions and hold off judgements as much as possible.

Do you perceive a reality, or is it illusion? Do you acknowledge others?