Our past experiences, conditioning, beliefs, and thoughts act as “internal commands” to the brain regarding how it should comprehend what’s going on in our surroundings.

Living in a connected material world means that as a society, we’ve adapted to a set of rules, beliefs, and behavioral patterns that society has offered to us from birth.Īccording to experts, the way we perceive what’s the truth is a biochemical process. This can cause ‘blind spots’ in our current perception. Sometimes your beliefs are rooted in your previous experiences, memories, or teachings. Simplified, your perception is your “believed” observation. Robbins, describes perception as “a process by which we collect, organize, and interpret our sensory impressions when we’re giving meaning to something in our environment.” The dictionary definition of perception is, “the way something is regarded, understood, or interpreted.”Īnother definition laid out by Dr. In this article, we’ll look at the science as well as expert opinions, perspectives, and insights. Having a warped perception on reality can come from something simple, like a TV show or radio channel. The same can be true with anything, and your life experience doesn’t have to be as extreme as a car crash to have your perspective warped. The actual reality is that car crashes are rare, but the life experience of a near-death car crash can warp the perception of reality for that individual. And our life experiences act as filters through which we see reality.įor example, someone who survived a tragic car crash might perceive driving after 9 pm as dangerous. Some views are a ‘true sense of reality’ in one sense, but could be missing the ‘bigger picture’ from another perspective.Īll of our perspectives are uniquely formed by our individual life experiences. However, as human beings, we all perceive reality from different perspectives.

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