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All my life since I was about six years old my father would always say "perception is reality". This got me to thinking, is how you are percieved really reality? Who's reality?
I think that we all live within our own realities, so who you believe yourself to be is your own reality, but who others think you are is part of their reality. I think too often people care to deeply about the reality of others, and how others perceive them. Which poses the question...By applying the perception of others to your own reality, is perception then reality?
Some live in their own reality, while others feed off the reality of the people around them.
"the answer is different for everyone"
stevie ray vaughan
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Profound & true. I've learned to trust my own perceptions. At this point in my life I've learned (the hard way) that my own perceptions & instincts are far better for me than allowing another's perceptions to overlay my reality. After all - reality is just a delusion and I'd rather have my delusions - whose motives & integrity I am sure of...
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ReplyDeletei could not have said it better myself
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to drop by and say "hi", thanks for signing up to "follow" my humble little blog... my perception of that action is that it is a good thing, a reaching out across miles, years, space to create a link, to open the possibility of communication where there was none before. That perhaps may contribute rather than diminish the sum total of happiness in the universe... Funny, I've never seen a blog profile created with a non-name, the negation of a name, just three dots, suggesting open and infinite possibilities. If you take a short look at things I've written you may notice that I tend to use the "..." three dots of open endedness fairly readily, something pleasing in tapping them out, it brings a little rhythm to typing...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thanks for your visit, drop by and leave a word or two if you like, that is how the doors of perception open... speaking of which, Mr Huxley had a few things to say about perception and reality, and the role of mind altering drugs between the two...
You asked whose reality? The more important question is whose perception? Everyone perceives differently. What is most important is your own perception of you and your life cos ultimately it affects your reality, how you live your life, how you feel about you. Unless one is highly perceptive, reality is rarely equal to perception.
ReplyDeleteWhile I agree with that fact the ones perception of themself is most important, I argue that not everyone applies their own perception to their reality. Instead they confuse the perceptions of others with their own. So there for it is not their own reality rather what they take from other people's perceptions. I disagree with "reality is rarely equal to perception". Reality is what you make it, it is an illusion. Without the inturpritation of reality, there is no reality at all.
ReplyDeleteOMG, my father used to say that all the time. I have never, ever heard it from anyone else until I saw it posted here! Wow!
ReplyDeleteyour father is a wise man.
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