Perception Determines Reality

Perception Determines Reality

A person who has a strong awareness in knowing at him or her might affect the way others perceive in one self. Embracing the intelligence of our own and appreciating other’s perceptions gives us a better insight of our personal experience to become a better person. In “The Eyes of the Skin,” Pallasmaa argues that individuals rely too greatly on their eyesight, result in an adjustment of our perception to build structure such as architectures: consequently, modifies the reality in a depended way solely on vision. In “The Mind’s Eye,” Sacks believes individual perception develops from our mind and therefore does not require vision to see the real world. Our brain is flexible has a strong adaption to reality by involving our five senses to institute realism. Nafisi’s memoir and literary criticism “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” describes her reality as an authoritarian society as oppose to a democratic society. Nafisi and her students develop their own virtual reality by imagining happiness, privileges and freedom that can replace the dictatorial reality. Individual perception refers to the stimuli through which one receives, unify and understands the information from the environment. We integrate factual and perceptual inputs around us into our belief system, changing the way we think and behave. Reality is the environment that surrounds by which we perceive. The subjective individual perception and the inevitable reality have a shared connection that separates apart from differences. The fundamental relationship is that our individual perception determines real world by challenging our perception in limitation and blindness that withstands the inescapable reality.

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...k. Sacks’ concludes that our senses create individual perceptions that identify as realism. People have diverse personalities and it is express by our behaviors. Behaviors can be seen by others, but are understood in different perspective. Nevertheless, society has shape the common understanding that make us experience similarly in the same ways of our perspective. Nafisi and her students experience the hectic feelings of realism; therefore, isolates themselves by perceiving reality differently as a group who shares the same ideal viewpoint to escape the real world. It is by their individual perspective that conjoins into thoughts and concepts and can possibly challenge or reformat their ideal way of viewing the reality. Prompted by the differences in emotions and senses, our perception serves as the function of enhancing a person’s observation of the real world.