Meaning Of Illusions

The True Meaning of Our Illusions

Every human being has illusions. Unfortunately, the majority of the time, we are unable to uncover their true meaning. This does not mean that our precious visionary images have no answer or meaning and that they make no sense.

Our illusions are based and composed with the daily interaction that we have with our culture, personal pre-occupations and daily experiences that sometimes are hard to believe. These are constantly reflected throughout our lifes in a way that we might not be able to notice. An illusion is defined in the Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia as “a false sensory perception of an actual stimulus” (Encarta, par.1). This article is convincing us that most of our mental images are in a form of basically interrupted stories that are made up partially of our memories and full of frequent scenes from what we encountered in our daily vitality. They can also have an integration of parts from our emotions that are constantly present in them, if we feel depressed, in harmony or loneliness. In psychological terms, illusions are consider to be a very natural process and necessary rather than being conginated as abnormal, which are sometimes known as passive illusions. This means that our mind plays with our optical visibility by projecting strange figures with a continuous persistence which are usually based on our habits, attitudes and unconscious

motivations. These usual visionary spectrums are described in The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology in an article written by B. R. Bugelski as:

A faint and fleeting, undetailed, and partial, but some people report having vivid, detailed images. Presumably people differ in the strength of their imagery, and certainly the differ in scores attained on various sense areas. (210)

This brief explanation tells us that our illusions are now known to be an undetermined amount of unreal images presented to the bodily of our mental vision, which is also to be a comprehension of a deceptive appearance or a false show.

The human race is discovering something new everyday about the connotation of our visions according to The Encyclopedia Americana :

The Gestalt school of psychology, what we see is the result of processes of organization in the brain. Such processes are based on relationships between aspects of the stimulus, so that impressions of size, shape, color, and the like are determined not to merely by the retinal image of the object itself but by the other objects present in the field as well.