Does Perception = Reality?
Posted by Sean on January 26, 2010
Image source: Brick Artist
Sometimes every once and a while you stumble upon something during your travels on the internet that just strikes you. This struck me hard. Maybe struck is not a good enough word.
How about flabbergasted?? People’s perception can be, and IS there reality. What happens when you’re perception is distorted by someone else. What happens to your reality when your perception is manipulated and/or influenced by the media in such a way to make you believe something that isn’t there?
Take this for instance:
This image was taken from a website called: Mighty Optical Illusions. It discusses the media’s influence on our perception of a picture. The original picture is in the middle (colorized). To the left would depict the soldiers as having no mercy. To the right shows the soldiers oozing with mercy.
All because the picture was manipulated.
Is our perception really our reality. Just who’s reality we talking about here?
Sean Dent said
Yes Jennifer, very scary.
Jennifer said
Great post! It's a reminder of how distorted our perceptions can be. A little scary too when you really think about it…….