Outside the Blur

In the past years I have studied the complex phenomenon of the perception of the reality, the first subject being myself.

Have you observed how your mood makes you see the world different ?
Thoughts and feelings modify your current perception of things, your own reality changes accordingly.

If you have a good feeling and positive thoughts about something, everything you’ll perceive will be nice, the world will look better in your eyes. If a fatal event happens to you it will give some negative reactions, negative thoughts and bad feelings. This event will make you suffer, feeling very badly inside you, and…in consequence, the perceived reality will change and you’ll tend to see everything in bad colors, in bad perspective. The world and everything will look bad into your eyes. This is because the perceived reality it is not the actual reality. Your perceived reality it’s only your own reality, different and sometimes very very different than the actual reality.

Everything we see, we perceive, everything we judge, we feel are just perspectives, views, moments which are relative to you, to you being. You are very influenced by what is happening to you and you can’t escape from your limited perspective. You are just a human being amongst other billions with limited perception of things.

So…everything is happening to you is not final. Because you are very subjective, because your view, your feelings, your knowledge is relative to your inner world it can be changed. It is just a temporary perception of things, and things can always change if you look different to them. We see this world NOT HOW THE WORLD REALLY IS, we see the world as we thought and feel it is.

In consequence, nothing is final, everything can be changed, everything is a process which continues to flow, until the end of your life. Maybe you know the famous words : “This is not like it seems”. In fact, nothing is what it seems. So, if it not what it seems, we can make it to be what we want. We are the power, the power lies into us.

Happiness is not final, sadness is not final, unhappiness is not final, everything changes. We live in a Universe where everything changes permanently, over and over again. We are living in a river which flows and has cascades with big falls and where we fall and we can’t control what is happening to us. The river is very powerful and we depend completely on it. It can also kill us if we are not aware. But the river also has slight  movements when it arrives to a straight surface, like a plain. There we can action, we have the possibility to make our own choices and control in a large amount how we navigate. This is how life it is. And you must also be aware of what choices you do in these moments. You are floating peacefully in the river, without being disturbed, you know that you can turn left or right and even stop and explore the near land. This was an simpler image of life to show you some aspects that you may not consider them.

Life is a process, it’s happening right now, into you, near you, everywhere. It is not final, everything happens now, you must feel the moment in everything you do, everything you accomplish. Life is not good or bad. Life is just how it is. If you feel bad is not your fault, if things look bad and things go bad…it’s not your fault. Your fault is when you do nothing to stop bad things happening into your life. Attitude differentiate smart people from stupid people. Attitude differentiate rich people from the poor ones. And attitude differentiate happy people from unhappy people.

Things can always change so be the one who has the capacity to make them better.

MATRIX : Morpheus

What is “real”?
How do you define “real”?
If you’re talking about what you can feel……what you can smell, taste and see…

…then “real” is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

This is the world that you know.

But…when we speak in daily life terms :
What is real ? What is reality ? When and why people say:
“Boy/Girl, you must wake up to the reality !”

The things are complicated at this point. But let’s look closer to the notion of reality.

First of all, let’s make this clear. There is an outer or an external reality, independent of our person, and there is an inner or personal reality.

All the time we perceive the world in terms of personal reality which can vary much and many times even in a single day. Why ? Because we perceive the exterior reality through our mind and feelings. And…if your mood changes …the perceived reality will also change. If you are very happy…all around you will seem incredibly beautiful and nice…even the people…everything you’ll do will be with passion and love.
But when you are sad, when you are mad…everything will be uglier in your eyes…you’ll gain a very bad perspective and all around you will see only bad things. This is because your bad feelings make all to look bad.

I believe that there isn’t an exterior reality, truly. What I want to say is that…we as humans make all to become real. Of course…there is a Physical Universe…made from atoms and energy…but the reality is just a MIND CONCEPT RELATED TO THE HUMAN. YES ! we will see on objective reality, a physical Universe independent from ourselves…BUT…BUT…this Universe would have not existed for us…if we would not exist ourselves. There is a strong relationship between us…and the Universe.

There is a Physical Universe…but it is just a support for our own reality.

Ok. Another aspect now to discuss. Why people see so many realities ? Why people see so differently the world.
Well, there are here another 2 aspects. First…the physical world which is the same for everybody…IT WILL REMAIN THE SAME AS A PERCEPTION.
Secondly…and from where the difference comes is…the other people, the society, the relations between people, the rules and laws from a specific field. We perceive the reality differently even if we work in the same field, even if we respect the same rules, share same ideas. This is because our unique live, unique past, unique other relations with some other people.

Our past can also substantially influence the perception of our reality. Important aspect that we may also consider are THE FACTS. Things happen and we perceive them. They will also form a reality. Things that happen also have a tremendous effect about
the perceived reality.

Reality is always present, reality always happen NOW. You always live reality in the present, you can’t PASS through a PAST reality. Reality is the instant that you perceive in the present moment. It will never come again.

As a conclusion REALITY is perceived by each individual differently. The personal reality depends upon:
1.    FACTS
1a.    PAST, HISTORY, facts, things which happened
1b.    PRESENT, present time, facts, things that happen now
1c.    FUTURE, things that we believe may happen

2.    FEELINGS, related to the PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE facts. this means what you feel about a thing that has happened is happening or may happen
3.    THOUGHTS, generated by the facts (PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE)
4.    ATTITUDE, which we may have regarding a past, present or future event
5.    MENTALITY, which includes perception, prejudgment, beliefs
6.    SOCIETY, PEOPLE, Relations between people, feelings and thought between people

So…just to a single look…we have find so many factors which influence the (personal) REALITY.

Myself, I discovered that even music can temporary influence the temporary perceived reality. I was listening to that time progressive trance music with beautiful beautiful sounds effects. Everything seemed nicer, happier to me. The perception of reality was modified by the sound of music. Incredibly.

Now, I can give you further examples :

I.    You have thoughts about a particular event, a party or concert (or something else). You begin in advance to think, to hope and to have feelings. You become impatient. The temporary reality is influenced about all these thoughts and feelings. You wait and wait until the event and when the event is beginning the perceived reality is suddenly changed. The reality modifies because you have no longer thoughts about FUTURE THINGS, but you will be present to THINGS that happen now. You will feel right now, the reality is stronger. The sensation is much more stronger. You are present and all your past feelings and thoughts are transformed in a subtle way in what you experience now.

II.    If you consume substances which influence the brain, the perceived reality will change because the brain will change
the way it links the thoughts with the feelings. If you consume substances like drugs, even things that normally you would have perceive them as BAD, you can perceive them as GOOD. Because drugs alter the normal pathways between generated thoughts and associated feelings. So you can arrive in the situation that bad things be perceived as good things. In such cases you alter your perceived reality so much that you’ll become another person. You will be seen as someone else. You will be no longer you for the period in which the drugs action to your brain.

III.    Persons can influence the reality of other people by hypnosis or influence. So the reality is also modified by the role
and links from the society. Relations between people can also change in time…and the personal perceived reality will also modify.

There are many things yet to be said but this is a large subject to discuss.