Good question. Well, reality is real and it is how we perceive it that is the problem. As you suggest, we have a lot of trouble understanding our perceptions of reality - physical things are bad enough, our eyes can deceive us, as can every other sense. So much of "us" is created as we age, there is plenty of scope for confusion, crossed-wires, inability to understand - not to mention mental illness (of which there are so many things that could be catagorised that way, no one is ever likely to be 100% mentally perfect). Our interpretation of events inevitably has to be simplified into what we expect to happen and what we need to pay attention to. Its amazing what the brain filters out as not relevant. Its for this reason that eye witnesses are notoriously unreliable, most people are generally terrible at observing and even worse and memorising and recollecting - according to wikipeda here (yes i know, but its not exactly news this) "of the more than 200 people exonerated by way of DNA evidence in the US, over 75% were wrongfully convicted on the basis of erroneous eyewitness identification evidence"
In other words - most peoples perception of reality, on some level, is completely different from actual reality.
I think this is a new thread
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