Difference Between Perception and Reality- Is There One?

What is the difference between perception and reality? Let's take a look.

You walk into the room at a party and see a handsome man. He has on black jeans and a sexy black shirt. You are attracted to his chic sensuality. You are about to walk over to him when he turns his head and glares at you with a look of disdain. The look is clear. It says, ‘Stay away, I’m not interested.’

You stop dead in your tracks, and make a beeline for the buffet instead. After that you feel uncomfortable. It’s the white outfit, which is way too girlish and naive. Perhaps you should have worn the V-cut black dress. Maybe yesterdays french-fries are showing all over your hips in this monstrous filmy thing. At the party, you don’t mingle much. You wait for the long, boring evening to end. Whereupon you trudge home, alone, to your empty apartment.

Now here’s what happened with the man in black. After he glared at you, he turned back to the guy he was standing with and said “Holy cow, what kind of vodka did they put in this thing. It tastes like I’m drinking DW40.”

His look of disdain was actually a reaction to his drink. He never even saw you until later, when he meandered over to the buffet and saw this vision in white. She was lovely, but she had an aloof look on her face. It was an above-it-all look. Still she was very appealing, in an odd sort of way. But he decided he was not up for the certain rejection, and walked away.

This is the difference between perception and reality, and it begs the question, “Is there anything we can truly call reality.” Both of these people knew how the world was. They believed they knew the very thoughts in someone else’s head. Because of this, what could have been a beautiful romance never even got started.

Now we usually don’t see it, but this kind of thing happens to us all the time. We think we know how the world is. We think we know what goes on in the rest of the world and other people’s heads. But what we are truly perceiving is the world according to us- our judgments, assessments, and a huge load of past experiences and firmly held beliefs that color them.

Can you imagine how many opportunities we miss that we don’t even know about?

Stay tuned to my articles as we explore the difference between perception and reality, and how you can get power in your life by setting your limiting beliefs and assumptions aside. The question will constantly be, “Do I really know what I think I know?” It is an engaging question, and one that can intrigue us forever with endless possibilities.


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