My Theory on Perception

     Perception is a pretty interesting word itself. Determining how you interpret something and yet how another sees it..., can have a worlds apart meaning. For instance, listen to an instrumental song and let it speak to your soul. Then, without say anything of how it made you feel, let someone else listen to it so you don't influence their interpretation of it, and once that's done, you can finally express how that song had spoken to your soul to the person who had listened to it. You might be surprised on how their interpretation may be different than yours, and this, I believe, is solely because of one's own uprising affecting their mental state.

     Here's another example for one's own perplexing perceptual mind. What do you see ?

     Do you see a mask? A lady being torn apart by winged monsters? OR two gryphons spinning a church bell? At first sight, I saw the latter, and because I saw it that way, I perceive it to be just that, because that is how I feel most strongly about it, and this may be because I write fantasy novels and that will always be my different view point of seeing a certain angle of the world. Someone else may say they feel that this image clearly shows one of the first two options that I had mentioned or some completely other image that I just don't see. But that's because of the influences that have shaped their mind to see things the way they want it to be seen, and it's because of this that, we in society, are all very diverse and that we are not clones of one another. We have different cultures because everyone perceives the world differently and depending on where you live, your perception is influenced by that environment.

     The environment that you surround yourself in, feeds your mind, and in doing so, shapes your personality. So, like it or not, the way you think is heavily influenced by your day-to-day activities, family, and friends. One last example of this would be growing up in a family that thinks conversation during dinnertime is appropriate, while another family thinks that it's absolutely rude to talk while you eat and so they will perceive the first family as wrong, and vice versa perception from the first family. Now, on an even bigger proportion, with say, world leader's having different perceptions, could lead to wars and hysteria, depending on what it would be about. In the far past, kingdoms would fight each other because of how one group perceived the world to be something that it should be, and so if they felt strongly about it, would lead to an enforcement on others to perceive the way they do. So, with this in mind, mass perception actually shapes the world.