‘We Determine Our Own Reality’

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As humans yes we determine our reality,’ there is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes and values.’ Psychologist David G Myers’ this clearly explicates the notion that we will have a tendency to perceive reality differently to others. Thus, it seems that it would be inevitable at times for the same event to provide very different versions of reality that allow us to determine our own reality. Through the study of various sources, such ideas are brought about. The nature of human memory is perhaps a reason why the same event can provide different versions of reality. For example, the notion of memory faltering over time is in Salvador Dali’s painting, The Persistence of Memory which depicts a landscape in which clocks are melting. Dali’s work seems to suggest the idea that over time, memory may melt and deteriorate, leading to a distorted and skewed memory of an event. Thus, in light of the tendency of memory to degrade over time, it appears that the same event may often provide very different accounts of reality. Furthermore, the subjectivity with which we perceive our world appears to contribute to the creation of very different versions of reality from the same event. For example someones recollections of such events may well be quite distinct given the difference in their views. What we see is just electric signals it’s not even close to what truly exists. Just because we see something a particular way does not make it so we are selective we look at facts witch are favourable and dont look at facts which are unfavourable. We can be so insistent sometimes that our way of seeing something is more right than someone else’s way. The notion of subjectivity impacting upon our perceptions of reality is further shown in studies by Cornell University. Participants were told a story of a man who walked out on a
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