Discovering Our RealityChapter 5

By Laura Maceri

“The perception process is the method we use to create our reality from our environment”

The environment is what is actually surrounds you.

Reality is what or how you think of your environment

Perception is the brain trying to explain what is going on, thus creating our reality

Reality is not real; only your actual environment is real.

Through perception, realities are created.

There are 3 phases to the perception process

1.Selection

2.Sorting

3 Interpreting data from the environment

We select data from our environment

Our five senses allow us to be stimulated by the environment.

We are exposed to a variety of stimuli at any given time.

Some stimuli is filtered out, while other information is received.

The stimuli that we select is what brings about our awareness. For example: temperature, hot

or cold, noise, pain, etc…

Organizing and Prioritizing Data

The organization of information received is unique to each individual

For example: Beauty

Interpreting the dataBrings meaning

No two people share the same reality

“the belief that one’s own reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions”

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

Reality is not “real”, its what we

think is real

Fairy God Mother

Environment or Reality?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FahBBnfHAQ

People use the internet to create and build friendships and relationships. These virtual relationships stimulate the senses in a way which look and appear real.

Check out the Face Book Parody at the link to the left. It offers humorous insight to falling in love on the web.

Virtual RealityAn artificial environment using a computer and hardware.

Virtual reality use computer technology to create the effect of a 3 dimensional world in which objects have a sense of spatial presence.

Wii Fit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdNOfPesj2s

Virtual Exercise

Virtual Reality - People Won't Need To Leave The House/Cell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlBgIO6Mp9A