Reality (part 1) - What's Really Real Anyway?

Who is your favorite D.J. on the radio? Have you ever seen him/her? If no, then what do they look like (How do you picture them)?
Blonde/Brunette
Short/Tall
Thick/Thin
Glasses/Contacts/Neither
What do they really look like?
Does how you picture them have effect on how they actually look? No
*However, until you knew what they really looked like, you only had your mental picture to go off of. That mental picture was reality to you.
How about their hobbies, their personality, their likes and dislikes, their family, etc…?

Reality #1 = Something that is common to all. It is outside of you. Your perception of it, does not effect it.

Pink’s song “Family Portrait”
What is the situation that she is singing about?
Her parents have decided to get a divorce, and Dad is moving out.
What is real in this situation?
Her parents are getting a divorce
She has a mom, a dad, and some siblings
Her emotions (feeling of guilt – She promises to be better)
She believes that she is partially if not totally to blame for the divorce. That is what is real to her. That is her perception of the situation.
Is she right? No

Reality #2 = Something that is unique to you (your perception).

We all have a perception bubble. We take our perceptions of reality (whether we are right or not) and make them reality to us. What you might see as real, I might not. Example – Pink’s reality is that she is guilty. My reality is that she is not guilty.

We live in a world of alternative perspectives. What you perceive to be real is real.
Is that possible?

The perception bubble is a fantasy that we create out of ignorance or out of deliberate choice.

A Beautiful Mind.
What was his reality? What was true? He thought that he was a decoder for the government because of his mathematical genius. He was clinically insane. He suffered from a mental illness that drastically altered his perception of reality.
His reality was real to him, but in reality was a fantasy.

Take aways (Think about this)
What is your perception bubble?
What makes up your reality?
What is actually true?