Can we control our perception?

Question

I believe that perception is reality and reality is perception. That everything I percieve with my senses is all me. That we are all one and we are all interconnected. That scientifically everything is nothing. Just waves of energy and information flying back and forth. Okay, my question is can we control our perception? When I come across someone I don't like, did I actually create this person? I guess I just need some more simpler explanations cause I'm a little confused haha.

Answer 1

It's all in your head, even your head is a figment of your imagination.







This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual structure of an atom and the scale and placement of its components. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons and protons form a dense cluster at the center of the atom and that the electrons orbit in such a way that huge spaces exist between them and the nucleus it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space at any given moment.



This alone does not seem too important until you add the idea that the atoms that make up many seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.



At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that could be thought of as 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that may not be the seemingly solid objects they appear to us to be.



We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.



These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.



From this one could conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turns them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.



I want to add that this is based on my own personal way of looking at the situation and was never intended to be a physics lesson.





Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

Hello Hanna,



You are asking very serious and reasonable questions.

Our perception is controlled by our ego. We judge/perceive the world around only from what-is-there-for-me point of view. It limits us.

Once we agree to rise above our ego, we’ll experience an additional reality, the one outside of our 5 basic biological senses. It’s called spiritual reality. There is a method allowing us to do so. Please check links below for more info. All the best!



http://www.youtube.com/user/ARIfilms#p/c/C2232EE7CA97FAD3/0/0drT_L4G8w8

http://www.questionyourreality.com/

Answer 3

Yes, I believe so. Your perception is your reality; mine is my reality. I think that's where conflict comes in. If you and I look at a painting, do we see the same thing and do we both like it? You may think it's ugly and I think it's pretty. What is your perception of a Catholic priest?



Our upbringing and environment influence our perception but we have our own perception as well.



I don't think we create the things we perceive. We create our perceptions.

Answer 4

the answer is it depends. if the information you have seems to say you can then you can. if the information seems to say no then you cant. the is no such thing as 'real'. therefore its best not to worry. everything is relative.



we dont create our perceptions, our perceptions create us. so to answer the question about the person. yes and no. you did create them yet you didnt. the objective should be to locate the relativity amongst reference points.

Answer 5

Perception is the end result of sensory inputs to the brain, where they end, at which point in time consciousness "perceives" the result. Perception is the reasoned recognition that "something exists" as demonstrated by empirical sensory inputs to the brain.



This is proved by one type of blindness, in which the eyes are healthy, the nerves to the brain is healthy, and the brain is healthy at the point where the sensory input ends. But there is no perception of the experience. The function of the brain that turns the sensory input in perception is not working.



By your theory that perception is reality, the person with that sort of blindness would have no reality that "sight experiences can exist if doctors fix my brain."



Or is it that he has no reality that things may be perceived because he himself cannot perceive? Wouldn't that be like saying there is no reality that people can sing opera because I can't sing opera?



I've never really understood that phrase that you begin your statement with. Reality is that which we perceive; but we don't know what that reality is until such time as our powers of reason (epistemology and metaphysics) determines what it is. The first time we see a glow worm we don't know its a glow worm--unless we have heard of them and think of it when we see it.



The first time we perceived light being bent while looking at a very distance star, we didn't know it was a planet or a large moon doing the bending--or a black hole, either, till we figured out what that was.



Perception is only the physical experience at the point where the experience ends in the neurology of the brain; at which time higher powers of consciousness than mere perception must determine the nature of those perceptions.

Answer 6

Not consciously. Beyond getting deliberately high/drunk.

Answer 7

control the mind and you will control everything.

Answer 8

that and our own reactions to things are about the only things we truly have control over anyway.

but no, when you come across a person you do not like it is likely they remind you of someone who was mean to you or they just seem not right to you. we have instincts that warn us of dangerous people. more than once has that "bing" in my head kept me from real harm. or sometimes from somebody who's personal traits clash with mine.

Answer 9

Houdini has a point. Our perception is 90% subconscious, so it controls us most of the time.

Answer 10

Here is the thing.

If you can not control your perception/reality (as you indicate that these two term are equivocal or basically the same thing) then you do not actually have any free will unless you can simply think something into existence.

That is to say that everything you encounter is subject to the will of something else, that is the only way we would be able to explain why you can not manifest things by the power of thought alone.



Because if perception is reality then you should be able to think things into existence by effort of cognition alone.

If it is not possible for you to simply think something into existence (like right now I am thinking of a two headed dragon) then we are forced to conclude that perception and reality are NOT equivocal terms and there is at least in some part a distinction that must be made from what is called real and what is called perception.



If you are asking how to resolve the problem of philosophical zombies.

Then I would say that if others were in fact automatons designed to simulate consciousness, then you would not be able to learn anything from because they are only programed to simulate consciousness, if they are all designed uniquely and it is possible to obtain information because they are each unique simulations of consciousness then it is really no different from claiming that they are conscious entities.

Also if you are able to miscalculate or have doubt about what a philosophical zombie is thinking or how they behave then it is reasonable to assume that they are unique simulations if they are simulations and if they are unique simulations then it is really no different than saying that they are unique conscious entities.





If you are talking about the secret...then oh boy...lol



Here is the thing, while it is true that wave particle duality is demonstrable.

And that theoretically everything can be reduced to a finite basic variety of constituent parts.

Then it consciousness would have to be an physically undetectable force of super agency that is not bound by physical laws if it is supposedly possible to willing initiate a wavefunction collapse.

Not only that but there would have to be an infinite number of possible collapse arrangements and an infinite number of wave states for this to be possible.



Because we can demonstrate the universe is at least to some degree finite (evidence indicates that matter and energy in our physical universe has not existed for eternity and is limited by a set of discrete magnitude densities) , then we can readily falsify the alleged "science" that is used to prop up this almost absurd notion that people can think things into existence.

While it may be true that we can direct some of the events in our lives and this is a result of the fact that we are seemingly able to direct and be aware of different possible course of actions we have to chose from.



It is a huge leap to suggest that the universe is just a projection of our own personal imagination.



However there is really now way to prove this to you unless you adopt an epistemological standard.

That is to say, you have to have some burden of proof, before that burden of proof can be satisfied.



And further it is not really my job to convince you that reality is not the same thing as perception as there is plenty of reason to suggest that this is not the case.



So if you are going to make the most incredible claim that you manifest things into reality simply by consciously directing your will and expect that it should be respected as anything even remotely close to truth.

Then you should be able to demonstrate to the skeptic that it is true.

And believe me such an incredible claim would have to have some incredible evidence before I am convinced.



You know considering how much my previous experience seems to indicate otherwise regarding this suggestion that reality is the same as perception.



I am a perception, no, no I am not, and if I am then show me why I should believe that I am.

Answer 11

F*ck, I don't think anyone knows. I for sure won't say I do. On one hand perception is controlled every day, our parents for one do it all the time. Follow the rules of society and you have a one way ticket to 'the real world' - what is the perception of the world as a whole. Bills, debt, taxes. That is the reality. That is the perception. It's control baby. To keep an order in the chaos.



On another note... Let's say we meet. Better yet, we go on a date. I take you places I want to go, places I want to eat, places where I can rock out with my cock out. In other words, I suck you into my world. My reality. I change your perception of things for that night out. And the next morning your back to your old self. You don't know what were you thinking and your reality is your own again. Does that sound like it can make sense? Hell, I don't know, I hope so. I guess I'd like to say you can and can't control perception. It really depends.



If you don't like someone, it basically means you don't like somone. Sh*t, I don't like half the people I meet. So I don't give it too much thought, can't help you there.



Anyway I'll finish this bable here, go to bed, get some beauty sleep.

Answer 12

Yes. For that we have to constantly practice mental control. It is a difficult exercise for man to do.



I feel a man sitting idle may not become wise. Only when we get lot of confusions, doubts and fears, we try to explore the ways and means to tackle them and get more and more knowledge.

Answer 13

If you ever get drunk, or take a hallucinagen like LSD or DMT youll see just how flexible perception is.

Answer 14

you come across someone you dont like because you judged them by the way they look

Answer 15

Yes.