Chapter 8Feeling
We believe what we perceive
‘Perception is reality’ is a mantra I hear on quite a regular basis, which is a refrain used as a caution to us when we’re struggling to understand why the facts that seem self-evident are viewed in a different light by others.
However, as Jim Taylor Ph.D. stated in a Psychology Today article,1 ‘perception is NOT reality’.
He then explained the dictionary differences:
Perception: The way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting something; a mental impression.
Reality: The world or the state of things as they actually exist… existence that is absolute, self-sufficient, or objective, and not subject to human decisions or conventions.
This means that the former is ...
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