Or at least that’s what we used to say. You can trust your eyes and seeing is believing is what we were told, and that may be true to a point when you are looking directly at something with your own eyes, in the flesh as you might say. Not with a barrier or screen in the way. However, it is said that a witness is the weakest form of evidence, our eyes and mind can play tricks on us, the memory can distort, revise, forget things or just completely make things up, so should we really believe what we see? Even something that seems simple like colour, it not As It Seems, with some people what we call colour blind, who have a different range of what colours they can distinguish. But turns out that even what we considered ‘normal’ for colour isn’t, looked at more closely in my article Seeing Colours.
It really does depend what goes on in mind, when you consider they say our outward view of the world is a projection of all the input we receive from external stimuli, which is then processed internally to form that view.
In my article What You See, it discusses different versions of a veiled reality, viewable by way of sunglasses, mirrors and certain viewing tools, which give us the idea that we are not seeing all that is there to see. That we are hampered with our limited scope of view and require something extra to allow us a window or A Portal of sorts into that ‘other world’ that is happened around us, not just alongside us in some parallel dimension, although it is said that is occurring too.
Another one that turned out to be quite a fallacy is ‘the camera never lies’. Clearly, that was a lie to begin with, so that you believe what you think you are seeing. Which would greatly help to solidify a collective history, not just written, but with ‘evidence’ of the time, of the people, the story. And when some photographs look a bit off, or strange skies, or appear to be washed out, we just assume it is age and time and give it a pass. Allowing perhaps that original saying to do the thinking for us, and view the image as a Snapshot of reality, or what think was reality. Because we have seen it, or because we think we have seen it and cannot verify or check for ourselves. So, we allow ourselves to be deceived perhaps as it is easier than being left with nothing to work from or with.
People are known for Seeing Things Differently, having different viewpoints and opinions, and thinking in different ways. But to think so many are perceiving quite huge differences in thought, based on what they see, or think they see, then it makes it quite a feat that we even have a shared reality we mostly agree on. Or maybe that’s why it isn’t so cohesive anymore, because so much or what we are shown by way of a screen, is so heavily edited and manipulated, our skills or discernment haven’t quite caught up. Having had a rather long time to develop certain senses in person, for person-to-person contact, it seems we are bit naive and ill-equipped to deal with such a high volume of material, as well as the content of what we are told are people. With extra confusion entering the arena as mentioned in Seeing Double, Guess Who and Who’s Who?, of clones, masks, deception and other things to muddy the waters even further. And we knowingly allow ourselves to suspend reality for Music and Entertainment, thinking even then we know what we are seeing, because we have been told and are apparently ‘in’ on the illusion. And by volunteering our attention to it and playing our part as the audience, thinking we are separate and just watching, not quite realising that we too become part of the story…
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