Keeping it real

Something happened.

We actually only perceive a percentage of what happened.

The percentage we could see, hear, taste, touch, and smell from our perspectives.

We don’t know all that happened or other imperceptible elements of what happened. Just what we perceived. Just the vibrations strong enough to discharge our receptors.

And yet, even what we percieve is not known.

We still need to combine the sensory input at the thalamus, run the input through our filters of bias and belief, and then give meaning to the experience that matches our worldview.

To make sense of it without turning our world upside down.

To keep things more or less the same.

To keep it “real”.

The funny part about keeping it real is that to keep something real, it had to be real in the first place.

And the only thing real from any of our perspectives are the stories we tell ourselves about stimuli we perceived in the moments we can remember.

The rest is just possibility.