Experiencing Reality
 

The older I've gotten the more aware I am of the differences in each of us that make up reality as we know it. This article discusses a lot of different perceptual differences, starting with the "what color is this dress" thing that was big a few years ago (black and blue? or white and gold? why such different opinions on what should be fact??).
https://aeon.co/essays/the-moral-imp...al-experiences

A lot of the article is that we assume that the way we process the world is the same for everyone and we aren't aware of things we aren't aware of... like it never occurred to me that other people didn't have deteriorating vision because of how I experience the world and it never really occurred to any of my doctors to explain to me that I was different. I do think I could have been diagnosed decades earlier than I was after decades of often radically different prescriptions.

I do know particularly that my husband and I don't think alike in a lot of ways. He is better at some things, and I am better at some things, and on some things we are just different.

I watched this PBS/NOVA episode that talked about this as well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU6LfXNeQM4

Fascinating! Really makes you think.

Watched part of the presentation then book marked the NOVA presentation. Will view the rest later. Thanks for the link. Just what I can use in one of my university classes. Yea!

Who knew that I would find course content on a quilting site! ;)

I know right? The episode kinda rocked my world...

Interesting. I remember when someone told me they never dreamed in color. I thought everyone did.