The big idea: do we all experience the world in the same way?

We mistake our immediate perceptions for the world-as-it-is – but really, our conscious awareness is a moment-by-moment model, a constant process of re-appraisal and re-integration with the world as it presents itself to us. In this way, our internal model of the world, our consciousness, shapes the world in the same way and just as powerfully as a

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Perception is a controlled hallucination.1 When you perceive the world, you do not simply see what is in front of you. Instead, your brain predicts what you will see. You hallucinate reality. But the hallucination is controlled , because the prediction is measured against the input you receive from your eyes and your ears and if it is too far off, ... See more

You see, the Buddha claimed we’re are all deluded, that we don’t experience reality as it really is. Modern science backs this up, with a lot of studies showing that most of what we experience is actually constructed by our brain.

In short, we take in pieces of sensory experience and our brain puts together the bigger picture based on what it expect

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