Can someone explain to me the difference between perception vs. reality?

Question

DO you care about how your perceived? or do you only value what you know to be true about yourself?

Answer 1

An impeccable warrior does what he knows to be the right thing in any given situation regardless of what the onlooker may think.

Perception and reality on a larger scale may or may not be the same for everyone.  Perception is a judgment we make about a phenomenon that we are aware of. two people may beccome aware of the same phenomenon and perceive it differantly. A blind man will not have the same perception as a sighed man.

Answer 2

Here's the difference for me:  I care if I'm a good person in reality, but I don't give a d**n what people's perceptions of me are.  Of course, it does hurt to be talked badly of, but if you know you're a good person, does it matter?  I sometimes find myself caring about other people's negative comments, but then I tell myself that they just don't know me, and that's why they're saying it.

Answer 3

When you see the dog there is no change but when you see your lover at a party doing things you dont expect you will not see it all. Reality is refused by the stressed mind if it means erasing our hopes. We fight the real facts until we collapse into depression and are forced to see what is actually going on.

Answer 4

Reality doesn't matter, only how people perceive it. Of course your perception of how other people perceive become interesting. And you don't know something to be true about yourself you perceive it to be true in a reality thats open to interpretation. Of course, acting upon your interpretation of yourself can effect the way others perceive you (pheromones and other little subconscious dealies)

Answer 5

Perception will depend on perspective, personal development, and sense modalities. Reality is what is actually the case, regardless of perception.

Answer 6

Water is wet and rocks are hard。 Your perception does not change that。

Answer 7

Reality = what's true, Perception = how it's seen as

I must say, I do care about how others perceive of me. I used to think that how I think about myself would matter most, but I know, if I don't make a good impression on others, I would accept the fact (the reality) that I never made a good impression. They're almost connected. Reality can be more personal, perception can be both. So perception wins, in my opinion.

Answer 8

Perception is how you see it, reality is how it truly is.

Answer 9

Perception is theory

Reality is you experience it in real

Answer 10

Preception isn 't reality. And perhaps reality isn't reality.

Our preseption depends on our nuturing and also on our interpitation or what happens. Often, no two people see things the same. Most things are same perception. forinstance a tree is always called a tree. The majority of people would agree.

But, other things are up to perception.

I would say that reality is more apt to be reality if other people agree with you and that different perceptions often mean that you or the other people are in a start of a variety of perception.

There are so many variables that I cna't give a definate clear answer on this.

Answer 11

Reality is beyond perception, so what we perceive and call reality isn't real at all.

Answer 12

Perception = Ego (or the "I")

Reality = Id (or the "it)

Answer 13

Well, I perceive that you don't know the difference between "your" and "you're".

What is the big deal about the difference between the fact that the only thing we know of reality, what is really there, is our perceptions.  Even then our perceptions can play tricks on us or we can make wrong conclusions about reality because what we do with our perceptions is wrong.

No.  I could care less how others perceive me.

Answer 14

you've asked two distinct questions.

1a.  Reality is comprised of everything real.  In other words reality is made up of every manifestation of energy, from the slowest vibrating physical to the fastest vibrating spiritual, and everything in between, including astral and mental energy.

1b.  Perception is how we, well, perceive reality; or, what we take it to be.  The notion that reality is not important but only perception of it is important, is naive.  If a car is speeding toward you but you perceive it to stand still, you're in deep doodoo.  Insane people have extremely distorted perceptions of reality.  For us to make good decisions, we must first perceive reality clearly.

2.  Your second Q is not a philosophical issue.

Answer 15

Perception is how you view something....how you feel about it.   Reality is the actual experience.