Everyone Sees Things Differently


We human learn about our surrounding with our senses.

Everything we see, hear, touch, smell, taste etc. is like an input to our brain, just like we type on keyboard to input text into computer.

And everytime we receive information from our senses, we compare it to our big old "database" we have up in our brain.

It will try to find a similar or closely resemble match to give it a meaning, associate the info we received with a feeling.

Before the brain could process it or match it with anything familiar in our brain, the info is pretty much useless, meaningless, we will not exhibit any emotion towards that info.

Once our brain finds an close match to our "database" aka. past experience, then we will perceive that information with the knowledge we have on past event, and try to translate the new information into something we know/ we thought we know/ we make up to know.

And only then, that piece of information that our senses picked up from our surrounding, becomes meaningful, something we understand, something we will exhibit feeling towards.




Imagine a child, who has never heard the word "idiot".

Then someone shouts at the child, "You're an idiot!", the child could not process the information, the word "idiot" was never in their database, they can't feel the anger from the speaker, nor they feel anything towards the word "idiot". How would they response?

Probably showing them their blank face ._.

But once they know what "idiot" meant by the person who shouted at them, they feel bad, why? Because they now know the word, which makes them feel bad, and everytime they heard the word they feel bad.



So, before we can match it with our database, everything we see, heard, and other senses, it is just a piece of information.

But we always see so many stuffs in daily activities, how can out brain cope up with info received? Does it compare with our database in superfast speed? Probably not.

In fact, we have a filter that helps reduce the input to our brain. The filter deletes, generalises, distorts all the information we get from our senses, then our brain can process the filtered info, which is what our mind is focusing on.

Depends on how our filters work, everyone has the filtered information in a different way, even when two people going through the same experience, see and heard the same thing.


Everyone has a unique mental filter, that developed through their experience, knowledge, things they want to focus on, and some other factors.

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