If perception is reality then...we do get lost in our own little worlds.

Are you familiar with Lester Loborsky's work regarding how we subconsciouslyy or pre- consciously avoid seeing what we don't want to see ?

So very true, especially in the media. As a cop, I often read news articles on calls I was on and think, "where the hell (figurative, not literal) did they get that story, thats not what happened at all!

You may be right. I DO smoke alot of weed.

I've heard it said this way: "We don't see the world as it is, but as we are."

Well that will certainly mess with your head. If your perception is not what's actually occurring you need to find out why that is unless you don't care. If that is your reality you should check with a couple other people and see what there's is. We certainly know that at least 35% of the United States has a different perception of reality than what actually is, because they listen to the snake oil salesman in chief.
For many of those who have posted that they agree with this suggestion, I would beg to differ. There's a difference between what your opinion is about what's occurring and whether it's occurring or not.

I love this quote. I'm not sure if it's entirely true, but I can tell you this: I have experienced relating an event and then having more than one person who was at that same event seeing something entirely different. There's another quote I love: Believing is seeing. And it is. Whatever you believe definitely colors and tilts what you see.

It's true, we live in the world we perceive, that's all any of us can do

A truism.
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When people say to me, "I know what I saw," I usually just say, "No! You know what your brain told you you saw."

No two people see the same event in exactly the same way. I frequently found this out when my husband and I would reminisce on past events!

I've said it forever...perception is reality... That's why narcissist behavior is so hard to deal with... It's because they TRULY believe what they're saying even if it's a lie... It's their perception of what happened...

Realitiy => imperfect senses => imperfect perception => imperfect assessment / understanding = need for epistemological humility, skepticism, and critical thinking.

We see because light waves hit our optic nerve. We hear because sound waves hit our ear drums. We feel because the nerves in our flesh are stimulated. So the world, as we perceive it, is in our heads.

Our senses are fooled all the time, and there are different scales of size with enormously different roles in our reality that we just cannot perceive. So, this makes a certain amount of sense.

It is a true quote because we are all different and see things differently. I dislike Trump and would not go across the street to see him but he recently said "what you are seeing and what you are hearing is not what is really going on." I'm sure he wants to tell you what to believe but his quote is exactly correct.

I think the quote is just referring to how we perceive what's really going on. Psychologically, our perception of what happened can change our reality. Two people can experience the exact same event, but their perception can lead to two completely different stories, all of which is influenced by the beliefs, values, moods, etc. that they project onto what they perceive as reality.