How Do People Perceive Content?

Abstract

Generally speaking, and drawing from our early years of education, we might think that the way we perceive the world around us is as simple as what our senses tell us. We see, hear, taste, or smell something, and then we make sense of it. Even though that’s not necessarily wrong, it’s not actually right either. Although we do look at the world through our five senses (although we do have more, such as the sense of balance, sense of pain, etc.), what we see and what we understand from different stimuli tends to be a more subjective rather than objective process. In fact, it’s so subjective that sometimes what we see is not even real. It’s what our brain has decided is real for us at that given time.