How We Perceive Reality

What we see is the result of a processing of information signals into our brains. We have senses that are involved in our perception of reality.

We have 5 primary external senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching. These 5 senses feed data as stimulus into our brain. Objects are present in reality, and we form perceptual images or data stimulus. This is the first perceptual process from external reality that has the light in existence.

We have a 6th sense which is internal, and that is consciousness which emerges from our brain. The brain processes the data from our external senses and creates an internal perception as the light in consciousness, as the mind's eye that perceives.

External perception feeds into internal perception. We use our imagination in consciousness to create mental or phantasmal images of those objects. We create images in our mind's eye, as holographic light-projections that exist only internally in consciousness.

The external light of existence is perceived as more vivid directly, but with less clear knowledge seen. When we recreate those images by recalling them in our mind's eye, we imagine them and see them as a less vivid image, but we can abstract greater clarity of knowledge about it.

That is a basic model of how objects in reality are sensed and we perceive them to form memories that can be recalled and seen through imagination where we can connect these experiences and form greater knowledge constructs and concepts.