When I'm academically tired, I tend to become a philosopher *says "philosopher" with a high-class British accent*
I started wondering about reality.
I call myself a realist so why not think about it more?
When you look at pretty purple flowers (because that's when my thoughts came) are you really looking at
purple flowers?
I have heard that each person may see colors differently. My purple might not be the same as your purple.
But then, it got me thinking. What if all that we see wasn't actually what it was?
We are all limited to one perception, our own. We can only see through our own eyes and, based on our understanding of the world up until this point in time, only understand things based on what we already know from past experiences. If we see something that we have never seen before, we still understand it to some degree because we connect it to things we already know.
So. What I'm asking here is, what if all the things we thought we knew, weren't actually true? What if everything was not as it seems? (Swan Princess reference).
For example,