1. Discovering Our Reality Chapter 5 By Laura Maceri

2. “The perception process is the method we use to create our reality from our environment” The environment is what is actually surrounds you. Reality is what or how you think of your environment Perception is the brain trying to explain what is going on, thus creating our reality Reality is not real; only your actual environment is real.

3. Through perception, realities are created.

4. We select data from our environment Our five senses allow us to be stimulated by the environment. We are exposed to a variety of stimuli at any given time. Some stimuli is filtered out, while other information is received.

5. The stimuli that we select is what brings about our awareness. For example: temperature, hot or cold, noise, pain, etc…

6. Organizing and Prioritizing Data The organization of information received is unique to each individual For example: Beauty

7. Interpreting the dataBrings meaning

8. No two people share the same reality

9. “the belief that one’s own reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions” Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

10. Reality is not “real”, its what we think is real Fairy God Mother

11. Environment or Reality? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FahBBnfHAQ People use the internet to create and build friendships and relationships. These virtual relationships stimulate the senses in a way which look and appear real. Check out the Face Book Parody at the link to the left. It offers humorous insight to falling in love on the web.

12. Virtual Reality An artificial environment using a computer and hardware. Virtual reality use computer technology to create the effect of a 3 dimensional world in which objects have a sense of spatial presence.

13. Virtual Exercise Wii Fit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdNOfPesj2s d

14. Virtual Reality - People Won't Need To Leave The House/Cell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlBgIO6Mp9A