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How Perception & Beliefs Shape reality

When I was a kid I would go on joy rides with my dad to the beach at night and I would look at the moon and think it's following me. My perception and observation made me believe that it was following me but in reality it wasn't. It felt real because my perception told me so—no matter where we went, the moon seemed to stay in the sky, right alongside me.

However, the moon wasn't moving with me; it's so far away that its position appears constant relative to where my perspective was on Earth.

This is an example of how our mind interprets what it sees to make sense of reality, even if the interpretation isn't accurate.

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