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Date Posted: 00:30:04 08/30/04 Mon
Author: siempre
Subject: expectation = perception

Recently, I hurried through a large park thinking how fear might impact how we perceive "our world and ourselves within it". Suddenly a memory of an article in a newspaper popped into my mind. It was about a person bitten by a venomous snake in a park just like this. Instead of shrugging it off as I usually do, I pushed my thought to revolve around it. I "worked myself into" a peculiar state of fear and the pleasant park turned itself into an ominous place. My eyes were searching the ground for signs of a snake. My steps were hesitant and pace slow despite the hurry. I was perfectly aware that all those changes were caused by my deliberate pushing of my thoughts to revolve around that article, but it still took me a while to get out of it. (Of course - there was no snake whatsoever - but the whole way I perceived my surroundings had dramatically changed.)

from an article posted at...
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