Page 55 - Matter: The Other Name for Illusion

The Sense Of Distance Is Also A Perception
That Occurs In The Brain

Imagine a crowd on a street, with shops, buildings, cars, horns honking…
When you look at this picture it appears to be real. That is why most people
cannot understand that the picture they see is produced in their brain, and
mistakenly suppose that they see the original of all of it. The picture has been
created so perfectly that it is impossible to
understand that the image that they perceive
as real is not the original of the outside
world, but only a copied image which exists
in the mind.

The elements which make a picture so
convincing and impressive are distance,
depth, color, shade and light. These
materials are used with such perfection
that they become a three-dimensional,
colorful and vivid image inside the brain.
When an infinite amount of detail is

added to the picture a whole new world
emerges that, without realization, we
assume is real for all life, although we
only interpret it in our mind.
Imagine now that you are driving
a car. The steering wheel is at arms
length from you and there is a set of
traffic lights about 100 m (or 300 ft) in
front of you. The car in front of you is

about 10 m (30 ft) away, while there are
mountains on the horizon, which,
according to your estimation, would be
many kilometers (miles) away in the
A person driving a car believes that the
distance. However, all of these road and the trees he is driving past are
estimations are wrong. Neither the car far away from him. However, everything
he sees is actually on a single plane in
nor the mountains are as far away as his brain just as in a photograph.

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