What are my perceptions? They are my points of view and what I consider to be important. My beliefs, opinions and assumptions come from what I perceive to be true. My lack of awareness of how perception operates can lead me to misunderstand and misjudge other people's ideas and behavior. Some perception can be due to complicated experience and we need to take time to analyze them in the event we encounter them later in life.
             I believe some people have come across instances in which they are puzzled on how to comprehend an event or profess some belief in such a manner that appears so obviously untrue that they do not know what to believe. I hear of individuals being scammed out of thousands of dollars of their hard-earned money, individuals seeing space ships in the night, or believing that Elvis is still alive. Can these individuals be mentally challenged or do they have a different perception of reality? In most cases, these individuals are as normal as you and me, but I believe some of these perplexes can be understood if we ourselves better understand the nature of perception.
             Consider the common motion-sensing light. This system has a sensing device, usually an infrared light sensor. This sensor gives an electrical output when the received field of infrared light is changed. Such a change occurs when an object or person moves within the sensor's field of vision. At this point in the process, two important events have occurred: there has been motion and the sensor has responded with an output signal. No perception has occurred. We could assume that motion has been perceived when these two events occur in the human system. But
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             clearly, motion has not been perceived in our simple motion-sensing light system. (Ott, 2003)
             According to Ott (2003) "Human sensors are eyes, ears, and skin; interpreters are neural cell masses, such as the brain. Our sensors are much ...