They can mislead us over the course of our entire lives. It isn’t just in bizarre dreams that our senses can fool us. We know they don’t exist, but still we can be fooled into thinking they do. Think of satyrs, the half-man, half-goat figures that we know from mythology. Of course, painters often combine ideas from life to create images of things that could never exist in the real world. Just as painters can make stunningly realistic images of life, the senses create vivid and convincing images in our mind. At least, until we wake up, and start to notice quite how bizarre and absurd those dreams were. Not ready to believe that? Just think about what it’s like to dream.ĭreams can feel incredibly real, so real that we rarely realize that they are just dreams. Our senses feed us a constant stream of tricks and lies too. What we can rely on, if it’s not other people, are our five senses: sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing. What would you do if one of your friends told you little white lies over and over again? After a while, you’d probably stop trusting that friend, and certainly not rely on them for anything important.
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