Saturday, March 8th, 2014
Singing along
I was walking along the beach with my sister. We were playing a game where one would begin singing and the other would join in, and vice versa, and so on. There were moments when I would not recognize the song (as in artist and title), yet I remembered the lyrics and rhythm and everything and would be able to continue the game. This made me think about the relationship between perception and interpretation, and the force of the unconscious. Apparently, sometimes, the unconscious can really play a more vital and active role than its misnomer may imply. Maybe the unconscious actually is more dominantly in our perception of the world, though the interpretation seems to rely more on the conscious.
For me, perception means the taking in of the stimuli raging around us, in the environment. It is the information, the knowledge, that we pick from around us, that we may or may not necessarily be aware of. Interpretation, on the other hand, is the bringing into consciousness of the stimuli that we collect. Even though I could not recognize the song, I knew somewhere deep inside what it was.
For me, perception means the taking in of the stimuli raging around us, in the environment. It is the information, the knowledge, that we pick from around us, that we may or may not necessarily be aware of. Interpretation, on the other hand, is the bringing into consciousness of the stimuli that we collect. Even though I could not recognize the song, I knew somewhere deep inside what it was.
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