Why Do We See What We Think And Feel...But Seldom What We Are Looking At?

Answer 1

are mind dose the seeing for us and if we are feeling sad are mind is going to to feel sad and then we are going to see sad things i gees.

Answer 2

Best guess answer:

Because our senses are slower than our minds.

If you imagine that your mind is a computer with variable speeds based on the language input then optical data travels at a speed far slower that the computer can function.

It is like speed reading. You find out that your brain is capable of processing data at 14,000 words per minute , roughly, while the average person only reads at about 200 wpm. that can easily be increased to 2000 with training but comprehension may suffer.

Now, apply this to your mind and the speed of your conscious versus the speed of your subconscious which should be about the same until you factor int he governing mechanism of the conscious to allow for learning via those same senses.

Now go back to the computer which has to wait until you input all the data and then the question. The real delay is in the question and not the computation. Plus if the question is vague or improperly constructed then the answer will be skewed on way or another. In short, you asked the wrong question for the answer you were looking for.

So in the end it comes down to human error and human inability to just see and know without translation.

Best guess.

Answer 3

Clever answer from Antihero.
People wear "glasses" through which they see the world. These glasses are made of cultural expectations, social norms, mores and badly taught history. Everybody wears these glasses; it is the task of the enlightened person to take off the lenses and see the world (and one's self) as it all truly is. This is no small task and can actually take a lifetime to do.
Don't expect gratitude for doing it either. Just because you become free of racial prejudice doesn't mean that your neighbors are, and they're likely to find you annoying rather than inspiring.
On a simpler level, some people are just handicapped. I have a hard time finding something if it doesn't look like I imagine it looks like, and some people are born Republicans.

Answer 4

Probably because it's what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom! It's so much more satisfying to see a potential danger before or despite what your eyes tell you. Same thing with it's opposite. Your eyes tell you it's a worthless chunk of clear stone, your mind sees it's potential as a priceless diamond. Personally I need to use my eyes more! I've read into actions, and inaction so terribly that I wondered if my radar is off! My eyes see a rare gem, but, my heart says this is a smoke screen, run for the hills. Then I find out it "was" something of value, of positive substance, and I let it slip through my fingers.

Answer 5

I suppose it's because our thoughts and feelings get in the way of seeing exactly what we're looking at. There are so many layers of learned reactions to things that by the time we are typing away on YA, we hardly know it's a computer we see, not a page in a typewriter... or at least it can be that way for this oldster. ;-}
The main point I'm making is about those learned responses, which start at infancy. Those are what get in the way most of the time.

Answer 6

Well looks are deceiving we have all these feelings and emotions where we are not thinking coherently and people take advantage of that which we do not see so word to the wise study your objects extremely close and when it does not benefit your best interest or hurt you in anyway time to move on ......

The problem is we want to believe and create what we feel and think instead of looking at the cold reality right in front of our eyes that is the most painful to do and this could take years as I have learned my self hehehe from one own self evaluation no one else can tell us we must come out of that dark cave all by ourselves :)))

Answer 7

After looking at the answers, I feel that everyone is so thoughtful & benign. Sorry.
The reason lies not nearly so much in what we have been taught, our senses vs our minds, etc., but in the fixation on being RIGHT. The "hokey old, "There are none so blind as those will NOT see."
Normal, (not psychologically impaired), people are quite capable of seeing what they are looking at. Consciously or not, they don't "want" to see it. This is far more destructive than at first apparent. To the person who will not see, & all the links in the chain of consequences.

Answer 8

Because there is actually a physical 'closed loop' system that is causing this behavior. We generate a EM field dependent upon the 'defining emotional imprints' during early childhood, which are embedded as electrochemical (EC) triggers. Our brain responds to our own EM field (as well as others) with EC reactions (synapses) that fire up neural patterns of thoughts. Around and around we go. Waking up from this merry-go-round requires stabilizing the OBSERVER, i.e. awareness of being separate from the patterns.

Answer 9

We need a corresponding touch point in the brain. The Indians did not see Columbus' ships until it was explained to them what a ship was. They suddenly appeared, though they had been anchored in the harbor the whole time. And, we are not good observers today because of the clutter. peace

Answer 10

In the simplist of explanations...we see what we want to see. Everything that we see in this world is based upon our own unique perspective. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", "she sees through rose colored glasses", "it's all just shades of grey". We have all heard these terms. and they all mean the same thing. Our perspective is based on our experiences and is literally self-centered. To really center yourself, find peace, be enlightened however you want to word it, is just a stripping away all of the filters that we view the world through and this could take lifetimes of work. It's not easy, not for the lazy, definately not the accepted and definately not applauded but when your perspective begins to shift and everything in your world shifts with it, then you begin to see the truth.

Answer 11

In a crazy world, a little wishful delusion will help keep you sane. So we construe our experiences and memories to fit what we'd like them to fit, which is often what is expected and beneficial. People like being right because it makes life easier, and we like it so much that we sometimes vividly imagine and believe in it even when we're wrong. It's sort of like mental masturbation, fantasizing about what you don't have until their is a suspension of disbelief and you can derive pleasure from it.