The Interpretive Veil

You know what nobody tells you about being human? You're not actually experiencing reality.

You're experiencing your nervous system's interpretation of reality. Right now, your brain is

taking electrical signals, light waves, pressure on your skin, and it's constructing

this entire world inside your skull. The tree outside your window? That's your brain's

rendering. The sound of my voice? A translation. Every single thing

you've ever known has passed through this invisible veil between what is and what you

perceive. And here's what gets me. We spend our whole lives trying

to see clearly, to understand truth, to know what's real. But we're always