Do you see the world as it is? Well many would say obliviously , so long as there is light. But What if I told you can only see a small portion of the world at a time; and even that small portion dose not tell the whole story.
One may think that they can see their whole field of view at any given time. But your brain fills in the gaps, such that you can only focus on a small portion of the world. This portion is about the size of your thumb at arms length. But how is it possible that I can “see” more. Well your brain remembers what was there.
Even though your brain only processes a small part of the world at any given time, that small part is not even the whole picture. Well what if I told that you see the world differently than a bee, well that is not to say that you cannot see a flower while a bee can. But you and the bee would see a flower differently. So, if you and a bee see a flower differently, then what dose the flower look like.
That fact that we can be aware of our surrounding at all is what some scientists would call consciousness, and the principle that we cannot see what the world truly is, is the core concept in the PBS Nova Documentary “Your Brain: Perception Deception”. Where the way our brain takes shortcuts based on what we expect the world to look like, in order to allow us to survive. Though now a days we tend to argue over what color a dress is: “Blue & Black or White & Gold”, rather than trying to avoid danger.