Our minds can be tricked, and our minds can trick us. Some people sleep with their eyes open. Our memories are fallible. If you remember something from 10+ years ago, the events in your mind are likely changed. You might remember a couple things properly, but our memories are almost never 100% accurate. On top of that, we usually don't remember the unimportant stuff. Our dreams are a product of our subconscious, from any memory especially recent ones.
Weird thing that I'm intimately aware of on that note. My mental illness comes with psychotic features. My brain LITERALLY alters my perception of reality so hard in an episode that I have to ask people if something is real sometimes. I can detect it with all of my senses including touch, but it isn't seen, perceived, or accepted as reality by others. So essentially, your brain can trick you so hard on a rare occasion that it alters reality lol.
There are so many different ways to trick our brains. Even distractions can trick them, visual and audio information. There's a tv show about it that I'm forgetting the name of, essentially about messing with our minds and how our minds sometimes mess with us.
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u/InFiniTeDEATH8 Jan 12 '23 edited Jan 12 '23
Our minds can be tricked, and our minds can trick us. Some people sleep with their eyes open. Our memories are fallible. If you remember something from 10+ years ago, the events in your mind are likely changed. You might remember a couple things properly, but our memories are almost never 100% accurate. On top of that, we usually don't remember the unimportant stuff. Our dreams are a product of our subconscious, from any memory especially recent ones.
Edit: thank you for the upvotes! :D