Actually, thinking about it right now pretty much destroys reality for me. I need real trees, real people, real earth, real air. Actual THINGS. To look at the whole of reality this way makes everything unreal. How can two people make love if all they are are images or constructs in someone's mind?

My take on it is that there is a common shared blueprint of reality, but each persons perception of that reality is coloured by their own emotional history and conditioning. They see what they know and don't see what is not in their experience.

People have different perceptions of reality. I insist that a person is a mean jerk, but many people totally disagree and says the person is really super nice and my perception is wrong. I state the the room temperature is too hot, too uncomfortable and other people tell me the temperature is not warm at all. So, whose version of reality is right?

We do both. We perceive reality, but never entirely objectively. The senses with which we perceive are easily fooled, and our perspectives act as filters that end up defining --to us-- the nature of what we perceive.

We perceive reality...