Perception Lecture

Perception: The act of perceiving the ways in which we understand. 

In this lecture, we learned that there are two forms of Perception:

1. How we see ourselves

2. How others see us

We see ourselves through a psychological perspective meaning that we value ourselves through what we like,  how we feel, what we allow, thoughts that we attract in our mind etc.

It is "an awareness derived from our senses" as said in the lesson. 

How others see us is in "the ways in which we behave in response to our understanding of things"

Others might create a perception according to our behavior, how we react to different aspects of life such as love for example.

In this lesson we see how the main character Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams creates a fantasy for herself in order to block all the misfortunes that have occurred in her life. She perceives herself to be a woman who is adored by all men, by the fancy clothes/jewelry that she wears and how proper she is compared to her brother-in-law Stanley. Stanley on the other hand sees her as a pretentious woman who fakes it to seem as though she is better than everyone else.

In this lesson, I learned that it is important to acknowledge both forms of Perception so that the way we see ourselves does not lead to creating false fantasies and the way others see us keeps us grounded and aware of the reality of our surroundings.