Reality tunnel is a term coined by Timothy Leary (1920-1996) and popularised by Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007), akin to the idea of representative realism.
The theory states that, with a subconscious set of mental "filters" formed from their beliefs and experiences, every individual interprets the same world differently, hence "Truth is in the eye of the beholder".
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Famous quotes containing the words reality and/or tunnel:
“Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business. But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)