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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“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one—which is really the realm of the artist.”
—Frederico Fellini (b. 1920)
“It is the light
At the end of the tunnel as it might be seen
By him looking out somberly at the shower,
The picture of hope a dying man might turn away from,
Realizing that hope is something else, something concrete
You can’t have.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)