Virtual tigers are in the individual's mind frames. What is
real to you? It is not things that happen around you or within you. What is
real is what you think about the things. Even though plenty of things happening
around you, you automatically and selectively pick up few events that are of
interest to you. Rest of the events will be discarded by your filter. This is a
selective attention. Even then the selected events will not get into your mind
as they are. They are coloured and projected to the mental screen how you
wanted that to be. This colouring is based on the life experiences and
individual faith & value system. So, it is a kind of double filtering
process that happens automatically.
Because of this double filtering process, the mind thinks in
a certain way. Since these filter and tint are different for different persons,
the mental projection for the individual's is different. Hence, they think and
act differently for the same incident. As said earlier, what one thinks that is
what is real to him and hence, he acts differently than others. If he thinks
that the incident present in front of him as a threat then it is one hundred
percent threat for him even though in reality the incident is absolutely safe.
Simply, because what one thinks that is what is real to him.
The entire system then follows the cues of his mind and
responds accordingly. If one feels the event is a threat then automatically
stress response kicks in followed by the whole array of the physiological and
psychological cascade of responses. This can be easily explained in the context
of a dream which many of us would have experienced at least few times. Let us
assume that one gets a dream where a tiger chasing him. The body reacts to this
thread by pumping up his heartbeat, increase the level of sweat gland, increase
the breathing rate and so on. Even though the threat is not real but still the
body reacts as if the threat is real. If one instantly comes out of the dream
to his consciousness, he can still feel those rapid changes and the body
reactions clearly.
This is how sometimes when the filter and glasses that are
used for the projection into the mental screen are not perfected then probably
one may live completely in a kind of a situation similar to the dream state. He
thinks the event is a danger while in reality, it is completely safe.
One may end up spending the entire life unrealistically if
the mental projection glasses and filter are not perfected
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