Reality is subjective and depends on individual perceptions and interpretations of data received through the senses. When two people's perceptions of the same subject differ, conflicts can arise. Perceptions are shaped by many internal and external factors like experiences, expectations, language, education, and physical and psychological conditions. Narrowing differences in perceived realities requires open-minded listening to understand other perspectives rather than just analyzing information from one's own point of view. Maintaining one's comfortable perception of reality leads to resisting changes to their "stasis".

1. What is Reality? Reality in everyday usage means everything that exists. Reality is not what is “real”, it’s what we think is real.

2. When Two People’s Realities Differ About the Same Subject, then Conflict Occurs. But … but I was looking at the adorable dog she was walking. I saw you staring at that blonde girl!

3. The Perception Process data data Selecting Filter Sorting Filter Interpreting Factors data =REALITY A Comfortable Reality Becomes Your STASIS

4. We manipulate the data to give meaning to the information that has been selected Using all five senses: sight, smell, hearing, feeling & taste. We organize and prioritize the data so that certain information stands out over other information.

5. Selecting & Sorting Filters Data Affects how we recognize incoming data. Psychological Our physical condition affects what data we recognize. Physiological Language Creates an organizational system that allows us to understand messages. Learning and Education Shapes how we view our environment. Our first-hand informal learning activities. Experiences Expectations Perceptions that we expect to conform to what we already believe.

6. Interpreting Factors Closure Is the mind’s imperative to make sense out of its environment. Selective Perception Takes place when we narrow available cognitions to make an interpretation of the environment. Patterning Is the attempt to keep new or current perceptions in line with past ones.

7. Reality testing Our perception does not necessarily represent the one and only reality. Through communication, we begin to narrow the perceptional gaps that divide us. Women are from Venus. Men are from Mars.

8. One goal in argumentative process Narrowing the differences in perceptions

11. That is Reality