A single phrase can follow you for a lifetime. For me, it was this: Perception is reality. It was one of the first lessons drilled into me during Plebe Summer at the U.S. Naval Academy. It felt like a ...

The Mandukya Upanishad: The Four States of Consciousness and Their Impact on Perception The nature of reality has perplexed seekers for millennia, yet the answer has always been within—the self.

Reality isn't what you think it is. Everyday experience suggests that our senses inform us about what’s going on in the world around us. But recent advances in cognitive neuroscience suggest that we ...

Hallucinations are more common than we think, and they may be an underlying mechanism for how our brains experience the world. One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe ...

Some say that we fall in love with a person’s best traits, and we learn to live with their worst. But according to new research, there are certain qualities that prove almost impossible to the latter ...