Lehal Library

But in general people do something like this all the time. When they encounter something they do not understand, they tend to interpret it in ways they do understand, and they arrive at an interpretation which really doesn't have much to do with what was experienced. "In others words, they process the unknown through what I call their 'realityhoppers' and come up with something that fits their present realities - but which may not, and probably does not, pertain to the actual reality of what they experienced. "People fill in the unknown with what fits with THEIR known. "The proof here exists in the fact that when five people are shown something which is outside their experience, one of them might say that they don't know what it is. "But the other four might produce four different explanations of what they saw. "For example, you called that thing an 'object'. But what I saw materialized, grew in place, and I suppose dematerialized after we tumbled down the rocks and dirt. "It may have achieved an object status at one point, but to my way of thinking this was an 'appearance1 rather than an object. "A shifting-appearance at that. "A full part of the problem is that it is a REALITY problem FOR US. "That thing is outside my reality-experience, and so if you keep asking what I sensed, I am quite likely to begin seizing on overlays to explain it to accommodate you, "For example, I used the phrase 'space displacer', but X really don't know what that would be or consist of." Axel twisted in his seat to get more comfortable- "In other words," he commented, "you assess what you experience only within the terms of what you already have experienced, is thst it?" "Pretty much so. Certainly so in experimental tests of remote-viewing, clairvoyance, and sometimes even telepathy. "But this is a KNOWN phenomenon understood in psychology for quite some time. The only thing is that this understanding is not generally applied to human understanding on a broad scale. "If it was broadly applied, then it would have to be admitted that what most people believe would turn out to be little more than reality-hopper 'explanations' of what they hadn't understood in the first place. "We explain what we do not understand THROUGH whatever we think we DO understand. "I certainly do not understand what I saw at the lake, and I think it is the better part of valor to admit it."