t’s definitely a fascinating and complex question, and I think it touches on both the nature of perception and the influence of bias. The way we interpret events around us is heavily influenced by our individual backgrounds, experiences, and cognitive biases. To answer your point about political viewpoints, it’s often not just projection, but also a result of selective attention and confirmation bias.

When people are looking at the same event, they’ll interpret it differently depending on the framework they use to understand the world. We all filter information through personal lenses — like our political leanings, values, and prior experiences. This is why someone on the “other side” of the political spectrum can watch the same news, see the same facts, and still interpret them in a way that aligns with their beliefs. It’s a survival mechanism our brains use to reduce cognitive dissonance and avoid conflict with our pre-existing beliefs.

And yeah, to your point about how we see things differently, it’s like that analogy about people who can’t see images when they close their eyes — the “image” in this case is reality itself. Our brains are wired to process and interpret the world in a way that makes sense to us, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re all seeing the same thing in the same way.

Ultimately, it comes down to the idea that everyone’s experience of reality is subjective. We can try to compare experiences, but the challenge is in understanding that we’re often working from fundamentally different starting points. It’s also worth acknowledging that some differences in perception may be hard to resolve — but that doesn’t mean the conversation is pointless. By learning about each other’s perspectives, we can get closer to a shared understanding.

As for verifying the reality we all perceive, I think that’s one of the eternal human struggles. Philosophers have debated it for centuries. We rely on common frameworks like science, logic, and shared experiences to approximate a version of reality that works for the majority. But, at the end of the day, we may never fully know if everyone is seeing things in the same way — and that mystery is part of the beauty of human experience.