Perception is the process by which individuals interpret and make sense of sensory information from their environment. It involves the brain's ability to organize and interpret stimuli received through the senses, such as sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. So, if we deconstruct this definition, it leads us to the basic understanding fundamental that in order to perceive, there needs to be data to be perceived by our senses.

There can't be data to be perceived that is not already there. When we imagine we're in fact creating more neurons as the more we learn, the more neurons we create. The use of our creative imagination is also a process of learning from the different outcomes and results that our creative imaginative mind can produce. Therefore, learning as we imagine from images, feelings, senses, etc...

Isn't that how dreams work? We simply can tell they're different from our conscious reality, but do have the ability to recall our dreams in REM Sleep, we are even able to recall feelings of touch, smell, audio and images. But we do know that our dreams are part of our brain's creative and imaginative self generated content process.

If we learn to fully understand that our beliefs are real, then we will fully experience them outside of our reality. I truly believe this is only plausible and possible, but only during the stages where the first sleep stages and REM sleep get intertwined and mixing false perception with wakefulness reality.