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“In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.”

States Dream Differences Cases Special Essentials Perception Absence Waking Relative Input Sensory

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.”

Reason Artist Special Elements Perception Opposites Impression Objectives Tendencies

Book:An Outline of Philosophy

Source: An Outline of Philosophy

“Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.”

Force Wife Special Changed Perception Soldier My Wife Our Family Childbirth Special Forces

Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

“Most of the time, teachers who talk about the Middle East do not know the history, culture or present context of the problems they are discussing. So they go to the media, which quote government or academic "experts" (who often are no such thing) or journalists who, by virtue of working for the media, are supposed to know what they are talking about. In the end they know little or nothing beyond a standard line that reflects the perceptions of the US government and its special-interest supporters. That is what the students get. Indeed, that is what we all get.”

“Basically the job of a magician is to do impossible things that challenge the nature of the universe. And I think some magicians buy into that perception a little too much. These days that turns people off a little bit. I'm not a wizard. I don't have special powers. If I did, I would not be doing magic for a living!”

People Thinking Universe Challenges Impossible Magic Special Perception Magician

Author:Justin Willman

“It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.”

Ifs Humans May Feelings Reality Consciousness Psychology Special Particular Perception Currents Senses Objectives Human Consciousness

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.”

Humans Made Different Seems Today Speak Stars Special Perception Studios Exposed Movie Star

Author:Richard D. Zanuck