how is it possible that your perception of the  world around you depends more heavily on your  

subconscious mind's interpretation of it than  it does on perceiving the world as it exists  

how can two people have a completely different  experience of the exact same thing in this video  

at on the mind we are going to look at how  the subjective lens of the subconscious mind  

influences our experience of reality objectivity  in our previous video titled what is the  

subconscious mind which you can check out by  clicking the link at the top right of your screen  

we talked about how we each have a subjective  experience of the objective world around us  

this is how two people can have a radically  different experience of the exact same thing let's  

look at an example imagine two people we will say  john and elizabeth are on a walk and it suddenly  

begins to rain john looks up at the sky and curses  the rain as he shakes his fist at the clouds  

no it's raining he says as john curses the sky  elizabeth takes off running and jumps in puddle  

after puddle throws her hands up in the air and  yells yes it's raining you see objectively it  

is raining nothing more or nothing less the rain  will continue coming down regardless of how either  

john or elizabeth feel about it and it would have  rained whether they were there to experience it  

or not it exists independently outside of their  perception of it the fact that it is raining is  

holy objective but john and elizabeth each have  their own personal experience of this objective  

reality in terms of how it relates to them  and this is known as the subjective experience  

subjectivity as thoreau once beautifully said it  is not what you look at that matters it is what  

you see how john and elizabeth feel about the rain  exist solely in their mind and nowhere else their  

subjective experience of the rain is fully based  on or influenced by personal feelings or opinions  

they have gathered from their past experiences  for example what if john is an avid golfer if  

he likes to play golf daily there is no wonder  why the rain is a negative thing to him because  

his hobby is interrupted by it in his mind he has  labeled the rain a barrier that stands between him  

and what he wants to be doing during that time on  the other hand maybe elizabeth is a meteorologist  

with ongoing research related directly to  rain to her rain offers data and insight  

that she can use on her most current work when  she sees rain she sees opportunity but when john  

sees rain he sees opportunity being taken away so  just as john has his reasons to despise the rain  

elizabeth has her reasons to adore it but  in either case rain is just rain and it  

will forever hold on to that objective quality the  only subjective quality of the rain in our example  

is how jon and elizabeth feel about it but  objectively it is just rain a thought experiment

the next time you experience rain try to  experience it as just that rain regardless of  

how it affects you or your plans and regardless  of how you initially feel about it just allow  

it to be rain you do not have to feel any more  than that if you practice this enough you will  

soon find that you have a new appreciation for the  simplicity of rain you will realize that there is  

no need to cast judgment and form opinions about  everything we experience in our day-to-day lives  

this perspective can be applied far beyond your  judgment of the weather as well but although we  

can separate ourselves from the subjective lens of  our mind for brief moments with enough perspective  

it's quite impossible to toss it away altogether  the world we perceive subjectively is created  

and largely influenced by the information we've  stored in our subconscious mind these beliefs  

and prejudices are based on our experience from  the past and can never be downright discarded but  

they can certainly be altered to the extent that  we learn to control the impulses they bring forth