THE BUBBLE WE LIVE IN - SEPARATE REALITIES
The Psychology of Perception, Communication and Human Behaviour
What if you do not see the world – but only your own perception of it? Why do we pass by each other, even when we believe we understand?
THE BUBBLE WE LIVE IN begins with a simple idea: every person lives, in a sense, inside their own bubble.
That bubble is formed by our experiences, memories, emotional conditioning, expectations and unconscious patterns. It influences what we see, what we overlook and how we interpret what happens around us.
That is why two people can experience exactly the same situation and walk away with two completely different versions of what happened. Both were there. But both were also inside their own bubble.
This is how misunderstandings and conflicts arise, along with those peculiar conversations in which two people talk to each other and, by the end, both are absolutely certain that the other has understood nothing at all.
Which may well be because they are both right.
This book takes a calm but precise look at the invisible bubbles we carry with us – and at what happens when we believe we are talking about the same reality without noticing that each of us is looking at it from our own.
THE BUBBLE WE LIVE IN is for people who want to understand why communication fails, why misunderstandings intensify and why even people who know each other well can experience the same situation in completely different ways.
It explores perception and emotional conditioning, relationships and conflict, unconscious patterns and the question of how much of what we call reality actually lies before us – and how much is created inside our own bubble.
This is not a conventional self-help book. There is no method, no step-by-step programme and no technique for persuading other people to finally see the world exactly as we do.
That would probably be a fairly hopeless project anyway.
Instead, the book is about understanding our own perception more clearly and recognising that other people are looking at the same world through their own experiences, memories and emotional history. Seeing these connections may not immediately change the world, but it can help us understand why we so often pass each other by.
We do not live in the same reality. We live in different perceptions of the same world.
Bernhard Christoph Lichtinger writes from lived experience – from setbacks, detours, new beginnings and encounters that never needed to be invented. His texts begin where real life leaves its mark.
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