Editing Reality tunnel (section)

==Considerations==
<blockquote>Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don't even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality. – Robert Anton Wilson<ref name="youtube video">{{cite web|last=Wilson|first=Robert|title=Real Reality|website=[[YouTube]] |date=4 January 2007 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZBDUJ0yiVg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/LZBDUJ0yiVg |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=23 July 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name=ambud-raw>{{cite web|last=Wilson|first=Robert Anton|title=Maybe Logic: The Lives And Ideas Of Robert Anton Wilson -- Illustrated Interview|url=http://www.american-buddha.com/maybelogictranscript.htm|publisher=American Buddha|year=2003|access-date=23 July 2011}}</ref> </blockquote>

The idea does not necessarily imply that there is no [[objective truth]]; rather that our access to it is mediated through our senses, experience, [[Classical conditioning|conditioning]], prior beliefs, and other non-objective factors. The implied individual world each person occupies is said to be their reality tunnel. The term can also apply to groups of people united by beliefs: we can speak of the [[fundamentalist Christian]] reality tunnel or the [[metaphysical naturalism|ontological naturalist]] reality tunnel.

A parallel can be seen in the psychological concept of [[confirmation bias]]—the human tendency to notice and assign significance to observations that confirm existing beliefs, while filtering out or rationalizing away observations that do not fit with prior beliefs and expectations. This helps to explain why reality tunnels are usually transparent to their inhabitants. While it seems most people take their beliefs to correspond to the "one true objective reality", Robert Anton Wilson emphasizes that each person's reality tunnel is their own artistic creation, whether they realize it or not.

Wilson—like [[John C. Lilly]] in his 1968 book ''[[Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer]]''—relates that through various techniques one can break down old reality tunnels and impose new reality tunnels by removing old filters and replacing them with new ones, with new perspectives on reality—at will. This is attempted through various processes of deprogramming using [[neuro-linguistic programming]], [[cybernetics]], [[hypnosis]], [[biofeedback]] devices, [[meditation]], controlled use of [[hallucinogens]], and forcibly acting out other reality tunnels. Thus, it is believed one's reality tunnel can be widened to take full advantage of human potential and experience reality on more positive levels. Robert Anton Wilson's ''[[Prometheus Rising]]''<ref>Robert Anton Wilson, ''Prometheus Rising''. New Falcon Publications, 1983, 262pp. {{ISBN|1-56184-056-4}}</ref> is (among other things) a guidebook to the exploration of various reality tunnels.