What is reality?

[skygazer]

If you ask 20 different people to tell you about an experience they all shared 20 years ago, each of them will tell you a different story. Some of them will be totally different. People view things through their own prism, however they personally assimilate the information.

So which recollection is "right?" Are any of them? Are all of them? Are some more "right" than others?

There are several members of my family who shared some pivotal experiences but the versions of those events don't even remotely resemble each other. Right now, there seems to be no way to resolve that and hard feelings are involved. Thoughts or insights would be appreciated.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Reality and perception of reality are two very distinct things.

Memory is horribly unreliable as a measure of something that happened 20 years ago. Just because people remember something doesn't mean that memory is accurate.