Senses

I love sweet food; I'll eat anything with sugar in it. Whenever I make hot chocolate for my friends they think it's super gross and don't understand how I can drink it because there is so much sugar in it. This is one example of how people taste things differently. It's so weird how somebodies favourite food is somebody else's least favourite. Like with all our senses, we only know how we see and hear and feel things, but you can never know if other people are seeing or hearing or feeling the same things in the same way.
Some questions that arise from this observation:  Is there any such thing as "good" food or "good" flavours, or is it a matter of opinion? Does everyone taste things the same way, or when we eat the same thing are we tasting something totally different than each other? Do all of our senses work in this way, where everyone's perceptions are different?

Reality

From Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", I learned about perception and the concept of the way we perceive things isn't the way everyone is going to perceive them. Everybody has their own truth; everybody has their own reality. The people in the cave knew nothing except what they saw on the walls, and so that became their reality. One of the cave people is "enlightened" and shown the "true reality", but that doesn't mean that the reality of the cave people is any less "true". In terms of wisdom and knowing, it doesn't mean that they are any less intelligent. In terms of sight, vision, and blindness, the cave people were not blind to the reality. They were blind to a reality, but there can be more than one. They saw and learned what they could in their own reality. They didn't know less that the people who were free; they knew different.

In our modern world, different people have different realities too. We have different concepts of reality in different places in the world, within different cultures or religions, and within different groups or clubs or any kind. No reality is untrue, and no reality is the "correct" one. Everyone lives within their own reality, and they are all equally true. It all depends on what you see and what you know.

My cave drawing represents the two contrasting realities of technology and nature.