Preception is defined as an opinion or belief a person has formed before they obtain enough information to form the opinion correctly. The lady in the picture sees circles because of the type of glasses she’s been given and wears so that the only things she sees is circles. Maybe circles soothe her psyche, or maybe she’d had circle glasses her whole life, so she doesn’t know stripes because they are foreign to her.

If you have never been exposed to stripes, it is difficult to identify with them because you’ve only been seeing circles. You’re familiar with their shape and different sizes, but most of all you are comforted because they are consistently round. Stripes extend into different directions to places you’ve never been.

Discomfort and unfamiliarity can cause some people to believe that everyone else should have similar characteristics as them because they are familiar and comforting. Anyone else is a danger to their world view. Why? It could be that there are fairy tales and urban legends they’ve heard, seen on TV (particularly the news), or read about. And because they refuse to leave their circles, they depend on those fairy tales and urban legends to guide them whenever they have to leave and maneuver among stripes.

If they don’t see the stripes based on the fairy tales and urban legends, then they make efforts to bend the stripes so that they too become circles. It’s sad that their world is only filled with circles, because there are many shapes that exist.