{"id":3901,"date":"2023-05-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2023-03-07T12:48:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T12:48:17","slug":"the-cave-dwellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/14\/3901\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cave Dwellers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>She asked her mother, \u201cMum, mum, mum, what is real, real, real?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean, what is real, real, real?\u201d \u201cI mean without this echo, echo, echo.\u201d \u201cWhich echo, echo, echo?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right here and now is real, real, real.\u201d \u201cI see, see, see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then she understood, understood, understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hassel85__Matthias_cave_mother_and_daughter_standing_in_a_cave__321a631f-af9a-4edc-b4ca-cc2534aee1a8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hassel85__Matthias_cave_mother_and_daughter_standing_in_a_cave__321a631f-af9a-4edc-b4ca-cc2534aee1a8-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hassel85__Matthias_cave_mother_and_daughter_standing_in_a_cave__321a631f-af9a-4edc-b4ca-cc2534aee1a8.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hassel85__Matthias_cave_mother_and_daughter_standing_in_a_cave__321a631f-af9a-4edc-b4ca-cc2534aee1a8-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hassel85__Matthias_cave_mother_and_daughter_standing_in_a_cave__321a631f-af9a-4edc-b4ca-cc2534aee1a8-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Hassel85__Matthias_cave_mother_and_daughter_standing_in_a_cave__321a631f-af9a-4edc-b4ca-cc2534aee1a8-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The story \u201cThe Cave Dwellers\u201d demonstrates that what we perceive is determined more by our biology and biography than by objective facts, and that the feedback effects from both our sensory perceptions and our interpretations largely drown out what is allegedly real about the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(From: Stefan Hammel: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.stefanhammel.de\/startseite\/buecher-und-e-books\/fremdsprachige-buecher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Handbook of Therapeutic Storytelling. Sories and Metaphors in Psychotherapy, Child and Family Therapy, Medical Treatment, Coaching and Supervision<\/a>, Routledge 2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She asked her mother, \u201cMum, mum, mum, what is real, real, real?\u201d \u201cWhat do you mean, what is real, real, real?\u201d \u201cI mean without this echo, echo, echo.\u201d \u201cWhich echo, echo, echo? Right here and now is real, real, real.\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/14\/3901\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}