Category:Illusion

Illusion occurs when subjective perception does not correspond to the objectively given, external, physically ascertainable reality. As Goethe already remarked and as Rudolf Steiner also affirms, this is not actually a sensory illusion, but rather a false judgement of what is sensually experienced due to a processing of the sensory data that is not appropriate to the external reality. A genuine sensory illusion only exists if the sense organ itself is damaged.