Pigeon and Peacock Vision | Stressed Perception
Hawk Vision | Pigeon and Peacock Vision | Chicken Vision
| Swan Cuckoo and Parrot Perception
To devote us to brute survival struggle, “stress forces” feed us an impression of others as characters coloured in by special effects; whether those of compulsive desire
(“the good” and “the decent”); of fear
(“the dangerous”); or of anger
(“the bad”). These labels reflect the usefulness or threat that different persons apparently might offer us in terms of our survival prospects.
As a consequence, our world - starting with our perception of the world - can become rigged as a made-up matrix, with reality being divided up by “PIGEON vision” into distinct pigeonholes, and society fracturing into tribes and cliques.
By this means, stress can leave our mind closed and our perspective narrowed. As part of the deal, we can become so opinionated and full of ourselves as to be “proud as peacocks”. Then again, for those of us lower down the pecking order, stress can just as readily make us vest our “confidence” in some adopted hero or figurehead.
Either way, to be taken under the wing of fear etc.
can make us so focused on just our most narrow concerns - and so lost in “PEACOCK vision” - that we lose all sense of proportion and context, along with any real interest in what lies outside our head. As such, reality itself can end up unnoticed by us.