of life Pyrrhonism seeks to overcome these conditioned realities by inducing epoche (suspension of judgment) through skeptical arguments. Constructivism is a modern psychological response to reality-tunneling. For Wilson, a fully functioning human ought to be aware of their reality tunnel, and be able to keep it flexible enough to accommodate, and to some degree empathize with, different reality tunnels, different "game rules", different cultures.... Constructivist thinking is the exercise of metacognition to become aware of our reality tunnels or labyrinths and the elements that "program" them. Constructivist thinking should, ideally, decrease the chance that we will confuse our map of the world with the actual world.... [This philosophy] is currently expressed in many Eastern consciousness-exploration techniques. Another example is Lacan's distinction between "The Real" and the "Symbolic". Lacan argued that the Real is the imminent unified reality which is mediated through symbols that allow it to be parsed into intelligible and differentiated segments. The symbolic, which is primarily subconscious, is further abstracted into the Imaginary (our actual beliefs and understandings of reality). These two orders ultimately shape the way we come to perceive reality. See also 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness Allegory of the Cave Altered state of consciousness Collective consciousness Collective unconscious Consensus reality Consensus theory of truth Cosmic consciousness Direct and indirect realism Fake news General semantics Idealism Ideasthesia Intellectual scotoma Paradigm Perspectivism Phaneron Phenomenology Philosophy of Perception Sensorium Schema (psychology) Social constructionism The Social Construction of Reality Self-concept Theory of Mind Tunnel vision (metaphor) Umwelt World view References Further reading Thomas Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self. Basic Books, 2009, 288pp. . P. D. Ouspensky, The Fourth Way: A Record of Talks and Answers to Questions Based on the Teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff. (Prepared under the general supervision of Sophia Ouspensky). New York: Knopf, 1957; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957. External links How our reality tunnels allow us to see only certain things Robert Anton Wilson discusses reality tunnel concept (MP3; 11m) Belief Consciousness studies Community building Popular psychology Reality Social constructionism Timothy Leary Robert Anton Wilson