Its a tricky thing, perception, isn't it? We tend to perceive based on what we already know.
Upon meeting something that beats our knowledge or imagination, we usually don't bother or boo it down.
Its quite the opposite of the cycle of diminishing returns; cycle of increasing returns, if I may call it so.
The more substantial stuff you know, the more you perceive not only through your vision but through all of your senses and as a result you increase the blob of your knowledge. Which then increases your desire to know more and then you perceive more and so on...
Very similar to how the body of a child grows physically.
Now, you need light and eyes for vision but for perception, you also need a mind.
A mind that is open to anything, vulnerable, inquisitive, relational and at the same time unattached. The mind of a child.
A child does not find monotony in regularity, he finds something new to explore every time he sees people, places, things, just because this new edge to various things existed always and remains to exist.
The Large Hadron Collider in the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN collides particles to form the finest kind of light.
This light, they say will reveal a world unknown to human eyes, the extra fine particles that create light (photos, as proven by Broglie) will bring about a different reality as it were.
In the allegory of the cave, Plato conceptualizes a world of shadows where three figures stand facing a wall in a cave on the opposite side of the source of light. They see their own shadows and perceive that as reality. They dot the i's and cross the t's defining rules for that world of shadows. One of the chaps, one day, finds out about the other world and facing the source of light and discovers that the world that he had given his life to is merely a world of shadows.
You can read the rest in The Republic where Plato had elaborated this allegory or in your own head full of imaginations, depending on what you want the end of the story to be!
So, we've thrown in quite a bit of a mix to understand the basics of understanding. You need a source of light, you need a window to seep the reflection of the light inside yourself,that's your eyes and you need a mind. You can then tweak the configurations of all these ingredients to a degree more or less, to reach a calibration of understanding or reality that you want around yourself.
But is that really all? What about the things around you, what if these 'things' are inherently incapable of reflecting the fine light produced?
Also, no matter how far you go to seep the light inside you, does it cover the full real estate of your body and soul?
And, is there a possibility to stretch your mind to the farthest degree possible? Or is it possible to have a new mind altogether?
Away from the verbiage, what I am really saying is, what if you enter a world where the objects are fully capable of the right reflection to enable you to see?
What if what you see enters not only your eyes but also your soul to the full extent?
What if you gain a new mind altogether which is able to process every single thing you see.
For now you see dimly, as if through a foggy mirror but on that day, you will know as you see someone face to face!
By the way, a diminishing cycle of perception also exists. You know less, so you perceive less, inducing boredom which then kills your appetite of knowing more and thus the blob of your knowledge decreases. As a result you perceive less and so on...
Where are you today?Are you bound by the perception of rules in your head?Are you bored?Are you not bothered?Or are you really trying to perceive something new?
And lo!God said, let there be light and it was so! What have you seen today?
