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While in the train compartment one will interpret what one sees outside the window by Association, and these Associations are different for different people. A home owner may associate brown leaves with raking and a farmer might associate them with harvest. Association affects the perception of present circumstance and determines the experience of present reality. The way this Association affects the individual's perception is termed the Associative Landscape.
What is inside or that goes-on in the rail compartment, affects what one perceives through the windows as outside reality. If one is engaged in conversation with another passenger, which is analogous to thinking, one may not notice what is transpiring outside the windows. If one sees things outside that one has no experience with such as snow on the ground, this will affect what is perceived
as not understanding. If one becomes entranced with one's own reflection in the window glass, one will fail to notice what is on the other side.
The individual is stamped with the Associations of past experience. The Associative Landscape is the
Conditioning of the individual, and may represent all the experience an individual has had, excepting what has been forgotten or repressed, but which may still affect present experience, something akin to the automatic conditioned response of fear, for instance at the sight of bullies that one has-had bad experience. The Associative Landscape is generally some kind of mix between pleasant and unpleasant memories. Some memories are stronger than others
and thus have more of an affect.
Different individuals may register the same sensory subject in nearly the same, slightly different or completely different ways depending upon the person's Associative Landscape. Two different people may experience the presence of the same dog in different ways, depending upon the experience each has had with dogs in the past.
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