Can You Choose to Shift Your Perspective?

Yes, because your perspective is yours to control.

Photo by Nadine E on Unsplash

Have you ever watched a movie or TV show and wondered why they chose to shoot the scene at the angle they did? Did you experience an overwhelming desire for them to tilt the angle of the shot in one direction or another, zoom in or out, and otherwise change the perspective?

The problem with this is that you can’t change the perspective that was chosen unless you tilt your head a certain way. Even then, it’s not truly changed (and still showing you what the director of the program/film wants you to see). The film or TV show in question is the presentation of someone else’s vision and perspective therein.

Likewise, this applies to all images. Camera angles chosen or the design of graphics are also presented with a specific perspective the creator of them chose. So, every billboard on the highway, image on social media, and photograph presents a perspective someone wants you to see in a specific way.

Constant exposure to this can have an unexpected and unfortunate effect. Subconsciously, you begin to see perspective as something presented by another as the norm. You start to believe, because your subconscious believes, that how the world is presented to you — via imagery and the like — is how the world is. When…