But it was basketball that he, and many others, used as therapy to distract him from the outside reality.
Turrell likens the spare interior to Plato's cave, in which "we realize that we perceive the outside reality incompletely.
It's really hard to parent in an area where the outside reality of crime and bullying does actually pay".
If that's the case, then the members of the I.R.S. leadership are suffering from a tunnel vision that turns outside reality into abstractions.
Reagan was not introverted, yet from infancy he had the same kind of "happy" self-centeredness that Bradbury speaks of, the same need to inhabit an imaginative construct in which outside reality was refracted, or reordered, to his liking.
There's a ghost of the shape of a guitar in there somewhere, all cut up, but no volume, no depth, no effort to refer to any outside reality for validation.
One goal of "autoteatro," as Mr. Hampton, 37, calls the self-enacted theater pieces he began creating in 2007, is to blur the distinction between presence and absence, inside and outside, reality and imagination, art and the real world.
Their education has been a parody of home-schooling in which mum and dad have deliberately taught them the wrong meaning of words, perhaps to shield them from outside reality, to render this reality meaningless and unreadable, and therefore to blur and jumble its very existence.
Reality monitoring is the ability to distinguish the source of internal experiences from outside reality.
