Reality at Different Angles

Reality is Up to You
Jose Chung said, "Truth is as subjective as reality." So what is reality? Is it truth to all, or is it different to every person perceiving it? Can something untrue to one person be truthfully true to another person? When someone refuses to believe something, what they are believing will be their reality, whether it happened or not.
Throughout the episode of "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" you are challenged to think of what really happened to a young couple while listening to several very conflicting point of views.
Agent Scully can be considered very close-minded in this situation. There was a possible alien abduction of a young boy and girl named Chrissie and Harold, and Agent Scully is the most skeptical, she would rather play this off as a story meant to cover up for the truth the teenagers do not want to tell. Every time that something is brought up in the case suggesting that aliens abducted the couple she has a counter act to suggest the opposite, she refused to except it could even be a possible conclusion. Agent Scully had an odd experience that one would think would change her mind. She experienced an amount of elapsed time that she had no recollection of, this is common for supposed alien abductees to experience but since she is so set in her mind that that could not happen there is no way her mind would let her think that could be a possibility of reality. There was even a witness to tell her everything that happened; not just any witness, her long time partner who she should be able to trust. She would think he is off the wall for what he has to say before she could ever come to terms with the denial she has of that even being possible. To her, her reality is quite more ordinary then a couple of men erasing her memory.
Agent Mulder on the other hand believes that not only is it extremely possible that the young boy and girl were abducted but that it most certainly did happen. Being a believer that an alien abduction is beyond just a possibility it is almost as if he wants it to be true. Everything that happens he can back up immediately by evidence that he has seen in similar cases in the past that he of course believes really happened. For example immediately after interviewing Chrissie he knows that she has 'Post Abduction Syndrome' though in context most of the questions he asked her could be common for someone going through a dramatic situation to experience. When told about the 'men in black' by a witness named Rocky, Agent Mulder immediately said that it is common for people who have a close encounter to meet these men who warn them about talking, again assuming he really did have a close encounter.
Blaine’s way of thinking is much different from Agent Mulder’s, other then the fact that he “knows” aliens are real. It does not matter what seems more plausible- it is whatever he has decided in his mind is real - it is exactly what he wants to happen. Reading his books he has become educated on life outside of earth and would love to be a part of it. He has an intense way of thinking and seems to see things as being more intense then it really is, almost shaping his reality with his attitude. When Blaine found the body of a supposed alien I am sure it was a dream come true, accompanied in this dream were 2 people dressed in all black more specifically an android and a man disguised as a women. Because Blaine has done so much research on aliens he thinks he is an expert and his thoughts come out almost as a conspiracy. Reality to Blaine is much more distorted because of his intense views and strong beliefs as to what would happen to him in a world filled with aliens. What seems to be a shift in physical reality for Blaine happens even with small details. Agent Scully, also known as the man disguised as a women, supposedly told Blaine in a stern voice “you never saw this, this did not happen, you are a dead man.” This is highly unlikely considering Agent Scully is a major skeptic and already assumes that the alien body is not real, her strong belief system would not let her think any different until proved wrong. Whether Agent Scully said that to Blaine or not, of course it is not a coincidence that Agent Mulder would also tell him he would be a dead man if he told anyone about his tape because that’s just how Blaine’s life goes. Everything in this boys mind seen as reality is shaped by the way he perceives the situation; with ever step in the case Agent Mulder's reality is shaped by what he believes can and has already happened in the past; everything in Scully’s situation is played off as something logical, because of what she believes.
This episode really shows you how this can happen in every day life. When people have beliefs it is hard for them to see past them, as if past experiences condition the way certain situations are perceived therefore multiple people could see one thing completely different then the other. Though the word “reality” would make one think of something that is real, reality is what happened, or what is true. It can definitely be argued that reality is subjective to each individual person therefor not necessarily true because what seems to be true to one person can be completely wrong to another person. When this happens and those people have conflicting points of view it can be hard for the human mind to except that reality to them might have been slightly altered because of what they already believe. Though, after all, if we were not experiencing and perceiving something, then there would be nothing to call reality.