Your brain doesn’t passively experience reality — it actively predicts it. According to predictive processing and Bayesian brain theory, the brain continuously generates models of what it expects to see, hear, and feel based on past experiences, memory, and conditioning, then compares those predictions to incoming sensory data, only updating them when the error is large enough. This means perception is largely a controlled hallucination shaped by expectation, which explains why beliefs, trauma,

Your Trauma Isn't a Memory. It's a Prediction.