We all wear "red tinted glasses"

The extended metaphor of the “red tinted glasses” illustrates the limit between the actual reality and what “you conceive it as being so”. When Sophie put the glasses on, she noticed that she saw everything in red. Then when Albert asked her what she saw, she replied; “I see exactly the same as before, except that is all red”. This proves that we can empower what we want to see and the glasses allow us to do that. However is it reality? No it isn’t, because the red tinted glasses limit us into seeing what the world is really like, and instead let us see only what the glasses portrays. This also means that “there are certain conditions in the human mind that are contributive to our conception of the world”. We choose to shut our eyes to some problems or another going on around the world, all due to what our mind wants us to do. Our mind controls what we see and what we perhaps don’t want to see and this unwanted view of the world can be hidden with the red tinted glasses. Sophie discovers something about the rationalists and the empiricists. She discovers that the rationalists almost forgot about “the importance of experience”, and the empiricists had “shut their eyes to the way our own mind influences the way we see the world”.

I agree with what was mentioned in the novel about us shutting our “eyes to the way our own mind influences the way we see the world”. This is because we see only what we think the world is like and not what other people may perceive the world as being. That means that we all at some point wear red tinted glasses, and that hides the reality of a certain situation. We are all different people with different perspectives, which mean that we probably all see one particular thing for example in different lights. However we as individuals can control what we want to see if and when we feel comfortable to be exposed to the reality of the world. We can choose when we are ready to take off our red tinted glasses.