My sanity has been thrown into question by Adrienne's opposing version of our shared reality.
Inmates form a "small world," a closed community where private opinion gives way to a shared reality and accompanying information-seeking behavior.
It's being away, and the breach that opens in two people's formally shared reality, and the state soldiers may be in when they finally do come home.
There are, indeed, such things as shared virtual realities; our own civilization has that capability, albeit on a level the Lokaron consider laughably crude.
Mythical, yes, but nevertheless a shared reality that is potent enough to control people's lives.
First, it is observable by both therapist and patient simultaneously so that inconsistent perceptions of the shared reality can be discussed immediately.
Second, the perceptions of shared reality are accompanied by affect whereas the discussion of historical material can have an intellectualized quality and be thus less informative.
Audience-tuning effects on memory: The role of shared reality.
For netizens , cyberspace is the shared imaginary reality of the computer networks.
Something that everyone around a table can dip into, a rare shared reality, the function that form forgot in the land of Ozzie and Harriet.