Even then we make excuses and pass those things off as merely aberrant events produced by forces we can explain and keep within our perceptual framework. We are still left, however, with the question of exactly what is perception and how do we control it. Perception operates at every level of your awareness and at the same time helps to create the very awareness within which it is operating. Reason drives your perception and awareness in this reality. Reason is a systematic series of actions and reactions created over a period of time, a framework, upon which you peg the daily reality of living.
Reason is the bullying guard at the gates of perception.
How do we get around this guard without destroying him, because we do need him to function here. Some people think ingesting substances which wreck our current physical perceptions is the answer, but all this accomplishes is a frontal assault on our guard of reason. So while you may gain glimpses of the possibilities he is standing there punching you in the face at the same time. Not a very productive method when you really stop and consider it. Your brain really is trying to kill you.