To complicate the matter further, life, in today's times, is fragmented into a puzzle of unrelated pieces of experience. One may become confused about his true motives regarding a pursued goal and at times lose trust in the expectation of honest play from his social group. One is anxious that he or she may never experience being in love and thus be ultimately gypped out of one of the most advertised and romanticized instincts of the human organism. To stay in love, one must keep alive the abilities to fantasize, probably even to the complex level necessary to sustain the quality of fantasy characteristic of childhood mentality. In other words, it means the rare preservation of perceptual distortions that interpret the essence of the other by each respective party.
Pets are a revealing evidence of our mental continuity with animal minds.
A stimulus triggers excitement at different levels of mental consciousness. Some stimuli are more intense than others, and consequently the former may be more meaningful to one's individual idiosyncrasies than to another's. Each stimulus is subject to the illusionary interpretation of a personalized self-identity. From this source of personal awareness stems the outer effect of our personal projections. Our interpretation of things outside of ourselves influences the interaction with them and the rest of the immediate surroundings.