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Why is this not in Philosophy?
And you don't really specify what it is that you don't believe. Is it that in the absence of light there is no color or see/know something but not accept it as real? Is it that our intuition interfere with the processing of our sight and memory and that lots of things are questionable?
The reason we do this is because the amount of data that our brains and the neurons at the back of our eyes would have to process would be to much to handle. Our eyes make "assumptions"- each set of neurons waiting for a specific pattern. When they all fire at once, there can be a singular single sent unique to that pattern, and not more data. That is why when you recognize one pattern you associate it with another patterm- objects with colors, places with sounds, names with faces, sentences with voices.
Why is it so hard to believe that things usually are as they seem? Even if they weren't, someone would probably notice. If no one does, let's hope it isn't threatening.
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