A true survivor would be attuned to those subtle cues, the whisper of intuition, which might have been saying, I don’t feel quite safe here. Why is that so? But since most of us are not conscious of those processes, we have nothing to draw our attention to what’s happening to us. We don’t have what psychologists call meta-knowledge: the ability to assess the quality of our own knowledge. It’s easy to assume that perception and reason faithfully render reality. But as Plato suggested and modern neuroscience has proved, we live in a sort of dreamworld, which only imperfectly matches reality.
