What does the guote mean sometimes you cannot believe what you see you have to believe what you feel?

Answer 1

Our eyes play tricks on us. In many situations under many guises, our eyes deceive us. In Tracy Chevalier's novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vermeer (the painter) tells Griet to look at the sky and tell him what colors she sees. Upon further examination she realizes that she sees many colors that are then mixed by her eye to form other colors. A trick. When we see something out of the corner of our eye, our mind tries to identify it, quickly flipping through the known images to find a match. Upon second glance, we realize it is merely a piece of paper or some other object mistaken for something else. Using that premise, you must be careful in believing what you see.

Trusting your gut instinct however, rarely proves us wrong. We are built with an inherent freeze, flight, or fight response. When we are in a situation that makes us feel uneasy in the bottom of our gut, or makes the hair on the back of our neck stand up, there is a reason. The inner protector is picking up on subliminal, often times unnoticed things, in order to protect us.