When we see someone in a dream, our brains see three images: a silhouette of what he or she might look like, a third image of another person that might represent ourselves, and a vision that was either real or imagined. All these three images are stored in our memory.
We dream, though, like we look in a mirror. We are dreaming a different life to the dream version we know. But instead of seeing only a single silhouette, our innermost imagination depicts us not as a silhouette—we are someone else!
Empathy can help us to find our own way out of a dilemma. We might feel the urgency of having to answer a question. We might fear a new opportunity may require some form of action. We may feel like there is a need to take care of an important issue or problem that could threaten the family member, employee, or friend who is being blamed. To feel our empathy, we might imagine another side of the story—someone who is more sympathetic than we are to how we are feeling. We might be more likely to respond compassionately when it is offered by somebody who we find less “bad”. Empathy increases our feelings of love and compassion, which can enhance our ability to be openminded.
Emotion Research for Non-Western Peoples
Most Westerners do not know this, but most of what we do and how we think about the world—a large part of our emotional life, including our self-esteem and sense of belonging—is directly influenced by our emotional reactions against others who are different, different enough from us that we would perceive that such person as threatening to our group identity and thus a threat to our way of being.
This is especially true in our own societies. The Chinese believe that in order to feel and understand the world the different races must have their own cultures. The Japanese believe that only the whites have a culture. They also believe that the people of the Middle East are different and deserve to be treated as different from us because they don’t fit into their culture yet.
In the West, on the other hand, most people think of “others” as members of their own group—in terms of language, culture, ethnicity, etc.—and “themselves” in a similar sense: they are members of our group (or ethnicity) and we recognize them by their unique traits, or so-called “culture.” This is not to say that people from other cultures must be excluded from our group’s activities and
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