Truth is Optional.

Perception is Programmable.

Information does not arrive neutral.

By the time you read a sentence,
your brain has already decided how to feel about it.

This happens before logic.This happens before reasoning.This happens before awareness.
This website exists inside that moment

A Measurable Fact

Studies in cognitive psychology show that emotional response precedes rational evaluation by milliseconds.

Not seconds. Milliseconds.

That is enough to bias judgment. Enough to anchor belief. Enough to shape memory.

You are not slow. Your brain is fast.

Interaction: The Millisecond Gap

Another Fact

The same factual statement, when framed differently, can produce:

Fear
Confidence
Anger
Compliance
Trust

Without changing a single data point.

This is not theory. This is framing.

"The company announced a 10% workforce reduction."

The fact (10% cut) remained constant.

"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are."

— Anaïs Nin

How Information Actually Persuades

Most persuasion does not work by convincing you. It works by:

Hover to Reveal Bias

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By the time you ask “Is this true?”, your nervous system has already reacted.
Truth arrives late.

Documented Reality

  • Framing effects alter decision-making
  • Emotional language increases belief retention
  • Authority tone increases compliance
  • Repetition increases perceived truth

None of these require false information. Only presentation.

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

— Attributed to Mark Twain(Ironically, the attribution itself is disputed. Even the quote about misinformation is framed.)

What This Website Is

Reality Distortion Simulator is not a news site.
It is not a fact-checker.
It is not a detector.

It is a simulation of perception.

It shows how the same fact can create multiple psychological realities.

What You Bring

You bring a headline, a statistic, a factual claim. Something ordinary. Something believable.

“Fuel prices increased by 5% this month.”

Nothing emotional. Just information.

What The System Does

First, it removes emotional language.

What remains is a neutral reality. Flat. Unconvincing. Quiet.

Then the same fact is reconstructed. Not changed. Reframed.

Parallel Versions Appear

The same information becomes:

A Threat

A Reassurance

A Political Argument

A Corporate Justification

An Emotional Trigger

All of them are “true”. All of them feel different.

"People don’t believe what is true. They believe what feels true."

— Cognitive Bias Research Summary

The Dangerous Part

One version will feel obvious.

Not because it is more accurate. Because it matches:

That reaction is automatic. This website does not shame it. It exposes it.

Another Fact

Once a belief is emotionally accepted, contradictory evidence is processed more critically than supportive evidence.

This is called motivated reasoning.

Your brain defends what it already feels.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

— Upton Sinclair(Replace 'salary' with: ideology, identity, belonging. The mechanism remains.)

What Starts to Change

You notice adjectives before facts.

You notice urgency before evidence.

You notice authority before logic.

You reread sentences.

You hesitate.

You feel certainty forming — and interrupt it.

That interruption is not weakness. It is awareness.

This Is Not Comforting

This does not make you immune. No one is immune.

It only makes the manipulation visible. Visibility does not remove influence. It slows it.

Sometimes, slowing is the only defense.

"The most effective propaganda is not what is said, but what is taken for granted."

— Media Theory Principle
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Mini-Game: Spot The Bias

"The regime's desperate claw-back of funds will devastate the working class."

What This Is Not

  • ❌ Not fake news
  • ❌ Not propaganda
  • ❌ Not opinion

This is structural analysis.

It examines how meaning is constructed, not what meaning should be.

A Quiet Warning

Once you learn to see framing, you will notice it everywhere. News. Politics. Marketing. Conversations.

You will not be able to turn it off.

If You Continue

Paste a fact. Watch it fracture. Notice which version reaches you first.

Then ask yourself why.

Understanding framing doesn’t make you safe.

It makes you responsible.