Different Interpretations Of Reality

This:

Officer: Okay. Then it was your left hand. I saw it with my own eyes.

Craig: All right, you saw something that didn't happen.

Officer: Embarrassing, embarrassing. No wonder why we're going down the tubes. Anything to add?

Craig: Uh, no.

Brings to mind this:

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."