I start my first blog with the dictionary meaning of perception.
*The act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
*Immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation, as of moral, psychological, or aesthetic qualities; insight; intuition; discernment: an artist of rare perception.
*The result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; percept.
*Law - the taking into possession of rents, crops, profits, etc.
*Psychology - a single unified awareness derived from sensory processes while a stimulus is present.
a) Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory.
b) The neurological processes by which such recognition and interpretation are effected.
c) Insight, intuition, or knowledge gained by perceiving.
d) The capacity for such insight.