How does our brain perceive events?

How does our brain perceive events?

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Our brain perceives events through the five senses--the sense of sight, the sense of smell, the sense of touch, etc. Once we recognize something as familiar or we can compare it to something else in our brain we begin to organize the information in some way, and that helps us to remember it and that helps us to attend to the stimulus. If something is so unique that we've never felt it or sensed it before, we also, that's another way that we organize information; we start to create new categories of events and perceptions that we've never had before.