Representative Realism
 What we perceive or see in the real world is actually not real. It is our ideas and own knowing things in our own way due to the veil of perception.

Explanation
 Representationalism (also known as Representative Realism or Indirect Realism or Epistemological Dualism or the Representative Theory of Perception) is the philosophical position that the world we see in conscious experience is not the real world itself, but merely a miniature virtual-reality replica/copycat of that world in an internal representation. Thus, we know only our ideas or interpretations of objects in the world, because a barrier (or veil of perception) between the mind and the existing world prevents first-hand knowledge of anything beyond it.

 Unlike Idealism, Representationalism holds that our ideas come from sense data (or images) of a real, material, external world(Realism), but that the immediate (direct) object of perception is only sense data that represents the external object. It approaches perception from a similiar point of view to Phenomenalism. It also entails a type of Dualism, such as that of Descartes.

History of Realism
 Aristotle, in his work "On the Soul", was the first to describe how the eye must be affected by changes in an intervening medium rather than by objects themselves, and he reasons that, in order to avoid an infinite regress (to go back to an earlier, less advanced state), the senses themselves must be self-aware.