This chapter disentangles experience, beliefs, consciousness, and the real by producing a narrative essay about the natural history of their evolution. It examines how communication in hierarchically organized groups offers the possibility for the production of conventional symbols, and so opens the path for humanization. The chapter then explores how conventional symbols come to appear, so that a subjective representation of situations can be taken to be real. The chapter describes the examination of how beliefs develop from dramatic actuations within a social Umwelt. Actuations are a product of the combination of actions that have a semiotic structure, and so produce understanding. The teleonomic character of action-semiosis, actuations and scripts for performing, makes the actor to accumulate resources (scripts) to face new situations. The chapter shows that reality makes itself apparent in consciousness through experiences, and these are as much a result of these encounters as to how psyche works.