So last class we discussed the ways in which we adquire, take in and analyze primarily the world around us. The basic ways in which we are able to do this are through the 5 basic senses: Sight, Hearing, Touch, Smell and Taste. All of these often work in colaboration or not entirely separately to be able to understand the different obects around us. All of the senses are equally important to some extent, but it really depends on the person invoved in what sense they give priotity to.
To continue with what we learnt in class, we did a quick exercise on how little we focused on things on our daily lifes. People could get divided into 4 types on the way they pay attention 1. Either zone out submerged on their own thoughts and plans 2. Taking in detail and external sounds non-related to what they should be paying attention to 3. The ones that pay 100% attention all the time to what they are supposed to be paying attention to 4. All of the above merged. I would consider myself as a person who pays attention in the surroundings and my thoughts as well as largely on what I'm supposed to pay attention to. I tend to oscilate between these three states, but I mostly focus on what I should be doing more than anything else. This is why the excercise of closing our eyes and taking in the sounds of the school was an extremely intresting one as I was able to separate the focus of the current subject onto one that focused more on the external environments.
Its quite curious how people often ignore the feelings of pressure all around us, as the body seems quite accustomed to all of these different pressures and senses being constantly present. This is why the brain just omits them, making the irrelevant anymore. I never really thought about it until that day.
Anyhow, the question that was of most interest to me was "If I had to lose 1 of my sense, what would it be and why?" This was a very intresting question. I first thought about sight. Even though people say that losing sight would be better than losing any of their other senses, I wouldn't like to lose my sight. This is because personally for me (as a person who loves art), sight is one of those things that really allows me to see things - literally of course. Its quite difficult to explain the way i see it. For example, every day that my dad drives me to school I notice the colours and the strong vibrance and wonder of the landscapes I view. Even thought I've been travelling back and forth from the school to my home for the past 11 years of my life, each day I discover new things. Once I noted that there were lots of bluebell-like flowers all the way down the road, in other ocasion I saw how there were some light ripple effects underneath the car bridge over the river, in other times I see how the sun causes the clouds of the evening to turn of different shades and of colours that seem impossible in your mind. So to me, sight is a way of seeing and analyzing a lot of things beyond first sight. Everyday things hide too many things, but they're all at plain sight - you just have to learn to be patient and truly observant to actually realize beyond first appearances. I would be the most afraid to lose this sense as, even though I've seen colours and I know them already and all, there's still so much to see and be discovered - from colours, to landscapes, to people and others.
Moreover, I would be almost equally uneasy of having to lose my hearing sense as one of the things that really takes a larger part in my life is music and sounds all around me. The sense of hearing allows me to be aware of my immediate surroundings, probably better than sight, but it doesn't allow me to immediately notice a lot of things like I would with sight. Still, if I didn't have my sense of hearing then I wouldn't be able to locate myself in relation with other people and surroundings. Additionally, music and playing guitar is one of the many things that really intrests me and that I really love having in my life. This is because music is able to evoke many strong feelings and thoughts on me whenever I hear it or when I play a song. At times I sort of randomly (not really) end up playing different chords just to practice or relax after school, and there's times where I end up doing complete invented riffs that usually reflect the mood I'm in at the moment. This is why for me music is a way of expressing what I feel and to get knew emotions provoked by other people's music.
The sense that I really wouldn't mind losing could be the sense of smell as I consider it less important to all of the others. Its not like "I wouldn't care to lose it" - its more like, in comparison to all the other types of senses I see it as a very limited way to perceive the world. The sense of touch and taste can allow us to know about objects in a much broader way than the sense of smell.
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