Five senses

of Las Vegas. The perspective of the two men was different. Leigh Cromwell saw the alley with his mere physical eyes, seeing the brown-filtered street for the dead-end that it was. Adam saw and felt somewhere much greener. All his senses engaged in the scene. His senses were covered by a thin, greasy film reminiscent of a layer of motor oil on an evaporating puddle next to a very cheap auto repair shop. Red strands of blood rage emanated from the large, corporeal man. Puppet strings made of the…

and the world around us shape how things are received based on how society says it should be perceived. The family life we have and the society we belong shapes our religious views, primitive judgments, moral values, formed stereotypes, and common sense. Perception is related to these values, so it can be said that our family life and society effects our perception of knowledge. A main…

its own forty-minute Ship of Fools.” By using “mini-societies” Frazier gives readers the sense that these riders aren’t strangers anymore, they are a body of “people living together in a more or less ordered community.” Through his scrutiny, Frazier connects strangers through common sensory experience showing that people form connections beyond verbal language and are instantly linked through the power of senses. Without language,…

A fascinating concept within the topic of perception is the ability to become deceived by our own minds. The Ames room tells us that human perception is easily distorted and can lead to us seeing things that aren’t really what they appear to be. The Ames room trickers the observer into thinking that the room they are looking into is a regular cubic roo, this is our brain deceiving us into believing something that is not true. With regards to what this tells us about human perception is that we…

and why does time scare them. For example, I'm always scare of time passing me by and what the future will bring. In which, Naoki also shares that time scares autistic people because they are not aware of how quick or slow time is moving and make sense of time . The depth of his explanation was in harmony of his own experiences and expressed the words that many people with autism cannot express themselves. They are not “retarded”, but have eagerness to learn,even though autistic people…

The nature of humanity is primitive and sheepish. He depicts the “cave dwellers” having analogous thoughts and perceptions. Plato also hinted that the “cave dwellers” had no common sense in understanding reality. I came to this contemplation with the service of Jerry H. Gill’s journal, Re-Exploring Plato’s Cave. “Plato begins by assuming that the basic condition of humankind, especially with reference to perceptual judgements, is essentially…

control behaviors for privacy and personal space. Although, it’s a focused space, sensory perception and stimulation is very limited within the space’s designed flooring, lighting, furniture, and wall finishes, impacting the need for collaboration, a sense of place, and kinesthetic for users occupying the space for long periods of…

In The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare raises the question of, “under what situations do people get confused and allow their perception to be easily overcome?” This question is answered by the themes of understanding versus the senses and the theme of suffering. Throughout The Comedy of Errors many characters wind up in highly emotional and suspicious situations. These situations lead to the characters’ perceptions to become overcome due to the confusion they develop. In a similar fashion,…

mind is imprinted with information instinctually, Locke argues that not only does all knowledge stems from the subject’s experience of the material world by means of the subject’s senses. The senses, Locke argues, are “infallible” and the sole means by which we organize knowledge. To demonstrate the necessity of the senses for knowledge, Locke proposes that all experience is derived from external objects (Argument of Book IV, Chapter XI, Section 4) and by means of geometric analogy, Locke…

Kumin. “The Sound of Night” highlights the sense of sound in place of vision. The reader imagines the sounds being described rather than visualizing what the scene might look like. Kumin’s use of onomatopoeia aids in magnifying the theme and tone of this poem by creating an audible experience which immerses the reader. The main theme of “The Sound of Night” is the premise that when one sense is removed, then the others are heightened. In the poem, the sense of sight is removed so sound is…