Sense and Sensibility

"A wise man once told me that smoke never dissipates. Rather it just spreads into a haze that the untrained eye cannot see. I surmise the smoke he mentioned was my mask. Yet when I look back, I see he had one too.” -Louis-Sanford Drake Thrown into the locker by Garrison-Harris Brook, the local bully, I had felt a thirst for something I never wanted on my hands. My eyes clouded with rage and as I got up, my hands balled into fists. GHB, as the rest of the school called him, didn’t know what was…

the gravity of this statement is sometimes overlooked as it will become more apparent. The basis of our reality is perceptual, Man is born free but is chained to a false reality by his senses, and this reality is one of ignorance and susceptibility. Man is not evil in nature although his is alone, left to his senses of reality, seeing, hearing, feeling, and tasting are all to mislead one from discovering the true reality. This truth will explain that reality can’t be good because…

The way we sense things is how we perceive the world around us, and to also make sense of it all. The sensory organs I chose to explain are the nose, tongue, and ears and how they connect to the brain for our perception. As we inhale the scent of something, the molecules reach the receptor cells high in both nasal cavities. Then the axons from millions of these receptors carry nerve impulses directly to the olfactory bulb. The olfactory bulb is the smell center of the brain. From there, records…

One of the most interesting aspects about human beings is that, even though we are similar in terms of physiology, our behavior and perspectives of the world can vary depending on our culture. We may all have the same structures in our brain but yet, we process information in a distinctive many ways and focus our attention to different things. Nowadays, with research methods, researchers can discover and compare those differences between cultures around the world. In the article, Culture and…

I participated in the senses challenge supplied by the British Broadcasting Company to test my abilities and regards to my main sensory modalities. I achieved 100%, my first try, on the test. I was not surprised by the fact of my grade as the test was easy for me. The easiness isn 't due to the inability to accurately conduct the senses challenge online or the gullibility of the test taker but due to the fact I was raised in a sensory enhancing environment. The North Dakota environment…

One Out of Many by V.S. Naipaul and On Seeing England for the First Time by Jamaica Kincaid are two first person texts where the narrators are driven into an unknown world. While both narratives deal with changes and the consequences those changes enable, they each show radically different perspectives. Naipaul’s narrator, Santosh, struggles with the internal pressures he places on himself when he doesn’t feel as though he blends in with his new environment, while Kincaid’s narrative focuses on…

Our senses are a part of us, however we are not always consciously aware of all of our senses at every moment. Moreover, our senses, can guide our behaviors and actions, even those senses we are consciously aware of. For example, a person who received a positive comment, earlier might be compelled to donate to an organization few hours later. That individual might have done this action because his/her mood was affected by the compliment, but that individual might not exactly be aware of that.…

Listening is a conscious process, which includes absorbing information through the ears and convert the information into a mean of something. Many people confuse the difference between hearing and listening. According to Lundsteen, hearing is the action that requires only the physical work. However, listening requires the brain to actively engage to function. (1979, pp.15) As a result, actively listening makes a significant impact on people in the workplace environment. Actively listening helps…

destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge” The Bible also says in Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” Like our examples showed us, we cannot always rely on our own senses. Sometimes what we perceive is different than what the eyes of someone else has perceived. The only time we should be uncertain of our beliefs is if we cannot prove it or support it. However, our beliefs should never be uncertain because they…

when the doctor said to focus on three different tastes and flavors I first thought how would that help if he can 't tell the difference in the first place. Then I remembered how the brain helped memory in the visual system and auditory. Than it made sense to me that if he uses theses three flavors over and over again it should hopefully trigger in his brain what they use to taste like, so he can experience the same taste and flavor again and be able to recognize the food. The hippocampus would…