Quotes About Sensory

which in turn could lead to a breakdown in cognitive integrity and difficulty in distinguishing self from nonself. 4 We need some sort of gating, and some control over gating, in order to function within the sea of sensory communications in which we are embedded.

The neural networks responsible for sensory gating begin to process data as soon as the child is born .

Very young children don't have the intermediary of language—they don't have a sign in place of the thing. They "see and hear in the old way.

As Kisley et al. comment about their research: "The correlation between sensory gating and conceptual age was significant."6 By age eight the gating channels begin to take on what will be the default state in adulthood. This further solidifies, narrowing more, at the onset of puberty and generally is in place by the end of adolescence.

the sensory inflows are gated differently as ego states change, both during the developmental stages of life or when previous developmental stages are intentionally regenerated later in life.

But studies of sensory gating show that it is never invariant . . . in anyone. Gating parameters tend to move across a spectrum in all people (and to be variant across populations as well).

you could have cut a cube of her tone and dropped it in a glass of scotch to bring it down to exactly the right temperature. A little below, actually.

The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected.

He doesn't hear but sees the Voice.

Joy is in the ears that hear.

Staring into someone's eyes for a long time is psychic. At first it's very strange and scary - scarier than the first time you have sex. Then you begin to relax, and the person you're looking at may become very beautiful. As you look into their eyes, you may see them change sex or race. You can see the child in an old person and a young person may appear ancient. Just looking into someone's eyes for a long time can be trippier than taking acid.

Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less precious in the bargain. I

Now he says that they taste more like "sweet dirt.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

Concrete, sensory details such as these allow readers to form vivid pictures in their minds of what is being described. That is how writers bring a scene to life.

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

When I blow the head off a glass of Guinness or eat a slice of white bread, there are so many bubbles!

I would love to slip into the skin of a fish and know what it's like to be one. They have senses that I can only dream about. They have a lateral line down their whole body that senses motion, but maybe it does more than that.

Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.

What you smell has a big impact on how you feel.

I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.

Babies smell amazing, but I'm not one of these women who smell a baby and go, 'I want one.' I see a dog over the field and go, 'I want one.'

I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.