Senseless

-We know that someone is blind because we can see what they cannot. We know that someone is deaf because we can hear what they cannot. The majority of the world’s population has all five of their senses; we can see, hear, taste, feel, and smell. But I now have a question for you: what if there was a sixth sense?

-Now I don’t mean some extraordinary ability to see and/or speak to the deceased; I mean that what if there was some other sense that let us experience a new part of our world? If everyone in the world were blind, how would we know we weren’t seeing something? If everyone was deaf, how would we know that there were sounds we weren’t hearing? What other world could we be missing?

-The fun part of these questions is how incredibly far you can go with them. Just try to imagine what this “other world” could possibly consist of. The first things that usually come to mind are extreme visual images or loud and amazing noises, but those are still within the limits of our world; they’re still just sights and sounds. The difficulty comes in trying to imagine senses beyond our own.

-Imagine a sixth sense of “being”. I am, you are, he/she is. A sense of actual existence in this world. More than just simply interacting with your surroundings, but becoming part of them. A sense where you could take an outside look at yourself and just see yourself as a part of a bigger picture.



-What could that bigger picture look like?