The
Human
Experience
Which sense would you like to practice?
TouchVisionHearingSmellTasteImaginationAs our comprehension of the senses expands so will this list.
Participate in the researchPartipants Instructions
Thank you for your interest in this collective research project. Here are the suggested instructions.
Dedicate 5 minutes a day to these exercises and note their results.
Consistent practice is recomended for best results. Additional practice time and exercises are welcome.
Starting Line
Calibrate to note your starting point with the sense of interest.
10 days
Do you see an improvement in the sense? Do you wish to adjust the exercises?
20 days
Is recalibration needed? What other sensory information has become noticable to you based on these exercises? Has your perception of reality shifted?
30 days
Did the sense improve? How much? How much time did you practice? Do you wish to share your experience?
Participant Sign-UpShare your experience with the community
Touch
Touch uses the avatar to sense density and speed. We experience a “feeling” based on how we percieve this interaction.
Calibration: How many points of cantact to the skin can you hold in your active awareness at the same time?
select another senseNotice Breath
How long can you notice your breath? What part of your body moves?
Notice Tension
Does part of your body feels like it’s experiencing tension? Why?
Notice Energy
Can you feel your own energy when you float your hand closely to self?
Walk Barefoot
Our feet act as our primary contact with the ground. What do you feel when walking barefoot? What are the size, shape, density and temperature of the objects beneath your feet? Could you recreate that feeling with differint elements?
Vision alternative
Can you tell the shape of an object without vision? Can you navigate a familiar place?
Multiplayer Touch
1 Person close eyes, and other gently touch on a random part of face. Can person 2 predict touch?
Feel with skin.
This is best done with skin exposed. What movements can you detect in the air? Can you feel the shift in temperatures?
Randomized Movements
What happens when you move your body in unexpected ways?
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More exercises coming soon.
Vission
Vission uses the eyes primarily to detect spacial movement. We “see” something when our avatar is familiar with the object, it’s density and its movement patterns.
Calibration: Touch your nose with one finger, slowly pull away and stop when you can see you finger in full resolution, note the distance.
select another senseThe inbetween
Can you see the shape of the emty space between objects? How far can you see? Do you notice movements?
Notice the nose
How long can you notice your nose? Does its resolution change with focus?
Vission ballancing
By placing an object near the face and alternating between 1 eye and both can you notice which eye is stronger?
Distance
What happens when you cycle between focusing on something close and far away?
Perifials
Do you notice movement in the corner regions of your vissual field?
Micro and Macro
What happens when you cycle between seeing the tiny details and the whole picture?
Color Focus
How long can you notice the presence of a color?
Cloud Painting
Can you paint a picture with the clouds
Detective
How much details can you notice in a scene?
Soft Eyes
Can you relax the eyes until nothing is in focus?
Imagination
Imagination uses the senses to create, explore, and remember various scenes. This directs enegry in ways that are still being discovered.
Calibration: Close your eyes and picture a fruit, how vivid are the details? What other senses are activated?
select another senseBlank Screen
Imagine a large screen. When ever a thought arises it appears on this screen. How long can you go with a blank screen?
Mind Painting
Observe an object or scene and remember as much detail as possible, recreate the scene inside one’s mind. How much detail can you preserve? How long can you hold the scene?
Memory
Can you replay a portion, or all of your day within the imagination? How much detail can you remember?
Flow
Can you observe an imagined scene without adding any details to it?
Visual Echoes
Imagine the air as a think colorful substance. What happens when things move?
Mind Painting
Observe an object or scene and remember as much detail as possible, try to recreate the scene without inside one’s mind. How much detail can you preserve?
A little different
Can you imagine everyone you see having something a little different that what is observed? Wings, tails, extended limbs..
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Back to topHearing
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select another senseListen to your own voice
How do you sound? Do you hear each word?
What do hear?
How many sounds can you hear? How many can you hold in your active awareness at the same time?
Music probe
Can you isolate an instrument? Can you sense when a new sound is activatehd?How many instruments can you hold in your active awareness?
Smell
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select another senseSmell before eating
Smell everything you taste
Distance
How far away can you smell something?
Smell adventure
How many different smells can you in a short walk?
Taste
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select another senseHow many ingredients
Can you taste the different ingredients in your meal?
What does this taste like?
What else does this remind you of hen you taste it?
Spice Cabinet
How many different taste do you have in your spice cabinet?
