The Human Experience

The
Human
Experience

Which sense would you like to practice?

Touch Vision Hearing Smell Taste Imagination

As our comprehension of the senses expands so will this list.

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Partipants 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?

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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?

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Notice 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.

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The 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?

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Blank 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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Hearing

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