Smells and Bells

When I used to think of the sixth sense, I immediately associated it to magic and the ability to see dead people (obviously influenced by the literal movie 'The Sixth Sense'). After reading more about it and being introduced to more examples of how it is displayed in our daily lives, I have developed a more complex understanding. Whether it is 'feeling' someone's eyes on you, turning the car around because you had an inkling of a feeling about not shutting the garage door (one that I have felt way too often), or getting a call from someone that you had been meaning to call all day, our sixth sense is represented in many forms. "My life and the world's life are deeply intertwined; when I wake up one morning to find that a week-long illness has subsided and that my strength has returned, the world, when I step outside, fairly sparkles with energy and activity; swallowing are swooping by in vivid flight; waves of heat rise from the newly paved road smelling

The sixth sense is a difficult sense to describe because it is not that easy to really describe. Experiencing the sixth sense is unique to each person since it is the least physical of the senses. I think David Abram’s description of air fits the six. In the Spell of The Sensuous , he states ho the air “is utterly invisible” but that we “know very well that there is something there” (Abram 225). While we ourselves could know some transcendent experience occurred, proving that the experience happened is usually more difficult and much harder to describe. Not the same parking lot I do not know if this experience really qualifies as the sixth sense but it is the closest story I could think of. So, after pulling into the parking lot of the hospital my dad and I got were getting out of the car and heading towards the hospital. However, the car that had come in behind us stopped and the driver called out to my dad. The person turned out to be a car mechanic that my dad knew. After talki

I read a book called A Mango-Shaped Space when I was in fifth grade. It’s about a young girl who discovers that she has synesthesia. She figures this out when she realizes that not everyone is able to associate numbers, letters, words, sounds, etc. with colors. I actually knew what synesthesia was prior to reading this book because my mom has it. My sisters and I loved having her describe the color of each of our names- mine was a dark shade of green to her. My mom is also extremely talented at playing piano and has the musical gift of having perfect pitch. I think this is because she is able to see colors when hearing sounds, which helps her identify notes and keys. I always wish I had synesthesia, particularly the type known as Lexical-Gustatory, in which a person experiences taste and smell from written and spoken words, as well as when they see certain colors and feel certain emotions. I think the fact that the individual is experiencing the world in an entirely different wa

In David Abram's book The Spell of the Sensuous  he explains how the sixth sense can act as someone’s ability to connect the surrounding nature by altering their consciousness.  Abrams mentions that the idea of the sixth sense experience is often refuted and overlooked by Westerners. He claims that Westerners perceive the sixth sense as some sort of super natural power. This is evident through Western media like the movie “Star Wars”, which imagines a world where individuals connects to their natural surroundings utilizing the “Force” or the Bruce Willis movie “The Sixth Sense” which features a young boy who can see dead people. Abrams explains that while the sixth sense experience remains quite unbelievable it is actually a very  real connection that people can cultivate with their surroundings. People who are believed to freely move between the realms of the physical and spiritual world have sometimes been integrated into different societies. In certain native cultures there

I've always had a weird relationship with my dreams. I've always felt that my dreams are trying to tell me something either about me or happenings around me. When I would have recurring dreams it always felt like there was some sort of force trying to show me something. When I was little I used to have recurring dreams where I would wake up in the middle of the night and my house would be on fire. I had these dreams for years and they even began to impact me in real life. When we would have fire drills at school and when the smoke detector went off at my house because something was burning I could feel my heart racing. At first, I just thought it was an irrational fear of mine like bugs and the dark and the basement, but I would never have dreams of these other things. Fast forward to when I was in 6th grade: during class, I got called into the principal's office. I go in not knowing what to expect and the principal tells me that my house had caught on fire and burned dow