Touch

[Spirit of Light]

If you reach out your hand to touch someone next to you. Is it you touching the other person or your perception of the sense of your own hand that you feel?

Everything you feel, see, hear, smell, touch is within you. it is not?

 

[ChristineM]

If you reach out your hand to touch someone next to you. Is it you touching the other person or your perception of the sense of your own hand that you feel?

Everything you feel, see, hear, smell, touch is within you. it is not?

Put as simply as i can

What you feel is your nerves registering a change in pressure on your skin and signaling that change to your brain.

What you see are photons hitting rods and cones at the back of your eyes, they in turn convert that to a signal which is sent to your brain via the optic nerve

Like wise what you hear are sound waves vibrating your ear drums, which convert the vibrations to signals to travel,via nerves to your brain

Smell is similar but scent molecules trigger receptors in your nose (and mouth) which indicate they have been triggered by... You guessed it... Sending a signal via nerves to your brain

I am assuming feel and touch are the same but if you mean emotions then that is a chemical reaction in your brain.

 

[bobhikes]

Put as simply as i can

What you feel is your nerves registering a change in pressure on your skin and signaling that change to your brain.

What you see are photons hitting rods and cones at the back of your eyes, they in turn convert that to a signal which is sent to your brain via the optic nerve

Like wise what you hear are sound waves vibrating your ear drums, which convert the vibrations to signals to travel,via nerves to your brain

Smell is similar but scent molecules trigger receptors in your nose (and mouth) which indicate they have been triggered by... You guessed it... Sending a signal via nerves to your brain

I am assuming feel and touch are the same but if you mean emotions then that is a chemical reaction in your brain.

But whats the incredible part is that no 2 people will have the same experience across all senses and emotions even if duplicated 100%. Even the same person does it a second time they will have a different reaction.

 

[Spirit of Light]

Put as simply as i can

What you feel is your nerves registering a change in pressure on your skin and signaling that change to your brain.

What you see are photons hitting rods and cones at the back of your eyes, they in turn convert that to a signal which is sent to your brain via the optic nerve

Like wise what you hear are sound waves vibrating your ear drums, which convert the vibrations to signals to travel,via nerves to your brain

Smell is similar but scent molecules trigger receptors in your nose (and mouth) which indicate they have been triggered by... You guessed it... Sending a signal via nerves to your brain

I am assuming feel and touch are the same but if you mean emotions then that is a chemical reaction in your brain.

So everything happen within you because all you decribed is within the body

 

[ChristineM]

But whats the incredible part is that no 2 people will have the same experience across all senses and emotions even if duplicated 100%. Even the same person does it a second time they will have a different reaction.

That is not surprising, the nervous system and brain are very complex and each individual has developed their brain by their own experience.

Consider the stroke victim who after the the stroke is left unable to do certain tasks. Although the pathways that allow these actions are damaged they can relearn these tasks using different pathways.

This happens in every day life too, different experiences build different pathways in the brain.

In this way you are unique just like everyone else

 

[ChristineM]

So everything happen within you because all you decribed is within the body

The registering of external stimulus (touch, sight, taste, hearing etc) occurs in the brain. There (on most cases) needs to be an external stimulus to be registered.
But of course that stimulus does not have to be external, one can feel pain generated within the body.

 

[pearl]

The registering of external stimulus (touch, sight, taste, hearing etc) occurs in the brain. There (on most cases) needs to be an external stimulus to be registered.

The reason nursing homes and the like provide 'stimulus' therapy especially to those who are otherwise inactive.

 

[Thief]

Everything you feel, see, hear, smell, touch is within you. it is not?

and the tree that falls in the forest makes a sound
whether I am there to hear it or not

so ......no
not everything is within

 

[Nakosis]

If you reach out your hand to touch someone next to you. Is it you touching the other person or your perception of the sense of your own hand that you feel?

Everything you feel, see, hear, smell, touch is within you. it is not?

What you consciously experience is within you. What I've read is that when you are awake, experiencing a sensory perception involves many different areas of the brain. Vs when one is asleep, that sensory perception goes directly to the area of the brain with is involved with that sense.

When we perceive something, it triggers memories. Those memories trigger all the different parts of the brain involved in those memories. So like when you smell bacon, it triggers all of those experiences recorded in your memory associated with bacon, like a visual representation, sound, taste, etc...

So it's not just the actually perception alone that we experience. While the majority of what we experience is "within", it doesn't mean that it's all in our head. Something external stimulates your nervous system to get things started in most cases.

I suppose folks could be "daydreaming", somewhat oblivious to what is going on around them.

Walking meditation in my opinion is about being aware of external stimulus while shutting down as much as possible the internal "noise" that accompanies the majority of what we experience.