We share the same reality, sort of. It’s not that reality is shifting. Reality is consistent but our views vary.
Perception
Visceral
Visceral sensations
Vestibular
Vestibular senses are a collection of subsystems that track body position and movement. They are devoted to providing balance and spatial data to help us coordinate our movements in varying body postures and angles. Movements are composed of rotation of the body, sudden stops and forward motion.
Hearing
Hearing is our system for analyzing patterns of air waves. Like vision, which transducers light waves into neural signals, hearing transducers air waves into neural signals. In vision, the transducer is the eye. In hearing, the transducer is the ear.
Touch, Temperature, Pain & Itch
In contrast to chemical senses (taste and smell), mechanical senses are more like levers and gates. Something must be pushed or moved in order to create a sensation. Mechanical senses detect changes 9n pressure, acceleration, vibrations of tissue damage.
Pressure is recorded by touch receptors. The inner ear signals acceleration. Itch is vibrations detection. And pain is the result of tissue damage.
Smell
Smell (olfaction) is a companion to taste. Both detect and analyze chemicals. Taste performs molecular analysis of solutions. Smell performs molecular analysis of airborne substances. Together, these chemical senses help us understand the environment around us. They do chemical analyses in real time. And they have great success in keeping us alive.
