Touch: Heated debate
Sound: Music to her ears
Sight: He looked hot
Taste: Ain't she sweet
Smell: Stench of failure
How do language and sense perception connect?
Above I have listed various metaphors showing how language and sense perception are effected by one another. However there is more then just metaphors. When you touch something for example sand, it may trigger your memories, and you can start to feel the wind or smell the ocean. You don't nesesarily have to be influenced by a touch but it can also be as simple as closing your eyes and trying to image everything that is surrounding you. For example in ISTA TaPs in London, we had a work shop where we had to close our eyes and imagine that each part of our body has a different purpose. We were told to pretend like we are stepping in honey, and like our arms are wings and that our face is aging, and to taste a sour lemon. We did the activity for 5 minutes and all of us got so into it we forgot we were in the middle of an exercise we could feel every movement in our body. Therefore language can help trigger the way you feel leading to your sense perceptions coming into play.
How has sense perception and language limited our knowledge?
Since we do rely on our sense to tell us everything, we begin to believe that just because we have seen or touched something it must be true. After that it may become harder to accept another idea or belief. Especially when you see something first hand you take that as a fact, and don't see it in a different way, however when someone tells you they see something different it is hard to believe what they are saying. An example would be a topic that was trending in 2015 called 'The Dress'. The dress was a picture taken and uploaded to twitter and a whole battle began if the dress was white or gold or blue and black. The dress started many fights and was a topic of conversation of controversy. The reason was because some people saw one option and could not see the other one, and this shows how unreliable sense perception can be. The image below depicts the dress the attached link is an example of ow everyone was discussing their views on the dress, including multiple celebrities.
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