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Sensory history is an area of academic study which examines the role the five senses have played in the past. It developed partly as a reaction to the lack of serious attention given to sensory experience in traditional history books, which often treat sensory experience as a writing technique rather than a serious avenue of enquiry. [1]
The music was inspired by The Lady and the Unicorn, a series of six medieval tapestries that depict the five traditional senses and an additional undefined sixth sense. The first five movements of the concerto are thus named after the five senses they represent: "L'Ouïe" ( hearing ), "La Vue" ( sight ), "L'Odorat" ( smell ), "Le Toucher ...
There are five sense perceptions – hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell – and there are five tanmatras corresponding to those five sense perceptions and the five sense-organs. The tanmatras combine and re-combine in different ways to produce the gross elements – ether, air, fire, water, and earth – which make up the gross universe ...
The concept of five inward wits similarly came from Classical views on psychology. Modern thinking is that there are more than five (outward) senses, and the idea that there are five (corresponding to the gross anatomical features — eyes, ears, nose, skin, and mouth — of many higher animals) does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Gyanendriya is the organ of perception, the faculty of perceiving through the senses. The first five of the seventeen elements of the subtle body are the "organs of perception" or "sense organs". [2] According to Hinduism and Vaishnavism there are five gyanendriya or "sense organs" – ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose. [2]
The central idea of this model is that experience is represented in the mind in sensorial terms, i.e. in terms of the putative five senses, qualia. [3] According to Bandler and Grinder our chosen words, phrases and sentences are indicative of our referencing of each of the representational systems. [4]
A typical example is Gérard de Lairesse's Allegory of the Five Senses (1668), in which each of the figures in the main group alludes to a sense: Sight is the reclining boy with a convex mirror, hearing is the cupid-like boy with a triangle, smell is represented by the girl with flowers, taste is represented by the woman with the fruit, and ...
Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent. [2] [page needed] Bilocation – The ability to be present in two different places at the same time, usually attributed to a saint. Cryokinesis – The ability to control ice or cold with one's mind.