Coming to Your Senses . . .

Anyone who speaks in public will frequently glance round the hall at the audience. Seeing the listeners from a distance helps presentation. However, if the speaker could smell, feel or hear the audience, this would be very distracting. People cannot close off their senses to sound and smell - they are exposed to the penetration of sensations through nose and ear, and they cannot prevent feeling things touching their skin. In contrast, the gaze can be averted, and the eye can be closed. The mouth can be opened for tasting, or closed to refuse food; be opened to speak and closed to be silent. There are differences in sensory sensations and they have consequences.