Creativity Challenge 2002

If we lost a Sense We Could Still Sense

Creativity Challenge 2002 #19

Last week's CC focused on two creative skills: curiosity and being observant. This week let's focus on experiencing the benefits of individual senses without using them, imagining that we have lost one of them at a time.

Each day this week during your creative development time focus on a single one of the primary 5 physical senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell. Then experience each of them individually as often during a particular day as you through the other 4 senses as if you had lost the one you are focusing on that day.

I.E.: If you lost your sight how might you experience the things that sight allows use to experience through the other senses, individually or in combination. How might you be able to experience the differences of color or just color through any of the other senses or combinations of them?

Step one during your 15 to 30 minute creative development time make a list of how you might be able to experience every aspect or trait of things you can observe, become aware of, experience through that single sense using any of the other four remaining physical senses and not the one you are thinking about. If it is sight you are focusing on that day, how might you experience color through smell, taste, touch, sound.

Step two carry a pencil/pen and note book or some electronic note taking device with you during the entire day and record examples as often as you can that day of what you might benefit by being able to experience things through other senses if you lost the one that makes that experience usually possible. If you could not smell how might you have the experience of smell through: sight?, sound?, touch?, taste?

MONDAY
study, experience, observe, experience how you might through the sense of SIGHT without being able to SEE

TUESDAY
study, experience, observe, experience how you might through the sense of SOUND without being able to HEAR

WEDNESDAY
study, experience, observe, experience how you might through the sense of TOUCH without being able to FEEL

THURSDAY
study, experience, observe, experience how you might through the sense of TASTE without being able to TASTE

FRIDAY
study, experience, observe, experience how you might through the sense of SMELL without being able to SMELL

Have fun experimenting with your imagination and rational thinking skills.

Alan

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