Friday, April 9, 2010

Event #1 - Foam Party (April 8th)

This was my first foam party, and after hearing about it from my brother and his friends, I knew that I had to experience this first hand myself to see what it was about it. Excited I got a ticket and went together with my friends to make the experience more enjoyable. Upon arriving the crowd wasn't as large due to our early arrival time so all I could do is wait. But as midnight drew closer the crowd grew bigger and the foam began spitting from the machines to drift down from above falling down on everyone. The machine began exerting more foam at a gradual rate but it didn't soak much, although, it did make it hard to breathe.

And I finally realized that being at the foam party crowded and squeezed in as I was that I was getting the full effect of all my senses. I could see the foam, smell the foam, hear the music, taste the foam unfortunately and touch the foam. That's when my mind began to work during the fun. What makes humans think and work is their senses. When we use our senses to recognize anything before us via our senses our mind begins to work and decode what we recognize. This only brings about the question what makes everything so. When one sees, smells or taste food, what in their brain tells them it is chicken, beef, or lettuce. What in our mind recognizes it and how does the mind work with our senses to tell us just that?
By fulfilling all the functions of our senses just like at the foam party would that imply that we are at that moment functioning at our best because we're using all the senses or does this mean that it leaves us more off-guard? Which is similar to the case where if one were to go blind, their hearing would increase. Which would suggest that humans will always have the capability to replace loses in the body under limitations.

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