Neuroscientists increasingly treat perception as a distributed system, where multiple sensory channels continuously negotiate a single, coherent reality. Because those channels interact, changing one input, sound, smell, motion, can quietly reshape what you think you’re feeling or tasting.
Spending hours focused on screens can make us forget about senses beyond sight and sound, even though they never switch off. When we pay attention, we notice the contrast between rough and smooth surfaces, tension building in our shoulders, or the softness of a piece of bread in our hands.
Daily routines are filled with these quiet signals. In the morning, there is the sharp tingle of toothpaste, the sound and pressure of water in the shower, the scent of shampoo, and later the familiar smell of freshly brewed coffee.
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