One Week, One Life - Day 1

Day 1
Confused?

You bet I’m confused. All of this is new to me.

I hear sounds, but don’t know what they are. Oh, I can tell which ones excite me, which ones soothe me, and which ones scare me. But I don’t know what they really are and how I can relate them to anything.

I smell smells. And yes, some are pleasing while others are disgusting. I’m starting to think that I somehow contribute to the disgusting ones, for pretty soon after the smell comes, I am thrown into some big activity which eventually replaces the disgusting with a pleasing smell.

I feel … well, things I guess you would call them. I feel soft, warm things, that most of the time come at the same time as the soothing sounds and sweet smell. I feel rough things, which also come with soothing sounds but the smell? Not so sweet. I feel hot things, cold things, wet things, slippery things, hard things, and things that seem to fall apart as soon as I try to feel them.

I see flavors of things, but can’t quite seem to focus on anything definite. I see wisps of motion, sometimes combined with feelings and smells, but sometimes just accompanied by a soft, repeating sound. The things I see are sometimes huge and sometimes small; sometimes fast and sometimes don’t seem to move at all.

I taste but I’m not sure what I am tasting. There is something warm and liquidy that I like. There are lots of hard things which I continue to taste but just don’t do anything for me. And there have been a few things I tasted that I hope I never taste again.

So it seems I have five senses, but not enough sense to know what it is I am sensing.

Well, after all, it is only Day 1.