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Weird Factors That Distort Your Thinking & How Animals Perceive the World

Something You Should Know

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Is That What You Mean by Echo Location?

We're attuned to using and hearing these kinds of soundss. And yet we never consciously say, oh, well, i can hear that the wall's coming up. M it's one of these senses that ire so familiar and automatic that we just don't notice it often. The way one notices these things is if you lose them. I met an extraordinary man called ean waterman who back in the 19 seventies, contracted a nasty virus,. It completely interfered with the senses that enabled this sense to exist. They were wiped out. He had lost his sense of body from the neck down. So when he first was grappling with this new way of being, he said he felt

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