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HEAR WHAT YOU SEE, FEEL WHAT YOU SMELL
Sunday May 5, 2019
Emotions having sensory properties …
Can they be seen?
Do they make noise?
Do they smell?
Can we touch them?
Someone was doing a reading from a poem they’d published at a ‘reading event’.
This phrase caught my attention: “the odour of broken promises” and it went way beyond that old metaphor “this stinks”.
When we talk about emotions, heart is often connected to feelings (really, we all know it’s a muscle/pump, with no emotions but we connect them to heart anyway).
Feelings, so far as I understand medical science, reside in the brain.
Still, wherever emotions reside, do they make noise, smell or can we touch them?
When someone touches you, what do you feel – what do you hear, what do you smell?
The answers ought to come easily, but it isn’t that simple …
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