Touch test #2

the first thing i felt was two paper circles that made a sort of spindle. wrapped around the spindle was a type of cloth that was soft and seemed like it would be absorbent so i thought of a length of gauze that one would find at a hospital. then i found that the cloth that was unreaveled from the spindal had two sides to the item one was very fuzzy and the other was rough and felt like plastic. this type of texture reminded me of velvet so thats what i thought the item was.

Touch test #1

the item i touched was not very hard but was definately not soft. the texture felt like paper but i did not want to jump to that conclusion. the first thing i felt was that there was a slight crease in the paper. i felt the edges and they were perfectly cut and seemed like equal dimensions. i began to think of what type of paper this was like a handout or maybe something we got before in english class. as soon as i felt that the paper was extremely smooth, smoother than classroom paper i began to also feel very little bumps which reminded me of a dollar bill. as soon as i thought that it was a dollar bill i quickly smelled it and sure enough it had a slight dollar bill ink smell to it.

Thesis statement for touch

Touch How important is touch to a human being? for my essay i am going to write about touch but touch is very broad there are many different views and aspects of touch that i can write about i have thought about writing about how touch is vital to humans and it is needed but i now want to write about all five senses and how they may tie into touch when we studied taste we came to the conclusion that taste is greatly influenced by smell and that you can only taste sweetness, bitterness, sourness but the real flavors of our favorite foods like pizza ice cream or chocolate cookies are sensed by our sesn sense of smell maybe this is true with touch with a sense such as sight we see everyday and our touch can be influenced by this when we first look at some thing we think is it rough? is it smooth? and immediately come to a conclusion of what that item will feel like then we touch it and process this data to conclude what the item really felt like today when we do our touch workshop this is what many people may do when they go to feel the item they are to sense today i brought in a cleaning cloth for glasses and computer screens it is black and looks really fuzzy and one can conclude many things from this

Do any other senses tie into touch?

Do the other five senses incluence the sense of touch?

intro : taste and smell

para1 : sight and touch

a. observing texture

b. feeling in front of you when blind

c.

para2 : smell and touch

para3 : hearing and touch

para4: taste and touch

conclusion : touch and all five senses

The power of Touch

Touch, as one of our five senses, is our most primitive sense. In fact, many may think that the sense of touch is the first sense that we experience. From birth we are touched and cared for. This experience of being held and nurtured is vital to the child’s development. Touch is a sense we often experience in everyday life, but do not realize the significance of it.
The sense of touch is used in sports, but is frequently overlooked. When a player hits a homerun, scores the tying point, or makes a big play he is commonly congradulated with a friendly butt slap. Although this seems like a nonchalant reaction to a great play, there is more to the butt slap than congradulations. Butt slaps also reveal how close the two players are. Freshman Lacrosse player Max Levine explains, “I personally think that the closer two teammates are with each other, the farther down their slaps will be” (Doman).

Touch has also been experienced by people without limbs, which is refered to as a phantom limb. People without limbs have reportedly found that their phantom limbs act as though it is still there, causeing them for example to reach for a cup of coffe that is not there. Some people with phantom limbs experience excrutiating pain from the cut off nerves in their stump. Phantom limbs can supposedly be treated by a number of methods including, “vibration therapy, acupuncture, hypnosis and biofeedback” (“Phantom limb”).

In our society touch is quite valuable and often unseen. According to Rodha Watson, “Touch is an important means of communication. Agentle squeeze of the arm, a good hug, an arm across someone’s shoulders, a light tap on the hand. All of these speak volumes without a word being said” (Watson). Touch as an important means of communication and as the first experience from birth should not be overlooked or taken for granted.

Word Cited

Doman, Mary. “The extra-low five: the art of the butt touch.” JUH Newsletter. 26 April 2007. JUH. 27 Sept. 2007. <http://media.www.juhnewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news>

“Phantom Limb.” Wikipedia. 10 Oct. 2007. Wikimedia Foundation. 10 Oct. 2007. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb>

Watson, Rhoda. “The common touch.” Nursing Older People Vol. 17 Issue 1 44-45.