The Senses

So I woke up this morning in a sweat. I was having a really weird dream in which I had turned into a black panther and attacked a man. I always have extremely graphic, violent, and generally weird dreams when the temperature in the room is warm or hot. The dreams are also much more vivid and I have multiple ones.

Well, it was kind of steamy in my room this morning. I didn't get much sleep between the dreaming and the tossing and turning and flopping around in bed. I got up before the alarm on my phone went off because I was already pretty much wide awake. I reached over to turn on my lamp and what would you know?

The power was out.

The power was out in our apartment/dorm building, several other dorms, and in some other buildings. However, none of my classes were cancelled. My college is much too dedicated to teaching its students that's for sure.

So no shower this morning. It's not the cold water that I would've minded, it would've been not being able to fix my hair and walking around in the cold with wet hair. Not really my idea of fun. This has been a really strange first day of classes. Or maybe I just have a really odd feeling.

I've been connecting with nature more often than usual. I've been noticing things that I never noticed before. I can look at a field of burnt trees and feel their pain. I can look at the branches of a tree and feel myself swaying in the wind along with them. It's like I'm becoming hypersensitive to everything that is around me.

I'm feeling things more than usual. I guess this would all make sense. You know how most people in the Craft try to develop their "sixth sense". Most people would call this sense their psychic abilities such as clairvoyance, empathy, etc. Well, I'm trying to develop all my senses which includes the ones that we all take for granted.

Our sense of taste, touch, smell, hearing and seeing.

I don't think many people think about these normal senses. I read in a book once that by developing these senses our sixth sense starts to come by more naturally. I think this is probably true. How many people know blind people that are able to sense things before we can such as passing cars? Or how about the people who are deaf but have become so aware of people's body language that it's almost like they can read your mind and feelings in certain situations? They do this because they have to rely on their other normal senses to interpret things that would normally be interpreted by hearing or seeing.

I'm not disregarding the fact that there are a lot of things that probably can't be perceived by the normal five senses. However, I do think that by developing all your senses you will gain much more knowledge and understanding about the sixth sense. It may even be easier to develop. I thank the God and the Goddess for all the senses that I possess. We should take them all into account instead of just the ones people think are the most important.