The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #160439   Message #3806110
Posted By: Donuel
21-Aug-16 - 03:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: Literary project:Falstaff and the Mountebank
Subject: RE: BS: Literary projects
I am exploring a new kind of Alice in Wonderland for kids.

I have a theory that everyone has heard from their parents,
IF YOU DON'T USE IT YOU LOSE IT.
It doesn't apply only to muscles.
It involves talent and senses that we must first be aware of.
MANY of us have the hardware for specialized senses but never used, activated or practiced their innate or critical stage abilities.

Some Women can see over 200,000 colors than men.
However women with this advantage who actually use it is only about one in ten. You see, dogs have two cones blue and green, men have three (blue green red) and some women have 4 (blue green yellow and red). With addition of specialized cones one increases sensed color by hundreds and then hundreds of thousands more.

Without a knowledge, word or category for this enhanced sense, most tetra coned women will never take advantage of it. Use it or lose it.

I bet this losing scenario of other advanced senses repeats itself many times over due to ignorance, dogma and cultural/scientific bias.
These 'invisible senses' possibilities should be allowed to be taught to children. Our invisible senses doubles the classical 5.

For this reason, a new kind of Alice in Wonderland is needed.




BTW some butterflies essentially have 8 cones