I still remember the first time I watched a magic trick and felt genuinely deceived.

I saw the coin go into the left hand. My eyes never left it.  And yet, when the hand opened, nothing was there.

What unsettled me wasn’t the trick itself, but the realization of how easily my perception could be hijacked.

Magic doesn’t rely on speed. It relies on our blind faith in a single sense. You trust what you see, so you stop listening. You focus on vision, and touch, rhythm, spatial awareness quietly go offline.

Cut a few connections, and the whole system collapses.

That’s when I understood:  we aren’t lacking senses, we’re using them in isolation.

Life works the same way.  We judge by appearances, by what looks right, safe, advanced, correct.  But perception was never meant to be linear.

Animals don’t have a sixth sense.  They simply never disconnected theirs.

Their bodies listen all at once to vibration, air pressure, scent, movement.  We, on the other hand, trained our senses into separate departments and demand instant answers.

The senses were never five.  They’ve always been a network.

We just forgot how to turn it back on.



—— XC Scribbles · 玖拾捌 XCVIII 🕸️