The mind can only guess at what goes on beyond the reach of the senses. Therefore, experience is enclosed in a certain smell/sound/sensation. One that can move from one place to another but can only encompass that fragment of reality in which the individual finds themselves at any given moment. The mind can only assume what is going on elsewhere. Assumptions are made of memories and deductions based on past experience and cultural programming.

I’m here now, this is my reality, I know this isn’t the only reality but it’s the only one I can experience right now. I can only fantasise about the rest of reality, about what anyone I know who isn’t here now is doing, or what’s going on anywhere else in the world. There is a barrier limiting my perception of reality – the barriers of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell … what other senses are there? I have memory, but memory isn’t a sense, reality can change, you go back to a place you haven’t been in a while and its not the same as you remembered it. Memory serves only as a reference library - it is not a direct sensory experience. There is a subtler level of psychic sensing of reality. It is something that is difficult to pin down and effect most of us only on a deep unconscious level some peoples psychic sense is stronger than others, mine isn’t that strong. I don’t think … it’s a sense I’m not very tuned into to, but some people undeniably are. What does the psychic sense perceive? Only the minds of other humans? The collective unconciousness? Is the psychic sense the key to breaking the barrier of the five senses? How does one develop and strengthen this possible additional sense? Where/ how / when does one apply it? Of what use is it? Is it more trouble than its worth, habitually mistaken for insanity? Is there an urge to comprehend more of reality than what the five basic senses perceive at any given moment? Of course there is! That’s why we have media, newspapers, and tv – these are only crude perfunctory interpretations of reality beyond the individuals senses, full of cultural biases and the opinion of the creators involved in them … 

The limitations of the 5 senses, along with other genetic factors are what keep us in the state of ‘individuals’ and ‘animals’ isolated to some extent from each other. Although we all have the same limitations, our experience of reality varies enough so that our collective consciousness seems on the surface to be very limited, how pervasive is the collective (un)consciousness? How strong is it? My reality is different form yours… Even though our respective senses are built the same. I come from a different genetic variation, a different economic background, a different town, a different generation, a different culture, my memory contains different experiences, different programming. My reactions to what I sense are unlike yours… I notice things you ignore and visa versa. Things have different significance to any two individuals. The animals we pilot keep us separate. The infinite variety of individuals makes life interesting, exciting, electrifying, but also creates conflicts, anxiety, violence. I sense we are an insolvable sum.