resensitize

Your senses may have become dulled by contemporary culture. There are whole dimensions of perception you may be missing out on. Consider the following absolutely boring yet slowly sensual activities:

Visual

• Look straight ahead instead of all over the place side to side while walking or waiting around
• Watch the clouds
• Watch the stars
• Stop looking at flickering lights
• Stare at a Mark Rothko painting
• Stare at a blank wall
• Stare anything, from a distance of 3 centimeters
• Read a haiku

Aural

• Classical music
• Ambient techno
• Stop listening to ClearChannel radio stations
• Cut yourself off from traffic and other city noise
• Take off your Walkman!

Tactile

• Sensory deprivation tank
• Go barefoot
• Ride a bike
• Touch things in your home you normally don't touch
• Stretch (sign up for yoga if your imagination fails you)
• Good old-fashioned dissociatives

Palatal

• Fast
• Subsist on unseasoned rice
• Drink only water
• Drink only tea
• Drink coffee black
• Stop eating sugar

Olfactory

• Breathe deeply, through your nose
• Stop and smell the goddamn roses
• Stop smoking

Generally

• Meditate
• Write a haiku
• Commune with the elements
• Sensory deprivation tank
• Good old-fashioned dimethyltryptamine

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(I was writing durations of time next to certain activities until subjectivity occurred to me. If you stop because it's boring, you've missed the point and wasted your time)