Response to the chapter Touch, From the book A Natural History of The Senses by Diana Ackerman

After reading the chapter Touch, from the book A Natural History by Diana Ackerman, I was reminded that each of our senses are directly related to our emotions, thoughts and memories. When we explore our senses we are generating awareness of ourselves and the world that surrounds us. For example when we define a smell, no language seems to be able to describes a scent so we end up associating it with other ideas or experiences. When I am cooking my 10-year-old son very frequently says  “Mami it smells like the gods! “or “Something smells like cinnamon!” or At times he even says “It smells like a baby just born”. If we did not have memories of these events it definitively would be impossible to understand what we mean by these phrases.