Sensehacking: How to Use the Power of Your Senses for Happier, Healthier Living

In fact, creative solutions were up threefold following a good night’s sleep. What is more, we can also learn new contingencies between sounds and scents while we sleep. Furthermore, presenting sounds and scents associated with stimuli that were learned during the day while in slow-wave sleep helps people to consolidate their memories. However, bef

Sensehacking, then, may be as much about removing unwanted sources of environmental stimulation as it is about adding new ones.

Sensism is fundamentally about providing a key to improved well-being by considering the senses holistically, understanding how they interact and incorporating that understanding into our everyday lives.

Implicit in their attitude was the traditional view of perception, whereby the senses were considered as entirely separate systems. This is, after all, just how they appear to us on the outside: we have eyes to see, ears to hear, a nose to smell, a tongue with which to taste, and skin to feel the world around us.

We can even sniff out the likely quality of another person’s dance moves. In fact, those whose odour we like tend also to display bodily movements that we find attractive.

noise, defined as unpleasant auditory stimulation.

Bear in mind here, though, that it is not enough simply to know that you are close to nature, you really have to experience it with all of your senses to get the full benefit.

Moon Ribas has a seismic sense. An implant in her arm allows her to feel the earth’s seismic activity, with a sensor in her elbow vibrating every time an earthquake occurs anywhere on the planet.38 And there is also Neil Harbisson, a British artist who grew up in Catalonia and was born with achromatopsia, a severe form of colour blindness. He calls

In most situations, two senses really are better than one. It is just that in our study we deliberately distorted the sound in order to introduce a conflict between eye and ear. This is a favourite technique of research scientists who study the senses and their interaction.