Finger Food for Thought

I did this activity with gloves and then mittens. I took and apple and a paring knife outside and sat on the patios near the pool. It was a very hot day today almost 90 degrees Fahrenheit. With the gloves on I sliced the apple one piece at a time and ate the slices while wearing the glove and then with the mittens on. The apple lost much of its flavor as I lost my ability to feel it and to kinesthetically sense it in my hand and manipulate it with my fingers. I was very surprised that the apple's flavor decreased for me. Similar to eating something under blindfolds it does not taste as good when you cannot see it as well.

The gloves caused me to have a more aggressive touch and the mittens reduced flavors and senses even more because they also restricted my dexterity movement. Oh that must have been the worst apple I ever had.

This was an enlightening activity for me. I found that I do not like to eat or write or think and feel while hands are cover with a towel or gloves or mittens. Somehow the change in the receptors of tactile feeling have mad my food taste dull, and my mind goes dry with thoughts to write when my fingers are inhibited to write easily and comfortably.

Amazing to perceive this activity as a nature-connected sensation of the mind being cut off from natural sensation triggering and signal/warning response in our body's reflexes. I am deeply moved by the fact that altering my reception of tactual stimulation can equally alter the taste of my food and the profundity of my thoughts and my emotional status all at once. I truly am connected to the natural attractions of life and I’m omniscient in nature’s nameless intelligence attractions.

I am a person who gets good feelings when I realize apples taste bad without touch. I enjoy my food so much better when I can eat it with my fingers. I even hate being removed from my food with a fork.
I would like to eat more with my hands and less with my fork in my future.  I found a very high sense of self-worth and trust in nature’s intelligence since I have been trying to find a good reason to eat with my fingers all my life; now I have a truly legitimate one. It is my own authority to trust my senses and eat with my fingers even though it is not appreciated in modern society.

Comment: This is very interesting what you describe with the apple tasting worse or not having as much taste when you ate it with the gloves on, when you were not so in-touch with it. I read about this lady whose last name is Applebaum, who had a disease that gradually made her lose certain capacities. She explains that when she lost her ability to recognize spatial movement in other people she then became unable to recognize people's feelings. Your example and Applebaum's example let us know of the interconnectedness of sensation, working as a concert for perception to help us in survival through our relationships within ourselves and the environment.