sense training

[Esmond]

Good point on the reaction. Its something to train on. As for night vision, there are certain vitamins that can help enhance it further.

[sezawte]

Good point on the reaction. Its something to train on. As for night vision, there are certain vitamins that can help enhance it further.

Beta-carotene (vegetable sources) or retanol (animal sources) also known as vitamin A is required for night vision, however an excess of it doesn't necessarily improve night vision. It's needed in order for the body to make visual purple which is required for vision (to the extent that a deficiency of vitamin A can cause blindness). As an additional note retanol is easier for the body to absorb than beta-carotene 

[Esmond]

We have to make sure we get enough of beta-carotene then. I remember carrots are rich with them right?

[sezawte]

As a general rule of thumb (not always correct) for plant matter anything that's orange, so carrots and apricots etc. , is usually rich in beta carotene, the problem with beta carotene is that your body needs to convert it to retanol before it can be used (I forget which vitamin or mineral it is but you need another one to convert it) .

[Swokéyan]

Hmm cool
Im sometimes going out at night like 4am to walk around in town, it doesnt have anything to do with this because its still pretty light outside because of all the laterns and such, but i do love the night
And yes i know its crazy ^^

[Yeynari]

Link time again... Here's some info on "nature awareness" and fox walking (how to walk barefoot without injuring your soles).

http://www.natureskills.com/owl_eyes.html

http://www.guardianwarrior.org/My_Homepage_Files/Page26.html

http://www.natureskills.com/fox_walking.html

[Txontaw]

Thanks, those articles are actually really useful. Perhaps I'll be able to try fox walking at school.

[Esmond]

I've been wanting to start practicing barefoot walking for a long time. Thanks a bunch!

[Txontaw]

I've been wanting to start practicing barefoot walking for a long time. Thanks a bunch!

I went to the park barefoot with a friend a couple days ago. By the end of the day it was painful to walk, my nerves were so sensitive. But it was fun anyway.

[Txon Taronyu]

At my cottage I always walk barefoot. Once there was still a bit of snow on the ground and I had to walk through it in areas. that takes willpower! 

[Meuia te Stxeli Tstew'itan]

Nice! I went outside barefoot today and the ground was soaking wet. It was all squishy-squishy and that kinda made me forget it was only 10°C

[Txon Taronyu]

My feet would burn after walking on the snow (ironic kinda burning-snow)

and I would have to wipe it off on my poncho (cloth not for the rain) I was wearing (yes I had no shoes and a poncho I am such a hippe

[sezawte]

I'm sure we can get shoes anyway (after all if we can't make hide boots then there's the eco village that can procure shoes) so if you don't manage to walk barefoot I'm sure it's fine

[Swokéyan]

I think walking barefoot would be better, you just have to get used to it.
Like they wear shoes in any tribe
But everyone should do what he prefers.

[Txontaw]

We'd need shoes for some things, depending on where we are. Like there's a fish called the stone fish that lives in the tropics, and if you step on it barefoot, it could be deadly.

But unless you're walking on spikes, years of calluses will pretty much protect you from just about anything

[sezawte]

How long does it take to develop calluses? for me to develop them on my fingers from playing guitar it only took a couple of days...

[Txontaw]

How long does it take to develop calluses? for me to develop them on my fingers from playing guitar it only took a couple of days...

Haha, it really depends how hard you work them. You'll never develop calluses if you just walk around your house barefoot. But don't take it too far and walk around on spiky rocks, cause then you're feet will be torn up, instead of just sore.

What I do is I go down to my local park, barefoot, and that seems to be producing some good calluses. But I don't know how long it will take to produce fully realized calluses.

[sezawte]

hmm... I might try that, it still sounds painful, from experience developing them tend to be.

[Txontaw]

hmm... I might try that, it still sounds painful, from experience developing them tend to be.

Yup. It is. When I got home from the park last, I could barely walk, my feet were so sore. But you recover from it quickly.

[Kerame Pxel Nume]

I believe he was talking about better eyesight, hearing, reflexes, smell and taste. There was a long argument about if your actually training them or just getting used to hearing better. Like whether your opening your mind more because you don't need to train them. Something like that.

I haven't read the mentioned thread, but IMHO it's really just a mind thing. Technically I found our (= human senses) too be incredible capable, if you start to use them outside the qualities we normally tink and talk about.

Take smell for example: It is commonly known, that dogs have much better smell than humans, and there are all kinds of cool annecdotes, like that dogs can do weather forecast by smell.
    You know what: I can do that too. And it's not because I got some super-nose, but I focus on other qualities of the air. About a week ago I was entering the subway with some friends, outside a beautifull spring day, sun shining. When we were leaving the subway just before we got to the stairwell to the outside some draft delivered me with some air from outside, and it had this specific quality of (imminent) rain, a sensation I actually like very much, but can't describe. So I got out my rain jacket, got strange looks from my friends, but when we got outside and it began raining just when we left the station the were rather confused.

Also our eyes are quite good. Of course we got some limits on optical resolution. But with some training and especially if you allow to adapt them to the darkness, our eyes also work quite well in dim lighting conditions - one trick is not to center the object you want to look at, since at the center of our eyesight there are only quite insensitive colour receptors. By looking a little bit sideways you can quite clearly see things in your sight's periphery.

The same with our hearing capabilities, if you train it, and don't ruin it by constant exposition to loud noise.