Sensory Input Quotes

#1. The mind-reaction was beginning to settle in, slowing down his chain of thought by seeming to increase the connotations of every idea and every bit of sensory input.

Stephen King

#2. He research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

Eric Jensen

#3. All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Norman Cousins

#4. Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

Stephen LaBerge

#5. I scooted around the house and looked in the window and was able to really see my family in a way that was, I guess, a lot clearer, because I had a lot less sensory input. I could look in through the window and see my family and feel closer to them than if I had been in the same room.

Dawn Prince-Hughes

#6. Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

E. O. Wilson

#7. The human body is amazing, she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

Dan Brown

#8. Cognition is the mental transformation of sensory input into knowledge about the environment and the flexible application of this knowledge.

Frans De Waal

#9. In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

Stephen LaBerge

#10. Commander William T. Riker: It's just that our mental pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns.
Lt. Commander Data: Hm. I understand. I am also fond of you, Commander. And you as well, Counselor.

Star Trek The Next Generation

#11. Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-building? Become a protozoan.

Peter Watts

#12. I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.

Peter Steele

#13. I can have silent meltdowns called shutdowns. Sensory input becomes too much. I am physically and emotionally exhausted. I curl up into a ball in a safe place to recover.

Tina J. Richardson

#14. It wasn't that she was sad - sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.

Nenia Campbell

#15. Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

Maya Angelou

#16. Carol looked at her, as if really seeing her for the first time that evening, and under her eyes that went from her face to her hands in her lap, Therese felt like a puppy Carol had bought at a roadside kennel, that Carol had just remembered was riding beside her.

Patricia Highsmith

#17. For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.

Caroline Knapp

#18. I remember the sights and sounds and smells of home because the memory of home is the thing that never leaves us.

Wyatt Cooper

#19. Farvell," she said in Fjerdan. "May Djel watch over you until I can once more.

Leigh Bardugo