Perception is a Pleasant Sensation

Sunset by Kasamatsu Shiro, 1919

from  my journal 7/24/13

about the "tea experience"... I have another thought...

I recalled that sometimes running/biking causes changes to my perception -- though maybe small changes.  I have a handful of memories of looking at trees differently -- how they come out of the ground, how rich mulch looks; today I began noticing how the baseball field, with yellow pipe snaking atop the chainlink, defines, carves out space... how geometric it is... and how trashy looking, bulging, split in places, how the posts need paint badly.  I never noticed this before.  It's like what I'd notice if I were in a new park for the fist time and I was trying to get a sense for it... ACTIVE observation, but I am not directing my attention at all.  It's taking it in, moving, noticing, noting.... And my comment now is that changed perception is a pleasant sensation... I don't know if the "pleasant" is simply novelty from the boredom of normalness or is a sensation that comes along with the altered perceptiveness.