Celebration Of The Senses Day
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Where is Celebration Of The Senses Day celebrated?
Founded by Thomas and Ruth Roy, who are known to create unconventional days of our lives is celebrated mainly in the U.S.
Who celebrates Celebration Of The Senses Day?
People in the U.S. celebrate this amazingly fun day by doing things to appreciate and honor the senses by creating moments to remember. They take time out of their distracted lifestyles to understand and perceive the world around them.
When did Celebration Of The Senses Day first start?
The exact year of the first observance of this day is not clear, but it is celebrated every year in the summer season.
Who started Celebration Of The Senses Day?
Thomas Roy and Ruth Roy of Wellcat Holidays, known for their quirky holidays, first came up with this day to appreciate our senses. It is celebrated annually on June 24 to admire such a diverse combination of senses.
History And Timeline
Founders of this day, Thomas and Ruth Roy, believed that if you treat your body to the stimulation of the five senses-taste, touch, scent, sight, and sounds, you will experience the kinesthetic sense known to many as the elusive sixth sense. This helps sense body movement and its position in the universe, even with eyes closed.
Aristotle Wrote 'De Anima'
'De Anima' or 'On The Soul' was the first book that mentioned the senses of taste, odor, sound, touch, and sight by Aristotle.
350 BCUmami Gets Accepted
Umami, known as savory taste or the taste of protein, was the most recently described taste sensation.
'80sDiscovery Of Smell
Dr. Richard Axel, 58, a university professor at Columbia, and Dr. Linda B. Buck, 57, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington in Seattle, discovered how people could smell and recall about 10,000 different odors.
1991Nobel Prize
The 2004 Nobel prize was awarded to Dr. Richard Axel and Dr. Linda B. Buck for their discovery.
2004Foundation Of Day
Wellcat Holidays came up with a way to acknowledge the experience we feel due to our senses by celebrating the day.
21st centuryTraditions And Customs
Though there are no specific customs attached to this day, people usually celebrate it by indulging their five senses in the best way possible. Taste some yummy or fatty foods, smell your favorite flowers, hear your favorite music, go to a place with incredible scenic beauty, throw a party that can make all your senses happy.
Do whatever you feel like doing to appreciate your body.
Ways To Observe Or Celebrate Celebration Of The Senses Day
What better way to celebrate this day than to make each of these senses happy -See, touch, hear, taste, and smell as much as possible on this day. To see, you can go to the local art museum.
For touch, you could visit the petting zoo with your kids. Hear the heartwarming sounds of the birds. Your taste buds could be satisfied with some exotic food experience, or perhaps it could just be a good old-fashioned peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Smell the fresh air of the outdoors or something more stimulating like the aroma of a pine forest or flowers. And finally, experience and find out which sense makes you the happiest!
Facts And Stats
Celebration of the Senses Day is an opportunity for people to realize which sense makes them the happiest and which is the most complex of all.
It is known that most people worldwide do not know about all of their senses, and this day gives them a chance to interact with doctors who give them better insight.
The sense of touch is the first to develop in a fetus, and an average person blinks 15 times per minute. Appreciate your senses on Celebration of Senses Day.
What are the senses?
Humans have five basic senses – touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste. We have a sensory organ that helps in sensory perception for each of these senses. The organs send information to the brain to perceive our surroundings and understand them better.
How is a Sense of Smell Day different from a Celebration of The Senses Day?
Sense of Smell Day celebrates only the sense of smell from the five senses, whereas Celebration of Senses Day commemorates all human senses.
How does celebrating the Celebration Of The Senses Day create gratitude?
Senses are vital to our survival in the world because they help us sense the world around us by physically detecting various things. Hence, this day allows us to show gratitude towards our senses and appreciate their presence.
When Is This Day Celebrated
- Wednesday, June 24, 2020
- Thursday, June 24, 2021
- Friday, June 24, 2022
- Saturday, June 24, 2023
- Monday, June 24, 2024
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