Humans are touching glass more than nature

Humans are touching glass more than nature

We are touching glass nearly 4x times touching grass.

We are touching glass for 22% of our wake time and this is very unidimensional way of living for humans.

When you stumble upon your old books or school bag, you touch it, feel it, your sensory systems remember it and feeds your brain with multi-layered information that takes you closer to reality of old times. Our sensory organs have evolved over centuries to make us an intelligent species.

But in recent times, most of our knowledge about world is coming from screens. The content is optimised for eyes to trigger the important human feelings but this can’t replace the human need of touch and feel and smell. So at times, you feel that void of something is missing because your body remembers and yearns for more consummate experiences for all sensory organs or when you actually feel more refreshed after a walk in the park than a short break of scrolling. Your body knows what your mind can’t figure out.

Over reliance on our eyes for how we feel and experience world around us is coming at the cost of less usage of our other sensory organs.
Is this just limited to lifestyle shift or can result into evolutionary changes?

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