Reverb

Touch isn’t exactly something I pay particular attention to unless it’s specific and vital to an experience or action.  Like petting an exotic animal or feeling my way around in the dark for the light switch.  However I was recently talking to someone else about how it’s so odd that having been away from familiar physical interaction we start acting differently.

It was with this observance I was reminded of the famous Rhesus monkey experiments performed by Dr Harlow back in the  60′s.  Where baby monkeys were given a choice between two surrogate mothers.  Each one a wire frame construction that supplied them with milk.  One was covered in a soft cloth and the other was left bare. Continue reading The Necessity Of Touch