If you’re already read Senses, Streams, & the Sea, you might be curious to check in on other sense-streams. They are as numberless as they are individual, but here are some common ones to begin exploring.

Let's start with a few of the ones that are easier to notice and pick out, and work our way down.

• Time: Every single one of us knows that sensed-time and clock-time are not the same thing. We're trained to defer to clock-time, and treat sensed-time as an aberration to be corrected, but let's try loosening that expectation. When hours fly by, what's the experience there? What sense does the soma have about how time is moving? When minutes crawl by, what's happening in the soma?
• Embodied emotions: the panic-grief that drops into your gut suddenly—it's not just a physical feeling, is it? And that happy flutter of excitement when the cute girl from the bar texts back, that has emotional-energetic components to the experience, doesn't it?
• Self/Identity: all of us feel some sense of being a continuous self. I'm carrying the same thread of me that I was yesterday. This sense is very rarely interrupted—even while dreaming, there's often a sense of "I am this self," even if that self is different from daylight-me. The most noticeable interruption I feel is when I stand up too fast, my vision fades out, and I lose all sense of who I am, where I am, if time is passing, etc. Feeling into the difference between those moments and the average moment is a good starting point.
• Thoughts: Most people find (often after a certain amount of meditation) that there's a strong difference between thoughts that they themselves generate on the one hand, and thoughts that they perceive on the other. Some thoughts just seem to… appear. Others feel like you're creating them, working through a specific purpose for them. Have you ever sensed a difference?
• Creativity/coming-through-ness: creatives often notice a pretty stark difference between how their process feels when they're grinding it out, creating crap that they know is crap, versus when a feeling comes over them that I'm not making this—it's coming through me.
• Dream-knowing: in dreams, we often "just know" information. No one told us, we didn't see it, hear it, read it—we just know. Most people notice that this continues into daytime experience as well—though in the daytime, it's much more noticeable when something you "just know" turns out to be wrong.
• Embodiment sense: there's a very different life-texture, or energetic-flavor, between when my awareness is rooted in my body, well-dispersed and sturdy, versus when my awareness is all up in my head, disconnected from the body, standing a few inches outside of my lived experience.
• Workability: physically, emotionally, and situationally, certain things feel Very Workable, like you can apply effort to them and meaningfully alter them. Other things feel Unworkable, like you could try and try forever and they wouldn't budge an inch.
• Yuck-Yum: This is connected with Urging and Eros, this sense of something either pulling at you, wanting you to move with it, or repulsing you, pushing you away either powerfully or subtly. This can be as blunt and noticeable as "smelling baked goods, smelling rotten meat" or it can be as subtle as "light yearning for a soft mammal to pet, light distaste for being so close to people on the sidewalk." We'll move into more of this next time, but it would be good this week to start noting down every moment of yuck or yum you notice, no matter how subtle or how obvious.

All of the above are suggestions, starting points, things to notice. I highly recommend exploring your daily experience for yourself, trying to notice the unnoticed, to name the things you sense but have never discerned as worth giving a name to. Getting a sense for these senses is one of the more worthwhile endeavors, if you want to keep moving deeper into the soma and what it has to show you.