Reality Differs From Expected Results,

¶ … reality differs from expected results, the following experiments were conducted,.

The first experiment was initiated by filling two small glasses with slightly different liquids. The first glass was plain water from a refrigerator, the second glass was the same. The only difference between the first and the second glass was that sugar was added to the second.. I then took a mouthful of the sugar water concoction and held it in my mouth, slowly swishing it back and forth until it became warm and plain tasting. At that time, I spit the remainder of the liquid into the sink.

A immediately took the first glass in my hand and drank from it. Even though there was not sugar added to the liquid in this particular glass, it still tasted somewhat sweet. I held the liquid in my mouth for a short time and the sense of sweetness slowly dissipated.

In the second of my three experiments, I rubbed my finger over a coarse piece of sandpaper. It felt very rough to my touch, and I would rate the coarseness (on a scale of one being the lowest, and ten being the highest) as a 6. After setting the sandpaper aside for a few moments, I again picked it up and ran my finger over the same general area of the piece once more. After doing so, my sense of the coarseness of the paper changed. I would rate the sandpaper on the second touch as a 4.5-5.0 out of a scale of ten.

The third experiment was conducted with water and glasses again, only this time the focus of the experiment was the temperature of the water. Three bowls were gathered and in the first was very hot tap water, in the second was cold tap water and in the third a mixture of both very hot and very cold water was used. The experiment called for a hand to be placed in the very hot water for a period of three moments, while at the same time the other hand was placed in the very cold water for the same amount of time.

After the three minutes elapsed, both hands were immediately immersed into the same bowl. This bowl contained a mixture of very hot and very cold water. The sensation was the most interesting of all three of the experiments. The hand that had been immersed in the cold water, felt hot when it was immersed in the mixed water. The hand that had been immersed in the hot water, felt cold.