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The idea that we might as the expression has it lose touch with our feelings is when we reflect on it a highly paradoxical one. How could we lose touch with feelings that belong to us? Where might they go, and what might be driving their loss? It seems we're built in such a way that an understanding of much of what our minds and our bodies go through is in no way automatic. It is mediated via the acceptance and understanding of other people, we know well enough about

some things.

If, for example, there were to be a gaping wound in our leg, or we hadn't drunk anything for three days, we would know the truth soon enough. But many of our sensations are like bells that have no solid wire back to consciousness, they ring it a peculiar frequency that isn't picked up by our minds when these have been attuned incorrectly. This may, for example, happen around tiredness.