Humans devote most of their time to finding their identity.

Much of ones identity is shaped by ones senses: what one likes to eat, what colors one is attracted to, and how one sees him - or herself in the mirror. Experiences and how one chooses to analyze those experiences also play an important part in forming a persons identity. If one thinks very rationally and has a logical outlook on life, it would reflect on his or her personality, making it very flat. Consequently, a subjective view on life would result in a rounded personality. Many people describe identity as consisting of distinct parts, but in actuality it is a combination of the different experiences we live. If one is not satisfied by the way one is, one tries to change his or her own image by looking at the world from a different angle. Identities become complex and unique if ones experiences and perception of the world are complex. Karen Armstrongs and Oliver Sacks articles, Homo Religiosus and The Minds Eye: What the Blind See, can be seen as entirely different topics; however, when looked at more closely, both offer views on how seemingly unrelated or even contradictory elements belong to a unified whole. In this paper I identify these disparate elements as a humans senses and it is how one uses these senses that results in a unique and broad awareness of the world. Armstrong illustrates how people use different senses to understand religion while Sacks explains how blind people create a new visual world through the use of sound, taste, smell, and touch. Senses can be used separately or together, both ways resulting in a different awareness of ones environment and ones own identity within that world. Each sense allows one to experience things in different ways and every persons own interpretation of the sensory stimuli shapes the world as we perceive it.