But in general, we live in a fairly stable and orderly world in which sensations are woven together into a fabric that is familiar to us. True, at times discreet and randomly related sensations dominate our experience: for example, when we are startled out of a deep sleep and âdonât know where we are,â or when a high fever creates bizarre hallucinations, or the instant when an unexpected thunderous noise or blinding light suddenly dominates our awareness. Instead, we perceive and experience an organized world of objects, relationships, and ideas, all existing within a fairly stable framework of space and time. The mind is a kind of theatre where several perceptions successively make their appearance, pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.īut in reflecting on his experience, Kant observes an obvious fact that Hume seems to have overlooked, namely, that our primary experience of the world is not in terms of a disconnected stream of sensations. (The sensations in our senses) succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
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