In its most intense form, perception can have a profound influence on our understanding of what it means to be human and to be fully alive. Jackson (1998) explains it is during those moments of full perception, when we are totally absorbed in what this object or event or idea is like, that the various components of our psychological being—our ability to think, to feel, to appreciate, to experience through all our senses—come into play at once. At such moments our various capacities not only are realized (i.e., become real) but are also momentarily fused and unified. Only then do we experience what it is like to be fully human