Human Relationships with Water
What metaphors, experiences would create a deep sense of connection with water?
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Humans pollute the waters because we lost our relationship with the water in general. How could we bring it back through stories, metaphors, experiences that evoke emotions and nudge our senses and our thinking?
I suggest to look at these points that unify humans with water:
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water makes up our body and water makes up the planet Earth.
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water is always in motion, throughout our body and throughout the planet.
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water is intelligence without which life wouldn't exist.
What other unifing points we could explore when promoting human-water relationship?
想法 Water Drops Travel Through Bodies and Earth
Concept for art promoting inter-dependence: Crowdsourced stories using Water Drops metaphor
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我的想法是這樣的，從最舊的到最底層的最新：
水循環
“促進相互依存的藝術概念：水是所有生命的統一可塑性圖書館。我們人體中的水循環（基於情緒）影響工業，從而影響地球上的水生態系統。海洋是一種集體意識，所有思想在這裏相遇之前雨落在地球上，棲息在人類的身體和思想上。下雨時，水會滲入我的皮膚，流進我的身體，直到思想在大腦中形成。污染越多，酸雨越多，我們的思想就越苦。導致我們設計和購買的污染產品的思想。循環。海洋中的污染越多。苦雨......和倒退。海洋中的水越乾淨，我們的想法（思想）越乾淨，我們的想法（思想）就越明亮未來。”
水質和情緒
“想想我喝水如何塑造我的想法的影響（目前，當我只喝礦泉水時經歷了這一點，現在第 12 天，我感覺更平靜了。我還想表明水會影響情緒狀態（我喝水的例子）和情緒狀態影響決策（創建什麼項目，消費什麼產品）。我在這裏做一個概括，我們體內的水會讓人類產生破壞性的想法/建設性的想法。我們的水越乾淨喝，我們思考的想法越乾淨，我們創造的行業就越乾淨。相反，水污染越多，想法破壞性越大，行業污染越嚴重。在這裏我想補充一下負面情緒如何促成破壞性想法，從而污染行業。”
“壓力會使血液呈酸性嗎？認爲將血液恢復到正常 pH 值或喝鹼性水進行清理是積極的。當然我根本不知道這是不是真的！”
以水爲家
“水對我來說是什麼？”就像家一樣，我可以與它互動。水是家。智能（過去幾代人），一個住在家裏的圖書館。””
水如巨滴
創造一種體驗是多麼酷，觀衆進入一個巨大的水滴，感覺就像在一個繭裏，在流動的水中是安全的，就像生活一樣，當創造力/想象力創造出那個繭在混亂中移動時。人們必須步入一個水結構（一個雕塑般的噴泉或沉浸式虛擬體驗）才能在裏面感到平靜，但周圍卻是流動的混亂，這會像創造力一樣激發流動感。
水作爲社會的溶劑
然後 [Mindey] 分享了水滴如何幫助“疏通人性”並構成“社會溶劑”。
水作爲旅行滴
水滴可以帶來與水的聯繫感，因爲水滴可以是任何東西——雨滴、飲料、汗水、小便、濺入海中、湯……
還有“水滴”一般有“即將出來”的意思：下雨時，感覺智慧來了；同樣的，當我哭泣時——通過情感表達，有些東西想要出來，即水的智慧想要通過我們所有人出來！
如何更深入地探索這些隱喻？或者還有什麼其他隱喻會激發與水的聯繫感？
My thinking went this way, from the oldest to the newest at the bottom:
Water as Cycle
"Concept for art promoting interdependence: Water as a unified malleable library of all life. A cycle of water in our human bodies (based on emotions) impacts industries and thus water ecosystems on Earth. Ocean as a collective consciousness where all ideas meet before they rain on Earth to inhabit human bodies and minds. When it rains, water soaks into my skin and emerges into rivers that travel through my body until ideas form inside the brain. The more pollution, the more acid rain, the bitter the ideas in our minds that lead to polluting products we design and buy. Loop. The more pollution in the Ocean. The bitter rain. .... And backwards. The cleaner the water in the Ocean, the cleaner our ideas (thoughts), the brighter the future."
Water Quality and Emotions
"thinking about an effect of how water I drink shapes my thoughts (currently, experiencing this when swithched to drinking only mineral water, the 12th day now and I feel calmer). also I'd like to show that water impacts emotional state (my water drinking example) and emotional state impacts decisions (what projects are created, what products are consumed). I'm making a generalisation here that water in our bodies makes humans to come up with destructive thoughts/constructive thoughts. the cleaner the water we drink, the cleaner the thoughts we think, the cleaner the industries we create. and the opposite, the more polluted the water, the more destructive the thoughts, the more polluting the industries. here I want to add how negative emotions contribute to destructive thoughts, and thus polluting industries."
"does stress make blood acidic? think positive to turn blood to normal pH or drink alkaline water to clean up. surely I don't know if it's true at all!"
Water as Home
"What is Water to me? "Like feeling home, I can interact with it. Water is home. Intelligence (of past generations), a library that lives in the home.""
Water as a Giant Drop
How cool it would be to create an experience where a spectator enters a giant drop, and feels like inside a cocoon, safe inside a moving water, just like life is, when creativity/imagination creates that cocoon to move through chaos. People would have to step into a water structure (a sculpture-like fountain or immersive virtual experience) to feel calm inside but fluid chaos all around it, which would spark a sense of flow like creativity does.
Water as a Solvent for Society
And then [Mindey] shared how water drops could help to "unclog the humanity" and make up a "solvent for society".
Water as Traveling Drops
Water Drop could bring a sense of connection with water, because a drop can be anything - rain drop, drink, sweat, pee, splash in the sea, soup, ..
Also "drops" in general have a meaning of "about to come out": when it rains, I feel that wisdom is coming; same way when I cry - through emotional expression something wants to come out, i.e. a wisdom of water wants to come out through all of us!
How could these metaphors be explored deeper? Or what other metaphors would spark a sense of connection with water?
或許最好問問海豚……
Perhaps it is best to ask dolphins about it...
[Mindey] 你會如何詢問海豚與水的關係？ :)
[Mindey] how would you ask dolphins about their relationships with water? :)
// 你會如何詢問海豚與水的關係？
既然有可行的路徑 來學習海豚語，我想我們可以用他們的語言提問，一旦我們學習或發展了共同語言。使用共享的口語，就像我們爲人類發佈問題一樣，我們可以爲海豚發佈問題。
// how would you ask dolphins about their relationships with water?
Since there is a viable path to learning dolphin language, I think we may just ask in their language, once we learn or develop common language. With a shared spoken language, just like we've posted a question for humans, we could post a question for dolphins.