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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我的想法是这样的，从最旧的到最底层的最新：
水循环
“促进相互依存的艺术概念：水是所有生命的统一可塑性图书馆。我们人体中的水循环（基于情绪）影响工业，从而影响地球上的水生态系统。海洋是一种集体意识，所有思想在这里相遇之前雨落在地球上，栖息在人类的身体和思想上。下雨时，水会渗入我的皮肤，流进我的身体，直到思想在大脑中形成。污染越多，酸雨越多，我们的思想就越苦。导致我们设计和购买的污染产品的思想。循环。海洋中的污染越多。苦雨......和倒退。海洋中的水越干净，我们的想法（思想）越干净，我们的想法（思想）就越明亮未来。”
水质和情绪
“想想我喝水如何塑造我的想法的影响（目前，当我只喝矿泉水时经历了这一点，现在第 12 天，我感觉更平静了。我还想表明水会影响情绪状态（我喝水的例子）和情绪状态影响决策（创建什么项目，消费什么产品）。我在这里做一个概括，我们体内的水会让人类产生破坏性的想法/建设性的想法。我们的水越干净喝，我们思考的想法越干净，我们创造的行业就越干净。相反，水污染越多，想法破坏性越大，行业污染越严重。在这里我想补充一下负面情绪如何促成破坏性想法，从而污染行业。”
“压力会使血液呈酸性吗？认为将血液恢复到正常 pH 值或喝碱性水进行清理是积极的。当然我根本不知道这是不是真的！”
以水为家
“水对我来说是什么？”就像家一样，我可以与它互动。水是家。智能（过去几代人），一个住在家里的图书馆。””
水如巨滴
创造一种体验是多么酷，观众进入一个巨大的水滴，感觉就像在一个茧里，在流动的水中是安全的，就像生活一样，当创造力/想象力创造出那个茧在混乱中移动时。人们必须步入一个水结构（一个雕塑般的喷泉或沉浸式虚拟体验）才能在里面感到平静，但周围却是流动的混乱，这会像创造力一样激发流动感。
水作为社会的溶剂
然后 [Mindey] 分享了水滴如何帮助“疏通人性”并构成“社会溶剂”。
水作为旅行滴
水滴可以带来与水的联系感，因为水滴可以是任何东西——雨滴、饮料、汗水、小便、溅入海中、汤……
还有“水滴”一般有“即将出来”的意思：下雨时，感觉智慧来了；同样的，当我哭泣时——通过情感表达，有些东西想要出来，即水的智慧想要通过我们所有人出来！
如何更深入地探索这些隐喻？或者还有什么其他隐喻会激发与水的联系感？
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?
或许最好问问海豚……
Perhaps it is best to ask dolphins about it...
[Mindey] 你会如何询问海豚与水的关系？ :)
[Mindey] how would you ask dolphins about their relationships with water? :)
// 你会如何询问海豚与水的关系？
既然有可行的路径 来学习海豚语，我想我们可以用他们的语言提问，一旦我们学习或发展了共同语言。使用共享的口语，就像我们为人类发布问题一样，我们可以为海豚发布问题。
// 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.