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So when I get up in the morning, a series of things happen.

Much of them sound related.

So I hear my alarm.

Definitely the cat Zuko makes these trumpet-like meows.

Ed, can you describe how you experience the world when you wake up?

Yes, it is a sensory bombardment.

All five traditional ones are engaged.

Because usually what happens is I get woken up at about six o'clock by my dog typo,

licking my face.

Ed Young is a staff writer for the Atlantic, an author of the new book in immense world.

How animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us.

He crawls up from where he sleeps.

At the bottom of the bed, it's an arduous track for a little corgi, and he just furiously

and intensely licks my face.

And so it's a little bit like...

Yeah.

In the morning.

Yeah, that's uncannily close.

How odd.

Right, so then there's the sound of him looking my face.

There's the sight of fuzz sometimes when he actually gets in my mouth because my first

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