Sensation

You're so good at that part.

I've had lots of experience.

His car broke down.

Then they declined his credit card.

I ended up paying for dinner.

We got back to his place and he asked me for a condom.

Can you believe it?

I'm surprise he had his own dick with him.

Men are really different here.

Definitely.

Yeah, like a different species maybe.

I'm kind of missing home.

Really, I just got this work-study assignment

and it sounds really cool.

Oh yeah, that'll take edge off of those Mercedes payments.

- Dr. Burton. - Yes.

I'm Lila Reid, the scholarship committee

assigned me to your department.

Ah yes, please come in.

Sit down.

Have you ever studied psychology?

Not really.

I took a couple of intro courses.

Hmm hmm.

Ever worked in a lab?

Dissecting frogs.

Come here, let me show you something.

Did you know that the flutter of a butterfly

can be detected over two miles away?

A butterfly?

Hmm.

And radio signals from a broadcast in the 1940's

have been recorded as still traveling in space.

A butterfly?

This disseminates radar waves.

I can't hear them but certain individuals

are extremely sensitive to their sound.

I must be one of them.

I'm hearing shit all the time.

Do you take drugs?

Excuse me?

I mean birth control, antibiotics,

prescription of any kind?

Nnn mm.

Hmm hmm.

Any induced stressed?

Emotional episodes?

Are you suicidal?

Well sometimes when I break a nail,

I feel like I just can't go on another day.

I'd like you to fill out this form for the university.

Okay.

I pay $75 per assignment.

You can take as long as you want.

Five minutes or five days, it's up to you.

To do what?

Record impressions.

You know, that shit you keep hearing.

Here's my address, come by at eight, I'll explain it.

- Okay. - Okay.

- Oh God, I'm sorry. - I'm sorry.

- Hi. - Hey you.

Mmm (lips smacking), was that her?

Yeah.

Well?

She can hear radar waves.

That's all I know for sure.

And she thinks I'm a work study assignment.

Hmm, well I've got a committee meeting tonight

so when are you gonna begin?

Why do you waste your time with the tenure committee?

Well, where would you be if I didn't?

Paula, if this girl's got it,

we'll make a major breakthrough in psychometry

and that'll take us both way beyond any tenure committee.

Give me my goddamn phone.

- Mmm. - Mmm.

Oh great, it's you.

- Come on in. - I filled out your form.

Thank you.

Come on in.

Wow, this place is like a museum.

Where'd you get all this stuff?

India, Africa, southeast Asia.

- Newark, New Jersey. - (laughing) Interesting.

Actually, it's mostly inherited.

You don't speak Chinese by any chance, you do?

Listen, Dr. Burton.

Call me Ian, take a look at this.

It's beautiful.

Yes, Chang and very rare.

Okay, watch your eyes.

Okay, these lasers act like a CD.

They transform pattern vibrations

into electronic signals to produce sound.

Only in this case, the Chang is a disk.

- Can you hear it? - Yeah.

I think we're in the actual conversations

of the potters at the time this vase was created

over 600 years ago.

Through the vibrations of their voices,

they're patterned into the pottery as it's made

just like a recording.

That's incredible.

It's a real phenomenon.

It's called psychometry.

I believe and I'm gonna prove that all objects

maintain century impressions.

And what I want you to do, here sit down.

Is construct an entire human being

out of the objects that belong to that person.

You can do that?

No, but maybe you can.

How?

I give you an object.

You touch it, you feel it, you absorb vibrations, whatever.

And then you tell me about the person that owned it.

Why me?

Because the way you reacted this afternoon,

to those radar waves.

And who knows, maybe you have other unusual abilities.

Do you have a tape recorder?

Yeah.

Good, use that to record your impressions.

What if I don't get any impressions?

What if you don't get any impressions?

Then this will be the easiest 75 bucks you ever earned.

- Hi. - Hi Denny.

Am I interrupting something, I'm sorry.

No, it's okay.

Well, I was just passing by.

I thought I'd see if you wanted to get a little bite

to eat or something.

- Oh. - Maybe?

- Um. - Are you busy?

Well kind of, I'm not going anywhere.

I just have stuff that I have to do here.

Well that's all right, really, I stopped by.

- Okay, thanks for asking. - Sure.

Um...

Do you wanna,

maybe you wanna do something some other night?

Yeah, sure.

Just give me a call, okay?

Yes.

Absolutely, yes, I'll call you.

I'm sorry, I'll call you.

- Okay, Denny. - I'm sorry.

Good night.

Yeah, good night.

It's strange

I'm not sure what I'm seeing.

Seems like a young girl.

Beautiful, distant.

Sexy, but I don't know, somehow cold.

It's hard to tell if these impressions

have anything to do with the hosiery

or if they're just my imagination.

But anyway, that's it.

- Hi Lila, come on in. - Am I interrupting something?

No, just doing a bit of Chinese yoga.

Helps to keep me calm.

I listened to your tape.

You have a strong psychic sense.

Do you hear voices?

All the time.

Drives me crazy.

Hmm hmm.

Have you seen anyone about it?

Yeah.

I was diagnosed as a schizophrenic.

Really?

Good for you.

Can I get you something?