Other Your Senses

[Renny]

I think my strongest sense would be my sight, but im not really sure as I haven't been paying attention to it that much in everyday life.

 

[adrian_]

Is electromagnetic sensing an option? when i'm near a person, (like three or four inches) i feel like there's some sort of veeeeery small magnetic pull between us, is that normal or just something i'm feeling? Sharks do it, and humans have the sense.


Maybe i'm just losing my balance and slowly falling towards that person. I don't know.

 

[Seiden]

Actually, all of my "basic" senses are weak.... (assuming you are only asking for the five most-known senses. We actually have a lot more).


- I have a really bad sight and have to wear glasses all of the time, otherwise I just see a really blurry world and can not recognize human faces (well, actually I can not recognize people even with my glasses, but at least I can see their face). However, I am not bad at discerning different shades of colours. I can hardly name them (I mostly confuse green and blue) but I can tell from each other two very slightly different shades or order them.


- I have a really bad smell. Actually, I barely smell anything... And can not recognize odours at all, or I really confuse them. Like, just a few minutes before, I was like "eww, my orange juice smells like eggs!" and my friend smelled it and was like "what the fuck are you saying? It just smells like orange!!". So, yeah, I confuse orange smell and egg smell...


- My hearing is... I don't know. I'd say I have a really good (too good!) hearing of sounds but a really bad comprehension of them. When I am supposed to sleep, I hear every sound, even the slightest, and it prevents me from sleeping. I am really sensible to sounds and it easily tire me, make me angry or give me headaches. But when I am in my room playing computer and you call me from the bottom level, you can be sure I will not hear you.... Beside this, when people are talking to me or when I am watching TV, I hear the sounds but does not recognize them, I do not understand what they are saying. It is just sounds and I have to make them repeat in order to understand what they are saying.... Then, I am not sure about my hearing. Hearing is good but comprehension is bad ?


- My taste is just normal and common... Really nothing much to say about this. I am just overly sensitive to spiced things and can not handle even lightly spiced things....


- My touch is not that good neither... I am not able to tell a material or a fabric from another and... I'm not sure, actually, how can touch be that sensitive? I can just say that my thermoception (which is often confused with the sense of touch) is really sensitive, and it is actually rather annoying.


So, sight and smell are bad, hearing is confusing (I hear what I should not hear and does not hear what I should hear), taste and touch are common.... I just have a good thermoception (the totally useless one, yay).


Soo I'm not sure what to answer to your poll.

 

[White Masquerade]

@marorda


Oh my goodness. I really don't mean to pry and you don't have to answer if you don't want, but what's -6.5...-2.75 in your eyes? I'm looking it up and can't find anything under that notation. Also, born without smell, do you mean the part of your body that handles it does not function, or it's there but almost non-existant?


@Kozaktri


Right? That's why I posted the question. Until a few weeks ago, I never really thought about it. I was outside in the sun just doing nothing for a change, and realized I could feel A LOT more than I realized...but couldn't smell anything. From there, it clicked. Excellent touch and horrible smell has been a recurring theme throughout my life.


@Arion


Lol, Arion. I wouldn't list it in the poll (since it's not one of the main 5), but I'd say that electromagnetic sensing would be an option too. We do have more senses that some people don't know we have, such as proprioception, which handles how we move. I'm fairly certain human bodies create their own small electromagnetic fields, so it wouldn't be completely crazy to say you sense that on some level. When I am very close to someone, I feel their "pull" as well. It's extremely hard to explain. Like their (essence?) is touching me. More often than not, I can tell when someone is sneaking up behind me off this feeling alone. It could also play a part in attraction or "sensing" someone's intent? We do have our own personal fields, I just never studied further into that =/. I'd say that would best be under an extension of touch.


@Seiden


Haha! Yes! We do have a lot more. It'd be a pain to have all of them as combination choices. Lol. Your orange juice smells like eggs. I will admit I have had moments where something that should smell like on thing, smelled like another, and I always ask does anyone smell that?? Like Radiochai suggested above, it may be an unknown issue in the mouth-nose connection; in my case at least. Though if your taste is fine, then it might not.


For the sake of the poll, like Arion's electromagnetic sense description, yours too would fall under an extension of touch. As for sensitive touch, for me it's like you feel everything magnified. Where something itches. Exactly where it itches. I had a few instances where I felt an itch inside my stomach I wanted to scratch >_>. You can also differentiate surface texture very well without trying. The bumps on your skin, the small hairs on your skin, how smooth a fabric is, how rough it is, whether something feels hollow or heavy (real wood vs pseudo wood), lightness of material. I don't use it to do anything important, so I can't give better examples

 

[marorda]

@White Masquerade I'm far sighted (or was it near sighted? I can't see well far off). The -(x) is the correction my lenses/glasses need in order for me to see.


and with not smelling I mean it doesn't function. It never did and there's nothing that can be done about it. I can't smell ANYTHING. Not even very strong smells

 

[White Masquerade]

@White Masquerade I'm far sighted (or was it near sighted? I can't see well far off). The -(x) is the correction my lenses/glasses need in order for me to see.
and with not smelling I mean it doesn't function. It never did and there's nothing that can be done about it. I can't smell ANYTHING. Not even very strong smells

Understood. =/ I am very sorry to hear that. You made it this far without it though (:3)! I know you still kick but even though you can't smell awesomeness left in your wake.

 

[marorda]

Hehe. Not being able to smell at all is quite bad when you live on your own though xD I can't smell when my food is spoiled (and you can't always see it), or when someone leaves the gas on...


But I'm used to it. I don't know any better

 

[ETC]

Hmm, I'm struggling to decide. While my hearing has shown up perfectly fine on tests I have trouble understanding people when they speak sometimes if I'm not focusing on listening, and sometimes I miss what they say anyways so I like using captions when I watch TV if it's available. I don't think I have a problem with the actual hearing part- I've wondered if I had audio processing disorder but haven't talked to a doctor about it ever. Understanding singing is even harder.


Almost everyone in my family has glasses or contacts for something whether they need them all the time or not. I'm a bit near sighted but was told not enough to need glasses last time I went in for a check up.


On the other hand I'm not sure what would be my strongest sense. If I'm paying attention I think I'm pretty good at using all of them and they all seem to work fine for me. Other than understanding people sometimes nothing really negatively impacts my every day life.

 

[White Masquerade]

@ETC


Nice name and avy. Welcome to the site by the way! Now to your answer. Very cool and interesting; I was humored by the first part of your answer. Never met anyone who optionally decided to use the captions, lol. Excellent. That was just my thought exactly on your hearing. The hearing sounds perfectly fine, just something with the processing (which might not even be a problem at all; maybe you just need to actively listen to process).


No worries not really having a "strongest" sense. Some people are right-handed, some people left, and some people ambidextrous. Being good at all senses is completely an option (just not on the poll xD ).

 

[ETC]

@White Masquerade Thank you! Yeah, sometimes shows are harder to understand than people irl, I'm not sure why. Although I don't want to self-diagnose my guess is that I've heard that people with audio processing problems have a harder time when there's more background noise and TV has certainly got that with music, sound effects, and etc. It's hard to explain to people so I generally don't try to, and then the rare instances I use an actual TV instead of a computer people are like "turn off the captions, they're distracting!" And I'm like :/


I don't really mind except the part where I ask people to repeat themselves too much and they get annoyed or think I don't care.


Yeah, I'm glad all my senses are rather normal. I think I'm a bit better at smelling than my family, but I'm not near being a super-smeller. Having too strong or weak a sense sounds like a big annoyance.

 

[White Masquerade]

@ETC


Haha, I like you (o'v'o)As long as it doesn't terribly handicap you, everything sounds okay.


I would 95% agree that having a strong/weak sense would be annoying. Having a sense that's not "normal" can teach you neat little tricks to get around the problem. Like if you have bad sight, you learn how to use your other senses as replacement. I'm sure just having good sight would be the best, but there is something nice about learning how to be flexible =)

 

[ETC]

@White Masquerade Oh, why thank you again! You seem interesting, too. I didn't expect to see this kind of thread on a doing site.


And yeah, at worst it's an annoyance. Nowhere near a handicap, luckily.


It's interesting how people can adapt like that. I've always heard things like if you lose a sense your others will compensate, but it seems like one of those things where it only might be true.


If I could strengthen a sense I think I'd prefer hearing over sight- you could listen in on other people's conversations, and I can think of as many downsides like smell would have- bad smells, etc.

 

[Tiny Turtle]

I have a little bit of trouble hearing, and I think it's probably my weakest sense. My strongest is smell because each smell has a different colour for me. Like chips are a spiky yellow, school is a dark grey. It's pretty neat. I find though that my touch is also really good which might not be that great a thing since sometimes people will touch me and it'll feel like my skin is crawling and I get really really uncomfortable.

 

[White Masquerade]

@ETC


For the sense compensation, it is entirely true! When you have 2-3 free minutes, look up a boy named Ben Underwood. He was a blind child that developed echolocation. This is 100% true. He got around and actually "saw" obstacles in his way by listening for the sound waves bouncing off of them. This is an extreme case of compensation that will certainly not happen to everyone (especially older people), but it proves how capable and adaptable the human body is. There's a ton of stuff our brain is doing that we don't even give thought too. Like breathing, pushing our blood around, dividing cells...we definitely don't sit in a chair and tell our bodies to do these things, but there's a part of the brain we can't access that gives the order.


I do believe if we lose a sense, the brain compensates by switching more power to the other ones, even just a little bit, without us even knowing.


Haha, you sure you want hearing? You might hear something you're not supposed to xD . I'd much prefer sight. To me, it has the least downsides.


@Tiny Turtle


Wooow. I wanted to get to your answer! Do you have synesthesia? If you do, that is so cool. Explain this to me how it works for you if you don't mind. For the touch, =P. I know how you feel. If a shirt feels "wrong" on my skin, I have to change it or I'm going to feel uncomfortable for the whole day. =( When people touch me, even people I'm close to, I have to force myself sometimes to just accept it and not move away. nothing against the person, it just feels really, really, tooo close.

 

[Tiny Turtle]

@White Masquerade


Yup! I've got synesthesia. Basically it's a mixing of the senses. For some people they can see the colours in their actual vision, although for me it's only in my mind's eye, but the colour always pops up. For me the main thing that really has an effect is smell, although just about everything has a colour. Generally the colour will show up in either a spark, mist, or kinda like syrup. Each one is different which is kinda weird, although different things tend to have different groups, smells I don't like tend to be shades of turquoise and then smells I do like are more orange-y. People are pretty complex since their voice might be one colour, their touch another, and then their smell something totally different.


I feel you on that. When it feels wrong it's so awful it feels like a bunch of bugs. I'm really glad I'm not the only one like that since I also have this thing where even if I'm close to a person I may want them 20 feet away. I tend to put up with it though because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

 

[White Masquerade]

@Tiny Turtle


(> ) I'm reading your response, smiling my mouth off. Very, very interesting! Haha, I don't know what else to say. I appreciate you describing it for me! I'll leave the synesthesia question there because I don't want to bother you too much about it. Just know I appreciate it and nice meeting you.


Definitely understand where you're coming from. There are certain people I don't want close. They are usually the people that are very good at emotional manipulation and the over-dominant people. The manipulators feel like one of those Dementor ghosts from Harry Potter, while the over-dominant people...idk. You can feel the waves crashing from them (' :| )

 

[Tiny Turtle]

@White Masquerade


I'm glad you find it neat, and I'm more than happy to!


Totally. Even subconciously I find I tend to be a bit unhappy with them. Although sometimes if someone's smell puts me off that alone makes me unhappy. I think though that sometimes it's just the person. Although I have days when I don't want to be touched by anyone and I get super snappy which is really not that rad. I should probably hit the road though so I don't end up spamming the thread ;-;

 

[White Masquerade]

@White Masquerade[/URL]
I'm glad you find it neat, and I'm more than happy to!


Totally. Even subconciously I find I tend to be a bit unhappy with them. Although sometimes if someone's smell puts me off that alone makes me unhappy. I think though that sometimes it's just the person. Although I have days when I don't want to be touched by anyone and I get super snappy which is really not that rad. I should probably hit the road though so I don't end up spamming the thread ;-;

=P No probs, take care Tiny ( )

 

[Dru]

Okay. The thing is, I have glasses. I have glasses that have a stronger prescription than many people my age. My vision gets worse over the years at a steeper rate than some people. Yet, with my glasses on, my vision is impeccable. I notice the littlest things out of the corner of my eye (eg, someone taking a picture of me or staring), and right in front of me I notice things many don't.


Then again, my sight is generally pretty bad. My hearing is also bad. And my sense of smell. This is getting depressing...

 

[White Masquerade]

Okay. The thing is, I have glasses. I have glasses that have a stronger prescription than many people my age. My vision gets worse over the years at a steeper rate than some people. Yet, with my glasses on, my vision is impeccable. I notice the littlest things out of the corner of my eye (eg, someone taking a picture of me or staring), and right in front of me I notice things many don't.
Then again, my sight is generally pretty bad. My hearing is also bad. And my sense of smell. This is getting depressing...

Lol, aw, omg Dru. You don't have to answer this question =(. You receive an official pass from me. ( ). At least you're alive and don't have a really, really bad disease =/. At least you discovered the joy RPN =). You have many blessings (>BD)