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Of your five senses, which would you least want to no longer have?

I hate being asked questions like these. Well, I hate answering them anyway. Because I can just see one day losing one of my senses, and remembering these questions with bitterness, wondering superstitiously if I'd condemned myself.

Hearing. I'm not sure I could handle never being able to listen to music again.

Definately touch... try having sex with novocaine jelly and see how much you miss touch :P

I'm deaf already, what is there to miss with that? :D

Common sense.

Of your five senses, which would you least want to no longer have?

Common sense is the sense I'd hate to lose. Oh wait....DAMMIT! :mad::p

My fashion sense. It's what makes me *me.*

In fact, I've even been compared to a young Linus Pauling, in that regard:

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/MM/B/B/P/H/_/mmbbph.jpg

Pretty suave, eh? :)

Hearing. I'm not sure I could handle never being able to listen to music again.

This

What's with all the bleak threads lately, Soviestan? o_O

What's with all the bleak threads lately, Soviestan? o_O

June gloom. *Rimshot*

Hearing, definitely with touch a close, close second. As a musician, I rely on these senses more than the others. Without sight, I could still play by ear. Without taste, I could eat what was good for me instead of just what I like. Without smell, I could ignore the body odors of less hygienically inclined people I know. But without hearing, my enjoyment of music would cease to exist and without touch, I couldn't play anyone else's music because I wouldn't be able to feel the piano keys or guitar strings or what have you.

Of your five senses, which would you least want to no longer have?Trick question, playa.

Humour, followed by hearing.

If you loose the sense of touch you cant realize your in pain. Imagine not knowing that your having a heart attack, digestive problem, loosing feeling in a limb or even not knowing that a knifes sticking in your back

If there ever was a person who was going to recieve a knife attack in a dark alley that would be me :p

Oh yeah and the sex too. Sex wouldnt be fun without the feeling. ;)

As I am these last few weeks it's sight all the way, without sight I don't have this (http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8670/img0960dq0.jpg) or this (http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1707/img0954ul4.jpg).

Hearing without a doubt.

Sight.


I would have no problem losing my hearing as I am already pretty much fluent in Sign Language but losing my sight would be awful. I don't know DeafBlind Sign Language so I wouldn't be able to talk to my Deaf friends without sight.

Plus IMO people are more likely to hire a Deaf person than a Blind person.

Sight. Not even a contest.

Hearing.

I have a sensory affair with sound. Music is something I cannot live without. Not listening to the voices of my loved ones would be heartbreaking.

Where's humour?

Sight. Hearing, before the Internet.

pain. i could probably handle losing most of the others - even sense of balance or temperature, which would suck pretty bad - but without being able to sense pain, i would almost certainly get myself killed.

Hearing.

I have a sensory affair with sound. Music is something I cannot live without. Not listening to the voices of my loved ones would be heartbreaking.

Yep yep *nods*

I have no sense of smell, so that one is automatically disqualified. Of the remaining, I'd say either hearing or sight.

Sense of when my bladder or is full, when I'm thirsty, when I'm hungry, cold or hot.

Sense of when my bladder or is full, when I'm thirsty, when I'm hungry, cold or hot.

i'm pretty sure that those aren't all the same sense

i'm pretty sure that those aren't all the same sense
You're right...

I would like to add sense of pain in there too.

Touch. My eyesight already sucks. My sense of smell was fried almost a decade ago, and with it my sense of taste. Hearing is still good though.

Bread tastes like marshmellows, and a certain type of ketchup like grape jelly.

Is is such a hard question to answer.

Gees, I'd probably say Hearing - i depend too much on my music to lose my hearing, then Eyesight at a close, close second. Obviously, because no one wants to lose either.

Hearing. My eyesight is already partway gone and my sense of smell is pretty weak on its own, but I can hear more than most people I know. It would be especially harmful to me to lose the ability to listen to music, or the voices of the people I know. I have horrible face recognition, but I can remember a person much more accurately by how they talk.

I'd have to say either sight or hearing. I could do without the rest. Wait a minute...

I've changed my mind. Sense of touch. Because how else would you feel... Erm...Well, you know what I mean right. *Fap, fap, fap*:D

Hearing, unquestionably. I'm a musician; 'nuff said.

Sense of when my bladder or is full, when I'm thirsty, when I'm hungry, cold or hot.
These all are touch.

Of your five senses, which would you least want to no longer have?

I would most hate to lose my common sense.

I want all my senses!

I would most hate to lose touch though, while sex would be considerably less fun without taste, smell, sight and hearing, it would suck most (possibly) without tactile sensations.

I want all my senses!

I would most hate to lose touch though, while sex would be considerably less fun without taste, smell, sight and hearing, it would suck most (possibly) without tactile sensations.
Or it would suck least :p

These all are touch.

no, they aren't. i'll give you the bladder one, probably. but not the others. temperature is an independent sense from pressure (and, for that matter, pain). and the sensation of hunger is caused by chemically sensing a particular hormone in the body. i don't know thirst, but it presumably is also a chemical sense too. so those ones are more like smell and taste than like touch.

no, they aren't. i'll give you the bladder one, probably. but not the others. temperature is an independent sense from pressure (and, for that matter, pain). and the sensation of hunger is caused by chemically sensing a particular hormone in the body. i don't know thirst, but it presumably is also a chemical sense too. so those ones are more like smell and taste than like touch.

Temperature and bladder are both considered touch (tactile sensation)...hunger and thirst, I'm not really sure. I'd assume chemical, as you said.


This question should be really easy...sight, taste, smell and hearing, while useful, are not directly life-threatening to lose.

The order I'd rank them for necessity is touch, sight, taste, hearing, smell.

I couldn't deal with putting my hand on a stove by accident and not knowing it was on, or breaking a bone without ever realizing. There are literally hundreds of scenarios I could come up with where lacking touch could put life and limb at risk.

Is it even possible to lose the touch sense???

Is it even possible to lose the touch sense.

Not entirely, and not without losing something else (you could be fully paralyzed from the neck down and lose feeling, but would retain it in your face), but there is a genetic condition that would leave a person without any feeling from birth.

Not entirely, and not without losing something else (you could be fully paralyzed from the neck down and lose feeling, but would retain it in your face), but there is a genetic condition that would leave a person without any feeling from birth.

How do these people survive? I mean how do they are able to swallow with out feeling?

How do these people survive? I mean how do they are able to swallow with out feeling?

one of the big risks, along with not being able to feel a hot stove and such. I'll see if I can find the name of the disease.


edit: it looks like I was slightly mistaken. It isn't a complete lack of touch, but a lack of the ability to feel pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain

Temperature and bladder are both considered touch (tactile sensation)

yeah, but that's a weird sort of lumping. like, i can accept lumping both of our sight senses as one thing, but temp works completely differently than pressure - we can tell if the stove is hot without actually coming into contact with it. but we can't sense the softness of something without actually touching it (we can and do infer, but that's something else entirely).

Touch. I don't have much natural sight, so losing my sense of touch would be losing my contact with the world. (I correct to 20/25, but I still navigate a lot by feel.)

Of your five senses, which would you least want to no longer have?

hmmm...

difficult to say.

Sight. I love my visual entertainment.
Touch. I could do alot with just my sense of touch...
Smell. while one may not think about it... smell does save one from many a food poisoning... it's the one sense we rely on most to check if food is rotten or not.
taste. imagine eating bland tasteless food for the rest of your life?


all in all, it depends on my situation. if I was alone, with no GF or Wife... then sight would be my choice.

but if I did have a significant other... then touch.

yeah, but that's a weird sort of lumping. like, i can accept lumping both of our sight senses as one thing, but temp works completely differently than pressure - we can tell if the stove is hot without actually coming into contact with it. but we can't sense the softness of something without actually touching it (we can and do infer, but that's something else entirely).

True...but it is still the reception of that "thing" (heat, in this case) by tactile sensors. It is a very weird grouping, I agree. IIRC, there are three sensors that fall under "touch"...chemoreceptors, thermoreceptors, and mechanoreceptors...covers pain/pleasure, temperature, body position, and touch.