Thread: Which senses would be the worst and best to lose?

Originally Posted by Seroquel

True bro being deaf would be like fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuml.

And then you'd go beethoven on our ass and become the most famous person alive

Originally Posted by TimB

And then you'd go beethoven on our ass and become the most famous person alive

Yeah I love Beethoven. He lost his hearing years after he became famous though hehe. And he could write music without having to hear it. c;

But being blind would be much worse, for me. If you're deaf, you can still communicate online, in text, and with certain people using sign language. A blind person wouldn't be able to use the internet at all, basically, or write anything, or read. It just seems, considering everything, being blind would be much worse.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

It's hard to tell how bad it really would be, though, to lose my sense of touch. Eventually, I'd get used to it, to some extent. So maybe it would be preferable to blindness once one gets used to it.

Don't forget that you'd also loose the positive side of human closeness as well (stroking, hugs, sex, etc). That's what seems worst about it for me.

worst to lose: sense of humor.

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

worst to lose: sense of humor.

This is supposed to be a serious debate, you really shouldn't post stuff like that here.

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

worst to lose: sense of humor.

Wouldn't be too bad, khh seems to have already lost his and he's doing fine. =P

EDIT: Oh wait... I finally got it. /facepalm

Originally Posted by khh

Don't forget that you'd also loose the positive side of human closeness as well (stroking, hugs, sex, etc). That's what seems worst about it for me.

This. I can't even begin to imagine how life-shattering that would be that would be like.

Vision/Smell... I rely on my vision for everything I do. Touch is just as important, but I can't imagine having no sense of touch lol, so vision it is. Smell would be the least bothersome. because of allergies, I rarely smell much anyhow. Sometimes, though, I smell "mold" (no one else does so it must be an allergy thing) that triggers migraines. I would rejoice if I never had to experience the mold smell again! I would miss my diffuser necklace though, which always contains a dab of rosemary or vanilla. The smell drives people around me crazy when it's been newly "filled". I have to place my nose against it to even get a hint of the smell though.

Actually, I'd to change mine to
Vision:Taste
I could eat healthy foods and not care if they taste like dog crap!

Originally Posted by Heavy Sleeper

No, it isn't touch. Think about it, you don't need to have any feeling in your skin to know if something's hot or cold. For instance, if I ate something very hot and felt it burning my stomach, I'm not touching it, I just feel it.

That's the sense of touch. Touch is any signal picked up by your nerves, as in something touches your nerves. Also what you're probably feeling in your stomach is something spicy eating away your stomach lining.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

But being blind would be much worse, for me. If you're deaf, you can still communicate online, in text, and with certain people using sign language. A blind person wouldn't be able to use the internet at all, basically, or write anything, or read. It just seems, considering everything, being blind would be much worse.

No such thing as text to speech or brail. And I can type without even looking! I KNOW, IMPRESSIVE, RIGHT?!

Originally Posted by Artelis

That's the sense of touch. Touch is any signal picked up by your nerves, as in something touches your nerves. Also what you're probably feeling in your stomach is something spicy eating away your stomach lining.

Then by this logic, wouldn't the other senses come under "touch"? If you see because light touches your eye or hear because sound waves touch your eardrum, does that mean both seeing and hearing are actually the sense of touch?

I'm not a biologist, so I don't have a good knowledge of how all of this works. But if hot and cold is detected through receptors that are separate from pressure receptors, wouldn't thermoception be a sense in its own right?

AWWW CRAP!

I picked the wrong one

my is vision:taste NOT toush: smell

sry bout that

This thread got a whole lot more complex, it was referring to the 5 core senses we all know, not about the dictionary definition of a sense. Do go on however this is interesting...

If each touch receptor were considered individually, it would be worst to lose the ones that make you feel when you touch things lightly. I don't know whether losing vision or losing that would be worse. The others it seems I could live without.

I voted for Vision:Smell, but I kind of feel like I cheated, since I was born with no sense of smell

I would absolutely hate to lose my hearing, maybe it's because I'm a huge music nerd, but if I ever lost hearing I would be devastated. I don't know what I would do.

Mine:
Worst: Vision
Best: Hearing

First and foremost, I love all my senses. I think we can all agree on that one

For this poll I chose hearing and smell. Between taste and smell, I would rather be able to enjoy food

But the hearing is all about communication. I LOVE talking to people. I would be devastated if I were cut off from people that way. Though, I also LOVE my vision as well. It is a really though choice, but hearing people and the world is a big deal for me.

Originally Posted by TimB

I've frequently heard being deaf is worst. Apparently, when deaf, your cut off socially as well. Following conversations is much harder if not practically impossible.

FWIW,

TimB

Just read this. I would freak if it happened to me

Taste:Touch

I would kill myself if i couldn't enjoy food anymore. Also, why isn't touch up there? It's still a sense

worst to lose:touch

least:vision

Originally Posted by saltyseedog

worst to lose:touch

least:vision

I don't believe you. I think you must be saying that to sound unexpected. There is no way you could prefer your sense of smell or taste to your sense of vision.

No. smell is very powerful. taste is pleasurable and goes hand in hand with smell I think. Losing vision brings an entire different experience to your life. You become more aware of things that you never completely realized. although for most people I can see that would make them almost non functional in the world for the most part. But personally I think I could handle it and it would be very life changing.

My life would be absolutley ruined if I lost my hearing. Music is my entire life, writing and listening, so if that was taken away, I couldn't function very well at all.

this poll is biased

you forgot "common sense"