I love my senses. But here is the thing. Sometimes, I feel that with aging, my senses have dulled somewhat. I know my eyes don’t see as well as they used to. And my hearing is pretty muffled in one ear. However. I have a grand nose. It is big from both my parent’s giving. I think because of the acreage there, my smelling abilities are extremely heightened.
Anyway. The notion that people have five basic human senses is often considered a universal truth. But these days, many scientists are debating whether we may have anywhere from 22 to 33 different senses.
That’s a lot of senses.
We’ve all heard of the sixth sense. The sixth sense, also known as extrasensory perception (ESP), is the ability to receive information without using the five traditional physical senses. Perhaps we might feel like something is going to happen before it actually does. Or we sense the otherworldly.
But our senses don’t stop there.
I have long said that we humans are dull creatures. Thousands and thousands of years ago, we relied less on the interpretation of our physical senses, and we could “see” with our elevated inner senses. These days, we’ve forgotten how to feel, and see, and hear, and sense. We are blind to the workings of the Universe around us. The energy. The being. There is so much we don’t know and cannot sense.
But we do know ourselves.
As such. What is your favorite of the five senses?
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And an extra note.
Some of the senses listed by Google:
Vision: The sense of sight, which is often considered the strongest sense
Hearing: The sense of sound, which is processed by the auditory system
Touch: The sense of touch, which is processed by the tactile system
Taste: The sense of taste, which is processed by the gustatory system
Smell: The sense of smell, which is processed by the olfactory system
Balance: The sense of balance, which is processed by the vestibular system
Body awareness: The sense of body awareness, which is processed by proprioception
Pain: The sense of pain, which is processed by nociception
Temperature: The sense of temperature, which is processed by thermoception
Time: The sense of time, which is processed by chronoception
Other senses include:
Interoception: The sense of stimuli from internal organs and tissues
Intuition: A sense that some say is sixth
The brain interprets nerve impulses from sensory receptors to form a response.
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And so, now? Away I shall go, off to sense the world. Hopefully, without that pain sense.
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“The five senses are the ministers of the soul.” — Leonardo da Vinci
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“The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.” — Maria Montessori
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“The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.” — Octavio Paz
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