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Sat 8 Mar, 2008 08:29 am
This is a two-parter:
1. Do you ever think about your senses and wonder what it would be like to go without one or more of them? Which one do you think you could more easily live without? Sight ... sound ... touch .... taste ... smell ...
I think I would prefer to lose my sense of smell... pretty benign.
2. If you had the choice of losing your SIGHT or the use of your LEGS, which would you choose?
I'd rather lose my legs. It wouldn't be terribly convenient, but I'd rather wheel around than not be able to see.
1) Yeah, probably smell. Though I would miss it.
2) I'd rather lose my sight than go without my legs.
The thought of losing my sight isn't horrible to me. Of course I am grateful to see, but I think I could easily be happy without my sight.
Not being able to get up and go, that would make me very sad for quite a while.
Re: Choose one...
Mame wrote:
I think I would prefer to lose my sense of smell... pretty benign.
No smell equals no sense of taste. You would probably never have to worry about gaining weight again, so not all bad.
Is that really true, GW? I'm going to try and google that.
So, which would you lose?
"Approximately 80-90% of what we perceive as "taste" actually is due to the sense of smell."
Wow, it is true.
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Many years ago, I asked a blind friend, who was a concert pianist, if she had to choose between losing her sight or her hearing, she said her sight. She said it was easier to adjust to sight loss than it would be hearing.
Can you imagine Hellen Keller, blind and deaf?
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Funny. My daughter asked me yesterday about losing ones senses.
She had given me only two options though - either hearing or seeing,
and I'd rather lose my hearing and keep my eyesight. She said the
same thing.
Seeing is extremely important to me, so I rather would lose any of my other
senses to keep seeing.
as long as I don't lose my sense of humor...
I'd have to go with loss of smell also. That could be a benefit in some situations. I'm sure there are people with that problem, and loss of taste and touch as well, but you don't hear about them much.
Have you heard of synesthesia? It is a condition where people have crosswired senses. They can hear color, taste music.
http://www.livescience.com/health/050222_synesthesia.html
one of my cubs has no sense of smell or taste...
Equus
Equus wrote:I'd have to go with loss of smell also. That could be a benefit in some situations. I'm sure there are people with that problem, and loss of taste and touch as well, but you don't hear about them much.
Have you heard of synesthesia? It is a condition where people have crosswired senses. They can hear color, taste music.
http://www.livescience.com/health/050222_synesthesia.html
I knew an Australian woman who suffered from Synesthesia. It took years for doctors to diagnose her condition. She tried to describe her senses verbally, which was very difficult for her. She thought she was going crazy.
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Equus
Equus wrote:I'd have to go with loss of smell also. That could be a benefit in some situations. I'm sure there are people with that problem, and loss of taste and touch as well, but you don't hear about them much.
Have you heard of synesthesia? It is a condition where people have crosswired senses. They can hear color, taste music.
http://www.livescience.com/health/050222_synesthesia.html
I knew an Australian woman professor living in Sydney who suffered from Synesthesia. It took years for doctors to diagnose her condition. She tried to describe her senses verbally, which was very difficult for her. She thought she was going crazy.
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Not sure why I get an urge to hug you every time I read your posts, Jorgi. But, I do.
I've lost part of my vision. No way I'd want to lose more.
Without smell I couldn't smell the flowers, and the rain, and babies, and...
I think I'll just back out of this room and kee[ all of the sense that I have.
and I remember the safe. After that, I pray to God, thank you for the senses and to gave me everything .
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