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- Lutz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+335. smoke weed.
- thelimopit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21What by falling over?
- Killabrew, on 10/12/2007, -3/+236. Smoke some more weed.
- omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18How to increase your sense of hearing: Shut the hell up while other people are talking! And don't interrupt!
(Sorry... too many people these days just don't know when the shut up and let the other person talk.) - chlilian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Here are some more tips for smell and taste:
1. Serve food that looks like itself. Forget fancy-schmancy presentation. If you're serving fish, keep it looking like a fish. Your sense of taste is stronger if your brain can connect what you're eating with how it looks.
2. Put on your seat belt. A common cause of loss of smell (which then directly affects taste) is automobile accidents, even low-speed crashes, says Alan Hirsch, M.D., neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago. Any impact can shift the brain within your skull, tearing delicate nerve fibers that connect your nose to your brain.
3. Go for a brisk, 10-minute walk or run. Our sense of smell is higher after exercise. Researchers suspect it might be related to additional moisture in the nose.
4. Drink a glass of water every hour or so. Dry mouth -- whether due to medication or simply dehydration -- can adversely affect your sense of taste, says Evan Reiter, M.D., an otolaryngologist at Virginia Commonwealth University's Eye & Ear Specialty Center in Richmond. - Yeyui, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10and you included the umlaut.
- tweedledum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Then have more sex.
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Yet "über" was your choice of adjective.
- Scynet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7There's also the sense of temperature, and the sense of pressure. Sure, they have a lot to do with the sense of touch, but they're not exactly the same. Also, the sense of knowing where and how your limbs are positioned at any given time is quite an important one.
- jcPHDEUCE, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10i wish people would stop neglecting our sixth sense... our ability to balance. people act like it doens't exist
- ray901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Put on your seat belt. A common cause of loss of smell (which then directly affects taste) is automobile accidents,"
7) Dont jump off of highrise buildings as this is also a common cause of loss of smell. - BarriedaleNick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Int resting article but we have way more than 5 or 6 senses. There is balance mentioned above, proprioception (or the sense of where your body is), sense of hunger and thirst, the skin has 5 different nerve sensors for heat, pressure, etc - the muscles have senses that can sense tension. The bladder and bowel can sense when they are full.
- po43292, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4get enough sleep
- ray901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, and what about my sense of accomplishment? - that always gets ignored too
- dodoporridge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Taste depends on smell. Why is it that if you plug your nose, you can barely taste anything. That makes it and iffy five."
Taste is different from smell, because you don't smell bitter/sour/sweet/salty/umami.... You're thinking of flavor, which depends on smell. If you hold your nose and eat strawberry-flavored rock salt, you'd still taste the salt, but you wouldn't get the strawberry flavor. - ohcoaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A way to sharpen your sense of sight, especially if you're near sighted is to spend time focusing on far away objects. This is like your eye lifting weights and will strengthen the ciliary muscles, the muscles that change the shape of the lens. After years of only focusing on near objects, like a monitor, the muscles can become weak and you become near sighted. This isn't permanent though, the ciliary muscles can be retrained to properly flex the lens.
- IEatHamburgers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wrong article dammit
- abdim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you can sharpen your mental senses in the same way by imagining different visual, aural, olfactory, taste, and touch sensations
- Unless, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6So, wait, when did we consider our parasympathetic nervous system's functions a sense? All of the other senses you describe fall under the sense of touch.
Not to diss you, but c'mon guys, you're nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking, enjoy the article for its advice and try not to act like you're above it all. - Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Any tips on how to improve your telepathy?
- Jugchock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It just so happened that we were teaching our kids about senses in home school this week. I hadn't heard about the other senses until I read this article from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense#Other_senses.
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Unless
Sense of touch is from the skin, sense of balance is not. Proprioception is a complex sense developed from partly from touch and sight, but also intimately connected with muscle sense, which is not a part of the sense of touch.
From wikipedia:
Proprioception (from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own" and perception) is the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. Unlike the six exteroception senses (sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing, and balance) by which we perceive the outside world, proprioception is an interoception sense that provides feedback solely on the status of the body internally. It is the sense that indicates whether the body is moving with required effort, as well as where the various parts of the body are located in relation to each other.
See also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat - BarriedaleNick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@Unless
Not nitpicking at all - just think it's interesting. One thing is for sure that we dont have 5 senses - that's just another thing to blame on the Greeks. I could point you some New Scientist articles which can explain it better than I but you need to subscribe.
However I do think it's completely wrong to say that all I mention can be covered by touch - utter rubbish - different nerve receptors are involved - different parts of the brain as well.
I'm sorry that you believe that thinking about stuff in a different way from you counts as "acting like you're above it all" - I'm just interested in stuff like this and like to try to exercise my brain. If you dont want to then it's up to you but I prefer science to Aristotle - Acrion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Taste depends on smell. Why is it that if you plug your nose, you can barely taste anything. That makes it and iffy five.
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Though I've never considered it as a sense like the others, I don't see how balance is a meta-sense. Our sense of balance comes from the vestibular system, which happens to be part of the inner ear, but improving your hearing won't help with balance.
If you want to improve your balance, traditional chinese martial arts is one way to go. - mrskinny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2reading Robert Blake poems also enhances the senses
- Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"too many people these days just don't know when the shut up"
Check out the caveman movie with Ringo Starr in it, you'll see the problem goes way back - omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I disagree. If you removed a person's sense of temperature and sense of pressure, exactly what would the sense of touch be? What would it report to your brain that isn't defined as "temperature" and "pressure"?
There are 5 senses. Each of them is a collection of other, very specific things. You're essentially contending that a sense of taste is totally different than a sense of tasting something sweet versus tasting something sour. If there are more than 5 senses, the 6th one must be something that does not, in any way, rely on the other senses (like telepathy or something). - jackstack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1frickin über geeks
- lunasunshine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ omatsi
your brain senses pain differently than temperature and pressure. you would still feel painful stimuli - theLured, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Omatsei: I know what you mean. I have had 2 people talking to me at the same time and they both keep talking. I end up swinging my head around to listen to them both and wonder if they know the other person is talking or alive. It annoys me a lot. If someone else is talking you let them finish, unless there is a good reason to interrupt them like "Move, there is a car about to hit you." and not "Yea, I need to borrow some money for fags."
- TheHappyRobot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1definitely I count 50-60 senses at least.
- breakaway, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6"I see stupid people!!"
You musta looked in the mirror. - chemman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Hey Kids! Do two hours of intense mental and physical training every day and you too can end up like Doc Savage!
- Unless, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0It's a meta-sense. Maintaining all the others improves this sense, too, so relax.
- jcPHDEUCE, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2if you say "sixth sense" people associate it with supernatural abilities, like "seeing dead people"
- Arcan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Yakko: The sense of sight
Is what guides us right
When we go out on walks.
Wakko: The sense of smell's
The way you tell
That you need to change your socks.
Dot : The sense of touch
Is what hurts so much
When you bang your toe on the bed.
Yakko: The sense of hearing is something good
'Cause if a tree falls in the wood
Would there be a sound? You bet there would
If it landed on top of your head
YW+D : Your head
If a tree lands on top of your head!
Wakko: The sense of taste
Affects your waist
Yakko: Which makes five senses in all.
Dot : There's a sixth sense, too, but it's hard to explain
It's a psychic connection inside of your brain
So you can understand people like Shirley MacLaine
Yakko: Who wear crystals they bought in the mall
YW+D : The mall
Who wear crystals they bought in the mall!
Yakko: And now the other senses!
Dot : There are scents you can smell
Like cologne from Chanel
Or the scents of expensive perfume.
Yakko: There are scents of flowers
We hope overpowers
The kitty box next to your room.
Phew!
Wakko: There's a sense of pride
You have deep down inside
Yakko: When you practice a sense of fair play.
Dot : There are dollars and cents that you pay at a toll
Yakko: Or the census man who is taking a poll
Wakko: And a sense of confusion; we're out of control
YW+D : And they really should take us away
Away
They really should take us away!
Dot : There's a sense of humor
A sense of doom, or
A sense of awe, sense of timing.
Yakko: The sense of a word
A sense of absurd
Like trying to do all this rhyming!
Dot : There's incense
Wakko: And horse sense
Yakko: And common sense, it's true.
Dot : Sense of wonder, sense of beauty
Wakko: Sense of honor, sense of duty
Yakko: A sense of doubt, a sense of danger
Dot : A sense of fear, when you meet a stranger
Wakko: A sense of style, a sense of worth
Yakko: A sense of direction for knowing the earth
YW+D : A sense of dread as we're singing this song
That it's starting to turn out completely all wrong
And it's time that we end it because it's too long
'Cause it just doesn't make any sense
Nonsense
This song doesn't make any sense! - icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1I see stupid people!!
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