“Sensing the Senses” by DEV

This can also be appropriately titled Unnerving the Nerves, or Locating the Locators, or Feeling the…Feelers.

Point is, this entire article is all about your senses. And no, we’re sure you know you’ve memorized your five senses by now. We’re talking about the other senses you are unaware of.

Yes, there are more bodily senses than your kindergarten teacher ever taught you. However these are usually unrecognized. Not many people would consider them ‘senses’, but scientists have agreed that we use them a lot more often than we know we do.

Here are some of the senses didn’t know YOU have:

1.       Sense of Balance – Your ears aren’t solely for hearing. They can do other stuff too. Like say, detect your orientation in the gravitational field. Your ears are in charge of keeping you from stumbling awkwardly in front of your crush. They give you a sense of balance.

2.       Sense if Itch – itching is a sure sign that your skin has come across an irritant. The body’s sense of touch is not in charge of detecting pollutants that come into contact with your body. It is sensed by a different kind of nerve ending.

3.       Sense of Pain – this sense, though unappreciated, is in charge of keeping us alive. It warns us of potential danger that allows us to survive. Feeling pain will allow us to move away from a harmful object or creature. Imagine having no sense of pain. Not knowing what could kill them, a lot of people will die unexpectedly.

4.       Proprioception – it is the body’s ability to sense itself. Weird, huh? But try touching your nose with your eyes closed. You didn’t smell your hand all the way to your nose right? You didn’t use your sense of hearing to hear where your finger will land. You just know where your nose is, and you can lead your finger there without accidentally stabbing your eye. That’s proprioception.

5.       Sense of a “Full Bladder” – The bladder has the ability to sense when it is full. Simple enough.

6.       Sense of a “Full Large Intestine” – Very much similar to number 5, you have the ability to hear “the call of nature” and head to the comfort room immediately.

7.       Sense of Hunger and Thirst – when your fifth and sixth senses aren’t full, it’s probably time to heed the call of sense number seven. It’s a primal instinct within all humans and animals that allows them to know when they have to eat or drink something. Like the sense of pain, it allows us to survive.

8.       Sense of Heat and Cold – also deep within our skin is the ability to sense the temperature of anything we touch. That’s just that.

9.       Sense of Time –scientists also consider the human capability to perceive time. Timing is said to be more than just eye-hand coordination, and is a sense on its own.

Some unbelievable senses SOME people have:

These are the senses not all people possess, and are not yet scientifically proven.

1.       Sense of Weather – ever get that feeling that you can totally predict the changes in the weather without watching the news, or even looking at the sky? Well, some people are capable of this. They are much like a specie of frogs that has the same sensory ability.

2.       Sense of “Strangers Looking at You” -- It’s a weird sensation, but some of us can always tell whether somebody else is looking at us…we can even turn our heads to look at the exact direction where that person is. Still unexplained by science, but definitely one of the weirder functions of our body.

3.       Sense of the “Otherworld” – “The third eye”, as many people call it. Some people are capable of sensing or “seeing” people that have long parted from the world.