Sensory PollFollow

I love to read but music is a huge component to living my life.

/braveheart They can take my eyes but they'll never take MY MUSIC! /braveheart

Edited, Mar 26th 2007 11:36am by Kaelesh

Hearing.

I watched Kill Bill Vol. 2 last night and the part where she plucks out Darryl Hannah's one good eye makes blindness seem unbearable. Although I have to admit, the way she spasmed on the floor gushing with expletives and clutching the vacant socket gave me a half-on. I'm still keeping my sight, though.

music is really important to me, but seeing where the hell I'm going is more important

I could learn to communicate through signs, I could still write... I'd manage to get my message across, but the thought of never seeing a sunrise, or a truly awe-inspiring landscape, or my family's faces again is just heartbreaking.

Losing my hearing would simply seem like less of a hit on my independance. I'm not saying it would be easy, but it would be easier for me to deal with on a day to day basis.

Nexa

ahhh the sound of sweet nothing almost brings me to tears. Id lose hearing first. I have to read. I have to be able to stare into the eyes of those I love. I love music, but I can make it up in my mind if I have to. Hell, it might even be better than the top 40 crap always on the radio anyways.

If I'm going to lose a sense it's going to be my sense of smell. You can't have my sight or sound.

I recall learning that most of what we commonly consider to be 'taste' is actually derived from smell rather than the sensory input from our tastebuds. So losing smell seems like a double-whammy. I'd just lose the tastebuds.

You're correct. We still only have 4 (well, there's a lesser known fifth and even a disputable sixth) tastes... the same ones that you probably all learned in grade school. Salty, sweet, sour, and bitter. Your nose is what allows you to enjoy chocolate so much more than an apple or table sugar (texture aside). Both are sweet, but they have a different smell. This is also the reason why people commonly can't taste food when they are congested. On the other hand we have hundreds of "smell buds". I'd probably rather lose taste as well. A lot of compulsive eating has to do with the brain chemistry's response to detecting salt and sweet (it may also hold true for the fifth taste). I imagine a lot of you or people you know can go through a whole bag of potato chips or candy and you'll think, "Oh just one more... this is my last one," but it's more like, "Yeah right... Ima eat this whole fuggin bag!" Well, that's why... you're basically addicted to the signals in your brain telling you to keep wolfing that **** down.

So on the plus side, managing a healthy diet would be super easy without a sense of smell because eating wouldn't be nearly as enjoyable. Without taste it wouldn't be as addictive (if that's a problem for you... I get that way sometimes).

Hell, I love all my senses. I wish I had more of em.

Loosing hearing wouldn't be that bad. To conjoin this thread with Jophiel's other, I'd rather loose hearing then a foot. I have deaf relatives (in-laws) I hang out with every so often. I've hung out around Universities long enough to have seen both kinds of students and the deaf have it much easier then the blind.

Yeah but then it'd be true when I tell everyone my farts don't stink.

I love reading, so I wanna hang onto my sight!

My monitor doesn't support braille.