I've lost all five senses, at least for a while. I injured my brain very badly. I was in a coma, and had periodic bouts of a loss of senses during the recovery. I couldn't see and had two eye surgeries to restore my sight. Couldn't hear, but it came back as the temporal lobe recovered. Didn't have any olfactory sensation (smell) which cancels the gustatory sensation (taste - if you ever lost the sense of smell you know it's misery). I had very little sensation of touch in my body, but I was in a lot of pain, so I guess I had at least one sense. It took a while to regain all of my senses. Sometimes they were hypersensitive, and even now I have to be careful, wear sunglasses, avoid loud noises, and avoid food that is too spicy. Overload makes me miserable.
I don't know if I missed one more than the others, but it was a joy getting them back. We don't know what a blessing we have to be able to sense things in our lives.
We have far more than five senses. I couldn't live without the vestibular sense. I didn't have the any vestibular sense for a while. I was miserable. The vestibular sense is the sense of the balance, the body in space, and detection of motion. I felt carsick all the time from that in my hospital bed. Well, until they medicated me.
Thanks for reminding me how good my life is, now that I can see it, feel it, smell it, hear it, and taste it.
2006-07-02 10:14:47
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answered by Anonymous
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We actually have either twelve or nine senses. The nine best recognized of these are taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing, balance, warmth, pain, movement. The other three are the sense of thought, ego, and language, but those are not backed up by any real evidence to show that they are actual senses, so you might not call them senses.
I couldn't live without the sense of pain. It's probably the most necessary sense, in my opinion, because if something hurts, it is most probably bad for you. If people had no sense of pain, we wouldn't be afraid of things that we damn well should be, and I probably would have died as a child.
2006-07-02 10:20:46
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answered by starrgirldot 2
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I, personally don't think I would do well without any of those. But If I had to choose 1 I can't live without it would be feel. Even if I couldn't physically hear, see, smell or taste anything I still could still do all those things though touching and feeling. It would be a sad way to live, but being numb to the world would be too. :)
2006-07-02 10:23:15
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answered by BlueAngel 5
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Hi, I would hate to live without any of my senses. They are all equally important to me. However, if i had to choose one that I could not live without, it would be vision. I need that to be able to enjoy the simple things in life. Such as a child when they do something so spectacular, or the birds as they go about their daily lives, or the colors of the world. I love color. It brightens my mood. So to be honest, being blind would just totally depress me, and make me feel dead.
2006-07-02 10:18:44
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answered by ktmazer 2
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I could live with out the sense of hearing. so much of the stuff we hear today is not necessary. Now they make all kinds of things to help the deaf people.
2006-07-02 10:15:08
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answered by Anonymous
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I'd love all of them as they are useful in their own way but I'm going to be different and say which 2 I can live without and that would be touch and smell (for those of you who let a lot off wind of it would be heaven for me not to smell it).
2006-07-02 10:14:02
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answered by Craftyness 2
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Smell
2006-07-02 10:16:24
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answered by Anonymous
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Feel, because sensory depravation can make emotions too intense to bear. And maybe also taste because then one wouldn't be able to enjoy food and might lose the wish to eat anymore.
2006-07-02 10:15:04
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answered by too_live_forever 3
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Sight. No question. I'd give up all 4 other senses to keep my vision.
2006-07-02 10:13:54
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answered by ratboy 7
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just the first 5
2006-07-02 10:13:59
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answered by Anonymous
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