2006-10-13 03:45:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
"Nimo22" has given you the best answer, so far.
Our senses are what they are. We can do nothing to make our senses any better. Neither can someone who loses one of their senses make the others better.
What we CAN do is to train ourselve to use the information our senses bring to us, better.
Your eysight, for example, brings to you WAY more information than you need, or can even use, at any one moment. Right now, as you read this, on your monitor, you are seeing the background color, the color of the border, the header and all the information Yahoo puts up there. You see the avatars and all the fine print of the other answers and each and every letter of what you have read and are about to read.
But your brain filters out what you don't need to notice. This filtering MUST happen or you wouldn't be able to read anything. If you don't need to "see" the green "ask," "answer," or "discover" header, you won't have to have it cluttering your consciousness until you need to.
All of that information is there, but you don't notice it until you focus your attention on it. This is true of all of your senses. Your ears are picking up dozens of subtle sounds, such as the hum or the air conditioner, the traffic outside, a bird or two, conversations in the next room, even your own breathing. But you don't notice them until you direct your attention to them.
When someone speaks of a blind person having better hearing, that in not what is really going on. What happens is that the blind person is using some of the information coming in through his ears to help him do what his eyes used to. The traffic noises we ignore are what tells him it's safe (or not) to cross the street. We use our eyes. The faint echos from a wall nearby tell him not to run into it. We don't notice those faint echos, because our eyes tell us that the wall is there.
ALL of our senses can be trained to "pay attention" to those inputs that we normally ignore. A deaf person learns to pay attention to flashing light on the phone, while the rest of us wait for the ring tone. The deaf AND blind person learns to recieve and interpret clues from the hands and other parts of the body.
A nearsighted, deaf person will not suddenly improve his vision. He will learn to use his vision more efficiantly.
2006-10-13 04:45:18 · answer #1 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think so, I had an cousin that was blind and she could hear really well, and I have a cousin now that is deaf I don't know if his eye sight is sharp, but I know he has his drivers licence. But honestly they say when you loose one of your sences another does become stronger because you half to relie on that sence now. So you focus on that more.
2006-10-13 03:56:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the naked fight seen in Borat almost did it. These others might do it too: 1) Seeing my grandparents have sex 2) Seeing a child get raped 3) Seeing a person get run over by a train 4) Seeing a man get slowly beheaded 5) Seeing Dick Cheney without a shirt (or less clothing) 6) Seeing Senator Larry Craig give head 7) Watching just about any kind of extreme torture.
2016-03-18 08:50:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's not always true. When it does happen it's a survival mechanism. They have lost one sense and their other sense are heightened to attempt to make up for the disability. Think of it this way, you have a certain amount of energy reserved for your senses, so it is usually divided amongst 5 senses. You loose one, it's now divided by 4 senses, each one now has more power! That's how my science teacher described it to us once.
2006-10-13 03:56:30 · answer #4 · answered by ~mj~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's not so much that those other senses are sharper than anyone else's. It's that they hone those senses and pay more attention to the signals they get from them than the rest of us do, out of necessity. We are so used to having the combination of all of our senses that we allow them to become dull. Try that game where you blindfold yourself and try to complete a task. My husband and I did that one time, we kept our eyes closed and tried to put together one of those board puzzles for toddlers. It was challenging and maybe gave us a little perspective on how it would feel to not see, although I'm pretty sure someone who is used to doing things by touch would have done it faster than us.
2006-10-13 03:50:40 · answer #5 · answered by nimo22 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I have been told and I hav read Yes it is true. apparently the brain compensates for the loss of one medium by enhancing another. there by giving the blind person more hearing to kick in the instincts not sure about the deaf person though.
2006-10-13 03:53:43 · answer #6 · answered by bee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In most cases yes. But not all the time though. They have to have the other to balance their disabilities out. I've known ppl that were deaf and blind. :)
2006-10-13 03:50:12 · answer #7 · answered by ◙Blue-Eyed♥Red-Headed♥Bella◙ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not always true, but it is common. When one of your senses (touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing) is diminished, another one will try to make up for it. Because sight and hearing are the most important to survival and safety, they will usually make up for one another.
2006-10-13 03:54:50 · answer #8 · answered by EvilBunny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2014-08-05 12:44:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a survival mechanism: since they are missing one of their senses the others become more acute to compensate.
2006-10-13 03:48:28 · answer #10 · answered by Julep 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋