If you had to "let go" one of your five senses which one would it be? WHy?

Question

Options:
Sight
Hearing
Smell
Taste
Touch

Answer 1

smell, i guess.. Hearing is a pain in the *** sometimes, but you need it...and I wouldnt want to have to learn sign language. Sight you need...without sight all they got for ya is a dog to walk your sorry as s around. Taste, I'm half italian..i need to be able to taste my manicotti. Touch, ofcourse you need touch...it would make masturbation a real bummer.

Answer 2

Awesome q! You really ask some engaging ones. I like how your mind works. This is really a challenge but I guess for me it would have to be taste. Because taste is the most selfish of all of our 5 senses, it is the one that is lest intimate with our partner or family or friends. We hear the music in a child’s laughter, the symphony in the sea, the sound of a whispered kiss in our ear, or the authoring of our lovers cries and on an on. We see the smile in another’s’ eyes, the blush that wakes upon their cheek and we share the mutual delight at a falling star or a rainbow being born at sea. And for me the most intimate perhaps is the sensual scent of another, in the waking, working out side by side, or the making of love....the scent of the seasons mingling each to each, the flower, a winter fire, baking bread, and the peach. And who could imagine intimacy without the touch, it would be like stealing the winds whisperings from the swaying tree or the starlight from the waves of the sea or the oneness that comes when two find in each other a place to be. The feel of two hearts beating in a single cadence as one. The caress shared, the gentle massaging of a lovers back or holding them close when they are most wounded or shaking from an emotional wound or storm. The holding of a newborn in your hands, or the feel of sharing that final moment when you hold the hand of a father or mother as they’re about to depart. So that leaves taste. Wow ...and I love to eat! *haha*
Taste ... so when are you going to come collect? *wink* I work in D.C. just down from Union Station, I will meet you at Au Bon Pain, for my last taste of a bagel and coffee.

Answer 3

smell, i live in london, with the exception of the few gorgeous smells out there i spend half my time commuting - tubes dont smell amazing..less so when you're petite and get the downward waft from people who havent washed too hard at all. No loosing sense of smell wouldnt be too bad...i mean proportionately the rest are just so much more important to me..sight is just well sight, books, internet, color, beauty, you'd lose alot, taste is rarely appreciated but can be one of the most sensuous things imaginable and you dont need someone else around to enjoy it. Touch...would be very lonely not being able to feel a hug. Hearing, could you go without music?!

Answer 4

I think i would let go of my taste. I have tasted a lot of delicious things in my life and a lot of terrible things but I believe that this sense could be taken without negative lifestyle changes. Without my sight there would be definite changes to be made plus I couldn't actually "see" my children grow up. My hearing would affect me in quite a few negative safety issues plus the sound of my kids laughing is not something I want to give up. Smell is one that I could possibly give up but in a competition with taste smell wins out because if I couldn't taste food at least I could smell it. Touch is a definite keeper. The soft touch of my wife's caress or the kiss on my cheek from my daughter every night are things that I could not live without.

Answer 5

Taste so I would only eat because I had to, not because something tasted good or out of boredom.

If I lose my sight, I would never be able to look into my husband eyes or my childrens smiling faces anymore.

Without my hearing, I will never again hear when I'm told "I love you".

Without smell, nothing would taste right anyway, so in a sense, you'd be losing two senses.

Without touch, there would be no more touching my husband face or holding my daughters hand when she's scared about something.

Answer 6

DEFINATELY SMELL!

I can't imagine being able to live without all the other senses. It would be devastating to lose your sight, touch, hearing with your loved ones. I LOVE food so taste has to stay. When you have a cold and lose your smell it doesn't affect you too much. Only dangers would be a fire etc but out of all of those I care about smelling things the least.

Answer 7

If that's your picture I'm seeing, then none of them because if I were with the woman in the picture I would want always to look upon her beauty, hear the sound of her wonderful voice, smell the fragrance of her skin, taste the sweetness of her lips and feel her forever in my arms.

Answer 8

Sight. I would love to rely more heavily on feeling and hearing. I'm a musician who loves art, so playing my piano or my violin without seeing it would greatly enhance the experience. I know sometime during more sensous activities, like playing music, eating, and *ahem* other activities even more fun, they seem to be more intense withut visual complications.

Answer 9

I would lose sight because I love tasting sugar, I love smelling Fruits, I need touch to feel warmth, I need hearing to hear music. But sight, I don't use. It helps to not judge appearnaces, and also i never use eye contact

Answer 10

I could do without smell. Of course, that would impact taste. Which sucks, but it's still better than losing touch, sight, or hearing.