Do your senses get stronger...?

Question

When you're outside at night? I know mine do :)

Answer 1

I think some of that is just that it's dark out, and so your brain puts your other, non-seeing senses on higher alert to compensate. You see this to a much higher degree with people who have lost a major sense, with the blind and deaf people....after the loss every remaining sense is paid more attention to, if not also *trained* to be more perceptive and sensitive.

One humble example of this is the musician, the late, great Ray Charles. He lost his sight at a very young age, but was encouraged to function at as high a level as he could for a guy who could not see.

And one trick he cultivated was the wearing of hard-soled shoes...so the noise they made could allow him to echolocate to a limited degree without using a cane. We're not talking "Daredevil" types of things....just small stuff like knowing a *curb* was coming up a foot or two away.

Point is...the brain can be re-wired to make the senses more acute and perceptive. Normally it takes the loss of a sense though to provoke this. Normally.

There are cases though, especially with folks who have aspberger's syndrome or some autistic spectrum syndromes, where the senses just get wound up too tightly for no good reason. And that rather blows chunks. I've had people in my family with autism who have become sick from sensory overload.

And...well, it does happen on occasion with me too. I'm not saying I'm full-blown autistic in the sense of being *that* retarded or clueless....just that the genes are there in my family, and that some days....after dealing with a lot of loud noises in particular, my ears will be overloaded, ringing, and generally making me *nauseous* the next day, all day.

So sometimes having the attenuated senses is good, but sometimes it really sucks, having a sense overload until it hurts or makes you sick is not a good thing.

Thanks for your time though... ^_^ Good Question!

Answer 2

As human beings our senses instinctively get stronger if we sense danger around us.

Thus if you are outside alone at night your senses might automatically get stronger .... its human nature.

I concur with you Diego.

Answer 3

As one sense dims, such as sight at night, the other senses become more heightened.

Answer 4

Never really paid any attention

Answer 5

Yes, I am more aware of my surroundings.

Answer 6

yes mine too

Answer 7

yup