If you had to give up one of your five senses, which one would you choose?

I think that blindness causes one to view life from a totally different perspective. I don't think things should be judged on how the look, and hate it when I do it... So I choose blindness.

 

I agree with sweetpea. I think I could deal without sight. I need taste for obviously food. Hearing is for music, which I couldn't live without. Touch so I can feel my bass or my tuba, know where to put my fingers, know how to make the music that makes me happy. Smell because it is the biggest memory trigger, bigger even than sight.

Although I could never appreciate the beauties of the world, I couldn't deal without any of the other things. Sound is the last thing I'd ever give up, because it is the only thing that everyone across the world can understand.

And as sweetpea said, not seeing would make everyting different. Everything would be taken for what it's worth, not what it looks like it's worth.

I don't know who said it, but it is something to this effect:

"The only way to see things clearly is to close your eyes"

Or something like that.

 

Taste. I need hearing for bass, obviously. I also work out religiously, with bodybuilding as a goal, so I need to see for that; bodybuilding is a visual sport. I also need to be able to feel for working out. Taste I could do without, it'd make tuna, flax oil, and egg whites all taste a lot better. And more importantly, it'd make burgers, hot dogs, pizza, etc., a lot less tempting.

 

Ok, I wan't you to do something for me sweetpea. Sit down, and just look at something, anything, your hand, a tree, a painting, anything. Now look at it, just try and see it. Isn't it amazing? That we can actually see this? To be able to witness such beauty and color, the textures, the way it moves, the vastness of all this... now imagine NEVER EVER seeing such beautious things again. I simply could not survive. I don't think you could either.

 

Now open them again.

 

My sixth sense. I'm so sick and goddam tired of seeing dead people.

 

Legally blind? So can you still see with contacts or glasses? What's it like when you take them off?

 

Thank god for glasses. My prescription is something like 20/250, and I couldn't imagine life without being able to see...

 

Hmm...I'd have to say smell. Then would be my sense of humor.

On eyesight, I have better than 20/20 vision in my left eye. But when I was a teenager...I needed glasses to see the chalkboard! I kept getting headaches. As I got older, I guess my eyes reshaped.

 

i'd have a hard time dealing with any of those. i think losing the ability to speak would be OK though. it would keep me out of trouble.

 

I'd opt to lose "common sense" because I could go back on tour like the old days.

 

Smell.

 

I would give up my sense of touch so things wouldn't hurt so much. But then I couldn't feel anything good, or ruin any of my personal items with... er... I have changed it to my sense of irony so I can be ignorent and easily amused.

 

But it takes all of your sense to truely appreciate carrots... even humor and irony thanks to john boy.

 

I think anyone who chooses hearing shouldn't be on this site to begin with!

I chose smell. Interestingly enough, three years ago, I mysteriously lost my sense of smell for a three-week period. I had allergies in that summer and I started to lose my sense of smell, which was a normal thing considering I had allergies. My allergies eventually cleared up though, but I began to notice that I wasn't really able to smell. So I began testing my sense of smell by trying to sniff shampoo bottles, cologne, air freshner, anything with a strong odor you name it. I realized that my sense of smell was completely gone! During this time, my appetite also diminished greatly. I just never became hungry or craved any foods. I didn't really panic at the time, even though I probably should have. But then, after about three weeks or so, I noticed that my sense of smell began to come back. At first it came back very faintly and gradually became normal.

My sense of smell is back to normal now and I haven't experienced anything like this since. I still can't figure out what caused me to lose it in the first place. I've heard of people losing their sense of smell as a result of a head injury. I experienced no such thing. My sense of smell just disappeared and came back for no apparent reason. No one I've ever talked to has heard about anything like that. Weird huh?

 

smell

 

i chose hearing...

im not really sure why......
maybe its the bethoven(sp) thing? always wanted to try that out....