Which sense would you least like to lose?

[eSDee]

I was thinking about this the other day. If you had some sort of affliction that caused you to lose a sense that you already had as an adult, what would be the sense that you would lease like to lose? Personally first I was thinking sight would be the worst, but then I started thinking that hearing might end up being the worst for me, because then I wouldn't be able to hear music, which is such a great escape for me. But I could be wrong. Sight might be the worst since I read a study that said out of a bunch of old timers that went through a bunch of afflictions at an old age, that macular degeneration was the worst. So perhaps it would be vision that I would least like to lose. Not sure.

What about you? Which sense could you not picture yourself losing?

[brainsmile]

As an adult I don't want the sense of impotence or the sense of an enlarged prostate

[Jenny]

hah oops. I didn't read the poll right. I voted smell. LOL

[MikeD]

hah oops. I didn't read the poll right. I voted smell. LOL

I did read it right, and I voted smell. Seems the least important of all the choices listed...

[DarkFury]

Gotta go with vision on this one...

[ialsohaveadream]

Assuming that even if I lose my sense of touch, it only applies to my hands, I gotta go with vision. Otherwise, I'm keeping touch.

[Grafalgar]

I voted touch.

People are known to function perfectly fine without being able to see or hear. So while it would suck I don't think it would be nearly as damaging as being without touch.

Imagine not being able to (physically) feel anything. No warning signals when you step on something sharp (which would later cause an infection you still won't feel), not being to feel "force" (when grabbing something, rubbing your eyes, etc). You'd essentially become a living danger to yourself.

Yikes :/

[hapoo]

I voted touch.

People are known to function perfectly fine without being able to see or hear. So while it would suck I don't think it would be nearly as damaging as being without touch.

Imagine not being able to (physically) feel anything. No warning signals when you step on something sharp (which would later cause an infection you still won't feel), not being to feel "force" (when grabbing something, rubbing your eyes, etc). You'd essentially become a living danger to yourself.

Yikes :/

I once saw a video of a kid who was born without any pain sensation. I won't go into any details but it was very very very bad!

[DarkFury]

Imagine not being able to (physically) feel anything. No warning signals when you step on something sharp (which would later cause an infection you still won't feel), not being to feel "force" (when grabbing something, rubbing your eyes, etc). You'd essentially become a living danger to yourself.

Yikes :/

Or you'd make a great SuperVillian who never feels pain.

[eSDee]

I voted touch.

People are known to function perfectly fine without being able to see or hear. So while it would suck I don't think it would be nearly as damaging as being without touch.

Imagine not being able to (physically) feel anything. No warning signals when you step on something sharp (which would later cause an infection you still won't feel), not being to feel "force" (when grabbing something, rubbing your eyes, etc). You'd essentially become a living danger to yourself.

Yikes :/

Very interesting Graf I hadn't thought of it that way. When I was initially thinking about vision loss, I thought it would be bad but then I was thinking that since I already had seen a great deal being an adult, that I could recreate a lot of the images in my mind using my hearing and imagination. Touch is something completely different though. Even if I could remember how something felt I imagine that it would be excruciating to want to feel and not be able to. Much like people who lose their apendages but then always feel "ghost arms" or "ghost legs", I imagine that I would be tormented for life by it. With that in mind, I think touch moves right up there in my top 2 senses least wanting to lose

I wonder if the worst might be the sense that your mind has the hardest time recuperating from. Losing the sense of touch has to be extremely difficult.

[Freelance Superhero]

Assuming that even if I lose my sense of touch, it only applies to my hands, I gotta go with vision. Otherwise, I'm keeping touch.

it was a tossup between vision and touch, but if the loss of touch goes beyond just the hands, i'm gonna have to say i'd keep touch and lose vision.

[bachviet]

Vision and my second vote goes to "MOJO".

[Lolita]

Vision for sure. I've thought about this many times and I think I'd rather be dead than blind.

[cadetevon]

I'm going with touch. One can live a happy and healthy life without the others, but lose touch... well, I don't like to think on it.

[molecularfire]

I voted smell. Without smell you can't have taste and without taste people generally stop eating and starve to death. Anyways... I enjoy food too much to want to give that up. I can live without social interactions (which happens to people without sight and hearing quite often) but not without the ability to enjoy good food. Touch would be second on my list.

[ray]

don't take my hearing away...ever

[LPMiller]

my sense of irony.

[YanksFanRy]

I also went with touch for the same reasons people said. To never be able to feel things or reach out... I can't imagine.

[Burzhui]

Vision for sure. I've thought about this many times and I think I'd rather be dead than blind.

i would so constantly make faces at you!

but i'd go with vision, i don't want to lose that

[psycho-]

my sense of irony.

I can tell you I didn't mind losing my sense of shame.

[thresher]

My sense of humanity

[ProMinx]

That really depends...I mean...there are a lot of senses.

There's a sense of humor
A sense of doom, or
A sense of awe, sense of timing.
The sense of a word
A sense of absurd
Like trying to do all this rhyming
There's incense
And horse sense
And common sense, it's true
Sense of wonder, sense of beauty
Sense of honor, sense of duty
A sense of doubt, a sense of danger
A sense of fear when you meet a stranger
A sense of style, a sense of worth
A sense of direction for knowing the earth
A sense of dread as I'm singing this song
That it's starting to turn out completely all wrong
And it's time that I end it because it's too long.
Cause it just doesn't make any sense.
No sense.
This song doesn't make any sense.