HerestheRules

HerestheRules t1_izri2o8 wrote

Well, as a bacterial meningitis survivor, my legs have a lot of nerve damage. I have trouble with this sense in them and I never could tell the difference between touch and spatial awareness like I can now. When too idle, it sometimes feels like my legs are asleep. It's an odd feeling to lose a sense you don't even know you have

It's a total game changer, imo

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HerestheRules t1_izredsd wrote

All of our senses play a big part in the unconscious absorption of the world around us. As with the rest of the senses, each one is connected with many of the others (taste, for example, is a combination of smell and touch, but is also influenced by both sight and sound). Proprioception is intuitively tied to touch, and without touch, the sense is lost.

Think about when you're laying in a recliner. You might cross your legs, or move your arms behind your head, or so on. But no matter what position you're in, the moment you move, your brain already knows where the individual parts need to go without having to input anything. That, specifically, is what proprioception does for us.

Our brains are wired to interpret this information at nearly all times, regardless of whether we're aware of it. I mean, people have actual taste buds on our assholes, but we don't taste it every time we go number 2.

TL;DR:

Our senses are all connected to each other*

^^^* ^^^see ^^^paragraph ^^^1

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