Wednesday's Question of the Day: your senses

Happy Wednesday, everyone! It's still 2 hours away here in PST, but most of you are in time zones ahead of me. 

Today's question is about the 5 senses... how well do you see, hear, etc.?  

My eyesight is not great any more, my eyes are healthy but getting older. I need glasses for reading, mid-range, and distance which just about covers all of it, I think. My hearing is okay but used to be better before a wicked double ear-infection about 10 years ago.

My sense of smell, though, has always been really good! It's a mixed blessing, for sure. I smell things long before other people do and I can easily smell on people what they've been doing! My family calls me SuperSnoot.   

I need cataract surgery and keep putting it off. I have bi-focals, but can't wear them to read or for computer work. I must wear glasses to drive, so most often I wear my sunglasses, which are also bi-focals. I practically live in sunglasses when I'm outside, even during the winter.

I have tinnitus, which can be really nasty sometimes. Too much loud music, I guess. It's annoying at night. 

My sense of smell is still pretty good. My tastebuds still work well....I can distinguish between sweet and salty, things like that, with no problem. 

On the whole, I'm OK. I do need to get those cataracts removed though. And it would be nice to get rid of the tinnitus, too, but that's not going to happen.

Well here Wednesday is almost over...

My sight is not what it was.. I have glasses for reading and driving.

My sense of smell is still fine.  I'm not so sure about my hearing... I seem to hear fine, but don't do so well in really noisy places... perhaps my ability to distinguish different sounds is in decline...

Winchester said:

And it would be nice to get rid of the tinnitus, too, but that's not going to happen.

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There's a rather odd yoga pranayama (breathing practice) that has helped some people with tinnitus.. It  involves blocking your ears with your fingers to create the strongest sound, closing your eyes, then taking a deep breath and humming the outward breath.  The focus is on the internal sound vibration in the head.

Also, a friend had some relief with Hopi Ear Candles.

It's a rotten thing to have..

I have always been thankful for having perfect vision, so yay!


My hearing is also really dandy.

Taste is normal - except with water, for example: I can identity what brand of water I'm drinking, or where the water is from, without reading lables or knowing ahead of time. I'm very sensitive to liquids! I can taste all sorts of things and flavours that others can't.  My mom always jokes that I should be a professional taster, hahaha.


My nose is normal, though I do get runny noses in the winter. It is a bit of a nuissance, having to carry tissues everywhere once it gets cold outside. Not sure if it is normal, or has something to do with the frostbite I got on my nose when I was small. I suspect perhaps a small dust allergy too, as I get a runny nose if it is dusty or around dusty, but that isn't confirmed.
 
 

Seeing:   I wear progressive lenses. There are currently 3 depths of fields in the lenses, but I need to get new ones with 2 more added. I do not need glasses for reading.  I have a very keen eye for colour on a small scale. Meaning I am very good with blending colours when I do art, but when it comes to room decorating, I just can't put it all together. And I have a very good eye for subtle changes in colour tones.

Hearing:   I think I have some mild decreased hearing, but not to the point where I can't hear what is going on around me.

Taste:   I have very sensitive taste buds. I can't stand artificial tasting stuff such as flavours added to cough syrup, tooth paste, mouthwash etc.  Such things make me gag and want to vomit.  This is going to sound stupid, but when I taste a food, the flavours come to me in colour. Basically I associate flavours with various colours.  I can also separate the flavours and tell you to almost the last ingredient what is in the recipe.

Smell:   I have a very keen sense of smell.  I've been told more than once that I have a "perfumer's nose".  When I go and shop for fragrances, I can pick out the top, middle and lower notes of the scent.  This helped me immensely when I used to do essential oil blending as part of my home based business that I did years ago.  The downside of this is that I also tend to pick up foul odours more intensely.

Touch: I'm very aware of things that I touch, or things that touch me.  When I was diagnosed with diabetes, the one thing I worried about was having to poke my finger to test my blood sugar. I did research and found a monitor that allows me to poke other parts of my body so my fingers can remain uncalloused.

Sixth Sense:   Basically my gut instinct.  Every evolved.  If I get an off sense about someone or something, it usually tends to be accurate. I've also had dreams of things that have happened within a week of my having dreamed it.

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Taste is normal - except with water, for example: I can identity what brand of water I'm drinking, or where the water is from, without reading lables or knowing ahead of time. I'm very sensitive to liquids! I can taste all sorts of things and flavours that others can't.  My mom always jokes that I should be a professional taster, hahaha.

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Funny, my mum did too!  I have always hated fishy tastes and once refused to eat pork because I swore it tasted of fish. My mum was furious with me but then the next time she talked to the butcher she got the meat from he said the farmers often fed pigs fish meal but weren't meant to feed it for a certain number of weeks before being sent off to market - that they sometimes did and this was probably what had happened with the pork I'd had.  I was always picky and I'd drive my mum daft with the stuff I'd taste in things.  Used to think it would be good to be a tea or wine taster but never moved in the right circles and by now I've probably ruined my palate with years of bad cooking and hot curries. 

 

Getting older I had to start wearing reading glasses with low prescription a couple of years ago and now have varifocals with low prescription for close and medium/computer distance. Distance vision is still really good, but I've always been plagued with floaters.  Hate bright light so often wear sunglasses.

My sense of smell is a hit or a miss. I seem super sensitive to some things (like urea) and totally miss other stuff. I think it's to do with a sinus blocked up by 22 years of living with 2 tabbies that molted their whole lives like you'd never believe.  

Hearing isn't too bad given I spent about 5 years of my childhood with perforated ear drums.  Always found it a bit difficult listening to conversations in noisy places and find loud noise really unpleasant.

I think my sense of touch is pretty average.  I worry sometimes that I've got little numb patches on my legs or face and start doing touch tests on myself but never find anything!  

I have pretty good spatial awareness but my balance is rubbish - I blame it on my mum being over protective and not letting me play stuff that would develop my balance when I was little, like ice skating or roller skating. 

  Nothing like  blaming someone else for stuff you're not good at!

i wear glasses for anything far away or at night. the rest of my senses are pretty good. my hearing is really really good, which is a miracle considering  i've been going to  rock concerts for 40 years. people always say 'how can you hear that? but i never listen to music loud at home.

my husband is the opposite. he has tinnitus. he's worked for the railroad for over 40 years

i do go by my gut feeling alot and it's hardly ever been wrong

My hearing is excellent, my eyesight is not excellent.  I do wear bi-focals but not while on the computer.  I have a regular pair of glasses (non bi-fical) while online.  I am still able to read even small print but it's been a couple of years since my last eye exam.  I am due for one and will get to it soon.  My sense of smell is fine. 

I've worn glasses since the 2nd grade.  I don't need them to read; but for just about everything else.  I just picked up my new ones today and I'm still adjusting.  Apparently my eye doctor's office has the techs do the prescription adjustments now...  I don't like that.  At all.  I can't tell if I'm just geting used to these; or if they messed up my prescription.  I would have been more focused on reading those letters and the "better 1 or better 2" if I had known that was all the chance I'd get.  These lenses ain't cheap!!  ($450 for the pair including the frames.... )

My ears ring and that has become a problem but I know from working for an audiologist; there isn't much they can do.  I can hear fine; but it makes it more difficult to understand soft spoken people or people who don't enunciate.  I actually take a supplament now that really does help!  But there is no cure.  It's just so annoying and embarassing to ask people to repeat themselves.

Taste, touch and smell are all fine.  I'm not too scent sensitive; but some things do bother me; like overwhelming chemically citruce scents will sometimes give me a headache.  My niece picked out an orange scented hand santizer for me when she was little which was so sweet;but I had the hardest time ever using it!  It was just "too much."  I should have sent it to my Gram; she got a bad cold years ago where she lost her sense of taste and smell.  Taste came back; smell never did!

Yes, it's rotten - constant crickets singing in my ears.  I tried the humming thing but no results.  Should I keep trying it?  I'm off on a search for Hopi candles!  Crickets, crickets, crickets!

juleamq said:

Yes, it's rotten - constant crickets singing in my ears.  I tried the humming thing but no results.  Should I keep trying it?  I'm off on a search for Hopi candles!  Crickets, crickets, crickets!

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Sometimes the noise in my ears is like glasses softly clinking together; but not at a steady pace. Mostly it's a high pitch ring. Sometimes it gets really loud. A steady ring is easier to tune out; the up and down business just isn't!

juleamq said:

 
Yes, it's rotten - constant crickets singing in my ears.  I tried the humming thing but no results.  Should I keep trying it?  I'm off on a search for Hopi candles!  Crickets, crickets, crickets!

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It's one of those things that needs to be done really regularly, and built up over time (as in the depth of your breath).  It's done 'meditatively' so that your whole focus is on the vibration. 

My hearing is good-- I hear my husband  yack too well lmao

Eye site - need glasses to read and for the computer

Touch =good

Smell - good

Taste - good

ans Sixth Sense-- fair I guess

I am happy to say, I hear well, I taste well and sinc4e cataract surgery, I see well. It is awesome to drive and be able to read the signs with no glasses.

This is really interesting. I have very sensitive senses that tend to be overwhelmed easily:

Sight: I do wear glasses. My eyes are extremely sensitive to the sun, despite being hazel (I've heard it's usually green or blue eyes that are most sensitive), so I wear prescription sunglasses a lot. On the other hand, my reading is good: I keep my Kindle on the smallest font possible.

Hearing: I sometimes have difficulty hearing, especially if there's a lot of noise around. I can't deal with too high of volume very well, so even when I was a teenager, it was me telling my dad to turn the music down :lol3:.

I'm sensitive to taste and smell as well, but there, I tend to actually prefer stronger sensations: I love food that is bitter, sour, or spicy, and cannot stand bland food (a definite drawback considering my stomach issues), and I also love most strong smells. I don't care for the taste or smell of beer, nor the smell of urine, but for some reason, I actually find the smell of skunk rather pleasant if it's at a distance, and I love to drink vinegar. I can often pick out slight spices/herbs in the food I eat.

Touch: Well, I have an odd pain threshold. Sometimes, minor pains (especially stubbing my toe) really bother me, but other times (going to the dentist), they don't bother me at all. Stomach pains really bother me a lot, even if I know they're coming, so it's not just a matter of whether I'm expecting it or not. I'm also very sensitive to cold, but not to hot. It has to be really hot before I'll notice that I should probably turn the thermostat down.

Sixth sense: Awesome, but it only works in person or with issues related to me. I am also good at reading Tarot cards intuitively.

Sight - I have been in glasses since elementary school

Hearing - I have trouble filtering out back round noise but otherwise it's okay

Taste - Normal I suppose, nothing special here

Touch - I am very sensitive when it comes to touch, I actually get super annoyed when people even brush up against me lol

Smell - My sense of smell is very strong. I can't wear any perfume or strongly scented lotions because they make me feel ill from being so strong. I'm always the first one to smell something lol

I have a very strong feeling of people when I first meet them, it's not like first impressions or anything like that. It's just intuition, I will run the other way if I get a bad feeling about someone.

I wear glasses for distance, mostly to see better when driving at night, or when cloudy out.  My Rx isn't to bad kind of like just seeing like the difference in looking at an old t.v. vs/ a new H.D.

However, at 44, I have just noticed that for the first time this year, I am starting to do the pull something back to see better, when I used to do the opposite. I need to get my eyes checked again, it's been 4 yrs. because I don't have insurance. I need to save for that! I'm sure my Rx has changed a little.

Most of my other senses are sensitive. I've always been that way. 

My smell is very sensitive, I can't/don't wear perfumes. If I wear anything it's made from pure essential oils only, or I will just create my own blend w/ mine. I also love a natural line called Auric Natural Blends.

If I am around a strong smell I can easily get a headache!

My taste is pretty sensitive too. I can't drink most wines because of the sulfites, & or tannins. I used to only drink sulfite free, but I got to where I couldn't do some of them either.  Funny, I discovered that I can drink

light sweet wines & they usually don't bother me. I think because they are lighter. Funny, I went backwards to the wine I started out with, Lombroso!  LOL! I think because it's only 8% VS/ 12% like other wines.

(I also found I like & can drink moscato, I like the Sutter Homes pink! I felt like I was drinking flowers when I first tried it!)  

I can even just smell a wine & know that it's too "heady" & I can't drink it. (almost evokes a headache).

I also can't tolerate a lot of salt. I avoid it because I take a small dose of blood pressure meds, so I can really taste it more that normal.

I think my hearing is fine.

I am very touch sensitive, also because I have been a massage therapist for over 20 yrs.

Emotionally, I am Very sensitive!  Sometimes I think I am a bit of an intuitive.  If someone around me is sad or crying, I can really feel it, & it's hard for me to not cry or at least tear up. (I will usually say a silent prayer for them).   In fact, just a couple of wks. ago, I was awaken at 2:00am by the most heart wrenching cries coming from a dog somewhere. It was so awful I couldn't help but cry. He sounded like he was in horrible pain!

I was just crying & praying for God to help this baby, where ever he was. I finally walked outside, & it was the  new neighbors dog. Apparently, he somehow had gotten tangled in his leach that was tied to the porch.

Every time they tried to help him & he moved, he cried & yelped. Finally animal control came out & helped. He somehow had gotten his back leg wrapped in the leach, & it was pulled tight to his chest, & was pulling on the other end attached to his collar. They finally were able to cut him loose, & thank god he was fine, but his cries were so heart wrenching, we thought he would have a broken bone for sure. I had never even seen or met this dog. (animal control told them, "This is why we tell you to NOT tie up your dog!" ) They were out there w/ him, so said they didn't know how it happened.

I had to come back in & take some Rescue Remedy, so I could try to go back to sleep!

I also don't watch to news to often because it's just too much!

Sight - l'm an inspector at work, so it's a running joke that l don't see too well  . My up-close vision is perfect - l need to hold a book fairly close to read it. Once anything gets out of my ever-shrinking "veil". it becomes blurred. l really need new glasses, and only ever wear them to drive.

Hearing - as l get older, l find l'm having much more difficult with voices. lf someone talks quietly l need to watch their lips to "hear" what they're saying. l had my hearing checked recently, and apparently it's normal, but l'm having that difficulty, and do notice a change.

Taste - Normal. Used to be a smoker, but never really noticed any change in taste.

Touch - Normal. Used to be irritated by seams, but not now.

Smell - Usually normal. l'm more sensitive than most people at work. We work with chemicals, and come to have me sniff around if they think something is in the air. l once passed out after walking into a building that had just been painted with oil paint.

Sixth Sense - Don't have any, but have encountered a couple of people over my lifetime who have made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

Common Sense - Tons!!!!