Which sense is your strongest?

[Cimarron]

Kind of a weird question, but I'm curious. Usually, it seems either Sight or Hearing is the strongest of a person's 5 senses. I guess we could give the honorable mention to unexpectedly strong Touch, Smell, or Taste, though.

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My main reason for this thread: I have good Sight memory. If I see a word or a name once, I'll probably remember from there on out exactly how to spell it. Meanwhile, I have horrible Hearing memory. If I'm listening to someone talk and I'm not in closely-engaged conversation, I'm going to miss all the details, and almost always start drifting off. When I picture what that person is saying as written words, I automatically catch more of the content. Obviously, it helps the most when I write it down, so I can directly look at it. (I have college lectures in mind, specifically.)
Edit: I just remembered, I can keep a lot of details with me if I'm listening to someone intently--usually a good friend. But in everyday observation, it doesn't stick with me.

Does any of this sound familiar to you? Maybe it's the same for you, but with Hearing instead of Sight?

[Bella]

I think my sense of hearing is quite strong, as too many sounds/noise really gets to me and bothers me. Apart from that, touch drives me up the wall, in a good way.

[Jack Flak]

Gaydar. j/k Str8dar.

jk
Kind of a weird question
QFT.

j/k Sight and Hearing I guess.

[kyuuei]

My hearing sucks. I'm the worst for someone with no outward problems other than tinnitus.

I have pretty awesome eyes.. They corrected themselves when I needed glasses (I dunno how.. I needed them in middle school, tossed them by high school.) and I've had them damaged twice and they're still kickin' ass and takin' names.

My sense of touch rocks too. When I touch something, I can feel it. Definitely works everytime. On stuff that sucks to touch too, like a hot plate or liquid nitrogen.

... Those were the ones I picked btw. I don't have anything extraordinary about my smell or taste.. so those two were left, since I hate picking just one thing. XD

[Jack Flak]

I don't have anything extraordinary about my smell or taste..
Are you kidding me? You smell beeeeeautiful! :P

[wolfy]

Sight and touch.

Anyone want a massage?

[Jack Flak]

Sight and touch.

Anyone want a massage?
How about a glance instead.

[kyuuei]

Are you kidding me? You smell beeeeeautiful! :P

I just got a fortune cookie today (true story) that said "Keep your feet grounded when your friends make you float." or something gay like that.

[Jack Flak]

So I'm gay, then? *pouts*

lol.

[Aimahn]

I'm painfully lacking in a lot of these areas. I'm actually just extremely average on most accounts except for my sense of smell, which is horrendous.

I'm athletic though so I guess maybe touch-------------------> movement(can I do that?). Fuck it, my sense of movement is the best. Better yet bodily kinesthetic(thank Gardner for that term)

My IQ in that is like 156

[kyuuei]

So I'm gay, then? *pouts*

lol.

:rolli: I meant the cookie was a bit gay.. but that sounds like a guilty conscience there.

[Jack Flak]

:rolli: I meant the cookie was a bit gay.. but that sounds like a guilty conscience there.
I know what you meant, but knowing is only half teh battle.

OH, so it's wrong if I'm gay, is that what you sayin' to me, woman? LOL.

[kyuuei]

Uhm. Yes. Lowers my playing field. Nothing could be more wrong about that.

[Jack Flak]

Uhm. Yes. Lowers my playing field. Nothing could be more wrong about that.
Okay then! It's settled. *straightens out*

[Trinity]

I'm oblivious for reasons that I can't blame on my sight or hearing. Hearing is probably stronger for me but I tune out easily on what I don't want to hear, that's usually others talking.

[animenagai]

i don't think my hearing's great. i miss what people say all the time. i also have colour deficiency (red and green to me are less strong, but i know what red and green is) so i can't say my vision's top notch either. i'll say my sense of taste/touch would be my strongest.

[niffer]

My sense of smell is pretty pro. Once my ISTJ friend and I got our identical-looking whiteouts mixed up and weren't sure who's was who's. I solved this problem by smelling them. :D

[Thursday]

Sight
i can see pain and other repressed emotions like its something stuck in their teeth
either way, i really want to eradicate it, post haste

[ajblaise]

Sight.

But part of me believes that having strong or efficient senses can cause one to be oblivious because they will have the habit of focusing in closely on something while ignoring what's generally happening.

[Edahn]

My spidey sense. :ninja:

[wolfy]

My spidey sense. :ninja:

My sense of humour.

[Kanamori]

It's smell for me.

[burkeus]

Sniff.

[Little Linguist]

Eh, I can't see worth jack. Even my correction is like -7.5 dia. And I have astigmatism.

I can't smell things well either.

My sense of touch is okay, I guess. Never really thought about it before.

My sense of taste is okay, but not anything to throw a party about.

Hearing is probably my best sense, but only when it's really quiet. Then I can hear a pin drop. I have super-duper problems hearing when there is a lot of background noise (e.g.: party, club, etc.) Then it's like I'm deaf.

All in all, I'm really not in touch with my senses, I don't think. Maybe that's why I'm an N - as a coping mechanism? I might be talking out my ass, but it's just a random thought that popped into my head.

[Jeffster]

Touch, followed by hearing. Hearing probably used to be #1, but over 20 years of blasting my music loud has reduced that one a little.

[Lithium]

Kind of a weird question, but I'm curious. Usually, it seems either Sight or Hearing is the strongest of a person's 5 senses. I guess we could give the honorable mention to unexpectedly strong Touch, Smell, or Taste, though.

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My main reason for this thread: I have good Sight memory. If I see a word or a name once, I'll probably remember from there on out exactly how to spell it. Meanwhile, I have horrible Hearing memory. If I'm listening to someone talk and I'm not in closely-engaged conversation, I'm going to miss all the details, and almost always start drifting off. When I picture what that person is saying as written words, I automatically catch more of the content. Obviously, it helps the most when I write it down, so I can directly look at it. (I have college lectures in mind, specifically.)
Edit: I just remembered, I can keep a lot of details with me if I'm listening to someone intently--usually a good friend. But in everyday observation, it doesn't stick with me.

Does any of this sound familiar to you? Maybe it's the same for you, but with Hearing instead of Sight?

Taste isn't often experienced without smell. You can only taste 5, debate on 6, things. The rest of the flavor is down to smell. So it is unlikely that a person would have a really good sense of taste without smell. As being able to detect the flavor of something incorporates both.

Balance would have been a good one, or maybe awareness of pain.

[BerberElla]

My sense of smell, I'm no bloodhound but I get more out of my sense of smell, or at least can remember times in which it triggered a wave of longing and rememberence just by smelling a particular smell.

I'm also the one on the bus holding a scarf over her nose because some passenger has just farted and I feel over powered yet everyone else is still breathing like nothing happened. :shock:

[Silently Honest]

I can hear very well.

[Uberfuhrer]

My sense of humour.

Beat me to it. :steam:

[Cimarron]

Haha! This thread has become hilarious. Last time I saw this was on post # 3 :yim_rolling_on_the_
Taste isn't often experienced without smell. You can only taste 5, debate on 6, things. The rest of the flavor is down to smell. So it is unlikely that a person would have a really good sense of taste without smell. As being able to detect the flavor of something incorporates both. Good point. I probably should have combined smell and taste.

[whatever]

touch (which leads me to compulsively touch almost EVERYTHING :doh:) and taste- which I kinna have to have.

[Cimarron]

If anyone feels like tackling it, what did you think of the 2nd half of my OP? This thing: My main reason for this thread: I have good Sight memory. If I see a word or a name once, I'll probably remember from there on out exactly how to spell it. Meanwhile, I have horrible Hearing memory. If I'm listening to someone talk and I'm not in closely-engaged conversation, I'm going to miss all the details, and almost always start drifting off. When I picture what that person is saying as written words, I automatically catch more of the content. Obviously, it helps the most when I write it down, so I can directly look at it. (I have college lectures in mind, specifically.)
Edit: I just remembered, I can keep a lot of details with me if I'm listening to someone intently--usually a good friend. But in everyday observation, it doesn't stick with me.

Does any of this sound familiar to you? Maybe it's the same for you, but with Hearing instead of Sight?

[mlittrell]

to make an extremely vague generalization:

SJ = occipital lobe = has something to do with eyesight

[INTJMom]

Kind of a weird question, but I'm curious. Usually, it seems either Sight or Hearing is the strongest of a person's 5 senses. I guess we could give the honorable mention to unexpectedly strong Touch, Smell, or Taste, though.

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My main reason for this thread: I have good Sight memory. If I see a word or a name once, I'll probably remember from there on out exactly how to spell it. Meanwhile, I have horrible Hearing memory. If I'm listening to someone talk and I'm not in closely-engaged conversation, I'm going to miss all the details, and almost always start drifting off. When I picture what that person is saying as written words, I automatically catch more of the content. Obviously, it helps the most when I write it down, so I can directly look at it. (I have college lectures in mind, specifically.)
Edit: I just remembered, I can keep a lot of details with me if I'm listening to someone intently--usually a good friend. But in everyday observation, it doesn't stick with me.

Does any of this sound familiar to you? Maybe it's the same for you, but with Hearing instead of Sight?
I usually rely on hearing mostly, but I also have a good sight memory -
at least short term - it's even somewhat photographic.
I don't need (or want) to touch things.
My sense of smell is also pretty keen.
I can smell things my other family members don't.

[lastrailway]

I had never given too much thought to this, but, by seeing this poll, I realised that all of my senses function very well.

I have a famously good sight, I can spot things in very long distance and people usually ask me to check for, for instance, bus numbers, road signs, etc. I can't think of many people who have stronger sight than me.
My hearing is pretty good too, though I've never cared too much about it. I have a very strong sense of both smell and taste, especially smell might be my most sensitive sense and the one that can annoy me the most.

I think if I were a bit more observant, I could perceive an overly large number of information, by simply allowing my senses to function as they always do, and without the least additional effort of my part.

EDIT: Touch?! Sure, it's a sense, but how can it vary from one person to another? You have skin, you have touch. Except of course if we mean whether you prefer to use it as a mean to collect information, which in my case, I don't find extremely important the information touch can give me.

[kelric]

Vision: Not very good, but I depend on and focus on it by far the most.
Touch: Probably average.
Hearing: Not that good. It's sensitive enough, but I have difficulty distinguishing between sounds (music lyrics are often a complete no-go, for instance). Things tend to fade into the background, amplifying my already annoying tendency to space out and not notice stuff :D.
Taste/Smell: Probably my worst. I tend not to notice a lot of smells, and although there are a lot of things that taste good, they're not particularly subtle - chocolate ice cream, etc.

[nightning]

I'm a great deal better at detection than discrimination. Memory is a different issue though. I think it ought to belong in a separate category. Noticing something is not the same as recalling it later. That said, my memory is pretty lousy unless I force myself to remember. I can't believe I completely forgotten I had a class Thursday morning... *smacks head*

Ummm breakdown...
Vision: Probably my dominant. I'm a visual learner. I'm good at tracking movement, bad at spotting details especially when there's too much flashing lights etc.
Hearing: Same as vision, I'm sensitive to sounds so long as I don't get overloaded. I can pinpoint them and distinguish between tones. It's usually easier for me to recall from images than sounds though.
Smell/Taste: Average I suppose. These two are the most difficult to describe with words so I can't exactly compare them with other people's.
Touch: Probably average. I depend on it much less than vision and hearing.

[kyuuei]

If anyone feels like tackling it, what did you think of the 2nd half of my OP? This thing:

I understand you entirely. My memory is flawed to begin with, but if someone says something that I don't already know, I nearly always make them write/spell it out so that I can understand what they're saying exactly. My ears blurr P's, B's, D's etc. so its easy for me to lose meaning. On top of that, my mind starts to wander WHILE I'm in conversation, even if I REALLY want to hear what they have to say. Meanwhile, when reading, I'm capable of going at my own pace and let things settle in. The words don't fade, and there's a sense of security in that for me.

I'm very good at things like lining things up, memorizing colors, and other things that come with good sight memory.

Nearly always though if I smell or taste something, that memory of it is with me. I can remember the way things tasted years and years later.. One year, when I was still like 12 or something, we had this guy set up at the flea market selling homemade root beer. It was the best soda I ever had in my life, and I still remember the significant difference which makes me, to this day, refrain from the generic sodas in the stores that taste disgusting in comparison.

[ArbiterDewey]

If anyone feels like tackling it, what did you think of the 2nd half of my OP? This thing:

You're a visual learner as opposed to an aural learner. I am the same. Any information that comes in through your weaker learning sense isn't retained as well. That's my attempt :D



Nearly always though if I smell or taste something, that memory of it is with me. I can remember the way things tasted years and years later.. One year, when I was still like 12 or something, we had this guy set up at the flea market selling homemade root beer. It was the best soda I ever had in my life, and I still remember the significant difference which makes me, to this day, refrain from the generic sodas in the stores that taste disgusting in comparison.

My sense of smell is great. There are certain smells that have stayed very embedded in my memory and can affect mood as well. For me a few are the smell of new books, the antique smell of say a 40+ yr. old rusted Baritone Saxophone (the antique smell covers more than just the sax, but it was my first run-in with it; another would be my grandfather's nutcracker collection) and this certain perfume/cologne/lotion/etc. that I love smelling..even though I have no idea what it is.

[Sinister Scribe]

INTj here. I have really good senses of touch and hearing (though apparently my hands are utterly insensitive to heat). I have almost no sense of smell and my sense of taste is slightly below average. I tell people apart by the sound of their voices, not by faces.

I also have no depth perception and almost no peripheral vision, so I've learned not to rely on my sight... unlike most people.

[sade]

My hearing memory is much better than sight memory, which is okay. I've been tested for sensitivity for disturbance aka my focus starts wandering from fairly little and I can't keep consentration. It always helps me consentrate on lectures when I close my eyes and listen to the voice of the lecturer, even when there's a lot of back ground noice. It might help that I have excellent hearing, haven't destroyed it yet.

Also I have a strong sense of touch. The way things feel just sinks into my memory, the same with food and drink textures.

[Beat]

Hearing and Touch

edit:
Upon further thought, I really can't narrow it down. I feel like I have a photographic memory, so maybe that makes my sight one of the stronger senses...

[LucrativeSid]

I have a very acute sense of smell. I also have a very good memory. I can remember things well photographically, but I'd say I'm a little better at remembering things auditorially. I can hear things that people have said to me years ago in my head like it just happened. It's kind of a nuisance, though, because people never believe me when I tell them about something they did or said 6 months ago.

[entropie]

my sense to survive :D

[Apollanaut]

I have acute visual discrimination, such as being able to distinguish between subtly different shades of colours. My body-kinesthetic sense is also very strong (too strong at times).

Hearing is my weakest sense. It's not that I have poor hearing; it's more that I pay it less attention than my other senses, usually because my inner voice(s) are so loud!

[EJCC]

I have a very acute sense of smell. I also have a very good memory. I can remember things well photographically, but I'd say I'm a little better at remembering things auditorially. I can hear things that people have said to me years ago in my head like it just happened. It's kind of a nuisance, though, because people never believe me when I tell them about something they did or said 6 months ago.

I'm a lot like this with music. I notice nuances of music that no one else does, and I can acutely remember songs that I last heard five years ago. Also, I can sing along with TV background music... an example of this is the music they play at the runway shows on Project Runway (ba-da-da... da da da da da da-da.) People who watch it with me go "WTF? How did...? I don't get you!" because they never really hear that music. And I notice when people sing popular music in the wrong key. (and it pisses me off... but that's a whole other thing.) A lot of people think I have perfect pitch, but I don't.

On to the OP: I have a terrible sense of smell (deviated septum + allergies = :steam:), and my sense of taste is average. Sight and hearing are the best. I always notice details in those things.

[InaF3157]

Olfactory :tongue:
edit: but my hearing is pretty acute.

[colmena]

Does anyone else do this?

When I go out, I get overawed by my senses. All sounds become a symphony, and sights enchant. I walk past front gardens and smell all the different plants as I go by. I conduct the sounds of nature and traffic with my hands. I fall to my knees at the sigh of the moon glittering carpet on the reflecting water, or at a tunnel of autumnal trees (what's the word for that?)

I get overawed, and I will stop in my tracks and listen and see. Trees in a breeze and the sea at night are my favourites.

I can get into all sorts of things voluntarily, but nature forces and transfers its intrinsic passion on to me, and I am bewitched like no other way.

[runvardh]

It's strange being able to make out details other's can't; but in the dark it's fun being able to mess with people's heads when they can't see you even though you can see them perfectly.