The Gift of Senses

So many senses to talk about: which one should I start with?

• senseless.

• antisense.

• missenses.

• nonsenses.

• subsenses.

• autosense.

• gnewsense.

• homesense

No, those aren’t the ones I mean!

Think about what happens when Mum or Dad tells you that dinner is ready – you can hear them asking you to wash your hands, feel the water and soap against your skin, smell what’s cooking, see your chair at the table and taste the food on your plate. You can do all of that thanks to your senses! Simultaneously!

The Sense of smell:

Skunks love this sense because it wards off their potential attackers. Our designer (God) gave us this sense, and depending on the size of your nose, (snozzle) you will have a keen or lack of sense of smell. To test this, put some ammonia up to your nose and see how long you can whiff before you turn away, I bet if your nose is smaller it hovers longer over the ammonia. People with bigger noses are cleaner, because they are more sensitive to the subtle aromas emanating from their bodies. Actually, the sense of smell is a defensive tool, which gives us advance warning of potential danger. Positives or negatives with this sense. The scent of a woman or man, can you make sense of who is which, by natural body aroma blind-folded?

The Sense of Touch:

Touching can heal; it is one of the healing powers. Touched by an Angel comes to mind. By touching surfaces, we can determine many things, hard or soft, gooey, cold, hot etc... Did you know that your sense of touch is everywhere on your skin, from your scalp all the way down to your baby toe. Pain receptors go hand in hand with the sense of touch. A sense of touch can be electric, in that when you first make body contact with a person you are falling in love with, a fuzzy feeling erupts.

Sense of Hearing:

“I hear you already!” Noise is a wonderful thing. You can drown out the noises around you by noise dampening techniques. Tinnitus is always present in one’s ears, so it is up to you to drown it out by always keeping your other senses working. I hear you, but do you really hear what was said, it usually goes in one ear and out the other. That’s what I’m told very often that I hear, but I don’t hear. We choose what we want to hear, based on what’s important to us. Stop nagging me!

Sense of Taste:

Did you know our Tongue has 2000-8000 taste buds, bitter, salty, sour and sweet, but needs our sense of smell to coincide with it in order to determine one of the four basic flavors, before drumming down to a recognized taste. In fact, 80% of our smell sensor is used to help the taste buds. Your taste buds aren't just on your tongue; they're on the roof, cheeks and back of your mouth. Butterflies and flies have taste buds on their feet! We have expressions like “that was very tasteful” but does not refer to our actual taste.

Sense of Sight:

I’m seeing things, which means I am not actually seeing what I believe I am seeing. We see in 3 D which even computers cannot duplicate. Colors: The book “Fifty Shades of Grey” cannot compete with our eyes that actually discern more than 500 shades of grey. Newborn babies see everything upside down until the brain learns to process everything right side up.

We also have more than five senses:

Common sense, or another one could be sense of being, or how about extra-sensory perception (ESP), or a sense of humor.