If you lost one of your senses...

[Rantz]

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... which one would you rather it be? Out of the classical senses, out of scientifically accepted senses or out of any array of senses you can think of, whatever.

Out of the five traditional senses, for me it would be my olfaction. Out of all the senses it would be thermoreception.

[scrumpleberry]

Taste. I'd just have to be careful to look at what I ate beforehand- and I could have a healthy diet without getting bored x)

[Værn]

I'd give up common sense. Just because we have computers to do simple calculations for us now.
Then again, I wouldn't think to use a computer for simple things if I lacked common sense. Though it would be fun to see what kind of trouble I would get into...

[LunarWeaver]

yessssss.

I would also ditch my sense of smell.

[rubah]

in kindergarten, when we were learning about the five senses, we were popping popcorn and a hot kernel flew out of the air popper and burnt my leg a little and it hurt so I wished I hadn't ever had a sense of touch, and then my teachers started talking about the story of this little boy who had no sense of touch or pain or something and how he'd just started stabbing himself in the leg with a pen until he'd made himself bleed or something.

So I've been undecided ever since.

[Bunny]

I would lose my sense of smell in hopes that it would strengthen my sense of sight and then I could see through girl's clothing with my newly acquired x-ray vision.

[SilverWind]

Lol, dinosaurs. I don't know, though. Losing nociception, or thermoception probably isn't that good of a choice. They both have kinda bad downsides. You might accidentally freeze to death...! I suppose you can't choose sometimes...For now, I'd choose loss of smell, I guess.

[Laddy]

Smell is pretty much worthless for the most part. BYE BYE!

[Rantz]

Lol, dinosaurs. I don't know, though. Losing nociception, or thermoception probably isn't that good of a choice. They both have kinda bad downsides. You might accidentally freeze to death...! I suppose you can't choose sometimes...For now, I'd choose loss of smell, I guess.

My rationale for picking thermoreception is, how often are you in a situation where you would freeze to death without noticing through other means than feeling cold? Most of the time it's just a bother really, considering the human race's situation these days.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

The sense of smell greatly influences your sense of taste. In other words, for all of you who'd lose your sense of smell, you'd lose a lot of taste in your food and such. :/

I'd go for...I dunno. Maybe my sense of direction, since it'd make life more interesting getting lost all the time!

[Bunny]

The sense of smell greatly influences your sense of taste. In other words, for all of you who'd lose your sense of smell, you'd lose a lot of taste in your food and such. :/

I believe you're talking about flavour, which includes taste and the smell of the food itself. While losing your sense of smell would probably alter the way you taste food, it wouldn't be crippling enough to really matter.

[erikramza]

since I don't have a sense of smell, which destroys my sense of taste... I'd give up one of those things, that I already don't have.

[Yar]

I'd give up my sense of taste, that why I'd eat plenty of healthy yet disgusting vegetables and get skinnier.

[arcanedude34]

I'd give up my sense of propriety. I'd be getting into all kinds of wacky hijinks in school and at the White House I guess.... That'd be cool.

[rubah]

Addendum to above post:
this week-end, my sinus infection/cold/whatever killed my sense of smell and taste for a few days, and after I woke up from a nap on the drive home, I reached for some pretzels to snack on and it was like eating crispy cardboard, kinda like after you have a novacain shot it sucks.

I think I would actually want to give up sight, which is weird as an avid reader and artiste, but I've seen a lot of pretty things in my life. And sight probably has had the most strides taken to integrate blind people into every day life, what with screen readers and braille etc. (plus they don't seem like a lot of separatists douches like deaf people I've heard of (not all deaf people of course, but many))