I personally use “sight” the most. It is probably the most commonly used perceptive sense there is. I think that seeing something provides so much more proof then the other senses. Seeing seems to be a much more constant and structured sense, and is often viewed as the truth. Like the old saying “Seeing is believing”. One of the best examples of what I believe is the typical childhood hallucination. A small child wakes up in the middle of the night, feeling cold and sensing a presence in the room, (s)he lifts the covers of (her)his head and listens carefully to a rhythmic scrapping on his window. Sitting in fear for hours not moving, hoping that the beast outside (her)his window will not notice him, finally musters up enough courage to cautiously peek out of the protection of (her)his blanket, only to see that the beast was nothing more than a branch moving in the wind.
If I had to choose a sense to loose, I would go with anosmia over all other. I would choose loosing my sense of smell over others because to me it is the one that I could live without. All of my other senses I find great joy in having active. I can see things in life that inspire me, and make me strive to do great things. I hear music (one thing I could not live without). Music is one of my biggest inspirations, I love listening to lyrics and connecting them with my one life. I love to both cook and eat. I have been cooking since I was about 10, and have mastered a plethora of dishes, both complicated and simple, so for me taste was out. Then it comes down to touch or smell, and deciding between the two took quite a while. I used smell a lot, but it didn’t offer as much as touch. I think the big thing with touch is that it brings forward so many emotions. For instance say your sitting in class and someone comes up and jabs you with a pen, your immediate reaction is to get angry, whether you do something about it or not is up to you, but you do get pissed. Or maybe you are having one of the worst days of your life, you are just pooling in self-sorrow, when all of a sudden a good friend of your sits next to you and places (her)his hand on your shoulder. I know form experience that there is no emotion that takes you over more than this one. It is one of the best experiences someone can have to know there is somebody there with you. Just looking back and thinking about stuff that has happened to me, I came upon the conclusion that smell was the least significant to me at the moment.
September 22, 2008 at 2:16 am
DANG!!!! You really went all out on this one.