Showing posts with label weird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weird. Show all posts

2.06.2011

Were you aware?

I was killing some time on the internet recently and discovered that there are more than 5 senses. more like 9-20:
Humans have more than five senses. Although definitions vary, the actual number ranges from 9 to more than 20. In addition to sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, which were the senses identified by Aristotle, humans can sense balance and acceleration (equilibrioception), pain (nociception), body and limb position (proprioception or kinesthetic sense), and relative temperature (thermoception).[116] Other senses sometimes identified are the sense of time, itching, pressure, hunger, thirst, fullness of the stomach, need to urinate, need to defecate, and blood carbon dioxide levels

If you're feeling like you have a need to bend your mind wikipedia has a list of common misconceptions, some are really interesting, others you'll probably just scan through.