Poll: Losing your senses

[TheFacelessOne]

I said smell, seeing as it would not be that bad, but I think I would prefer taste now, so I can eat all the crappy as hell healthy food.

 

[AvsJoe]

My choice would be taste. I'd lose out on every awesome food out there, but it would give me huge incentive to eat healthy for the rest of my life.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I would loose my taste. *eyes fill up with tears* I need my sight though. I can't live without looking at stuff and I would die without music.

 

[Smack-Ferret]

Taste. If I was hungry I could eat anything. And I wouldn't have to complain about my mom's cooking.

 

[azurawolf]

It was tough. I would loose my sense of smell though. It was that or taste.

 

[Deleric]

Smell, since the good parts can just be attributed to taste, and the bad parts will allow me to walk into the boys bathroom and NOT throw up.

Then again, I would never want to go in there anyway.

 

[Ultrajoe]

Smell would be horrible to lose because of the aromatic delicacy that is Coffee. But that's about it.

It's not so bad, really. I'm a Congenital Anosmic, meaning I was born without a sense of smell. As far as I'm concerned, you can't miss what you've never experienced. Everything tastes normal to me, even if my sense of taste is screwed by everyone elses standards, and while I do wonder what nice smells are like, not gagging in a room while everyone else is dying from a stench is a fun thing.

I would hate to lose any other sense, but it would probably be hearing that I could stand to lose the most.

Smell. It's not necessary for navigation, or my real basic needs.

However, kiss your memory goodbye. I forget people, places, names and faces with shocking regularity. A stupid amount of your memory is smell-based, so prepare to take a serious hit in that department.

 

[Asymptote Angel]

I'd miss the smell of bread, but I place too much value in my other senses to pick anything other than smell. It'd diminish taste somewhat, but I'm willing to make that sacrifice.

 

[Puzzles]

Uhh funnily enough I did wake up one morning after a drunken night with a bleeding skull and no more sense of smell.

The doctors say it won't come back, and it hasn't bothered me over the last 2 years.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

I've already lost my sense of taste, and honestly it isn't that bad. I thought it would be a lot worse.

 

[bluepilot]

Taste can go. I could never lose my sense of smell, because I have a good nose and loosing it would be like loosing my eyes. Loosing the rest of the senses, would be dehabilitating.

 

[Nimbus]

Everyone who has read the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant knows why it would be a bad idea to lose the sense of touch.

I go with smell.

 

[Motti]

I would lose taste, everything else is too damn useful.

 

[twistedshadows]

Smell. It would mess with my sense taste quite a bit, but I don't really think I could stand food if I couldn't taste at all. I'm sure I could learn to live with losing my sight, hearing, or sense of touch, but the loss of any would be quite a blow having lived this long with them intact.

 

[Mortal Wombat]

Don't you need your sense of smell to taste? so technically,you kill two birds with one stone if you chose smell.

 

[AngloDoom]

Smell. Every time you get ill with something, it blocks your nose up anyway. Since I have hay fever that means during the Summer months I smell nothing, and the Winter months I'll probably catch a cold and smell nothing.

Taste would make food, one of the greatest enjoyments in life, crap. Hearing and sight are just ridiculously important. Touch...is pretty damn important. I'd love to be able to know that I just trod on a thumb tac, and the thought of not being able to feel another's skin makes me very sad.


Also, isn't there something between nine and twenty-ish senses, depending who you ask?

 

[Cowabungaa]

That's a damned hard question. I think I'll go with taste. Yes I wouldn't be able to fully appreciate my favourite food, but taste is based for a large portion on smell anyway. Plus, as said before, quite a large part of your memory is smell based so I rather not loose that.

As for touch, apparently also quite popular, I wouldn't do that. It's not just the more 'pleasurable' things in life you'd loose, just imagine gaming without a sense of touch or driving a car or balancing yourself, because how wouldn't know where you would be standing: you can't feel the floor. Good luck!

 

[Pegghead]

A cute little story here. When my parents were first going out my mother came down with glandular fever, to save anyone the trouble of looking it up basically you can't see, you can't move, you don't really eat your kind of in a state of living death until you recover. Anyway my Dad figured being the good man he is that he should try to cheer her up a little. So everynight he would go over to her house (I think her parents were taking care of her) and for a few hours he would sit up there by her side reading her her favourite poetry and books (Because you're still able to hear) and then once it started to get late her mum would make him some dinner and he'd drive back to his place. To this day not only does my father have one of the greatest reading voices ever but after that little experience of devotion they loved each other even more. Over 20 years (They've been married for 20 but they went out for a few years) and two children later a massive loss of senses can be thanked. I know I've gone on a bit here but I really can't think of a sense I'd enjoy losing. I suppose if I HAD to pick one it would be touch.