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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2009 22:10:48 GMT
What is your sharpest sense? I believe mine has to be smell. I have what I believe to be a heightened olfactory sense. Can detect odors others can't. Have saved some houses of clients and neighbors from blowing up from natural gas odors I have smelled coming from underneath houses.
My sense of hearing is fairly keen as well.
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Post by bazfaz on Dec 2, 2009 22:16:31 GMT
I think the sense of smell is meant to be the most acute.
Mrs Faz can smell if I have had a pastis.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2009 22:19:14 GMT
I was in a fire when in college,my dormitory room went ablaze in the wee hours of the morning. Everyone asked me what it was that woke me up. It was the sound of the flames.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 3, 2009 3:50:40 GMT
I have never been sure if some people have a heightened sense or senses, or if it's that they simply let themselves be more aware of certain things. For instance, the person who claims he can't smell the whiff of stockyard or whatever it is you mention, might actually have exactly the same ability to detect odors you have if scientifically tested, but has unconsciously blocked his receptors.
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Post by bjd on Dec 3, 2009 8:50:38 GMT
I don't know if it's a permanent condition but there are certainly times when my sense of smell has been stronger than usual. When I was pregnant with my first child, I bought a pillow and couldn't sleep on it because of the smell. I took it back to the store, claiming that the feathers smelled bad. All the clerks (women) were passing the pillow around and sniffing at it, telling me they didn't smell anything strange or bad, but I was adamant. Finally, they found me a pillow that didn't smell and exchanged the one I had returned.
That gave me a clue to knowing I was pregnant the second time. We were in Amsterdam just before St Nicholas (Dec 5) and all I could smell in the streets was marzipan in the bakeries. My husband couldn't smell anything. I was right.
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Post by happytraveller on Dec 3, 2009 10:09:59 GMT
I have very good hearing, I can hear a dog whistle, an that at the ripe age of 38. I can hear the high noise a TV makes when the volume is turned off.
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Post by bjd on Dec 3, 2009 12:22:15 GMT
I can hear a dog whistle
I didn't know dogs could whistle.
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Post by happytraveller on Dec 3, 2009 12:25:23 GMT
Well... mine can  |
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Post by existentialcrisis on Dec 3, 2009 14:08:23 GMT
I know I have great eyesight. Better than 20/20... but I'm trying to figure out if my hearing is bad or not. Certainly I have abused it with walkmans and rock concerts, but I mostly don't notice anything wrong. Other people tell me I'm going deaf because sometimes they will say something, especially over the phone, and I have to say "what?" several times.... However, I can hear them saying something, I just can't pick out the words they are saying... sounds like mumbles. I have a terrible time talking to people who have strong accents, and especially over the phone. I always make my room mates order for delivery on the phone!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2009 15:24:06 GMT
Well... mine can  ! Interesting point B. I think this may be true in many cases. For me,the olfactory sense has always been acute from the time I was a baby ,(according to my mother.I can't remember back beyond 6 or 7 in most cases). She said I would turn up my nose at certain odors,in a most demonstrative fashion. Could be an early sign of snobbery I suppose too.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 3, 2009 17:04:58 GMT
Interesting story, Bjd. Well before I knew I was pregnant, I'd started to notice that all meat smelled "off" to me, and was getting very annoyed with the supermarket. Forever after, I had the same thing happen every 28 days.
I do have a good sense of smell, because I can pick out and identify odors that other people claim not to notice.
The reason I wonder about being able to sharpen ones senses is because I used to work in a live-music bar. I was becoming alarmed because I was losing the ability to hear. In crowded places such as restaurants, it would seem the waitress was only moving her lips without sound. At that time I used to ride my bike every evening in Audubon Park, which is full of huge trees. I made a conscious effort to pay attention to sounds, and was delighted to be able to identify a mocking bird here, or to know there were kids playing in the distance over there. I'm happy to say that ability has never left me, partly because I work on it.
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