wolfy
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My spidey sense.
My sense of humour.
My spidey sense.
Kind of a weird question, but I'm curious. Usually, it seems either Sight or Hearing is the strongest of a person's 5 senses. I guess we could give the honorable mention to unexpectedly strong Touch, Smell, or Taste, though.
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My main reason for this thread: I have good Sight memory. If I see a word or a name once, I'll probably remember from there on out exactly how to spell it. Meanwhile, I have horrible Hearing memory. If I'm listening to someone talk and I'm not in closely-engaged conversation, I'm going to miss all the details, and almost always start drifting off. When I picture what that person is saying as written words, I automatically catch more of the content. Obviously, it helps the most when I write it down, so I can directly look at it. (I have college lectures in mind, specifically.)
Edit: I just remembered, I can keep a lot of details with me if I'm listening to someone intently--usually a good friend. But in everyday observation, it doesn't stick with me.
Does any of this sound familiar to you? Maybe it's the same for you, but with Hearing instead of Sight?
My sense of humour.
Good point. I probably should have combined smell and taste.Lithium said:Taste isn't often experienced without smell. You can only taste 5, debate on 6, things. The rest of the flavor is down to smell. So it is unlikely that a person would have a really good sense of taste without smell. As being able to detect the flavor of something incorporates both.
OP said:My main reason for this thread: I have good Sight memory. If I see a word or a name once, I'll probably remember from there on out exactly how to spell it. Meanwhile, I have horrible Hearing memory. If I'm listening to someone talk and I'm not in closely-engaged conversation, I'm going to miss all the details, and almost always start drifting off. When I picture what that person is saying as written words, I automatically catch more of the content. Obviously, it helps the most when I write it down, so I can directly look at it. (I have college lectures in mind, specifically.)
Edit: I just remembered, I can keep a lot of details with me if I'm listening to someone intently--usually a good friend. But in everyday observation, it doesn't stick with me.
Does any of this sound familiar to you? Maybe it's the same for you, but with Hearing instead of Sight?
I usually rely on hearing mostly, but I also have a good sight memory -Kind of a weird question, but I'm curious. Usually, it seems either Sight or Hearing is the strongest of a person's 5 senses. I guess we could give the honorable mention to unexpectedly strong Touch, Smell, or Taste, though.
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My main reason for this thread: I have good Sight memory. If I see a word or a name once, I'll probably remember from there on out exactly how to spell it. Meanwhile, I have horrible Hearing memory. If I'm listening to someone talk and I'm not in closely-engaged conversation, I'm going to miss all the details, and almost always start drifting off. When I picture what that person is saying as written words, I automatically catch more of the content. Obviously, it helps the most when I write it down, so I can directly look at it. (I have college lectures in mind, specifically.)
Edit: I just remembered, I can keep a lot of details with me if I'm listening to someone intently--usually a good friend. But in everyday observation, it doesn't stick with me.
Does any of this sound familiar to you? Maybe it's the same for you, but with Hearing instead of Sight?
If anyone feels like tackling it, what did you think of the 2nd half of my OP? This thing:
If anyone feels like tackling it, what did you think of the 2nd half of my OP? This thing:
Nearly always though if I smell or taste something, that memory of it is with me. I can remember the way things tasted years and years later.. One year, when I was still like 12 or something, we had this guy set up at the flea market selling homemade root beer. It was the best soda I ever had in my life, and I still remember the significant difference which makes me, to this day, refrain from the generic sodas in the stores that taste disgusting in comparison.