Do you know that you got a lot more then five senses.

Still unknown senses.

Since elementary school, we have been taught that there are five senses: sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch, but recent studies have just revealed that we have others, still unknown, such as proprioception, equilibrioception, thermoception and nociception.

Did you know? The five known senses owe their definition to the philosopher Aristotle, who categorized them in his treatise 'De Anima' / 'On the Soul'.

Some specialists claim that there are 28 senses in the human body. 

The difference between the five traditional senses and all the others.

The five senses that we all know are called exteroceptors, because they allow us to use physical sensations, while the interceptors are those that capture situations or sensations inside us.

Here are a description of these others senses: 

 

Thermoalgesia

This sense allows us to perceive the internal temperature of our body, for example when we have a fever. 

Thermoception:

This is sensing temperatures inside the skin.   This is the sensation of heat or lack thereof on the skin or in it. The best way to experience this sense is by taking a shower.

The sensation of the water temperature varies on the skin and under it. If the water is too cold, the phenomenon of goosebumps can appear.

In the case of water warmer than the body, but comfortable, there is a feeling of appeasement and comfort that is provided to us by this sense. Likewise, you feel this sense, when you come back from outside with icy hands and the heat penetrates them.

Baresthesia:

This sense helps us perceive the gravity and pressure that certain objects exert on our body. For example, a leather bracelet does not "weigh" the same as a solid gold watch on the wrist, and you can feel it.

Sense of pain:  Knowing the pain caused on or in the body

The sense of pain or nociception is a defensive function that allows you to know and feel any form of pain, even the moral ones in your heart. It is the way we perceive pain in the skin, joints, organs of the body, psychological in our brain and morals in the heart.

Owner perception:

Knowing where our own limbs are This sense allows us to know subconsciously where each part of the body is, without having to see or touch it.

Cinaesthesia:  It is your perception of balance and to know all the position of your body parts in the space, where we find ourselves.  Even in the dark, you know where all part of your body are. 

Kinaesthesia

These are the sensations that are transmitted from all points of the body to the nervous system, mainly the perception of movement.

Synaesthesia :

This sense is not developed in all human beings, and it is perhaps the most enigmatic of all. It is, for example, the perception of smells when listening to music or pronouncing a word. In other words, it is the interference of several types of sensations coming from different senses in the same perceptive act.

Sense of balance : Maintaining Balance or equilibrioception, is the sense of balance, when moving your body. It helps prevent and anticipate falls in humans and animals when they are balanced. Located in the inner ear, it is through this sense that we perceive dizziness.

Innerception

A field of sensitivity concerning the perception by the nervous system of changes or signals coming from the viscera, such as the heart and the gastrointestinal system on the one hand, but also from the respiratory and urinary systems on the other hand. For some scientists, they divide and apply one inner senses by each l inner system of the body. 

 

Coenesthesia

Coenesthesia, refers to the general sensation of the existence of one's own body and is composed of a set of owner sense perceptions, but which reach us through our organs and tissues. This sense intervenes in particular when we are hungry.

Some experts claim that others of these (little-studied) senses allow us to perceive the thoughts of others.

Sensory Perception Research Continues to Advance:

Since 2013, several teams of scientists have continued their research. Today, a new approach highlights the interaction and overlap of the senses and offers a more holistic view of sensory perception.

Where is the consciousness come from? 

Knowing the existence of the memory of water, of which 77% of our body is made, our consciousness itself comes from the interaction of water molecules and small electromagnetic fields induced at the molecular level, not only cellular or in neurons, as scientists previously believed. 

 

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References: The Daily Digest