the thing is you can actuallysense the heat of someone else's body from half a meter away or so. that's way more fascinating since theyir body temperature is the same as your while the fire, well, is slightly hotter.
no. proprioception is connected with locomotion. you flex your elbow without looking and know it has flexed because of nerve endings that sense the movement and tenseness of tendons and muscles, as well as the position of joints.
equillibrium is sensed by the vestibular system in the inner ear. you're welcome for the clarification.
I think only 3 of these 12 are considered senses by every specialist (proprioception, nociception, equilibrioception), some may be senses but we're not sure (chronoception, for instance) and some of them are not senses at all (blindsight is not AT ALL a sense, it's just the fact that some person's brain will only partly deal with the signals coming from the eyes, so it's kind of an amputated vision, or a "half-sense", if you will).
thank you for enlighting me, if it weren't for this post, i'de never know i have the ability to fucking sense time passing or proprioception or the heat of a fire. incredible.
Actually, the post is wrong, tetrachromats cannot see 'new colours'. however, they are able to see colours much better than normal People. For them there are not only 50 shades of grey. they can see the difference between two seemingly exact shades of color.
I almost knocked over a rack of glass test tubes, but time kinda slowed down and I caught them. But thanks to this post, my dreams of having super speed are ruined
equillibrium is sensed by the vestibular system in the inner ear. you're welcome for the clarification.