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Which heightened/different senses of other animals would you most like to experience (while still being human)? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Of the senses we're familiar with or aware of, anyway, e.g. taste/smell/hearing/vision/touch.

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[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to see magnetic fields, similar to pigeons and other migrating birds. Or colours beyond the visible spectrum.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's a quite different experience, but there are people whohave gotten magnets implanted under their skin in order to feel magnetic field.

I'm not quite ready for that myself, but I did do a little experiment my supergluing some tiny neodymium magnets to my fingernails. I suspect the implants are probably more sensitive since they better able to wiggle around but I could feel some things. The forklift charger and pencil sharpener I had at work got probably the strongest responses I noticed for the week or so I had them.

I also got really used to picking up paperclips and such with them really quick, I caught myself trying to do it now and then for probably about a month after I no longer had the magnets.

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read an article years ago about a guy who put magnetic sensors and vibrator motors in his belt so that every time he turned, the north side of him would buzz. Apparently after a while, he stopped noticing, and just “knew” which way was north.

Found this while looking for that article.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Somewhat related to that, certain Australian aboriginal languages don't have words for relative directions like left/right and use cardinal directions (north/south/east/west) so they tend to keep track of their orientation subconsciously.

So if you were to help one of them, for example, move a couch, they might tell you to move your end a bit to the west and avoid any "my left or your left?/No your other left" shenanigans.

Probably also a very helpful thing to be aware of if you find yourself trying to navigate the outback.