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What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What is something you can sense that few-if-any people you know can sense? Literal answers only.

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[–] stray@pawb.social 6 points 5 days ago

Based on what I've read about senses, I think most of human sensory variance is born in the brain and is trainable to be much more sensitive than we'd generally expect possible given our comparatively weak hardware. Some of us have the supertaster gene, but no one comes out of the womb a sommelier.