Your Five Senses. Which One Could You Give Up?

Hearing, I'd kill for a bit of peace and quiet today, lol, although smell is probably the most sensible thing as it wouldn't affect a life so much, good question, thank-you.

If you have to get technical, if you lost your sence of smell, you would most likely loose your sence of taste as well. If I had to choose though, it would have to be hearing. Only because I have had a bad week dealing with people, and right now would really love to not have to listen to anyone crying and complaining. LOL

Oh definitely I'd give up taste - would make dieting a whole lot easier anyway. Although I think if you lost taste you might lose smell too (or is it the other way round?) and if possible I'd like to keep my sense of smell. Yes there are people I would prefer never to have to smell again but some smells are great - roses, home baking, fresh rosemary, babies heads, DKNY perfume, etc. Would hate to never be able to smell them again.

It would have to be my sense of smell, but my reason is because I have already lost most of that. So for me, giving up my sense of smell would not really be all that different. But if I had to choose another, I guess it would have to be touch. If I can't feel anything then I also can't hurt, maybe then I could be more active and more adventurous!

I can't give up any one of them all the way long: Your opinion!!! how to give up smelling, if it's right that you'll be free to sit beside any dirty person so you can be that person cause you can't smell. [just for instance:) ] God made each part on us creativity in the way that you can't give up any of those parts and, If someone lose one of those senses I think it affects on the other senses by a way or another.

I would give up hearing. Noises I could do without. I want to see my kids and husband smiling, see my surroundings, and ect. Smell and taste go together so if you lose one, you would lose both.

I would have to say sense of smell even if it effects sense of taste. I want to be able to see and hear my grandchild as they do all their firsts. I want to be able to touch their soft skin. I want to be able to hold hands with my husband and feel that firm grasp.

I think it would be my sense of sight that I have to give up then. I think I've already seen almost all the wonderful things that this world has to offer, all the people, places and things -living/non-living. And it sometimes causes me to commit to a sin, to which I cannot control because I am only a human. I have the tendency to look at things that I know I shouldn't be looking at. I think, for me, it is better to loose a part of my body and go to heaven were I know it can be replaced, than have it all complete but go to the flaming fires of hell..

I would not give up any of my senses. but in case a situation arises where i have to lose one of my five senses i would probalby lose my sense of smell because the rest all plays important roles in our lives. The next thing that i may lose is the sense of taste.

What a good question! I cannot fathom giving up a sense. How about my common sense? Most people I know are lacking that one anyway! Joking aside, it would definately be a hard choice. If I couldnt see my children each day I would die...or simple things like an old couple holding hands, a horse running free across a field, or not just seeing my children, but seeing the wonder on their faces when they discover new things. Smell, it seems alot of people pick this one. Smelling my childrens hair is a daily breath of life I could not live without. Smelling the earth after a rainfall, walking down the coffee bean isle at the local market and savoring the wonderful bean smell. Christmas...the smells of it make life worth living. Hearing, I thought about choosing this one because of crying and fighting...but to not hear laughter or quiet whispers of children. To hear music, the stuff of life. All the bad sounds in the world pale in comparison to the good! Touch is an absolute no brainer. To feel my childrens hand in mine I could not give up. Or to run your hand over the coat of a horse, to feel wet grass under your feet. What about when your spouse or lover touches your face? Could you live without that beautiful caress? I could not. Taste could be my choice. I do love the taste of a few things. A good cup of coffee, freshly baked bread...can you imagine smelling those things and not being able to savor them? UGH! What a hard one. I hope to never have any sense lost. I have heard though that if you lose one sense the other four step up and become more sensitive or alert. That may make losing one easier to handle. I guess that brings me back to my common sense...that might be the only one I'd willingly part with!

Wow, that's a hard question to answer... All these senses play major roles in my life. I guess if I have to loose one it would be for a greater cause. Giving up my hearing, touch, smell and taste wont be of any good to anybody. Mine eyes can go to a recipient who haven't seen light since birth. That way, my sight lives on to experience a whole new perspective. Cheers!

I would have to say my sight because everything else would be enhanced i'd feel thing's that people take for granted hear thing's i have never heard before, taste things with great quaility and smell rasberries a mile away...Beside's that i know my suroundings like the back of my hand and could walk through it with my eye's closed...

If given a choice, i would say i could go on without the sense of sight- i know that its probably the most important of all but i would rather be blind than deaf and not be able to hear music, i would rather be blind than not being able to smell the delicious meal my mom is preparing or the milky smell of my baby's breath, the perfume on my loved ones chest- i would rather go blind than not be able to feel my baby's touch, my familys hug and kisses, the cold wind, the warm sun...and taste-i cannot live without taste.. i love eating- you might as well kill me than take my sense of taste off.. =)

uhmm.. for me.. i can give up my sense of hearing.. well.. because there is a hearing aid now! haha! technologies are very smart.. but honestly, i cant give up any of my senses, God gave them to me and so i am responsible for it.

This is really so difficult, because each of your senses supply you with just so much input. So, if I had to choose I think I would give up smell. It would be difficult, I considered touch, but I couldn't imagine how I would manage if I couldn't feel the pavement, sidewalk or sand beneath my feet. Would my balance be effected by it, and the others would completely be out of the question. Yep...it would be touch...SS

well in that case, although I wouldnt ever want to hgave any such situation practically in my life, but still If I have one, I would prefer to lose my sense of smell -- the most flexible one -- because comparatively I see only this one as less important!!! Hey don't react people, less important means in comparison to the other four....

I have to agree that smell would be the easiest one to give up. I've always had a real problem figuring out what to answer when people say which would you give up, hearing or sight, because I'm a really aural person even much moreso than i am visual, but I wouldn't like to give up my sight either because I love what I see, lol - I just don't have a very good visual memory, meaning that I have trouble with faces sometimes, and I can't picture people very clearly if I haven't just been staring at them for a long time, lol. Anyway, I like your options better, because I do think that I could do without my sense of smell if I had to, but being without sight or sound or touch would be incredibly awful.

i don't want to loose any of my senses,as without anyone sense i couldn't enjoy my life properly.

Well, that's a difficult one. I wouldn't want to give up my sight or hearing, beucase i think they would affect me the most in getting on with my life. Giving up touch could be dangerous, as you wouldn't know if you'd hurt yourself or if what you were doing was hurting so you wouldn't know to stop. smell is important as i love scented candles, perfume, scented bath products etc. Taste is important as i love nice foods and enjoy eating. Hmm, i honstly don't know!

I'd have to agree with smell too. It seems the least troublesome to lose. Though I would miss the smell of certain things. I would also worry about not smelling a fire. My mother was born unable to smell, however, and she's been fine. It seems my sniffer was determined to make up for it and I am very sensitive to scents. Rose