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@comfy@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

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

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@qyron@sopuli.xyz on sopuli.xyz Open parent

Low light vision. I was always very sensitive to bright lights and sincerely fear I’ll go blind at my last years but I can see at higher definition under low light conditions. My vision stops processing color and I get higher definition of contrast. I’ve walked through dark areas with no difficulty, where others simply said they could not see a thing.

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@fizzle@quokk.au on quokk.au Open parent

Maybe everyone already knows this but you can generally see better in your peripheral vision in low light. Almost all of your color vision / cones are concentrated in a tiny central area of your retina. The grey scale / rods are dispersed around that. In some ways I think night vision is a kind of skill that some people might be better at than others, even if the mechanics of their eyes aren’t special.

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@stray@pawb.social · Dec 03

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.

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