heightening your senses

[MPTheory]

So I\'m sitting at my desk, and suddenly, this questions comes crashing into my head;  If you were to not use one of your senses for a long period of time, do you think it would heighten it.  For example: Lets say you wear a blindfold for 6 months.  Do you think that after the six months, your sight would be better than it was previous to the 6 months?  How about this, you wear earplugs for a month.  Would your hearing be more sensative then before?  
   One more thing that popped into my head about this whole thing.  They say that when you lose one of your senses, the others compensate for that.  So if you were to go blind, your others would be heightend.  What if someone were to get their sight back?  do the other senses go back to normal?  or do they stay in their heightend state?

I wonder if you could heighten all of your senses by depriving yourself of one at a time.

I wonder if you could heighten all of your sences by depriving yourself of one at a time.

Or you can save yourself the trouble and just get bit by a radioactive spider.

AAAARGH!

its SENSES

[videoholic]

I thought it was centces.

^^^
It is.

Actually if your eyes aren\'t exposed to light for a long period of time you could go blind.

And my centce of hearing is impeccable anyway.

Btw, how would you be able to cut off your centce of touch? Or taste? Hell, this actually only applies to 3 of the centces.

[Living-In-Clip]

I would think , at least in theory, that if you somehow managed to deprive one sense  and was forced to rely on another one, it would in sense (nice pun!) improve your senses.

Example:
If you went blind or somehow managed to live without a blindfold on your eyes, for a long period of time. You would need to rely on hearing and feel. I would think, you would eventually adjust to this. I\'m not sure if it is "heightening" your sense or you are just forced to rely on it more..thus making you more aware.

[Bobs_Hardware]

I believe it\'s making you more aware.  Not hightening.

[Living-In-Clip]

Exactly

[MPTheory]

I was talking to my friend (Who is a psycology major) about a subject loosley related to this.  According to him, The other centces are hightend.

[videoholic]

Now when you go back to normal (Take blind fold off) would your hearing centce go back down?  If so, how long would it take?

[MPTheory]

Thats what I wanna know. I wonder if your centces would stay heightend or not.

[Paul2]

good question, i wanna know the answer.  how about this, what if you don\'t have 20/20 vision.  say you have like 19/20 vision, what should you do to get back 20/20?

Actually if your eyes aren\'t exposed to light for a long period of time you could go blind.

Exactly, depriving senses kills them off.  Have you heard of dehabilitation (sp?) rehab?

I have a friend who didnt walk for weeks after surgery, theirfor having to learn to walk again. He will need the surgery again, and learn to walk for the 4th time. Depriving your senses of what they are used for isnt recommened. Its like if you watch TV and dont use your legs for months, you wont run any faster. As a matter of a fact you probably will be worse off.

my cousin had a slight eye surgery and it fixed him up but he had to wear eye protecetion for about a month. Literally blind. He says nothing happened, because his eyes were their, but he saw nothing.

Ergh.. Im babbling.

Actually that is kind of a different topic, you\'re talking about muscles. They become weak if they aren\'t in use because they degrade, if you don\'t use them your body thinks you don\'t need them.

And depriving yourself of a centce won\'t make that centce heightened, it just makes you concentrate on your other centces more to compensate. So, if you have all of your centces, they probably aren\'t going to get any better.

dont you mean "senses"?