heightening your senses

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Your brain works in a way the same way your muscles work. They need to be "exercised" in order to grow. Its alot like watching too much television- eventually not thinking and just watching could "rot" your brain

[videoholic]

I really underestimate the intelligence of people sometimes.

[MPTheory]

Spudz, your talking about atrophy.  Thats a completely different thing.  And yes, SOME processes of the brain work the same as your muscles.  But Im talking about involuntary reactions.  Basically what your telling me is that if you dont use your (senses - Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium) - dictionary.com
you lose it. So do you mean to tell me that if you werent to have sex for 6 months, you wouldnt be able to get a hard on anymore?  We all know that this is NOT true  (I used that as my example because it shows that your sense of touch is not dulled after long periods of time.)  Infact, the most sensative parts of your body are USUALLY the parts that you dont use on a regular basis.

[videoholic]

Your eyes are muscles so yes they could atrophy I would imagine if you didn\'t use that sentce.

Your penis probably works out quite a bit in your sleep so after 6 months you probably would be just fine.  You may need to clean your sheets though.

[Bobs_Hardware]

You don\'t hear more, you merely hear more effectively.  Instead of subconsciously ignoring the small things you don\'t care about, you will take note of them, because you NEED to hear every small nuance in your environment to get by.

Once you regain your sight, you hearing would return back to \'normal\' after a certain amount of time, given that you don\'t need to rely on it.

It\'s basically the same philosophy of you listening to your music loudly, and quietly.  You become more sensitive if everything is quiet, and desensitive if everything is loud.  It\'s just your brain subconciously compensating for your environment.

Originally posted by videoholic
Your eyes are muscles

Not quite

[videoholic]

So what is an iris?  What are the muscles in the back of the eyes that move them around?

Obviously eyes aren\'t muscles like a heart is, but everything active in the eye is a muscle.

[MPTheory]

Im sure the iris is controlled by a muscle.  But I dont think you have the right idea about the actual sense.  Yes, if you body were to stop using the muscle that controlled the eye, it would probably atrophy.  Not that it does much contraction in the first place.  Even if your ability to see was taken from you, you would most likely still use the muscle.  Just because the sense isnt there, it doesnt mean that the physical muscle isnt still reactive.  For example.  When my father was a child, he had an accident which left him blind in one eye.  His eye wasnt physically damaged, but the optic nerve that sends the information from the eye to the brain was.  So the eye still works properly.  Thats what Im trying to say.  the physical use of a body part and the sense that comes along with it are not the same.

Originally posted by MPTheory
Spudz, your talking about atrophy.  Thats a completely different thing.  And yes, SOME processes of the brain work the same as your muscles.  But Im talking about involuntary reactions.  Basically what your telling me is that if you dont use your (senses - Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium) - dictionary.com
you lose it. So do you mean to tell me that if you werent to have sex for 6 months, you wouldnt be able to get a hard on anymore?  We all know that this is NOT true  (I used that as my example because it shows that your sense of touch is not dulled after long periods of time.)  Infact, the most sensative parts of your body are USUALLY the parts that you dont use on a regular basis.

You just took my post wrong. I meant is as your senses will decrease over ages. Thats why as you get older your senses \'\'rot\'\'.

As your older you are more brittle, your smell drops, hearing drops, and eye sight drops. Over time no matter what it will always decrease.

the only way of increasing a sense is by removing it completely, your eyesight will still be used blindfold or not, but their is nothing their to see. Even if your eyes were closed, you see the insdie of your eyelids.

You cant just turn on and off your senses.

I really underestimate the intelligence of people sometimes.

Could you clarify video? or should I take it as an insult, or compliment?

[Bobs_Hardware]

Your penis probably works out quite a bit in your sleep so after 6 months you probably would be just fine. You may need to clean your sheets though.

The penis isn\'t a muscle.

But it has muscles.

[videoholic]

Originally posted by Spudz

Could you clarify video? or should I take it as an insult, or compliment?

No, I must be retarded.  I mean, of course I actually thought you spelled sense centce.  That\'s just down right stupid of me.

[Bobs_Hardware]

Originally posted by Spudz
But it has muscles.

Not unless it\'s changed recently.

[videoholic]

There are smooth muscles in the foreskin that keep the skin tight to the shaft.

[Bobs_Hardware]

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