Humans have hidden sensory system

This is what she feels when you put your hand 1/2" from the skin of her belly - ?

so the whole thing with Ninjas seeing in the dark is real!

We are one cryptic Chinese box...and it's the best thing about being alive.

It seems a lot of people are confused as to what exactly this is all about and seek to "channel the force", so let me lay some knowledge on ya.

These "mysterious" nerve endings are part of the autonomic nervous system, not a big surprise as they are responsible for maintaining homeostatic conditions throughout the body. This is done a lot of times through the use of neurotransmitters which are responsible for the constriction/dilation of blood vessels or sweat glands.

What is surprising is that these nerves in addition to their normal roles as part of the ANS were able to conduct afferent signals back to the sensory portions of the brain where they registered as physical sensations (i.e. pain, heat, cold etc...). Sensory signals from the ANS typically are not something that the average person has control of, or is even aware of.

To put everything a better way, the ANS is sort of like a subconscious nervous system, you're feeling it but you don't know you're feeling it. Without a general understanding of physiology the concepts really don't make sense.

DUH

The force does exist!

Its all because of HAARP!

prove it

what is the sensation similar to should one seek to feel these nerves

How 'bout those kinds of feelings - like when you see a huge drop or fall before you and get an electric shock down the backs of both legs.

this stuff is so cool

"[That's] very different from the more traditional ideas, based on the fact that we have eyes so we think of ourselves as seeing visible information, and we have ears so we think of ourselves as hearing auditory information. That's a little bit misleading," study researcher Bryan Gick of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, told LiveScience.

"A more likely explanation is that we have brains that perceive rather than we have eyes that see and ears that hear."

With such abilities, Gick views humans as "whole-body perceiving machines."

The research, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada and the National Institutes of Health, is detailed in the Nov. 26 issue of the journal Nature.

How we perceive

Gick's work builds on past studies showing, for instance, that we can see sound and hear light, even if we don't consciously realize it. Other studies show if you observe another person's lips moving and think that other is speaking, your brain's auditory regions would light up, Gick said.

Scientists had explained such sensing prowess as the result of experience, as we see and hear people speaking all the time and so it'd be only natural to learn how to integrate what we see with what we hear.

The alternative would be an innate ability. And so Gick and his colleague Donald Derrick, also of the University of British Columbia, studied two senses that aren't generally paired — auditory and tactile — to figure out the root of perception.

How skin hears

The team focused on aspirated sounds, such as "pa" and "ta" that involve an inaudible burst of air when spoken, as well as unaspirated sounds, such as "ba" and "da."

Blind-folded participants listened to recordings of a male voice saying each of the four syllables and had to press a button to indicate which sound they heard (pa, ta, ba or da). Participants were divided into three groups of 22, with one group hearing the syllables while a puff of air was blown onto their hand, the other had air blown onto the neck, and the control group heard the sounds with no air.

About 10 percent of the time when air was puffed onto the skin, participants mistakenly perceived the unaspirated syllables as being their aspirated equivalents. So when the guy said "ba," such participants would indicate they heard "pa." The control group didn't show such mistaken perceptions.

A follow-up experiment in which participants got a tap on the skin rather than a puff of air showed no such mix-up between aspirated and unaspirated sounds.

Next, Gick is working with scientists from the University of California, San Francisco, to figure out how the brain allows such multi-sense integration.

so i just need to have an out of body experience to use this sense.. right?

Are we talking about the primal human with in us,the chemical animal we are?

Oh and great find. Appreciate it not being about what has become so common here.

This is what people do when they hear music and they can tell what is going on? I can't do that, but some people can....that and tasting different ingredients in food...can't do that either.

hum

Hhhhhm. Kinda knew it already, you just really don't think about it that much.

as a person with fibromyalgia, I say duh. it sucks.

Makes me itchy.

interesting.

"DONT THINK!!! ffffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllll...." -Bruce Lee-Enter the Dragon.

I was gonna say something but I guess someone started feeling first.

Once again Life is more subtle and intricate than anyone expected.