Would you prefer supervision, supersmell, superfeel, superhearing, or supertaste? And what about the other senses of the body that are not part of the quintet? Think balance, temperature, and even the ability to feel where all your body parts are (you can close your eyes, wave your hands around, and touch your knee)

For me, I would pick supervision. It would be really cool to see better in the dark, have built-in camera zoom, and see in higher detail.

  • etchinghillside@reddthat.com
    11·
    3 months ago

    Assuming supertaste enables me to make broccoli taste like Pad Thai. I’ll go with that one.

    If it only heightens the sense - then probably less likely to pick that one.

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    Super hearing, to the point of echolocation (Which apparently some blind people can actually do in a very basic form as a learned skill!?)

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    Considering I’ve got sensory sensitivity to almost all of that (yay being ND) any further would sound like hell.

    I would enjoy the enhanced ability to feel hunger cues appropriately or have a superhuman ability to interpret and react to my inner feelings, beyond even neurotypical capacities.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    There are many dimensions to each of our senses. Just taking super-vision as an example, would that involve seeing very small things, seeing things at great distances, seeing through things or around corners, seeing more colors and/or wavelengths of light, seeing in 360°, seeing more subtle things than others see (like being able to see when someone’s heart rate increases), processing what you see quicker (for quicker reactions), photographic memory, seeing things others can’t (like magnetic fields or temperature), greater “frame rate”, seeing in the dark, a HUD with information display, seeing ghosts, or something else entirely I haven’t even thought of?

    • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      just give some rich doctor guy thousands of dollars to shine lasers into you’re eyeballs and you’re good to go

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    3·
    3 months ago

    I have stronger than average taste and smell. Do not recommend. Various things taste pretty awful, I’m more sensitive to smells and even things I like can become overwhelming.

    I used to be able to see better in the dark than anyone I know, but that has faded with age. I’ve also always been somewhat colorblind so fixing that might be nice. I would also fix my hearing being kinda wonky (as in basically useless whenever multiple things are producing sound at once).

    I’m tempted to want some kind of better balance or electromagnetic perception (though that one could be awful for the same reason I wouldn’t want to see much beyond what I do on the visible light spectrum since UV radiation and infrared could be a wall of noise).

  • Ananääs@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    3 months ago

    Being ND it feels that my senses are already too much sometimes and they become even more amplified by the amount of stress I experience. Honestly I’d rather have the option to decrease the intensity of sensory experiences than increase it. 😅

  • Byakhee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Depends if I can turn it on and off at will, or if it’s on all the time. Even super vision would likely result in a sensory overload, even seeing the inside of your eyelids when you close your eyes!

    • sbird@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      You could catch so many top secret agents discussing their top secret plans!

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    the ability to feel where all your body parts are (you can close your eyes, wave your hands around, and touch your knee)

    Super proprioception, the ability to know how good is your hairdo without looking.

    Nah, I want the vision one.