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> Proprioception is heavily based on the flow of air against our skin and hair. feeling sensations on the skin doesn't tell you where the skin is...?
by fsckboy 5y ago
> Proprioception is heavily based on the flow of air against our skin and hair.
feeling sensations on the skin doesn't tell you where the skin is...?
- ad404b8a372f2b9 5y agoIt does, the air flow going downward on your skin tells you your arm went up. I recall my arm being very numb, I had to poke myself strongly to feel it, I could move it but I had no idea where it went without looking at it, multiple times I was surprised to find it in a spot I didn't know it was. As I recovered sensation in my skin I regained proprioception gradually. Really trippy experience.
- jamiek88 5y agoI once woke up, sober, from a night at home alone watching tv, with a strange person in my bed. Their arm was resting on my stomach above the sheets. I could see it. It was terrifying. I freaked out and tried to throw that arm off me when I realized it was my own. I’d slept on it, gone numb and my sleepy brain considered it someone else’s arm.