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This reminds me of something that might be related. Someone recently told me that if you look at any object, you can imagine what it feels like to put your tong
by beej71 2y ago
This reminds me of something that might be related. Someone recently told me that if you look at any object, you can imagine what it feels like to put your tongue on it. (With all kinds of subsequent hilarious and disgusting suggestions.)
And for me, it seems pretty true. But I wonder if that holds true for most?
- avalys 2y agoA few months ago I took a mental imagery quiz and one of the questions was "Can you imagine what it would feel like to lick a brick wall?"
- ryankrage77 2y agoWe have a lot of experience touching things with our fingers (in daily life) and tongues (more when we're younger), and can extrapolate from this experience. In my own experience, this extrapolation is overconfident - I tested licking a few random items, and while my expectation was close to reality, I was always just a little off for the truly novel items. Of course for something gross, most people won't (and shouldn't!) test their expectation, so they go on with the confirmation bias that they got it right. First example that comes to mind is that the roof of my mouth feels much smoother to my tongue than it does to my fingers.