Random Thought: If you were given a chance to choose only two out of five of your senses, which ones would you pick?

I want to keep my eyesight and hearing. Music and movies would save me from the rest of my handicapped self.

Definitely hearing and eyesight. If I didn’t have my eyesight, I couldn’t do some of the things I love the most. If I didn’t have my hearing, I wouldn’t be able to carry a tune or listen to the beauty of music.

I’d definitely miss the sense of touch though. I would hate not being able to feel during intimate moments.

I think sight and taste. I would miss hearing, and loss of feeling would be sad to never feel another human. Missing smell, well, I don’t smell things very well already, and I would not miss skunks or farts as long as I could still taste food as much as I do now.

Eyesight and touch. I can’t imagine not being able to physically feel things, and I also imagine that could make for a very dangerous life.

Taste and Touch. I can feel everything I can’t see, and I’ve already seen the stuff I can’t feel. I love food so I have to be able to taste it.

Eyesight and Hearing for sure! ( oh no, I can’t smell and feel the keyboard! )

@zenvelo So which 2 of the ffve would you like to keep? :)

So, so far the scores are

Eyesight…..5
Hearing…..3
Taste…...1
Feel…..2
Smell….0

Keep them coming. :)

Taste definetly since I have to eat the rest of my life. It would suck if everything tasted the same.
And touch. No being able to feel would also suck because it would be like being a ghost. You can reach out to touch your love ones but you wouldn’t feel anything back. No body heat, no softness, nothing. I had my hand go numb once for a few weeks and I hated not feeling anything. Everything felt strange. I would go to pet my dog and when I touched him with my numb hand I felt cheated. I wanted that hand to feel his soft fur. I can’t imagine not feeling a kiss or a babys breath on your cheek.

After @Pandora it’s Feel….3 and Taste…..2 GA by the way. :)

I definitely wouldn’t mind losing my taste. I love food, but I would eat SO much healthier if I couldn’t taste anything. I would use that to my advantage.

Losing your smell also really alters how well you can taste things. Something for people to consider, so I wouldn’t mind losing that either.

I would keep my eyesight no matter what. So, it’s between hearing and touch.
I would really hate never being able to talk on the phone with anyone or listen to music. I wouldn’t mind losing touch if it meant never having to feel physical pain ever again, but that seems dangerous too. Like, what if someone shot me in the ass and I didn’t know it? I’d bleed to death. Let’s hope that never happens though.
And like @Pandora, it would be awful to never be able to feel the one I loved or the warmth of a hug.

I’ll go with eyesight and touch. I’ve always wanted to learn sign language anyway.

Eyesight because I really love looking at beautiful words and phrases, people’s faces and places. And touch… I’d hate to never feel my husband’s hand in mine.

@augustlan That just made me tear up. Romance is so cute!

@illyasviel I would keep sight and taste….

@KatetheGreat And we’re “old”, too! Romance never dies.:D

@augustlan Aww come on, you’re not that old. But that is inspiring. I can’t wait to have that sort of romance one day!

@augustlan @KatetheGreat is right, that is inspiring. :)

@JustJessica So you would be blind and deaf just so you could taste and touch?

Sight & touch. Losing sense of smell seems not all bad. I mean pewwww! Taste would probaby allow me to be not such a fussy eater. Hearing would be a bummer but the two i’ve chosen are by far a priority in my view.

Sight and hearing because I love art and music.
As for taste? If I never had to taste my own cooking again,I would be just fine!

I lost my sense of taste for a year and a half and it was horrible and torturous to not be able to taste the food I cooked. No reason at all to eat anything special, expensive or go out to eat. Even textures of food I once loved were actually really icky. Everything tasted like oatmeal.

To lose the sense of touch and to think Mr. Happy is now Mr. Numb would be unimaginable.

But I know to not see the world and my loved ones or to hear their laughter or the music I so love would be unthinkable. Got to keep my sight and hearing senses.

Two more votes for taste and touch. Just imagine what it would be like if you couldn’t feel things. When my sister went through chemotherapy/radiation, she lost her sense of taste. She described it as ‘chewing on a piece of cardboard’. To not be able to taste food for the rest of my life? No thanks.

At 85, Mom is now both hearing- and sight-impaired. Despite this, she’s still living in her own house. She uses a service to take her out for errands once a week and a cleaning service every other week. Helen Keller learned to cope in a world without sight and hearing and accomplish some amazing things.

Sight… although I would miss seeing my husband, I think I would miss seeing my kids more. Touch… I would miss the feeling of hugs and kisses.

Alright! Follow up question time! Pick one of the two you chose. Now, according to your doctor, this sense cannot be saved because you took too long a time to decide (hypothetically). Which of the three that you didn’t choose would you decide to replace the one that’s no longer viable?

Well, I think that I can live without taste, because when I have a cold, I can almost taste the food by the texture of it. What is it like to not be able to feel anything? I can’t grasp that concept. Any analogies or comparisons that anyone can think of? I need sight. I don’t need hearing because I know sign language, and so I guess that can benefit me with that sense. I do compose and arrange music, but Beethoven did it. I can tell any key with relative pitch, so it definitely seems feasible—I write all the time without a piano in sight. For smell, I guess that falls similar to taste. But I think that your nose helps with your digestive system as it makes you hungry with the smell of something nice.
In a nutshell, my two are:
Sight definitely
Smell or Touch; still want to know kindof what it’s like to not be able to touch. I’m bad at decisions :(

@dxs No worries. GA. :)

Hearing, and taste. I live by hearing and I thrive by taste. Without hearing I would probably get hit by a car, and without taste I would being hating life!

@chocolatechip Pretty much! I may give up taste for hearing but I don’t think so.

Ack! Your follow up question is hard. If I had to give up sight or touch, I reluctantly choose to let sight go and replace it with hearing. I think I’d get along fine, but I sure will miss my sight. I’ll just have to ‘look’ at things in my mind, I guess. :(

I would definitely give up my sight and replace it with touch.