Need some smart person to let me know if this is really true?

[Anonymous]

That our body is amazing in that if you go blind your smell becomes twice better or if you lose your arm the other arm will be twice as strong but if you lose only 1 eye than your taste become twice as strong so if you lose 1 of your 5 senses it levels up one of the 4 remaining ones?

[mikan_galena]

I don’t self identify as smart lol, but I do know the answer to this! (I’ve also hard of hearing, so knowledge and experience.)

Long story short, you don’t gain skills in the other senses when you loose one, so no, I don’t see or smell exceptionally well. But also, yes, the human body is a wonder of biology. What happens when you loose a sense is that your body learns to accommodate and adapt.

If someone looses their sight, they will adjust to pay more attention to what they hear/smell/etc. Their other senses don’t improve, they just become more sensitive to those types of sensory information!

Let me know if that does or doesn’t make sense!

[Anonymous]

I don't have any data but in my experience, blind people have tremendous hearing. I imagine with one sense not working, the other indeed heighten.

[Asker]

Sure but if you destroy all 4 out of 5 senses than does it mean that the last remaning one is 4 times better? If you can bench press 100 kg than if you destroy all except touch do you think you can bench press 500 kg? I don't think that if 1 sense id lost it will make another twice as good and so on even if all of there remaining senses all become a little better

[Opinion Owner]

Muscle isn't a sense. You don't get physically stronger by going blind so that doesn't work at all.