FIVE SENSES... BY Chris Agudo

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Five senses..... 

It is human to have five senses, born into five senses.

Hear, smell, taste, touch, Sight.

To be given these gifts is incredible in itself. If you dis-agree try one day without one of them. 

-Close your eyes all day and attempt to walk around everywhere. 

-Do not touch anything all day and attempt to get things done. 

-Hold your nose while eating food and drinks and do not taste. 

-Hold your nose and breath through your mouth, no smell. 

-Cover your ears tightly and attempt to not hear a thing all day. 

It is difficult if you have had all five of these senses your whole life to attempt any of these. Be thankful for all of them because they help us to get through the day, each and everyday.

All of the following information is from Wikipedia:

There is no firm agreement among neurologists as to the number of senses because of differing definitions of what constitutes a sense. One definition states that an exteroceptive sense is a faculty by which outside stimuli are perceived. 

The traditional five senses are sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste, a classification attributed to Aristotle.

[1] Humans are considered to have at least five additional senses that include: nociception (pain); equilibrioception (balance); proprioception and kinaesthesia (joint motion and acceleration); sense of time; thermoception (temperature differences); and possibly an additional weak magnetoception (direction),

[2] and six more if interoceptive senses (see other internal senses below) are also considered.

One commonly recognized categorisation for human senses is as follows: chemoreception; photoreception; mechanoreception; and thermoception. This categorisation has been criticized as too restrictive, however, as it does not include categories for accepted senses such as the sense of time and sense of pain. Non-human animals may possess senses that are absent in humans, such as electroreception and detection of polarized light. A broadly acceptable definition of a sense would be "A system that consists of a group of sensory cell types that responds to a specific physical phenomenon, and that corresponds to a particular group of regions within the brain where the signals are received and interpreted." Disputes about the number of senses typically arise around the classification of the various cell types and their mapping to regions of the brain.