I guess infancy is just about establishing a fundamental texture profile to use in adulthood. A standardised collection of mouthfeels. PANTONGUE™️
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The unfortunate answer is that it knows through long forgotten experience... Anything a toddler sees goes in the mouth.
I'm pretty sure it's my brain extrapolating from that baby experience and combining it with finger sensations. I didn't have the opportunity to lick a basketball or (US) football but my tongue can surmise the difference in the bumps because my fingers know.
Suuuuure, buddy.
Yeah weirdly (or maybe not) when we get down to it too, every sense is a sense of touch. Your ears touch the vibrations in the air, your nose touches the particles in the air, your eyes feel the touch of the light that hits them, skin is self explanatory, and then your tongue, which is touching on a very miniscule level while checking for all the chemicals and seeing if your nose is confirming that the touch is similar to the particles
Disagree on eyes. Light is EM radiation, not a mechanical wave like sound. Your retina isn't 'touching' anything but the vitreous.
Unfortunate? That's an important part of learning as a toddler.
Some toddlers have helicopter parents who never let them put anything in their mouth. Will they be stunted in their growth and development and sensory skills?
I think you might be onto something.
I have no idea how dick would feel on my tongue, because I've never had one on my tongue.
now that was a disturbing mental jump if I ever saw one
Interesting. Yes.
If you feel this as a loss, I'm sure that if you let this be known widely enough in your friend group, someone will offer to help you out with the missing sensory data.
And if not, there's definitely an app for that. Just put that on your profile.
You've never had dick on your tongue because you had helicopter parents who made sure you didn't put anything in your mouth that isn't food?
False. I have no idea what licking lava would feel like.
Ever eaten Hot Pockets?
Pain. Your face may also feel some, as well.
Not yet. Wanna try together?
If it weren’t for the skin incinerating temperature, it’d probably feel like softened caramel
I assume it works best when you see the things in front of you at least once, rather than just images, and I've never seen lava in real life
A healthy anus can tell the difference between solids, liquids, and gasses.
just because it can tell the difference doesn't mean you can necessarily do anything with that information. sometimes that train, she comes quickly.
Pretty much every asshole I know can do that
My fingers also know.
As does my pp.
It's the brain.
The same damaged brain that can't tell how it will feel doing something it enjoys.
That a fuck.
There’s an indie game that just came out called Dragon Detective, where investigation is about using the five senses, plus the sixth sense of magic.
You would think that Taste would be a fringe-use sense that barely comes up, but no, this dragon really does lick the whole crime scene to judge the makeup of an object.
“S-Stop! Please stop licking the walls!!”
Your ear knows how it will feel too, and your pinky toe, and your nose...
My tongue didn’t account for the taste when it longed for the anus last night.
I looked at a lint roller and I’m pretty positive I have no clue what licking that would be like
Lightly used lint roller and wet tongue? Fuzzy and tacky but slippery. Unless you dry out your tongue first, then it'll just stick in a weird and unsatisfying way.
I dunno....
looks at pile of discarded lint rollers covered in saliva
The silicone type of lint roller would probably feel like an unusually firm silicone dildo and the sticky tape type would probably feel slippery like postage stamp and taste with that sickly sweet chemical adhesive taste
I've seen this before, but I have to wonder: has anyone actually tested it? Like sure, you can imagine what licking asphalt would feel like, but have you ever just done it to make sure your imagination is right?
You can very easily disprove this by imagining how an object will feel, and then licking it.






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