I'm just numb.

It has two main components.

The first is tactile sensations, things you feel in your skin.

That red piece of brain tissue is your somatosensory cortex.

You got numb tongue?

How can the nervous system misinterpret an innocent sensation

And that's kind of surprising, because your sense of touch is really important.

And other FM devices implanted in fingertips, on contacting a surface, will send a message back to the sensory cortex of the brain, so that the person feels a sense of touch.

This is the sea. And it must feel the water of the sea.

The timing couldn't be better.

I had no feeling in my fingers.

I have the same thing in my shoulder.

I'm trying to be good here.

You feel nice.

Okay, on a scale of one to ten, ten being your normal level of feeling and one being no feeling at all.

They are only one seventh of the way up that tree.

Q. To some extent, yes.

Feelings.

A synesthete might not only hear my voice, but also see it, taste it, or feel it as a physical touch.

Feel the wind on your antennae. Isn't this wonderful?

That was a nice touch.

What does it feel like?

And I lied.

How does tha' like thysel'?' It made me laugh an' it brought me to my senses in a minute.

We think about the world in all the ways that we experience it.

Imbalance, disorientation, labored breathing.

They seem very, very obsessed with finding out more about the ideal mate.

But things are getting better.

Well, no sensations at all?

It feels numb.

Yet, and I said before,

If you're talking about what you can feel what you can smell, taste and see then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

M. Yes, there's still this noise.

This feels like silk.

Nicole

There's none of what is called the chemo head.

Right here, right now.

There is no infection. Repeat, there is no infection.

These are the bits, the pleasure centers, and maybe what I'm seeing and sensing and feeling is bypassing my thinking.

Thought y'all couldn't feel pain.

Sensorydeprivation tank.

years and years, oftentimes.

And after a few months, you touch Jesse on his chest, and he felt his missing hand.

We go in the tanks with the tuna we touch their naked skin it's pretty amazing.

In ways that, despite our resources, they can do it better than us.