We Only Have 5 Senses

All of us are familiar with the five senses—taste, touch, sight, hearing, and smell—as well as the fabled sixth sense that Hollywood perpetually explores in its films. However, it's a fallacy that people have only five senses. While it is true that humans have five primary senses, we also have a plethora of other senses.

Proprioception, for instance, is how we perceive space in relation to how our limbs are positioned. You are actively employing your sense of space if you can close your eyes and touch your nose. Our muscles' spindle receptors make it possible for us to perceive space. Our brains get messages from these spindles informing them of the locations of all of our parts.

Humans possess a variety of senses in addition to proprioception, including our sense of balance, inner pain perception, sense of time, and even human echolocation. Daniel Kisch is the team captain of Team Bat, a group of blind cyclists based in the US. Even at high speeds, the riders use their mouths to emit clicks to echolocate their surroundings. Even persons who still have their sight can learn to use this sense; it isn't just limited to the blind.