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[kandrathe]

I found out recently that I'm very sensitive to EM fields. I moved into a smaller bedroom back in October of 2017 and downsized my king bed to a queen I found on Craigslist which had a wroght iron metal frame. I found I COULD NOT SLEEP on that goddamn bed, pure insomnia. The room I'm in has the house breaker, so I thought it might be leaking EM field from a faulty wire or something, so I bought a Gauss meter to detect the EM fields in my room. I could not find any substantial difference from my laptop, monitors, lamps, or the breaker... all had sufficient insulation. I thought I was going fucking insane because I simply could not sleep. I got a prescription for Ambien just to sleep and was a walking zombie for a couple months, but during this time, I kept researching EM fields because I just felt something was off! Every time I was in my room, I felt this electric charge on my skin, like right before a lightening storm. I finally read on a website dedicated to people with EM sensitivity that metal beds act as a conduit by attracting/concentration all the EM fields in a room, so I took that Gauss meter I bought off Amazon and pointed it at my bed. The fucking needle went off the chart, between 2.5 to 5.0 Gauss. Supposedly, up to 2.5 Gauss is a safe level for humans, but for people sensitive to EM fields, its much lower:

It reminds me of bedtime stories with my father Victor and his lab partner Igor. Storms still scare me... and fire... let's not talk about fire...


In all seriousness, there are perceptions beyond Aristotle's five. This Harvard Medicine article lists additionally

• Equilibrioception. Whether you’re slaloming down a slope or strutting down a street, this sense—otherwise known as balance—helps keeps you upright. Although vision plays a role in equilibrioception, the vestibular system of the inner ear is mainly responsible.
• Nociception. If you’ve touched a boiling kettle or stubbed a toe, you’re likely all too familiar with nociception, the sense of pain. Recent research shows that what was once viewed as a subjective experience related to touch is, in fact, a distinct phenomenon that corresponds to a specific area in the brain.
• Proprioception. Close your eyes and touch your fingertip to your nose. Quick: Where’s your hand? Unless you suffer from a deficit of this kinesthetic sense, you know where your hand is, even though you can’t see it. This sense, the awareness of where your body parts are, sounds silly—until you consider that without it, you’d have to constantly watch your feet to make sure they were planted on the ground.
• Thermoception. You notice a chill in the air, so you don a jacket on your way to work. Later, as you enter your warm office, you shed that garment. That’s thermoception, the sense of heat and cold, which relies on temperature sensors in your skin to keep you from overheating or freezing.
• Temporal perception. There’s no doubt that the perception of time can be subjective: Three hours spent at a party with friends may speed by, while a three-hour meeting can seem to drag. Yet our sense of time is rooted in biology. Research shows that the basal ganglia and other parts of the brain are responsible.
• Interoception. When we take our internal perception into account, we have even more senses. These are linked to sensory receptors found in internal organs, such as those in the lungs that control respiratory rate.”

I believe you, that it is possible we might have variably others, even though the skeptical medical people don't think so.

"Perhaps most fascinating, though, are the senses we don’t have. Ever wish you could sniff out hidden objects, see in the dark, or detect magnetic and electric fields? In humans, these senses are the domain of superheroes. Yet they’re a natural advantage to some animals."