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For example, if you only wanted to see bees, you are unable to see anything unless a bee comes into frame, in which case you are only able to see a bee.

You could also decide to choose something that you cannot normally sense (e.g. hearing bat echolocation sounds)

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Guess I'll only feel joy from now on.

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago
[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 4 points 4 days ago

If I choose to see sound do I go full daredevil?

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Hear one thing: music!

Site and taste are something that would be a bummer to live without, smelling has been out of the question for over a decade, so I'm absolutely NOT going back to it, and that leaves sound.

I am unsure I could live without music.

Edit: forgot feel. Not as important to me as music.

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

music is good :D

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Probably smell would be least annoying, assuming my taste remains unaffected. And I'd choose to be able to smell lavender.

Smell, as long as it's not something stinky.

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

taste one thing would be too easy as everyone would just choose pizza. fight me.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It’s also the least debilitating. Vision, hearing, smell, and touch are important to function in daily life, but you can still live relatively normally if you can only taste one thing.

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, everything would just taste boring vs unable to see, hear, feel, etc. Smell could be fine, but is still pretty important compared to taste

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think limiting one's sense of smell is probably the least-restrictive.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It would be the least restrictive but the most oppressive. Anosmia sucks according to a buddy who lost it when he contracted COV SARS 2/COVID 19 five years ago

Pretty sure I have a mild case of it from covid. It sucks, but it's still a lot better than giving up vision or hearing

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

everything would taste weird though

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I don't know why anyone would prefer that.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Feel nothing but horny. Gonna masturbate to death

[–] Devadander@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago

I was thinking something similar. If I could only taste boobs, I could probably be ok.

[–] spiderhamster@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

"What is it with this chick, she have beer flavored nipples?"

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