"The feeling is as hard to imagine as it is to describe. "It's as if you had a blindfold and somebody turned you several times, and then you're asked to go in a direction. The first few seconds, you don't know what direction you're going in." Pure disorientation."
I think might other ways to approximate this. Try lying completely still in bed at night in the dark for 10 minutes or so... after a while you might have trouble knowing exactly how your limbs are positioned (unless, of course, you make a mental note of just how they were positioned when you first laid down, or kept your attention focused on that all along, but if you think of something else, then ten minutes later think about the position of your limbs, you might have trouble). The key in the above exercise is not feeling anything in your limbs that could give you a cluse as to where they're positioned. This makes me wonder if we need some kind of periodic kinesthetic or viseo-kinesthetic calibration to keep our sense of proprioception functioning well.
Psychedelic drugs could also impact our sense of proprioception, as they can just about everything else about our experience. Being in a floation/isolation tank could likewise affect it.
Something else I wonder about lack of proprioception is at all related to the problem some people have of telling right from left.
I think might other ways to approximate this. Try lying completely still in bed at night in the dark for 10 minutes or so... after a while you might have trouble knowing exactly how your limbs are positioned (unless, of course, you make a mental note of just how they were positioned when you first laid down, or kept your attention focused on that all along, but if you think of something else, then ten minutes later think about the position of your limbs, you might have trouble). The key in the above exercise is not feeling anything in your limbs that could give you a cluse as to where they're positioned. This makes me wonder if we need some kind of periodic kinesthetic or viseo-kinesthetic calibration to keep our sense of proprioception functioning well.
Psychedelic drugs could also impact our sense of proprioception, as they can just about everything else about our experience. Being in a floation/isolation tank could likewise affect it.
Something else I wonder about lack of proprioception is at all related to the problem some people have of telling right from left.