Your Sixth Sense

You may not think about it all that much, but we all have a sixth sense - your sense of "proprioception". This is how we move our body parts without looking. But don't take it for granted. Without it, we'd be a hot mess. Imagine how difficult it would be to have to always be watching your feet in order to move them! Watch the video to learn more about how this sixth sense works.

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[deleteduserf]

The real sixth sense is knowing, its basically like when you feel like someone is behind you without looking and you are right about it

[elioantenucci]

Thank you so much! I did study psychology and alot of the neuroscience I studied (whych wasn't much) was confusing and made no sense at all, because most of my questions were met with "we have no idea of why this works like that" and so on. Also most of the studies I do in esotherism deals with these things and having videos to put back in a scientific perspective helps me alot to deal with ignorance on the subject. Plus you are also a very good speaker and it's very nice to watch your videos from the artistry view of it.

[shivsuresh]

Hi... Just thought... Basically your proprioception concept is based on the inputs from one of your 5 senses... Eg: If you can move in the dark, that mean your brain has already stored the pictures from your Eyes and it is try to navigate in the dark. Also all your experience is stored in your memory which will send approx. good inputs to brain to order necessary command... But if you feel something on top of all senses Eg: Dreams, Imagination Etc. this does not have any input of all these 5 senses but still you feel the other senz.

[susanapfister-cuesta]

No.6 is common sense, Bwahahahaaa.
1. Sight - Eyes
2. Smell - Nose
3. Sound - Ears
4. Taste - Tongue
5. Touch - Hands
6. Imagination - Brain

[cleancutguy]

To me the authentic sixth sense is when you feel something is bad to happen. For example, I started to chat with a guy who looks like a nice guy at the supermarket, all of a sudden I get a very negative and evil feeling from this guy.... days later, this guy turned out to be a guy who just killed someone.

[morbus]

The more I think about it the more I believe that our "sixth sense" is just a weak version of echolocation and muscle memory.

[mrsalty]

This gives me really big bill nye vibes

[jendergirlos]

why did you give up on this series? there's so much more of neuroscience to share!

[gonenativeMarshallS]

Wouldn't this still be a sense of feeling? Which is touch...the true sixth sense that has been left from all history books since ancient Egypt is thought. The image eye of Horus or Ra show all these senses, also a map of the brain split in half (hmm). The only sense that is able to relay all this info being received within our mind center. Thought is the strongest form of energy direction and formulation, take for instance the double split. First the brain must think about were the arm is before the arm can ever feel that it's is touching my nose. How limited we have been not being taught that our strongest sense is thought and what we can really do with just thinking about something good or bad...

[irenememo]

Do you know any books we can look into? For more details on this topic?

[ElectricalBeing]

It happens when you have little mucus in ur body to allow flow like a river all throughout your ur body simultaneously. Fastest way to achieve this is a raw vegan/ vegan diet. No I’m not going to say vegetarian because there are a lot of mucus causing foods to confuse you. Love & Light

[omg-bhpg]

Don't we also feel pain, temperature, emotions?

[TejaaaaaaReddy]

biyanka i am your fan from sixth sense program.

[Minakie]

Does that make interoception our 7th sense?

[hanan.]

But how do we can tell when somebody is looking at us?

[justcrunchy]

LOL guys I need in have a really special 6th sense power which is when I sleep right then So big a sudden something like a dream or a pic but like with moving actions or a scene it lasts about 30 secs .yea that's my power am I special or anything? I wanna know from u guys by its earliest:D

[tyballamusic]

I remeber I was suppose to go to a party with my bro’s I aint wanna go tho cus I felt like it was gonna get busted . We ain’t go and the party got busted 😂😂

[ladyasleep]

Proprioception is a hard word, don't understand it, need some translation to search : ) although the video is great)

[KrucialKenn-]

Whoever is in the background is killing me “Sarah who?”

[Rohit-lrmc]

Brain is just a medium...its the hardware....program is infinity