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How are your senses?
Good vestibular, good proprioceptive 24%  24%  [ 8 ]
Poor vestibular, poor proprioceptive 24%  24%  [ 8 ]
Good vestibular, poor proprioceptive 9%  9%  [ 3 ]
Poor vestibular, good proprioceptive 26%  26%  [ 9 ]
Other/not sure/just want to see results 18%  18%  [ 6 ]
Total votes : 34

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06 Jan 2011, 10:46 pm

For those who don't know, these are your sixth and seventh senses. (The first five are sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. Which, if you've studied biology, actually totals eight-- sight, smell, taste, light touch, firm pressure, pain, temperature and hearing-- making vestibular and proprioceptive your ninth and tenth. But never mind.)

Vestibular tells you how your body is positioned and moving relative to the Earth. It's the system you use when you balance. It's what gets stimulated on a roller-coaster. If it's hypersensitive, you're probably prone to nausea. If you feel yourself falling, that's this sense.

Proprioception is how you know where the parts of your body are relative to each other. Shut your eyes and touch your nose with your index finger. If you succeeded, you have at least some proprioception. You use this sense when you walk-- if you didn't have it, you'd have to watch your feet or you wouldn't know where they were. If you know where your body is without looking, that's proprioception.


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06 Jan 2011, 10:55 pm

Poor vestibular, ok proprioception.

Got some inner left ear issues, poor balance, poor spatial ability.

Can usually walk without looking at my feet although I have moments of really poor balance where I have to look at them to walk. Sometimes I have to grab the walls.


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06 Jan 2011, 11:28 pm

Poor all around. Don't know if the balance issues are related to my narrow Eustachian tubes that tend to back up (side effect of the TMJ) or something else. I'm constantly tripping and falling over stuff. I watch my feet when I walk. All of that. (Strangely enough, I'm an OK dancer, though--go figure!)


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07 Jan 2011, 1:00 am

You are going to have to define good. If something is hyposensititve, is it good? Tell me how to vote.

My vestibular is hyopsensitive. I love to get dizzy and spin around in circles. I just love motion and general spinning, if I'm the one doing it. If someone else is spinning around it makes me really upset because I can't keep track of it.

I think my proprioception is a bit poor. Ladders with even two steps terrify me because I can't figure out where I am in relation to the ladder and ground. I also hate stairs, and have to walk down them one foot at a time because I can't figure out where they are. But it's not bad enough to where I can't feel my nose.



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07 Jan 2011, 1:20 am

I remember once trying to take a shopping cart from my mother because I told her I felt like without it gravity didn't have a firm enough hold on me. But really I just feel kind of disconnected (not depersonalized or dissociated) without something to lean on or carry. When I was able to walk places (I live too far out in the country to be in walking distance of anything) I'd usually take a book bag with me, and felt kind of off center and less coordinated without it.

Today I was in CostCo, and I found the cart was just the perfect height for me to lean on and put pressure on my arms, and I felt like I was aware of where I was, which made me much less nervous around other peopl. Like I am never sure where or when they'll move and so many love to just back up without warning, and back up right into you? And I'm not even sure precisely where I am relative to them and sometimes judge poorly. But at least leaning into the cart I felt more grounded and was able to better cope.

I also tend to bump into things. I've actually noticed over the past few weeks that I am clumsier than I thought I was, which is fascinating, that I could complain about walking into four pieces of furniture between my bedroom and the kitchen and not think of myself as clumsy.



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07 Jan 2011, 1:57 am

As a kid I always needed to lean my back against a wall. Never gave much thought to it.

I get dizzy too but not by choice. It's a lot less fun when it suddenly happens. I would say I'm definitely hypersensitive.
When I was younger I loved to spin around and make myself dizzy though. And back then I had better balance.


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07 Jan 2011, 2:11 am

pensieve wrote:
As a kid I always needed to lean my back against a wall. Never gave much thought to it.

I get dizzy too but not by choice. It's a lot less fun when it suddenly happens. I would say I'm definitely hypersensitive.
When I was younger I loved to spin around and make myself dizzy though. And back then I had better balance.


This guy I used to live with (not date or anything) gave me serious flack because I was always leaning on things. I also used to get in trouble when I worked at McDonald's because "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean."

I did used to spin around a lot as a child, too. I remember one of my older cousins would swing me in a circle until I couldn't walk, and I did it as much as possible (not to the point of not walking). I still do occasionally like to spin, but not nearly as much as I did as a child.

I do occasionally get dizzy but I usually ascribe it to migraine auras or food sensitivities.



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07 Jan 2011, 5:36 am

Verdandi wrote:
pensieve wrote:
As a kid I always needed to lean my back against a wall. Never gave much thought to it.

I get dizzy too but not by choice. It's a lot less fun when it suddenly happens. I would say I'm definitely hypersensitive.
When I was younger I loved to spin around and make myself dizzy though. And back then I had better balance.


This guy I used to live with (not date or anything) gave me serious flack because I was always leaning on things. I also used to get in trouble when I worked at McDonald's because "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean."

I did used to spin around a lot as a child, too. I remember one of my older cousins would swing me in a circle until I couldn't walk, and I did it as much as possible (not to the point of not walking). I still do occasionally like to spin, but not nearly as much as I did as a child.

I do occasionally get dizzy but I usually ascribe it to migraine auras or food sensitivities.

I get dizzy when I need food. I think I experience too much motion sickness to enjoy spinning.

People used to give me a hard time for leaning against or on something too.


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07 Jan 2011, 5:58 am

Poor vestibular, good proprioceptive for me

When I watch myself on video or camera I seem to be moving in a strange way at a strange rhythm and not like others. Yet I don't consider myself uncoordinated. But I still think this relates to poor vestibular senses.

but somehow I have a very strong sense of all the people, things and objects around me and my relationship to them in space. I am always narrowly avoiding collisions with others because its as if they don't see me or can't anticipate where I am heading.



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07 Jan 2011, 7:11 am

pensieve wrote:
I get dizzy when I need food. I think I experience too much motion sickness to enjoy spinning.

People used to give me a hard time for leaning against or on something too.


I get dizzy when I need food too, have all my life. Last night I think I had really bad brain zaps and mild motion sickness from trying to walk around.

The final straw for that one guy was I was leaning against a car door while inside the car. Like leaning on the armrest? And he was also pissy because I wore sunglasses indoors and on cloudy days. He thought I was doing it to be cool, and not because, say, light hurts my eyes.



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08 Jan 2011, 3:01 pm

buryuntime wrote:
You are going to have to define good. If something is hyposensititve, is it good? Tell me how to vote.

My vestibular is hyopsensitive. I love to get dizzy and spin around in circles. I just love motion and general spinning, if I'm the one doing it. If someone else is spinning around it makes me really upset because I can't keep track of it.

I think my proprioception is a bit poor. Ladders with even two steps terrify me because I can't figure out where I am in relation to the ladder and ground. I also hate stairs, and have to walk down them one foot at a time because I can't figure out where they are. But it's not bad enough to where I can't feel my nose.


If you're able to do what you need to without unusual outside assistance related directly to that sense (like, someone touching your joints so you can figure out where your body is) and if it doesn't cause pain, I'd say it goes under "good." But from your description, if issues with proprioception are causing those problems, I'd probably call that "poor." I'm not really sure what to say about a hyposensitive sense that doesn't cause problems, though.


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08 Jan 2011, 4:48 pm

Poor vestibular, poor proprioceptive here.
I get dizzier significantly more quickly than other people. I still sometimes get queasy in cars or buses. Lucky for me, I don't need to ride either that often. I tend to lean against things, or put my hand on the nearest solid object when standing in order to steady myself. I also tend to sit and stand in odd ways to compensate for my vestibular issues. Right now, for instance, I'm sitting in the compuer chair with one leg lucked under me, and I"m sitting on my foot. The knee of the other leg is presently up, mere inches from my chin, and I'm leaning forward against the thigh of that leg with my lower arm sandwiched between the thigh and my abdomen. I'll proably switch position soon, as I can never seem to stay in one position for long. Now my legs are bent in the pretzel position, and I'm leaning really far forward.
When I'm riding on the subway, and there are no seats available so I need to hold on to one of those metal poles, I'm prone to cling to the pole with both hands, lean against it, and wrap one leg around it, provided there's sufficient space to do so. If the train is crowded to the point that it's only possible to hold onto the pole with one hand, I'll find the motion of the train throwing me around in one direction or another into other people, to the annoyance of my fellow passengers.
I'm also not so great with knowing where my body is. I seem to be forever dropping things, spilling things, and bumping into things and people. I've offended people by accidentally bumping into them and/ or knocking something out of their hands, then not apologizing, because I didn''t notice what I'd done. Unless I pay attention to how I'm walking as I'm walking, I tend to weave all over the sidewalk. Most of the time, I have far more interesting things to think about than how I'm walking. If I'm carrying a bag of groceries or texting someone, the weaving all over the place is far more pronounced. I have real problems with walking in a straight line.
I also may not feel it if my jeans are riding down my hips (this doesn't happen quite as much as much as it used to, since my boss told me I needed to buy a belt :oops: ) or if my shirt is riding up above my waistline. This seems to happen a lot, probably due to the awkward way I move. One co-worker has given up on saying, "Pull your shirt down, 'OuterBoroughGirl,'" and will now just come up behind me, and pull my shirt down for me.
I also can't abide ladders, or basically anything that involves climbing, other than a standard staircase. I won't even climb those narrow spiral staircases with the gaps between each step. When I was a child, I was afraid of pretty much everything on the playground other than the swings, and there were a few years when I was afraid of the swings as well, after getting hit by a swing when I was three. I also can't abide amusement park rides, including the merry go round. I'm just afraid to climb up on those merry go round horses, and I'll never feel secure sitting astride one. The same goes for real horses. I could never ride a horse.
Sports have zero appeal for me, watching or playing them. I enjoy swimming, (though my swimming technique is quite awkward and graceless) and I have gone through phases when I was doing thirty minutes on the elliptical at the gym. I also don't mind walking a mile or more to get somewhere. I will also participate in simple music and movement activities with the preschoolers I work with. That's pretty much the extent of my athletic activity, and ability. I've never been able to experience any pleasure of success with sports. Gym class was a nightmare for me. I would stand as far from my "teammates," as I could get away with, and pray no one threw the ball my way, just wanting it all to be over.
Regarding sensory processing, I do have issues with some other senses as well. However, my issues with these two lesser known senses are by far the most pronounced, causing what would most likely be regarded as a clinically significant level of impairment.
As usual, I did not mean to write a wall of text, but that's what happened. I don't know why it's impossible for me to be brief. Anyway, that's off topic here, and I'm finally concluding this post I've been working on for an hour.


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08 Jan 2011, 5:21 pm

I think I have okay both, but, I used to have quite poor both, and, when I put my mind to it, I can have good both.


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08 Jan 2011, 8:02 pm

I am left-eyed, but pretty much right-handed.

Im older and when I was growing up left handedness was pretty much discouraged. My father (born in 1916) struggled with me to make me right handed... so I write write handed. But I can do most anything with my either hand if I pause and concentrate for a sec.


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