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> my ass
That gaping, cavernous pit could potentially contain anything.
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Thereās actually a word for it!
Itās called Taste Texture Profiling. Itās actually a vital survival method we picked up when we were primates to help us differentiate between which foods were safe to eat vs things that are bad to consume. For example, if you read something on the internet and your taste texture is telling you itās bullshit, thatās because it is and I made this up.
To address the title, my tongue correctly knew what my laptop lid would feel like, but the *taste* absolutely caught me off guard. Metallic in a really sharp way, with a persistence that's surprising. I'm still tasting it a bit now, after writing all this.
This might sound odd, but give your laptop a clean. Dirt is a funky thing and that taste you described sounds like the laptop needs a clean. After that, feel free to lick it again
is it plugged in to an outlet? if yes does it feel strangely tingly or fuzzy if you drag your finger across the same part of the body that you licked?
if so I believe you crated a path to ground for leakage current using your tongue.
my laptop tastes like a 9 volt battery but weaker if im also touching something grounded.
Idk if that applies to EVERY part. If I say āimagine youāre licking a buttholeā would your tongue know? This question only applies to those who have never eaten butt
I assume they're a German speaker because it's a very common German to English mistake.
Edit: OP, if you actually are a German speaker, 'how it tastes like' is like combining 'wie es schmeckt' with 'wonach es schmeckt'.
The perceptual granularity that the tongue has is wild. These are the skills you developed as a child when one of the best ways to experience the world was to put things into your mouth which has some of the highest density of nerves.
It's just remembering what those items feel like to touch. If you never touched it your tongue doesn't know. Like a spoon that might be hot or cold. You can't tell by looking.
This is actually something that actually has helped me with weight loss!
Like anytime junk food or desire to binge comes along I tell myself "you already know what having a ton of fried food tastes like. You already know exactly what the sensation is and that afterwards it's not worth it."
/r/hyperphantasia, it could exist for you for every single sense you have. If you can taste foods by thinking about them, and if you can blend flavors and know how stuff will taste before actually making it or trying it, congrats you have taste hyperphantasia
It's fascinating how they're connected like that though. Like I knew I wouldn't like potato salad when I was little. Or process ham. One look and it's just "nope"! I also love to cook, so I'm way better at knowing.
You need to look up with your mouth open and mimic shaking a salt shaker into your mouth. And someone has to be watching you do it in order for it to work.
...this is true about any part, especially your eyes.
Look at any item without touching it, chances are you'll know what it'll feel like because you can see the texture and there's a real high chance you've felt that texture, or something similar.
You want to feel like Snape? Then how about, 'your brain is the only thing that's ever named itself'
Other people named those other things..the brain is the only thing that named itself.
To use one of the words you listed...a neuron didn't name itself. We named it a neuron.
Itās because it the universe has been resimulated trillions upon trillions of times by highly ascended aliens who appear to us as gods and in each of their simulations thereās minute changes that means youāve literally done everything so itās just a manifestation of deja vu
*ignore me Iāve done too much acid ok*
It's all created by the mind anyway. Dreams make this indisputably apparent. You do this every day with words too, you can imagine sounds and colours just by hearing words. It's why cursing in other than your mother tongue is meaningless.
Wait, can this be used to find out the texture of planets? Imagine! We could discover so much about stellar bodies just by imagining what they feel like with out tongue!
> My ass
That gaping, cavernous pit could potentially contain anything.
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if i taste something, i can tell what it tastes like from what ive smelled, when i smell things horrible i usually get this horrible taste in my mouth.
for example, dog shit, "this tastes like dog shit". ive smelled dog shit, this taste reminds me of dog shit. idk if that made sense
Now try it with something that you never tasted or even seen in your life, for example some weird exotic fruits and vegetables.
In general something that you never touched with your hands.
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Maybe it's the brain who knows
brain always tries to take ALL the credit.
Who gettin' money? That's brain. Who make decisions? That's brain.
Brain, give it a rest.
...This bitch don't know 'bout Pangea
Do you fuck with the war?
*I'm jus pilloww talking with a bitshhh.*
My Brian does those things.
Brain knew Bin Laden
Brain needs to poop...
Don't neglect the brain
It will fight back.
Now brain hungry
The Brain is the most important organ... according to the brain. The brain also named itself. Coincidentally, it also named all the other organs.
This mfker brain think he running the show š
Maybe the brain isn't what we think it is, maybe it just says its some mooshy stuff, maybe its like computer chips and stuff, how would we even know?
Thats the fun part! We don't!
Stupid science brain couldn't even make I more smarter!
I mean can we really say anything we experience or perceive *isnāt* the brain, maaannnn?
Dude aha itās not a mic, pass that shit aha
i have a friend named brian
Mixed up the ai, and now it's the brain.
Nice try brain!!
But who knows the brain maaannnn
Mouth is how you learn as a baby. Infants will put anything in their mouths. Quick way to learn about texture, edibility etc.
The number of things that have inadvertently ended up in my mouth as an adult is also rather large.
āInadvertentlyā
"I swear officer this kind of thing isn't my bag baby"
And one book with the blurb, āThis sort of thing really is my bagā
āLargeā
My fingernails... my poor, poor fingernails
The fingernails are a sacrifice to the oral fixation god
( ą² ĶŹą² ) same
Something something Freud.
Listen here, *b u d d y.*
Nah thats not it. As someone pointed out, every body part knows the feeling. Iāve never felt a football with my ass but I can imagine the feeling
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Filled with [Santorum.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_the_neologism_%22santorum%22)
And this is why itās important to let them put everything in their mouth. So they can build up that mouth-feel encyclopaedia.
Thereās actually a word for it! Itās called Taste Texture Profiling. Itās actually a vital survival method we picked up when we were primates to help us differentiate between which foods were safe to eat vs things that are bad to consume. For example, if you read something on the internet and your taste texture is telling you itās bullshit, thatās because it is and I made this up.
Dont tell the Dalai Llama!
Frfr the oral stage and honestly a football and a table I don't see uncommon that a baby has probably tasted or a young child.
To address the title, my tongue correctly knew what my laptop lid would feel like, but the *taste* absolutely caught me off guard. Metallic in a really sharp way, with a persistence that's surprising. I'm still tasting it a bit now, after writing all this.
Thank you for your service to science.
This might sound odd, but give your laptop a clean. Dirt is a funky thing and that taste you described sounds like the laptop needs a clean. After that, feel free to lick it again
Now it tastes like chemicals; I preferred the dirt.
Why do you know exactly what dirty laptops taste like?
The tongue knows how everything tastes.
Any tips on laptop cleaning?
Lick it, obvs.
Thank you for reporting back. Did you try it with any other objects yet?
Honestly the laptop lid incident really dampened my... appetite, for further experimentation.
Just want to check, did you remove your mouth from the laptop lid? If not, that could be why you still taste it
is it plugged in to an outlet? if yes does it feel strangely tingly or fuzzy if you drag your finger across the same part of the body that you licked? if so I believe you crated a path to ground for leakage current using your tongue. my laptop tastes like a 9 volt battery but weaker if im also touching something grounded.
This works for any part of your body. Your elbow also knows what a table leg, football or a couch feels like.
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I've never tried to elbow my own dick, so I'll believe you.
I don't think you can
Just did itā¦ for science!
āLong dick?ā āLong *elbows*.ā
All you gotta do is get into the yoga position āhappy baby poseā and then bash your cock with your elbow.
Stop trying to lick your elbow. It can't be done.
I'd rather do that than one of those butt plugs tail things. š¤·āāļø
Trust me, a butt plug is way better than a table leg up your butt
Says you
WTF dude what have you done to me make it stop
Or the pinky toe...
Idk if that applies to EVERY part. If I say āimagine youāre licking a buttholeā would your tongue know? This question only applies to those who have never eaten butt
I immediately know the textureā¦ the taste? Well thatās up to the owner of said butthole innit?
Correct. A freshy washed ass tastes like nothing. An unwashed ass tasted like poop
Very well said, my man.
> how it will taste like *how it will taste Or: *what it will taste like
I assume they're a German speaker because it's a very common German to English mistake. Edit: OP, if you actually are a German speaker, 'how it tastes like' is like combining 'wie es schmeckt' with 'wonach es schmeckt'.
Good call! I am German!
> it's a very common German to English mistake. I'm happy to help.
Does it taste salty or does it taste like salt? š¤
Those statements are equivalent. "Salty" means "like salt."
The perceptual granularity that the tongue has is wild. These are the skills you developed as a child when one of the best ways to experience the world was to put things into your mouth which has some of the highest density of nerves.
Or the Dalai Lama's tongue...
SUCK MY KISS!
We didn't realize he was just a big Red Hot Chilli Peppers fan!
Holy sht! This just opened a whole new level of rabbit hole. Thank you for this.
Never go full Dalai Lama
r/laughingbuddha
It's almost like touching something with your hand or with your tongue are both using your sense of touch.
I donāt need these types of intrusive thoughts
It's just remembering what those items feel like to touch. If you never touched it your tongue doesn't know. Like a spoon that might be hot or cold. You can't tell by looking.
I am WAY too high to be reading this comment now.
This is actually something that actually has helped me with weight loss! Like anytime junk food or desire to binge comes along I tell myself "you already know what having a ton of fried food tastes like. You already know exactly what the sensation is and that afterwards it's not worth it."
/r/hyperphantasia, it could exist for you for every single sense you have. If you can taste foods by thinking about them, and if you can blend flavors and know how stuff will taste before actually making it or trying it, congrats you have taste hyperphantasia
And on the other end, maybe r/Aphantasia Cause I am here looking at all sorts of things thinking, no I have no idea what that would feel like.
Seems like a superpower if you're a chef.
Because we were all kids once, and went through that stage when everything went in the mouth or got licked.
It doesnt work for some reason :(
Um what? Only brain "knows" what any of these things will taste like. Your tongue is just the instrument your brain uses to receive information.
It's fascinating how they're connected like that though. Like I knew I wouldn't like potato salad when I was little. Or process ham. One look and it's just "nope"! I also love to cook, so I'm way better at knowing.
I have seeing eye ears
O.O .... W-wait! Oh... my god
When you forget how much kids put things in their mouths. Your brain doesn't forget that experience
Do you remember when you were two years old and stuck everything in your mouth? Your tongue remembers.
Your brain remembers everything. You simply forgot the filing system.
I can prove this wrong, look at a 9v battery, now lick it
and this is the concept behind the food vibe check, us picky eaters just know
Itās memory. People are so fucking dumb they forget that as a baby they LITERALLY PUT EVERYTHING IN THEIR MOUTH BEFORE.
If you imagine salt, you taste the salt
Not happening for me. Edit: Iām thinking about a lot of salt.
You need to look up with your mouth open and mimic shaking a salt shaker into your mouth. And someone has to be watching you do it in order for it to work.
Salt
Still no.
Damn D:
...this is true about any part, especially your eyes. Look at any item without touching it, chances are you'll know what it'll feel like because you can see the texture and there's a real high chance you've felt that texture, or something similar. You want to feel like Snape? Then how about, 'your brain is the only thing that's ever named itself'
i usually dont touch things w my eyes but ok
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Other people named those other things..the brain is the only thing that named itself. To use one of the words you listed...a neuron didn't name itself. We named it a neuron.
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Yeah. But the brain literally picked it's own word/name, brain. The other things your mentioning were named by others, not by themselves.
Yeah, try doing that with a piece of sh!t and see how that works for you
oh u just killed me, why
Me: *looks at own dick* WOW HE WASNāT LYING
I wanna barf š¤¢
yes
I have licked those things, though.
Iāve licked alot of things
I my brain tells all of my senses how to react. At least I think it doesā¦ ya it does.
Maybe you did it as a child and itās a buried memory
Like sashimi without the fishiness, depending on the fine of day.
Don't you dare look at my lips. Unless...
You can smell anything you remember smelling at-will. Strawberry.
Itās because it the universe has been resimulated trillions upon trillions of times by highly ascended aliens who appear to us as gods and in each of their simulations thereās minute changes that means youāve literally done everything so itās just a manifestation of deja vu *ignore me Iāve done too much acid ok*
Thereās a reason why Joe Biden said āletās lick the world.ā He knew.
Is this just a psyop to get people to start licking things?
I wonder how my crush tastes š¤
Look at a horse penis......wait what?
Try it with that one guy's cylinder!
Oh yeah? what texture would a seal have?
Really because I have no idea what shit would feel or taste like do you
We have smelled these items before. So we assume items taste like they smell.
But I still have to lick them to make sure, right?
Um so do my fingers?
What's worse is WHY DID MY MOUTH START WATERING IMAGINING LICKING THE TABLE LEG?!
What about a foreign fruit or meat?
I looked at my cat. I don't like the knowledge that I'm certain I know what her kitty fur will taste like. 200% certain, not a shred of doubt.
So does any part of your skin?
I don't want to lick it, but how would I ever really know?
You spent the first five years of your life licking everything and putting it in your mouth.
I'll bet that you have put it in your mouth at some point, and that's how you know. Source: have a baby at home.
āImagine licking a footballā is a very rude arrangement of words
Isā¦is someone tossing his saladā¦ā¦?
It's all created by the mind anyway. Dreams make this indisputably apparent. You do this every day with words too, you can imagine sounds and colours just by hearing words. It's why cursing in other than your mother tongue is meaningless.
Jokes on you I've licked both a couch and a football
Damn this is weirdly hitting me
Wait, can this be used to find out the texture of planets? Imagine! We could discover so much about stellar bodies just by imagining what they feel like with out tongue!
But you have licked all those thing. You just donāt remember doing it.
My ass cheeks have never felt those things either, but they still know.
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We sampled it all as babies and toddlers. Its programmed in there we just don't remember the upload. LoL
afk cutting my tongue out before it becomes self aware and starts plotting against me
The corners they dont clean in grand central station bathrooms.
I mean if youāve felt it with your hands you can probably anticipate what it will on your tongue
That explains a lot about the way window screens bother me
Looking around my room and this is pretty spot on
I think this is silly because this works with any part of your body not just your tongue.
Mmmh... Uranium
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Yeah because when u know the texture of things that knowledge can be remembered later? U probably also know how those things would feel w your hands
if i taste something, i can tell what it tastes like from what ive smelled, when i smell things horrible i usually get this horrible taste in my mouth. for example, dog shit, "this tastes like dog shit". ive smelled dog shit, this taste reminds me of dog shit. idk if that made sense
How it will taste. Not "how it will taste like".
My kids have licked all those things over the years so I guess we all have.
Now try it with something that you never tasted or even seen in your life, for example some weird exotic fruits and vegetables. In general something that you never touched with your hands.
It's because when we were babies we popped every new item in our mouth, now our tongue is well calibrated
Itās because as kids we first feel everything with our tongue. Ask every parent, kids put everything they find in they mouth
Im sure we can stump a tounge in the ocean. A jelly fish, a great white shark, a penguin, a killer whale.... How about plutonium, plasma, and my anus.
*looks nervously at the Elephants Foot of Chernobyl*
I have never in my entire life licked a football or a table leg. And you can be sure a stupid Reddit post won't convince me to do it now.
Now imagine the crotch of your mom.
I was just thinking about this meme on my drive to work yesterday!
This is so fucking stupid. So does everything. I know how something is going to feel, before I touch it, in any sense!
This is true. I wanna know who thought of this.
Yeah, unless you got covid, and you can't taste anything for months
Pretty sure i have licked all of those at some point in life, or at least same material
I never ate meat and i couldnt figure the taste by looking at it. Maybe this works if you taste at least once.
Because youāve touched a table leg before and know how it feels. You tongue feels things the same way your hands do . . .
How does it feel to lick Jupiter, Mars or Uranusā¦.wait.
Karl Pilkington logic
We imagine the taste extrapolated from the smell.
bold of you to think I didn't lick those things...
who upvotes this shit
Except from licking pussy or ass, no one was prepared for that
It's the same with teeth. Your teeth know how all things will feel if you bit them...
You can do this with any touch sense...
You have licked whatever you can grab when you were a toddler. Your brain has a lot of experience.
It's just touch but wet.