Vae -- new sense organ

[sythyry]

And, if you were giving your entire species a new sense organ, what would you want it to be?

The sense organ I would give mine, I shall call the thlume.  The gleaming faceted short horn it would be in shape, curling under the chin like a goatee.  The correct perception of the emotions of people nearby would it provide, and --- this is the elemental fantasy --- it would allow us to be aware of them.  The unhappiness caused by some gift we make we could see and understand, and, if we wished, we could avoid making it worse.

And you?

Comments

[stryck.livejournal.com]

A set of tiny dots on the back of the arms and hands that sense electrical energy. (Some animals on our world have something like this already!) That way, we could brush our hands along a wall and feel the current running in the power cables inside it, or really sensitive people could get a new appreciation of circuitry. And imagine what a thunderstorm would be like! Tingles or thrums prickling at the skin to match the tension of humidity in the air and the smell of the storm.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

The joyful sense that sounds to be!

[bloofox.livejournal.com]

They have something like that you can have installed.

(With some downsides and not that sensitive, unfortunately.)

[kensaro.livejournal.com]

Gluing magnets to your fingertips instills some of this, but be careful with hard disks and bank cards.