Five-Senses Quiz

 What’s Your Most Neglected Sense?

We’re familiar with the five senses: see, hear, smell, taste, touch. This quiz will help you identify your most neglected sense.

Of your five senses, this is the sense that you least often turn to for pleasure or comfort. Even if you’re highly sensitive, you may not spend time exploring or cultivating it. You may be more concerned with avoiding the negative than appreciating the positive.

Once you recognize your neglected sense, you can use this self-knowledge as a shortcut to a richer life. You can find a new source of comfort, calm, and creativity; you can find fresh experiences that will delight you; perhaps most important, you can make opportunities to engage with other people.

Identifying your neglected sense will . . .

  • help explain why you’re attracted to certain purchases, practices, and habits–and why you’re not attracted
  • give you clues about the types of activities that you might find more or less appealing
  • suggest new experiences you might enjoy
  • provide new ways to connect with others
  • give you a new tool to add to your self-care toolbox

It’s easy to get stuck in our heads and forget to engage with the world around us, and it’s also easy to fall into ruts of experience. Tapping in to a neglected sense can awaken our mindfulness and revive our sense of excitement and wonder.

As you take the quiz, choose the answer that seems most generally true for you; don’t focus too much on the specifics of the examples. Note: if you have sensory processing differences, or health conditions such as allergies or migraines, you may find this quiz less useful. (If so, if you’d be willing to share your insights and experience, I’d love to hear from you.)

TAKE THE QUIZ

We’re all familiar with the five senses: see, hear, smell, taste, touch. This quiz will help you identify your most neglected sense.

Of your five senses, this is the sense that you least often turn to for pleasure or comfort. You probably don’t spend time exploring or cultivating it. You may be more concerned with avoiding the negative than appreciating the positive.

Once you recognize your neglected sense, you can use this self-knowledge as a shortcut to a richer life. You can find a new source of comfort, calm, and creativity; you can find fresh experiences that will delight you; perhaps most important, you can make opportunities to engage with other people.

Identifying your neglected sense will . . .

  • help explain why you’re attracted to certain purchases, practices, and habits–and why you’re not attracted
  • give you clues about the types of activities that you might find or more or less appealing
  • suggest new experiences you might enjoy
  • provide new ways to connect with others
  • give you a new tool to add to your self-care toolbox

It’s easy to get stuck in our heads and forget to engage with the world around us, and it’s also easy to fall into ruts of experience. Tapping into a neglected sense can awaken our mindfulness and revive our sense of excitement and wonder.

As you take the quiz, choose the answer that seems most generally true for you; don’t focus too much on the specifics of the examples. Note: if you have sensory processing differences, you may find this quiz less useful. (If so, if you’d be willing to share your insights and experience, I’d love to hear from you .)