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If you imagine licking a surface with your tongue your brain will tell you what it will feel like without the need to actually lick it.

...its pretty accurate.

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PineRune@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 2y (2 replies)

There are some things we don't have to imagine, because everybody has experienced licking it. One such example is OP's mom.

unreachable@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

MrNesser@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Fuck it have an up vote

Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 2y
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Threadsdeadbaby@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Ooh it's because when we were babies we put everything in our mouths! The brain (and tongue) remembers.

MrNesser@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Works with anything you can think of It helps if you can see the object

elvith@feddit.org · 5 pts · 2y

I wonder what the surface of the sun...

AaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaAaAaAaAahhhhhhhh!

FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
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CluckN@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I imagined licking todays lottery numbers thanks OP!

MrNesser@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

10 16 23 43 50 32

16 tastes like chapstick

BugleFingers@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

16 feels smooth, then smooth and suddenly pointy when I think about licking those numbers