Of the senses we’re familiar with or aware of, anyway, e.g. taste/smell/hearing/vision/touch.

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    I’m sure it’s a quite different experience, but there are people whohave gotten magnets implanted under their skin in order to feel magnetic field.

    I’m not quite ready for that myself, but I did do a little experiment my supergluing some tiny neodymium magnets to my fingernails. I suspect the implants are probably more sensitive since they better able to wiggle around but I could feel some things. The forklift charger and pencil sharpener I had at work got probably the strongest responses I noticed for the week or so I had them.

    I also got really used to picking up paperclips and such with them really quick, I caught myself trying to do it now and then for probably about a month after I no longer had the magnets.

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      I read an article years ago about a guy who put magnetic sensors and vibrator motors in his belt so that every time he turned, the north side of him would buzz. Apparently after a while, he stopped noticing, and just “knew” which way was north.

      Found this while looking for that article.

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        Somewhat related to that, certain Australian aboriginal languages don’t have words for relative directions like left/right and use cardinal directions (north/south/east/west) so they tend to keep track of their orientation subconsciously.

        So if you were to help one of them, for example, move a couch, they might tell you to move your end a bit to the west and avoid any “my left or your left?/No your other left” shenanigans.

        Probably also a very helpful thing to be aware of if you find yourself trying to navigate the outback.