Any one know why this is.

[Quan_Chi]

My mind gets cold and wet confused.

For example, If I lay down in bed and there happens to be some loose change in my bed that is cold when it touches my back I will think I've laid on something wet.
Another example, if fabric is cold, or plastic, really anything that is cold, it will feel like it has moisture to it. Even if I'm looking straight at it, I just cant tell if its wet or not.

Any brain doctors out there?
Is there a name for this sort of thing?

[blithen]

Well there is possibly some truth to the moisture thing.
The coin is cold, your body is warm, rapidly cooling the warm air around your body where the coin touched.
Thus creating small, probably microscopic water molecules.

keep in mind, I might be wrong, I am 16 in high school, and this is just a educated guess.

[Quan_Chi]

Great scott I think he's got it!

Linux users are so smart, thats why I came here to ask this question.

But another thing.
Its doesnt even really have to be that cold, just a slight chill to it.
So I dont know if thats cold enough to create moisture or not.

[blithen]

That I don't know.
That would require a lot of research.
Like How cold the penny is, and how hot your body it.
Then how fast, and how cold air has to be to be turned into moisture.
And. sorry. I don't feel like doing that. :P

[Quan_Chi]

I just drank a gallon of arizona tea....
I feel sick

[lisati]

It's possibly more to do with a perceived contrast than actual values measurable to the four-millionth decimal place. Just a thought.
:)

[blithen]

It's possibly more to do with a perceived contrast than actual values measurable to the four-millionth decimal place. Just a thought.
:)
Does that actually mean something, or were you just messing around?

[justleen]

I could be a twist in your brains pathways. Like people who taste colours.

Did you ever try t lie on something wet, and see if that feels cold??

[Crashmaxx]

It has nothing to do with condensation forming. When you get wet, the water gets warmed by the body and evaporates, which cools you. So you are used to recognizing wetness by the cooling effect. So your body can't differentiate between something wet or cold easily.

The same reason you often can't 'feel' your sweat until it drips or evaporates enough to cool you.

[lisati]

Does that actually mean something, or were you just messing around?

Just keeping my mind occupied while waiting for my laptop to finish updating itself.......to me, wet sometimes feels cold, and cold things sometimes feel wet.

[blithen]

When you get wet, the water gets warmed by the body and evaporates, which cools you.

That would be condensation on your body >_>

[Crashmaxx]

That would be condensation on your body >_>

No, that is the opposite of condensation. And it was only an example of when feeling cold and wet at the same time would occur. And therefore your body would associated one with the other and vise-versa.

For condensation to occur, you would need to be colder then the surrounding air and have water collect on you, actually warming you.

[blithen]

No, that is the opposite of condensation. And it was only an example of when feeling cold and wet at the same time would occur. And therefore your body would associated one with the other and vise-versa.

For condensation to occur, you would need to be colder then the surrounding air and have water collect on you, actually warming you.

Oh... ._. I apologize.

[popch]

The human skin can tell warm from cold; it can not tell dry from wet.

Metals are good conductors of heat. If you touch a metal object at room temperature, the metal will transport heat away from your body. You will feel a small difference in temperature between the spot touching the metal and the surrounding skin.

On the other hand, if you put a few spots of water on your skin, the water will evaporate. By doing so, it cools down itself and the environment with which it is in contact. What you feel is - again - a possibly slight difference in temperature between the wet spot of skin and the surrounding skin.

Hence it is easy to understand why your body can not tell cool parts of your skin from wet parts. In both cases, the only thing your skin actually experiences is the difference in temperature.

In contrast, if you place a limb in a container with water at body temperature, you will feel no temperature difference and hence no wetness. You might, however, feel the effects of water resistance (eddies in the water) when moving the limb in the water.

[jgrabham]

I could be a twist in your brains pathways. Like people who taste colours.


"It tastes red! - aww crap - its just tizer"

[Tomosaur]

As someone else said - your body has no real way of telling when there is water on the skin. Water is interpreted as touch, as far as I'm aware, which is why you can wander round all day with flecks of ink on your face and not be aware of it until someone points it out to you.

I am not entirely sure why you experience 'cold' as 'wet', but I'd imagine it's just because you haven't touched enough dry cold things or enough warm wet things to have established a physical difference.

[Quan_Chi]

Insightful answers.
Thanks alot guys