eli5: How come when we sit down where someone else has been sitting, it feels warm. Yet when we sit down where we have been sitting already, you don’t feel anything.

Question

Potentially dumb question but I’ve been curious about this for a while.

In: Biology

Answer 1

It has nothing to do with the question who has sat there before, if it was yourself or somebody else. The point is the temperature difference between your ass and the seat. If they have about the same temperature you don’t feel anything, if the seat is colder than your ass it feels cold, if it’s warmer than your ass it feels warm. Regardless of who caused the ‘seat temperature’.