How are you able to feel wetness through latex gloves without getting wet?
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It’s simple, your skin is extremely sensitive; also latex gloves are quite thin. Not to mention water has slight electrical properties that could possibly be interfacing with neurons. Another aspect is visual stimulus. You could “sense” the water because you can see water is trickling over your hand… this follows with the “frog in a pot” analogy, also mirror box/phantom limb pain experiments. A lot of people oblivious to physical stimuli will often take longer to react to their threshold that someone actively observing/aware of what’s happening. Threat level detections is a factor their too. That said, everyone’s perceptions vary wildly in magnitude and diversity. But at the heart of it, humans can be extremely precise tools. Thin latex gloves are of little hindrance.
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