How come humans detect some extremely hot things as being cold things, and vice versa?

Question

For example, dry ice. When you touch it, the temperature is so cold it burns. Same thing for hot, hot water. Skin, dude.

In: Biology

Answer 1

It is kind of like the old speedometers that only went to 85mph . If you had a fast enough car you could be going 120mph but your speedometer would only read 10mph.
I’m not entirely sure this analogy is accurate in this case but that is how I understand it. Your nerves are basically overloaded so they false report.