From my understanding, we’re able to feel the temperature, texture and pressure of water. And if we’re able to feel all that, what more else is there? What defines wetness and what should it feel like?
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It’s just detecting temperature and texture. One night years ago I was at one of my friends’ bonfires and started feeling a bunch of tiny pinprick sensations on my shoulder, like little cold spots. At first, I thought my arm had fallen asleep or I had inadvertently triggered a nerve, but slowly realized, nope, it had started raining, and those little pinprickles were light raindrops. Without any other sensory information, and while thoroughly distracted, the brain can’t tell the difference.
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