Why do we feel an ice cold sensation for a brief moment before the pain of a thousand suns when we touch boiling hot water/a super hot surface?

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Why do we feel an ice cold sensation for a brief moment before the pain of a thousand suns when we touch boiling hot water/a super hot surface?

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It is called paradoxial heat response: basically if your skin gets too hot very fast your receptors for feeling cold get activated faster than the receptors for feeling hot. Thats why you feel cold for a short period of time.

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