... we couldn't feel temperature?

Do you know that problem: the summer goes towards the end and you dress in the morning without looking outside or checking your weather app. You decide to wear a nice pair of shorts, a t-shirt and some sandals. Then you step out of the house and you realize: it is not warm enough to wear just shorts and t-shirt. But what would be, if we could not feel temperatures?

Feeling no temperature would mean, we can't feel heat nor coldness, but we could still feel the texture of the things we touch and pain. At first, it sounds amazing to feel no coldness, doesn't it. Even in winter we could wear shorts or dresses and jackets would not be necessary at all. Also, wouldn't it be amazing to just swim in lakes or the sea in the winter.

But on the other hand, there are a lot of disadvantages by not feeling the temperature. That our body can work, it needs a body temperature of 37 degree Celsius. This is extremely important for our metabolism. If the exterior temperature changes, it influences our body temperature. To keep up his metabolism, the body has to adjust the body temperature. But how should our body know if it has to heat up our body or to cool it down, if we are not able to feel the temperature.

Another problem would be, that we can hurt us easily. Imagine you are baking some with in the oven. Then you want to take the baking tray out. Of course, you use protection gloves, but by accident you touch the hot tray. Because you cannot feel the heat you will take your hand away when it is already to late, when you have burnt yourself.

Like you can see, the receptors to feel warmth or coldness are very important for our body and our health. Perhaps it is better, if we have to dress accordingly to the weather because we feel coldness, then always having to deal with the consequences when it is too late.