Submitted by Manriki_Kusari t3_114cfs0 in askscience
Just shocked myself on a doorknob and then I remembered that discovery flying around that humans can't sense wetness, but they only feel the cold temperature, the pressure and the feeling to know that they're wet. Is it the same thing with electric shock? Am I sensing that there was a transfer of electrons? Or am I sensing the transfer of heat and the prickly feeling and whatever else is involved?