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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kolvar" data-source="post: 1506134" data-attributes="member: 1423">Mhm, would a race, that does can only sense the sound through other means than the ears, because all are deaf, regard, what it senses, as music and come to some, for other people very strange, musical concepts? Advanced rythm-styles is one way, but finer airwaves could do other things. Than, it depends strongly on how well developed this other sense is.Sense-Synergy comes to mind, too. People, who see sound, feal color and smell touch. While these are tricks of the mind, connections of different senses, that force the person to not only use one sense but two or more on one stimulus, it could be like that for races missing one sense - or they would just do not understand what sight or sound is.Another example for different sensual input comes from Marion Zimmer Bradleys Darkover series. Because the telpaths/ empaths could sense the emotions of their surrounding, they would not touch anyone, because it would be to overwhelming. Or imagine a creature sensing magic in a world with leylines, constantly dodging the leylines, looking for rooms without any magic ...</blockquote>