@Joelle Yzquierdo I initially noticed diminished perception in my right calve, but then on further investigation realised that both my calves were a bit of a blind spot. Most of the muscles in my body I can isolate and twitch individually. What I realised is that for my calves I was relying on moving my foot. So I spent some time on my good leg figuring out what that felt like and then copied the sensation to the other side. Now I can twitch the muscle without moving my foot. It's definitely been an interesting experience. I've really put what I learnt from ending unnecessary suffering to work - even when it initially happened I was laughing and joking with the paramedics because the pain was just a signal - thankyou leg for telling me you're broken - message received - now onto calmly doing what the paramedics tell me to do in order to get better. That in and of itself has been liberating. I can't do everything I would normally do, but it's been a fun challenge finding out what I can do.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts. I knew there would be some interesting perspectives here!

I remember asking one of my primary school teachers - how do we know that other people see colours in the same way? And she just brushed it off. Of course they do. But colour blind people exist, and see colours in an entirely different way, animals see colours in different ways. We cannot possibly know that the way we experience the world is the same as everyone else. And then there's all the concepts tied into colours... I saw a language study that found that primitive languages only had words for black, white and red, and as they matured, added green and blue, and then over time create more complex language for describing distinctions between colours. But the humans using those primitive languages had the colour receptors to see orange - they just called it red. So we're not even particularly good at communicating our experiences with accuracy.