History Main / SenseFreak

* The ComicBook/MartianManhunter is a [[StoryBreakerPower ridiculously overpowered]] shapeshifting alien -- [[MarsWantsChocolate who can't get enough Oreos]]. There was an adorable reference to this in a BreatherEpisode of the otherwise fairly serious ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' animated series.
** To emphasize this even more: one of the most powerful superheroes of all, the guy with all of ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s superpowers plus some, quite literally has an ''Oreo addiction''. OK, so maybe it's not quite to the point of an addiction, but... the man likes his Oreos!
*** Actually, in ''Martian Manhunter, Vol. 2, #24'', it became canon that for Martians, Oreos (or in this case [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Chocos]]) are addictive. FridgeLogic sets in when one considers ''why'' exactly it's processed cookies, rather than say, chocolate. Though recent studies show that rats actually do develop an addiction to Oreo cookies not too different from a cocaine addiction. Perhaps that also applies to DC martians.

* ComicBook/{{Batman}} used this to his advantage one time. With the BadFuture world about to be destroyed by Darkseid, and being observed and recorded for posterity by Metron, a literal god, Bats convinced him he needed to make himself mortal to completely record the human experience before it was wiped from existence. [[spoiler:When Metron did as suggested, Batman coldcocked him and stole his Mobius Chair to send ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, ComicBook/TheFlash and ComicBook/GreenLantern to the past to save the day.]] Sucker. Something of a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion, too -- Metron finds being human [[BeingHumanSucks utterly boring]].
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': Death comments that of all the ways mortals absorb energy, she finds eating the best, topping even photosynthesis. Several others of the Endless also seem to delight in such human pastimes, as do other non-human cast members (and there is a reference to the ComicBook/MartianManhunter noted above).

* The Phoenix from ''Comicbook/XMen'' is a bit of an emotion junkie. Considering that it's able to make [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]] beg and crawl at the height of its power, that's a very bad thing.

* Creator/KimBasinger, again, in ''Film/MyStepMotherIsAnAlien'': alien takes human form, has this reaction to food and sex. Also, gets drunk on caffeine.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' has been a vampire for centuries. When he is temporarily turned human again, he rediscovers the joys of food, tearing through the contents of the office fridge.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4TheSockOpera Sock Opera]]", Bill takes over the body of [[spoiler:Dipper]]. He immediately seems impressed with having ''two'' eyes, commenting that "this thing's deluxe!". Unfortunately, he becomes incredibly focused on the ''pain'' aspect of touching and proceeds to injure and generally abuse the body he's inhabiting -- including repeatedly closing a kitchen drawer shut on his hand, purposely falling downstairs and ''impaling a fork'' into his arm, while gleefully announcing, "Pain is hilarious!" He then discovers a negative part of having a physical body that he never considered that ruins his whole plan: [[spoiler:fatigue]].

* In ''Anime/SailorMoon'', Green Esmeraude - your typical {{Vain Sorceress}} strolls into a fancy shin-dig, causing heads to turn at her hot elegance - until she discovered the food table, there she immediately matches [[BigEater Usagi]] dessert for dessert in stuffing her face. This caused her extreme embarrassment once she snaps out of it.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''
** A non-alien example: in chapter 386, [[spoiler: Kaname Tosen goes [[VillainousBreakdown off his rocker]] after his Resurrecion grants him eyesight. He is so overwhelmed by his new vision that he leaves himself open to [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome a sneak attack by his own former lieutenant Hisagi]]. Hisagi notes that Tosen would've "seen" that attack coming from a mile away if he had still been blind.]]
** Because Gremmy Thoumeaux's power allows him to materialise anything he imagines, [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction he's never really felt what it's like to actually]] ''[[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction want]]'' [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction anything before, because everything just comes to him as a matter of course]]. So when he's finally confronted by Kenpachi, an enemy too strong to simply imagine away, he gets quite ...[[BloodKnight enthusiastic]] over feeling desire (to win) for the first time in his life.
* The eponymous Anime/{{Ponyo|On The Cliff By The Sea}} goes crazy for HAM!!!, it being the first human food she ever tastes (as well as imprinting on the first human she meets in a biiiiig, world-threatening way). It seems a minor recurring Ghibli theme of late - gaining human desires is what turns Noh-face from a neutral (if creepy) spirit to an apparently evil one in Spirited Away, and (although largely off-camera) even becomes an inverse MysteriousAnimalSenses in Pom Poko (where Tanuki transformed into humans, ultimately as a side effect of their habitats being destroyed, like it so much they stay in their new form).

* ''Anime/Dororo2019'' shows Hyakkimaru's reaction to regaining his senses in quite a detail, both heartwarming and funny. He spent majority of his life in complete isolation from the world and so has barely has any experience in interacting with his surrounding. Speaking about social skills is pointless. He spent a whole day sniffing everything in reach after getting his nose back or grabbing people and rubbing his forehead against theirs to greet them.

* The ComicBook/MartianManhunter is a [[GameBreaker ridiculously overpowered]] shapeshifting alien -- who can't get enough Oreos. There was an adorable reference to this in a BreatherEpisode of the otherwise fairly serious ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' animated series.
** Let me emphasize this even more: one of the most powerful superheroes of all, the guy with all of Superman's superpowers plus some, quite literally has an ''Oreo addiction''. OK, so maybe it's not quite to the point of an addiction, but... the man likes his Oreos!

* In an unfortunate twist, an arc in ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' has, as the villain, a Prohibition-era mobster who was fused with an EnergyBeing seeking to psychically uplift humanity ''while getting a blowjob''. The EnergyBeing was "blown away" by the physical pleasure, resulting in a fusion who had all the powers of the original EnergyBeing, but the power-hungry, hedonistic personality of the mobster, and who proceeded to create a multiverse-spanning corporation that sold off the natural resources of universes. Not a good thing.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} used this to his advantage one time. With the BadFuture world about to be destroyed by Darkseid, and being observed and recorded for posterity by Metron, a literal god, Bats convinced him he needed to make himself mortal to completely record the human experience before it was wiped from existence. [[spoiler:When Metron did as suggested, Batman coldcocked him and stole his Mobius Chair to send Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}, ComicBook/TheFlash and ComicBook/GreenLantern to the past to save the day.]] Sucker.
** Something of a subversion, too - Metron finds being human utterly boring.
* [[ComicBook/TheSandman Death]] comments that of all the ways mortals absorb energy, she finds eating the best, topping even photosynthesis. Several others of the Endless also seem to delight in such human pastimes, as do other non-human cast members (and there is a reference to the Martian Manhunter noted above).
* In ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', two fallen angels open up a hotel/casino in Vegas and indulge themselves. After doing a line of cocaine, one former angel tells his friend that he would have gotten himself kicked out of heaven centuries ago if he knew what life on Earth had to offer. He then gives a speech about how awesome sex is, his only regret being that he didn't fall back when Joan of Arc was still alive.
* ThePhoenix from ''Comicbook/XMen'' is a bit of an emotion junkie. Considering it's able to make Comicbook/{{Galactus}} beg and crawl at the height of its power, that's a very bad thing.

[[folder:Fan Fic]]
* In the ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' {{fanfic}} ''[[http://www.suburbansenshi.com/ Suburban Senshi,]]'' after deconstructing ThePowerOfLove for all it's worth, Miss Dream emerges from Hotaru's subconscious into the real world and... promptly gets distracted. Being a dream creature that has never felt anything, she starts touching everything she gets her hands on, eating all she wants and going to the spa, giving the senshi enough time to come BackFromTheDead.
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]'' fanfic [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/103754/human-shining-armor-gets-twilight-sparkle-pregnant "Human Shining Armor Gets Twilight Sparkle Pregnant"]] (disregard the title, it's a better story than it sounds.) When the pony protagonist becomes a human, he discovers that he has a lot more trouble controlling his emotions, and he's surprised to find out that his libido is acting up despite the fact that he cannot smell any in-season females.
* Milo from the Harry Potter/Dungeons & Dragons crossover ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheNatural20'' becomes this once he tries out Hogwarts food and realizes what he's been missing out on (having eaten practical but tasteless Everlasting Rations his whole life).
* Ghosts (Humans who spend most of their time outside a physical body) in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9271192/5/Transcendent-Humanity Transcendent Humanity]]'' refer to the sensation as Skin Shock. One even tells the [[Franchise/MassEffect Geth]] that she fully expects to be fascinated by toast or something equally mundane when she returns to her organic body.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4445937/27/The-Gift The Gift,]]'' [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Hikari]] accidentally summons and merges with an Esper. Given that the spirit hadn't had a body in over twenty thousand years, she ends up masturbating furiously after accidentally groping herself.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11314081/2/Pearl-Likes-Pie Pearl Likes Pie]]'', the Gems- not having flesh bodies- never ate before they came to Earth. Amethyst is delighted by the taste of food nonetheless.

* Inverted in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7421837/5/The-Left-ARM-of-God The Left ARM of God]]'' when [[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero Louise]] ties her senses to [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Zeruel's]] due to the latter being an EldritchAbomination. Louise describes it as smelling colors, seeing [[AlienGeometries four sided triangles]], and tasting the blood system of the ground.
* Penny has a brief instance of this in ''FanFic/TheRWBYLoops''; during the first loop where she is biologically human, she quickly sets out to experience all that having human senses have to offer with the help of Ruby and Sun. Later loops downplay it to a degree, as she primarily seeks out artificial noses to install and, eventually, use her RobotGirl status to record the experience of being human.
* In VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition's ''FanFic/WalkingInCircles'', [[spoiler: apparently, being Tranquil aside from cutting off one’s emotions, it also increase the intensity of some of their physical senses]] as after recovered from it, while Evelyn can’t really control her emotions, most of her senses has become much more intense than before. Food taste stronger, smells linger and a shift in temperature can make her recoil.

* ''Fanfic/{{Eroninja}}'': This is what ultimate starts Kurama and the other Tailed Beasts down the path to becoming Naruto's lovers. Whenever Naruto uses the Temptation's Touch during sex, Kurama could feel everything from his lover's perspective and crafts a human body specifically to experience it first hand.

[[folder:Film]]

* ''Film/TheBrainFromPlanetArous'' was about a sense freak alien brain called Gor who possessed a human body with wonderfully over-the-top results.
* This is actually one of the reasons why the Angels in the beautiful film ''Film/WingsOfDesire'' even consider giving up everything to become ordinary people -- and it is a big, ''big'' reason.

* (Also discussed on EditorialSynaesthesia) - Pretty much a core protagonist motivation in ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', though only the big, obvious, club-you-in-the-head one actually gets any expo; Jake (re)gaining the powers of lower body sensation and motor control. Addictive enough on an immediate basis to make one [[spoiler:side with a previously barely-known alien race in their takedown of your birth species, even though the latter could give you just the same at the other end of a cold sleep space jaunt]]. That and, of course, being able to mentally interface with other natives, animals, and even [[spoiler:planet-spanning plant networks]] via some kind of braid-wang thing that it probably doesn't do to think much about. Other minor stuff, such as suddenly having a tail (which appears to just flap around randomly), near-indesructibility from blunt trauma, and presumably altered vision, hearing, smell/taste, vocal cords, etc are barely touched on if at all.

* Inverted with a TearJerker in ''Film/SupermanII--'' Superman has [[BroughtDownToNormal depowered himself]] for Lois. He then gets in a fistfight with a bully to defend her honor -- and discovers what pain is like. He seems as much ''surprised'' as anything: "Blood! My blood..." Of course, he underwent the transformation so he and Lois could have a, um, very different sort of human sensual experience.
* ''Film/{{Savaged}}'': When deaf girl Zoe is resurrected and possessed by the spirit of an Apache warrior, she discovers that she can now hear. She becomes fascinated by sound, and is especially entranced by an opera singer on the radio.

* Ax from ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' was an Andalite, an alien species which had developed ShapeShifting technology. During the times when [[HughMann he had to pose as a human]], he immediately went nuts over the sensation of eating. (Andalites are mouthless Centaur-like creatures in their normal form, and ''absorb'' food -- typically grass -- [[BizarreAlienBiology through their hooves]].) He almost immediately became addicted to "Cinnamon BUNZAH!!!" And to chili, chocolate, cigarette stubs (!)... as a Running Gag almost all of Ax's favorite foods began with the letter C. In a "WhatIf'' novel and one regular timeline book, he went crazy for Oreos, (OR-EE-OH!!)probably a ShoutOut to the Martian Manhunter. He also frequently references loving grease and salt.

** Not just restricted to Ax, one book had a squad of Andalites show up, the younger, female member discovers the joys of "jelly beanzuh!" HilarityEnsues, especially as the Animorphs are so used to Ax's displays they identify her as an Andalite the moment they ''hear'' just what she's doing. (She also asks everyone in the store what their favourite flavor/colour of Jelly Bean is, causing some parents to take away their children... quickly.)
*** After the war, bringing Andalites to Earth, giving them human morphs, and taking them to a food court becomes a kind of niche tourism industry.
*** Tourism industry? They're willing to consider sharing morphing technology with the general human populace in exchange for a Dunkin Donuts franchise.
** Yeerks are subtler about this than Andalites, but it's part of what moves them away from AlwaysChaoticEvil. Outside their host bodies, they're blind, defenseless slugs, and controlling other organisms is the only way they can enjoy the senses other species take for granted. When Cassie morphs Yeerk and infests a human she assumes enough Yeerkish instincts to be enthralled and delighted by the sight of a checkerboard-patterned tablecloth. [[spoiler: Visser 3's punishment after the war is to [[AndIMustScream simply be kept alive without a host, unable to see or hear]].]]
* In Creator/DianeDuane's ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series, it turns out that most aliens go nuts over the taste of chocolate. A single bar of highest-quality Earth chocolate can be [[SeriousBusiness used as a bribe of staggering size]] under the right circumstances.
* The Auditors of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' are [[ScaryDogmaticAliens completely objective, analytical beings]]. In ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', one of them took on a human body and nearly died of overstimulation after eating ''dry toast''. When the other Auditors start taking human bodies as well, the heroes fight them off with ''chocolate''.
** The first Auditor mentioned, who goes by the PunnyName of Myria [=LeJean=] [[spoiler:has a HeelFaceTurn and realises, at the end of the novel, that there's little place for her in the world she saved. She commits suicide by diving into a huge pool of the finest quality melted chocolate.]]

** Could well be a way of explaining the Faerie's behaviour in Lords and Ladies - a desire to feel a linear flow of time once again, instead of living in a place where [[Webcomic/EightBitTheater causality has been shattered and existence is a nightmare without beginning or end]].
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the hiver from ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky''. It's revealed the reason the hiver takes over the bodies of living creatures is that [[spoiler: its natural senses are so acute that it can sense ''everything at once'', and millennia of sensory overload has driven it mad with fear; it favors human hosts because of humanity's ability to cope with the vastness of the cosmos by [[WeirdnessCensor ignoring it completely]].]]

* In the short story "Literature/TheSixtyTwoCursesOfCaliphArenschadd" by Creator/PatriciaCWrede, a girl and her family who were cursed to turn [[{{Animorphism}} into wolves]]. They are immediately enthralled with the awesome sensations of hearing and smell.
* In ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree'' by Stephen King, Roland of Gilead comes from a ScavengerWorld and is completely overwhelmed by the taste of a simple tuna fish sandwich and some soda. Which is explained in-universe as being due to his upbringing. A famously gluttonous man in his hometown had three sugars in his tea (or possibly coffee). Apparently they ate for function rather than taste.
* In ''Dreamcatcher'', after Mr. Grey takes control of Jonesy's body. Leading to said Mr. Grey learning the hard way that there's a difference between cooked and raw bacon.
* Another nonhuman form example. At one point in [[Creator/CliffordSimak Cliff Simak]]'s ''City'', scientists are researching the innermost layers of Jupiter, and discover a pitch-black, windblasted "surface" of sorts at pressures so high that the most rugged machines can barely stay together long enough to examine it. Humanity has by this time invented a means to upload one's mind into a variety of creatures temporarily, and there are simple slug-like animals roaming the Jovian surface. When this is done, the explorers find that Jupiter's surface through the senses of a slug-thing is practically an euphoric wonderland of hedonism, and Earth is practically depopulated in an overnight exodus to Jovian slugdom.
* ''Literature/KeysToTheKingdom'': Denizens of the House don't need to eat or drink, and can't get properly sick. However, with House life being rather monotonous, they place a lot of value on illnesses as a way of relieving the tedium; they can sport a running nose or a frog in the throat, even if they don't really ''feel'' sick. A well-stabilised spell to imbue an illness can actually be worth quite a lot of money.
* In ''[[Literature/ILucifer I, Lucifer]]'', the titular character, upon assuming mortal flesh, spends the first few hours of existence enjoying every sensation around -- really, ''everything''. The feel of the toilet bowl, the taste of soap, the smell of dog piss. '''Every'''. '''Damn'''. '''Thing'''.

--> '''Memnon''': "You're all whores to your senses, you know that, don't you?"

* Creator/AnneRice's vampires in ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'' are examples due to being animated by a spirit that longed to experience human sensations. ''The Tale of the Body Thief'' has Lestat finally get his wish by swapping bodies with a human for a day (unfortunately, said human is a clepto, who proceeds to abscond with Lestat's own body). He gets to experience everything, from eating and drinking to sex (with a nun no less) and even urinating. Then he nearly dies of exposure and has to find money for food. By the time he gets his body back, he's pretty happy to do itZ
* Commercialised in the ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'' universe with [=SimStim=]. The enjoyment of experiencing things through another body, whether mundane or something you'd never normally have a chance of doing, has led to enough of a business to spawn its own extreme sport, porn, and ''soap opera'' stars and breakout hits. Case, oddly, only gets a bit of a jolt when Molly gives them both a nipple tweak. Must be all that enforced cold turkey [[spoiler: from the drug-reactive slow-release capsules sewn into his arteries]] dulling the brain's sensory cortex.
** More like during the mission most of the sensations Case gets from Molly are unpleasant ones, like [[spoiler: having her broken leg re-fracture during a fight, or having Riviera [[EyeScream smash one of her lens implants.]]]]
* In ''[[Literature/MatthewSwift A Madness of Angels]]'', the entities sharing Matthew's body are enthralled by pretty much everything, from taste to ''colors''. It's been stated that if they weren't sharing a consciousness with Matthew's human personality, they'd probably have gone insane from sensory overload.
* In the ''Literature/NightsDawnTrilogy'', the possessed tend to be extreme Sense Freaks. It turns out that spending a lot of time [[SenseLossSadness without any senses at all]] makes ''any'' kind of sensation something to be treasured.
* In ''Literature/TheHost2008'', [[HumansAreSpecial humans have the most (and most vivid) senses out of any species the Souls have ever taken as hosts]]. Wanderer's even warned about it ahead of time; apparently it's in the brochure.
* Stingbulbs from {{Literature/Fablehaven}} are naturally this: their true form, after all, is a fruit with little to no senses to speak of. Thanks to their overwhelming loyalty to the first person they see, though, they can mostly ignore it to pass for human easily.
* Inverted in ''The Three-Legged Hooch Dancer'' by Mike Resnick. A human character has let himself be talked into undergoing elaborate surgery to resemble a "Hod," a race of giant slug-like aliens, in order to negotiate a business deal with them. At first we assume that he's experiencing BodyHorror and that he can't wait to change back. But then he explains that being a Hod is great. It's slow-paced and relaxing, and just moving around feels so pleasant and soothing that he doesn't want to change back.
* In ''Literature/ThreeToConquer'' by Creator/EricFrankRussell, hostiles from Venus possess human bodies. One way to spot them is by eucalyptus on their breath: eucalyptus on human tongues tastes like a favorite food tasted on their original ... corresponding sense organs.

* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''[[Literature/WorldOfTheFiveGods The Hallowed Hunt]]'', a renegade sorcerer's demon "ascends", taking control of his body[[note]]having a demon co-existing in one's body but maintaining control over it--"possessing" a demon, as opposed to being possessed ''by'' a demon--is what gives a human sorcerer magical powers[[/note]]. The hitherto immaterial demon begins an extended period of experimenting with "whatever erratic pleasures in matter" it desired, with its human former master now trapped helplessly in his own body. He notes that the "months it decided to experiment with pain were the worst".

[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* The aliens in ''Series/{{Roswell}}'' put Tabasco sauce on ''everything''. It may have been just for the taste, but could conceivably have helped them maintain human form (you never forget your first [[EpilepticTrees Epileptic Tree]]).

* There was an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' featuring an alien dignitary who had been unfamiliar with the concept of eating for pleasure before he came to the Enterprise. You can imagine how that turned out. The same episode had two other dignitaries, each tasked to study a human emotion (the first dignitary sampled pleasure in the form of eating, another dignitary tested antagonism ([[TheWorfEffect on Worf, of course]]), and a third stranded Picard on an alien planet with (presumably) a human woman to find out about love.)
** This trope doesn't have to be about taste. In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode where Troi has an alien baby, the child deliberately burns himself... just for the experience.
** And then there was the ''Voyager'' episode where The Doctor had to hide his program in Seven Of Nine's [[SharingABody body]], and immediately discovered the joys of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXXWrW6DiJA cheesecake]]...
*** Not to mention experiencing other physical responses, leading to the immortal line...
----> '''Seven:''' You [[ItMakesSenseInContext became sexually aroused]] in ''my'' body!
** And in ''First Contact'', one of the ways the Borg Queen seduces Data is to give him patches of human skin, and the sensory input therein. She's also able to stop him by having the Borg cut it, introducing him to the debilitation of pain.
** And there's trouble that brews in ''[[Film/StarTrekGenerations Generations]]'' from Data, his repaired emotion chip (reclaimed from Lore in the series two-part episode "Descent" but reluctantly put aside), and an inability of the former to control the latter (realism in action!). Both massive highs and lows, which he seeks out regardless in his continual quest for knowledge and understanding of the human condition - [[spoiler:and eventually wishes to give up the chip as he cannot easily manage the emotional overload - unfortunately it's fused into his neural net]]. Not all sensefreaking has to be from a direct external stimulus.

** In an episode of ''The Original Series'' the powerful [[StarfishAliens Kelvans]] assume human form and take over the ''Enterprise'', putting most of the crew in stasis. Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and [=McCoy=] recapture the ship by manipulating the Kelvan's senses; Scotty gets one into a {{drinking contest}}, [=McCoy=] pumps another full of stimulants, Spock psychologically manipulates another, and Kirk, naturally, seduces the female Kelvan.
** Subverted (like so many things) in ''Deep Space Nine'' when Odo is forced to stay in his humanlike form as a punishment by the Founders. When Sisko goes to talk to him in the beginning of the next episode, he ruminates on the fact that the need and sensation of eating and drinking ''disgusts'' him, and that he'll just have to get used to it.
*** Double subverted when Odo admits he finds the sound of the bubbles in his drink "soothing". When he begins to enjoy the experience of eating and drinking Sisko has to warn him not to overindulge.

*** Also when he first makes contact with his species and joins with another changeling for the first time in his life. Even a minor joining seems to cause him immense pleasure and relief as though deprived of something he's needed his entire life. Becomes a plot point later in the series when the female changeling is able to use it to keep him distracted from helping Kira's resistance group.
** Another subversion comes from TNG, in [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/deja-qa-matter-of-perspective,45055/ an episode where Q is turned into a human]] as punishment for... well, for being Q. He describes feeling fatigue and falling asleep as a horrific experience (much as a normal human might describe an illness-induced blackout), throws his back out, gets stabbed with a fork by Guinan, and generally has a miserable time of it. To give an example of his opinion on being human, at one point he quips "I can now stub my toe with the best of them."
** In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' Weyoun samples a wide array of foods from a runabout's replicator. He comments that while the Vorta have a very dull sense of taste, he was fascinated by the various textures of the food he ate.
* In a more subtle version, Kryten of ''Series/RedDwarf'' became human for one episode and had great fun making exaggerated facial expressions.
** Both continued and subverted at the same time when we find out just HOW sexually aroused a 3-million-year-old, essentially genderless being can become when transferred into the body of an average human male ... and what visual literature it is that causes said arousal. Oops.
** ''Series/RedDwarf'' had another example, where (soft-light hologram) Rimmer swaps minds with Lister on the pretext of it being an effortless way for his body to undergo some disciplined exercise and dieting... and promptly overindulges in everything he had been denied since his digital resurrection, putting on several pounds instead. Eventually [[spoiler:driven half-mad by the prospect of returning to sensationless limbo, he "steals" Lister's body and a shuttlecraft for a doughnut-fuelled joyride,]] only being stopped by his own terrible piloting... though he still had at least one go at "borrowing" the Cat's body afterwards.

*** Rimmer gets another (brief) moment of this at the end of "Timeslides", when changing the past eventually [[StatusQuoIsGod changes everything back to normal]] except that [[ForWantOfANail he is now somehow alive]]. It doesn't last long.
** ''Red Dwarf'' in general seems to love this kind of idea - a very pure, if inverted form of it must be the Emohawk, which has no emotions of its own and actually ''feeds'' by stealing others' moods and feelings (a rather particular type of sense, to be sure, - luckily none of them had their sense of humour stolen).

** "I want to live! I want to explore the universe and I want to eat pie!"
* The characters from ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' were like this in the first few episodes. Sally's reaction to her first sneeze, for example, seems almost orgasmic. HilarityEnsues when she tries to figure out how to trigger more.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' has been a vampire for centuries. When he is temporarily turned human again he rediscovers the joys of food, tearing through the contents of the office fridge.
-->'''Angel:''' "I love chocolate! Ugh, yech. But not, as it turns out, yogurt."
** Played with in a similar way in the opening scenes of the 2010 series of ''Series/DoctorWho'', where a freshly regenerated Eleventh Doctor finds himself dealing not merely with the "new teeth" experienced by Doc Ten, but strangely reconfigured tastebuds. After convincing the strangely independent 8-year-old girl he meets ([[spoiler:the soon to be much-older Amy Pond]]) to cook him a multitude of different foods and spitting most of them out in disgust (including a simple[[spoiler:, and later plot-important/clever callback]] ''apple''), he settles on... Fish-fingers with Custard, as his new favourite food. It doesn't hurt that the character is seemingly in pretty much a constant state of Sense Freakery just from still being alive, though.

** Multiple other characters in the show remark on how the town's diner truly does make ''utterly fantastic'' pies - though the ''degree'' of their reactions is often more subdued (ranging from one of Cooper's colleagues declaring "I want to compose a Homeric Poem about this pie!", to a benevolent, fatherly, but generally straight-faced military officer calmly mentioning that the pie was outstanding, as always).
* ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'': The other senses are not touched upon in his case in the series, but Ankh would do pretty much anything for [[TrademarkFavoriteFood ice pops]], the first food he tasted after gaining access to human senses. [[MonsterOfTheWeek Greeed]] can barely feel anything on their own. [[TheHero Eiji]] and [[TheHeart Hina]] come to exploit it pretty quickly to curb his [[JerkAss bad]] [[TokenEvilTeammate behavior]] and he hates [[ThisIsMyHuman them]] for that, but can't resist.

** ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'': The Society of Sensation, aka the "Sensates", base their ethos around the fact that they live in a physical universe, and the only way to enlighten and fulfill yourself is to go out there and experience and sense as much of it as you possibly can in your lifetime. Furthermore, Sensates tend to carry items called "sensory stones" that record the sensations they encounter. This allows other sensates to vicariously re-live the sensation merely by touching it. They have entire libraries' worth of these stones, for perusal by their faction members. Despite that, they're ''not'' TheHedonist, and have a very specific plane where they dump members who join up only to focus on pleasurable sensations.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': Dragons are said to occasionally spend time shapeshifted into humans or other similar races (just as human magicians can shapeshift into animals). While often this is done to be able to go undercover in a way that a fifrty-foot reptile can't, at least one has remarked on the lovely sensitive version of touch that we have. Dragons have vastly superior sight, hearing, smell, and taste, but all those super-armored scales get in the way of fine tactile sensation. The Great Dragon Vasdenjas even admitted that this applies to the "[[InterspeciesRomance romantic arts]]", a concept which entirely squicked his ghost-writer.
* ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'': Possessing demons are actually dead human souls who come back and take over living humans because of an overpowering desire to experience the pleasures of physical existence again. If they were a bit monomaniacal even while alive, they're likely to go completely over the top; e.g. a demon who was an alcoholic while alive is likely to drink his host body to death in short order.

** [[TheHedonist Slaanesh]] is the very literal god of this mindset, in a CosmicHorror kind of way. Their followers tend to have their senses dulled out by constant exposure to all kinds of stimulation, forcing them to commit more and more extreme thing to be able to feel ''anything''. As an example, the Noise Marines from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' use devastating sonic weapons because anything less loud won't even register to them anymore. In older versions of the models these are modified electric guitars. Their armor is painted in eye-watering pink and black, because, again, nothing else even registers anymore. If you're noticing a [[ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil drug abuse]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything metaphor]], that's not coincidental. In general, Slaanesh cultists indulge in anything that excites their senses, which can be just about anything from finding out what is the most aesthetically pleasing pitch a person can scream at to mindlessly staring at a wall painted a highly specific shade of purple. Slaanesh always leads to obsession, however -- a simple pleasure like the sound of wood burning in a fire can be warped to the point where a Slaanesh cultist will start burning down houses just to get that sound, [[ItsAllAboutMe without even bothering to check if the house is occupied first]].

** In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', vampires can't eat or go out in the sun. While they like to mope about it, those who have the Disciplines necessary to [[DemonicPossession posses people or animals]] become ''possession'' freaks, spending days or weeks on end possessing a host to experience all the living pleasures denied to them until they either kill the host from overindulgence/imprudence (and get a new one) or starve themselves.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' this what drives all Demons to attempt DemonicPossession. They want to experience mortal life and indulge in the emotions they are aligned with such as Rage, Sloth, Hunger, Desire, or Pride. It doesn't always turn out so well if they get stuck in less than ideal hosts, such as [[TheUndead corpses]] or [[WhenTreesAttack trees]].
* In ''Videogame/{{Mass Effect 3}}'', a salarian angrily wonders if humans being "so deprived of stimulus" is the cause of our apparent fascination with touching things.
* Raven from ''Videogame/GuiltyGear'' is [[CompleteImmortality completely immortal]], never aging and able to regenerate from anything (even being burned to a pile of ash) in seconds. However his body is severely numbed, so he can't really feel much of anything anymore, and ended up DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife before [[spoiler:That Man]] gave him purpose. When he does feel something (usually pain or fulfillment from his newfound job) his reaction is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything borderline ecstatic.]]
* Remember the Society of Sensation we mentioned earlier? They show up again as a joinable faction in ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', and what with [[PlayerCharacter The Nameless One]] being a scar-riddled amnesiac immortal, boy do they get a kick out of ''you''.
** Additionally one of your party members, Fall-From-Grace, is both a Sensate and the "Madame" of an offshoot organization, the Brothel for Slaking Intellectual Lusts, which is less about satisfaction of the flesh than it is about [[PlatonicProstitution satisfaction of the mind]]. She's also the most [[TeamMom well-adjusted member of the party]].

* Subtly downplayed in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', overlapping with LimbSensationFascination. After being turned into a sentient flower and getting trapped in a time loop for (according to WordOfGod) [[TimeAbyss several thousand years]], BigBad Flowey/[[spoiler:Asriel Dreemurr]] finally regains his old body - and takes several seconds to contemplate his regained sense of touch before attacking the player. [[spoiler:Later during the fight, it also turns out that for all this time, he had no soul and thus was unable to feel - and regaining said ability is what prompts him to join forces with the player and [[TearJerker sacrifice both body and soul, turning back into a flower, to stop the apocalypse he himself started.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' features a dark take on Myth/NorseMythology, where Baldur's CompleteImmortality came with him [[BlessedWithSuck utterly losing all form of sensation]]: he doesn't feel '''anything''', he can't taste food or drink, etc. As a result, he's gone somewhat insane and wants to kill his mother Freya in revenge for "cursing" him. [[spoiler:At the game's climax, Baldur gets wounded by an arrow coated with mistletoe -- his KryptoniteFactor -- and loses his immortality, which results in him spending most of the FinalBoss battle raving about how wonderful it is to feel pain, even remarking on the {{Irony}} that he's never felt so alive.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts 2}}'': Raz ends up needing to plant a BrainInAJar in a de-brained body. The brain in question is overwhelmed by being able to see, hear, feel, smell, and taste things for the first time in twenty years, and Raz ends up needing to go back into [[MentalWorld the brain's mindscape]] to help him sort out these new sensations. The brain in question turns out to belong to [[spoiler:Helmut Fullbear, one of the founders of the Psychonauts. It's heavily implied that Fullbear was already something of a sense freak even before he spent twenty years without a body]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Inscryption}}'' the [[spoiler:Lonely Wizard]] was sealed in a void where he experienced complete sensory deprivation for an unknown period of time and went completely insane. After being freed in a card, he is ecstatic to meet other beings and feel ''something'', whether positive or negative.

* The very thing that drives Warp-Aci in ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' to bind themselves to and serve a human host, just to be able to exist on the main characters' plane of reality, which appears far more interesting and colourful than whatever mysterious limbo they come from. The experience seems to overload their ability to focus quite often, though, and their tendancy to eat anything small enough to fit in their (usually-absent!) mouths [[spoiler:including small rodent characters like Wildy]] can cause considerable trouble. They don't actually ''need'' to eat, but they seem to greatly enjoy the taste and sensation; anything they consume is not digested but teleported to a random but fixed location. In the case of Fi, Dan's Warp-Aci, this is [[spoiler:a small, archetypal desert island approximately two weeks "interesting" voyage from Lost Lake]]).
* Treated with unexpected restraint and even Deconstruction any time a character is transformed or otherwise experiencing uncommon senses in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', given the comic's obsession with transformation, half-alien multi-forming sentients and GenderBending, and having both a gentleman pervert MadScientist, inquisitive semi-StrawFeminist, gender-switched clone-twin (who once thought herself doomed to a very short life and, after that, permanently hit with the FirstLawOfGenderBending stick) AND various mischevious demons. The few times direct experiences of new sensations are mentioned, they appear to either be quite painful (Elliot's cat-boy form), embarrassing/awkward (the whole "Party" arc), or simply underwhelming (Susan's experience of the party). Except for the first time we see Tedd transformed... but even that's off-frame and all we know for sure is he was posing in the mirror rather than doing... er, anything else...

* ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'': After Raven [[spoiler: finalizes his transformation into a human and gains the ability to eat,]] he starts a journal of everything he eats, detailing how much he likes it. He works through is meals quite slowly (Unless he's eating cake).
* In ''[[http://northwindcomic.com/ Northwind]]'', Tiel and Iax are two fallen angels who experience hunger for the first time upon being banished to Earth. [[http://northwindcomic.com/2010/10/12/the-burgerest-burger/ When they enter a fast-food restaurant]], Tiel comments, "If eating's like smelling, I can see why humans like doing it so much!" Iax steals another customer's food, and Tiel proceeds to bite into a still-wrapped burger, at which he says, "The outside is waxy and tough, but the insides are really tasty!"

-->''(eating a cheeseburger)'' "Gaxnarp, this is actually pretty good! Mammal meat! Who knew?"

-->Have you ever felt the motion of water being poured into your three dimensional organs? I have, and it is miraculous.

* Parodied relentlessly in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' in the ''WhatIf'' story, quoted above, where Bender is transformed into a human. After tasting food (and drinking beer and smoking - and ''throwing up'') for the first time, it was just such an instant shock that he couldn't stop eating and ended up [[BodyHorror a horrifying humanoid blob that weighed 900 pounds and could barely move]] -- after only a week! Then he died at a party in his honor.
** The drinking beer and smoking part is lampshaded:
---> '''Leela:''' Bender, you drank and smoked when you were a robot.
---> '''Bender:''' But now it's ''bad'' for me!

* While she was an EnergyBeing ''possessing'' a human, and not transforming into one, the Phoenix Force in the ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' cartoon fits this trope to a T; after possessing Jean Gray to fulfill her duty to protect the M'Krann Crystal, the cosmic entity became duly aware of the human senses she now had access to, becoming addicted to them and opening herself up to be manipulated by an evil BDSM mutant group (no, seriously) and turning evil, herself. She was only stopped after Jean [[HeroicSacrifice let herself be killed]], cutting the Phoenix Force off from the mortal's senses and reverting her back to her normal self.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4TheSockOpera Sock Opera]]" episode, Bill takes over the body of [[spoiler:Dipper]]. He immediately seems impressed with having ''two'' eyes, commenting that "this thing's deluxe!". Unfortunately, he becomes incredibly focused on the ''pain'' aspect of touching and proceeds to injure and generally abuse the body he's inhabiting - including repeatedly closing a kitchen drawer shut on his hand, purposely falling down stairs and ''impaling a fork'' into his arm, while gleefully announcing, "Pain is hilarious!" He then discovers a negative part of having a physical body that he never considered that ruins his whole plan: [[spoiler:fatigue]].
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Patrick, depressed over the fact that all of his friends except him have noses, undergoes an operation to get one. Afterwards, he finds himself entranced by all the wonderful aromas...but then he discovers the bad side of being able to smell and wages a war against everything stinky, later he can't even stand his own smell.

* TruthInTelevision, babies love to put stuff in their mouths and stare at stuff. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby#The_newborn.27s_senses]]

* Can happen to smokers who quit, since they often have their sense of smell/taste deadened a lot and it returns after quitting. Of course this can also lead to FridgeHorror when they discover what other smokers can smell like to a nonsmoker...

* This is the reason [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction is so devastating]]. The unfamiliar and often intense chemical reactions that drugs have on the nervous system can "overload" synapses, and through long term use, burn them out (basically the body no longer produces the same amount of neurotransmitters it used to because the drug took over). Over time the drug addict could no longer feel the same stimulation from ordinary non-chemical stuff than he used to before the addiction. They have to get more of the drug just to feel the same effects all over again, and eventually, [[AddledAddict they become dependent on the stuff]] - their nervous systems literally need to take more and more drug just to be able to feel normally, with many being driven to do absolutely anything to get it.
* "Algolagnia" is the term for [[TooKinkyToTorture finding pleasure from painful sensations]]. Combine this with an awareness of the down sides of doing permanent damage to the body, and you get people who are into BDSM who know all sorts of ways of delivering painful sensations without inflicting permanent harm, allowing them to indulge on a regular basis.

** [[TheHedonist Slaanesh]] is the very literal god of this mindset, in a CosmicHorror kind of way. The deity's followers tend to have their senses dulled out by constant exposure to all kinds of stimulation, forcing them to commit more and more extreme thing to be able to feel ''anything''. As an example, the Noise Marines from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' use devastating sonic weapons because anything less loud won't even register to them anymore. In older versions of the models these are modified electric guitars. Their armor is painted in eye-watering pink and black, because, again, nothing else even registers anymore. If you're noticing a [[ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil drug abuse metaphor]], that's not coincidental. In general, Slaanesh cultists indulge in anything that excites their senses, which can be just about anything from finding out what is the most aesthetically pleasing pitch a person can scream at to mindlessly staring at a wall painted a highly specific shade of purple. Slaanesh always leads to obsession, however -- a simple pleasure like the sound of wood burning in a fire can be warped to the point where a Slaanesh cultist will start burning down houses just to get that sound, [[ItsAllAboutMe without even bothering to check if the house is occupied first]].
** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Eldar, at the height of their golden age, succumbed to this: they had won every war, conquered every world, they ruled the galaxy. To slake their boredom, they turned to ever-increasing forms of depravity and hedonism, the collective psychic energy generated as a result coalescing in the Immaterium until the Slaanesh was born.

* In ''Literature/TheHost'', [[HumansAreSpecial humans have the most (and most vivid) senses out of any species the Souls have ever taken as hosts]]. Wanderer's even warned about it ahead of time; apparently it's in the brochure.

->''"Why didn't anybody ever tell me tasting things tasted so good?"''

* ''Anime/Dororo2019'' shows Hyakkimaru's reaction to regaining his senses in quite a detail, both heartwarming and funny. He spent majority of his life in complete isolation from the world and so has barely has any experience in interacting with his surrounding. Speaking about social skills is pointless. He spent whole day sniffing everything in reach after getting his nose back or grabbing people and rubbing his forehead against theirs to greet them.

* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts 2}}'': Raz ends up needing to plant a BrainInAJar in a de-brained body. The brain in question is overwhelmed by being able to see, hear, feel, smell, and taste things for the first time in twenty years, and Raz ends up needing to go back into [[MentalWorld the brain's mindscape]] to help him sort out these new sensations.

** Caliban the ex-demon when he is first [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10123 incarnated as a human]]. While he initially enjoys it, this quickly comes back to bite him when Helen decides to torture him for information, and he is begging for mercy just from a ''cotton alcohol swab''.

* Ax from ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' was an Andalite, an alien species which had developed ShapeShifting technology. During the times when [[HughMann he had to pose as a human]], he immediately went nuts over the sensation of eating. (Andalites are mouthless Centaur-like creatures in their normal form, and ''absorb'' food -- typically grass -- [[BizarreAlienBiology through their hooves]].) He almost immediately became addicted to "Cinnamon BUNZAH!!!" And to chili, chocolate, cigarette stubs (!)... as a Running Gag almost all of Ax's favorite foods began with the letter C. In a "WhatIf" novel, he went crazy for Oreos, probably a ShoutOut to the Martian Manhunter.

* [[TheHedonist Slaanesh]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' is a ''God'' of this. In a CosmicHorror kind of way. The deity's followers tend to have their senses dulled out by constant exposure to all kinds of stimulation, forcing them to commit more and more extreme thing to be able to feel ''anything''. Probably the ultimate expression are the Noise Marines from 40k, who use devastating sonic weapons because anything less loud won't even register to them anymore. In older versions of the models these were modified electric guitars. Their armor is painted in eye-watering pink and black, because, again, nothing else even registers anymore. If you're noticing a [[ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil drug abuse metaphor]], that's not coincidental.
** Contrary to popular belief, the excesses of Slaanesh cultists aren't always [[SexIsEvil sexual]] in nature; it can be just about anything from finding out what is the most aesthetically pleasing pitch a person can scream at, to mindlessly staring at a wall painted a highly specific shade of purple. Slaanesh always leads to obsession, however - a simple pleasure like the sound of wood burning in a fire can be warped to the point where a Slaanesh cultist will start burning down houses just to get that sound, [[ItsAllAboutMe without even bothering to check if the house is occupied first]].
** The Eldar, at the height of their golden age, succumbed to this: they had won every war, conquered every world, they ruled the galaxy. To slake their boredom, they turned to ever-increasing forms of depravity and hedonism, the collective psychic energy generated as a result coalescing in the Immaterium until the above-mentioned Slaanesh was born.
* Vampires in the ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' can't eat or go out in the sun. While they like to mope about it (or not), those who have the Disciplines necessary to [[DemonicPossession posses people or animals]] become ''possession'' freaks. Spending days or weeks on end possessing a host to experience all the living pleasures denied to them until they either kill the host from overindulgence/imprudence (and get a new one) or starve themselves.
** There's also at least one Bloodline which is based ''entirely'' around having the power to eat and drink.
** And then there are [[OminousOwl the strix]], who are believed to be the source of the Beast that nags at the back of Kindred minds. They have the ability to possess humans as well as vampires in torpor. Once upon a time, their purpose was to make sure that Kindred (especially the humane ones) suffered, but after Rome (and with it, the vampiric government of the Camarilla) fell, their purpose slowly drifted, to the point that all they care about nowadays is experiencing everything a body can provide. And sometimes it's really hard to tell which driving ethos is scarier...
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Unknown Armies}}'', possessing demons are actually dead human souls who come back and take over living humans because of an overpowering desire to experience the pleasures of physical existence again. If they were a bit monomaniacal even while alive, they're likely to go completely over the top; e.g. a demon who was an alcoholic while alive is likely to drink his host body to death in short order.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Dungeons and Dragons}}'', with its many monsters, has several expressions of this trope. Perhaps the best is the Shadar-kai, which in 3.5 were a race of Fey who unwillingly tied themselves to the Plane of Shadow. To avoid fading away into nothingness, they constantly sought extreme sensations to stimulate them, though like followers of Slaanesh their actual ability to feel was degraded. Traditional "tools" for this purpose include the charming Gal-Ralan, spiked bracers of 'cold iron', a metal that pains Fey with its mere touch, which mount the spikes ''inside'' the bracers. Yes, you read that right; they drive a dozen spikes, six up, six down, ''all the way through each arm''. In 4th edition, they were originally planning to reuse this, but they've instead gone for more of a Cenobite theme.
** 3.5 also had the [[PowersViaPossession Binder]] class, who summon strange spirits called Vestiges, which are generally remains of destroyed deities and similar beings. While the book acknowledges that they can easily be played as [[DealWithTheDevil eeeevil]], their default fluff is this trope: they do NOT have any agenda other than being able to EXIST again, and each of them would be more than happy to be "bound" to all sides of all conflicts everywhere, as well as every single bystander.
* The boggarts in the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' setting ''Lorwyn'' are "addicted to new sensations" and will do all sorts of strange and dangerous things just to discover what they feel like. There's even a card called [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=152539 Sensation Gorger]]. The goblin in the art has his eyes pried open, ear trumpets in both ears, a skunk across his nose, a frog in his mouth, and sharp sticks stuck in all eight of his fingers.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' series (which are connected), dragons are said to occasionally spend time shapeshifted into humans or other similar races (just as human magicians can shapeshift into animals). While often this is done to be able to go undercover in a way that a 50-foot reptile can't, at least one has remarked on the lovely-sensitive version of touch that we have. Dragons have vastly superior sight, hearing, smell, and taste, but all those super-armored scales get in the way of fine tactile sensation. The Great Dragon Vasdenjas even admitted that this applies to the "[[InterspeciesRomance romantic arts]]," a concept which entirely squicked his ghost-writer.
* The Society of Sensation, aka the "Sensates", from the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' campaign setting. Their entire ethos is based around the fact that they live in a physical universe, and the only way to enlighten/fulfill yourself is to go out there and experience and sense as much of it as you possibly can in your lifetime. Furthermore, Sensates tend to carry items called "sensory stones" that record the sensations they encounter. This allows other sensates to vicariously re-live the sensation merely by touching it. They have entire libraries' worth of these stones, for perusal by their faction members.
** Despite that, they're ''not'' TheHedonist, and have a very specific plane where they dump members who join up only to focus on pleasurable sensations.

* ''Sword of the Galaxy'' has the pornographic version. To be fair, it's mentioned earlier that, because they're not used to having sensitive bodies, Trakkorians would overindulge in ''everything'' on Earth if they got one, unless they were the deeply pious type.

* In ''Three to Conquer'' by Creator/EricFrankRussell, hostiles from Venus possess human bodies. One way to spot them is by eucalyptus on their breath: eucalyptus on human tongues tastes like a favorite food tasted on their original ... corresponding sense organs.

** Because Gremmy Thoumeaux's power allows him to materialise anything he imagines, [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction he's never really felt]] what it's like to actually ''want'' anything before because everything just comes to him as a matter of course. So when he's finally confronted by Kenpachi, an enemy too strong to simply imagine away, he gets quite ...[[BloodKnight enthusiastic]] over feeling desire (to win) for the first time in his life.

** Because Gremmy Thoumeaux's power allows him to materialise anything he imagines, he's never really felt what it's like to actually ''want'' anything before because everything [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction just comes to him so easily]]. So when he's finally confronted by Kenpachi, an enemy too strong to simply imagine away, he gets quite ...[[BloodKnight enthusiastic]] over feeling desire (to win) for the first time in his life.

** Because Gremmy Thoumeaux's power allows him to materialise anything he imagines, he's never really felt what it's like to actually ''want'' anything before because everything [[VictoryIsBoring just comes to him so easily]]. When he's finally confronted by Kenpachi, an enemy too strong to simply imagine away, he gets quite ...[[BloodKnight enthusiastic]] over feeling desire (to win) for the first time in his life.

* Subtly downplayed in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', overlapping with LimbSensationFascination. After being turned into a sentient flower and getting trapped in a time loop for (according to WordOfGod) [[TimeAbyss several thousand years]], BigBad Flowey/[[spoiler:Asriel Dreemurr]] finally regains his old body - and takes several seconds to contemplate his regained sense of touch before attacking the player. [[spoiler:Later during the fight it also turns out that for all this time he had no soul and thus was unable to feel - and regaining said ability is what prompts him to join forces with player and [[TearJerker sacrifice both body and soul, turning back into flower, to stop the apocalypse he himself started.]]]]

* Raven from ''Videogame/GuiltyGear'' is [[CompleteImmortality completely immortal]], never aging and able to regenerate from anything (even being burned to a pile of ash) in seconds. However his body is severely numbed, so he can't really feel much of anything anymore, and ended up DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife before [[spoiler:That Man]] gave him purpose. When he does feel something (usually pain or fulfillment from his newfond job) his reaction is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything borderline ecstatic.]]

** Additionally one of your party members, Fall-From-Grace, is both a Sensate and the "Madame" of an offshoot organization, the Brothel for Slaking Intellectual Lusts, which is less about satisfaction of the flesh than it is about [[PlatonicProstitution satisfaction of the mind]]. She's also the most [[TeamMom well adjusted member of the party]].

* Subtly downplayed in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', overlaping with LimbSensationFascination. After being turned into a sentient flower and getting trapped in a time loop for (according to WordOfGod) [[TimeAbyss several thousand years]], BigBad Flowey/[[spoiler:Asriel Dreemurr]] finally regains his old body - and takes several seconds to contemplate his regained sense of touch before attacking player. [[spoiler:Later during the fight it also turns out that for all this time he had no soul and thus was unable to feel - and regaining said ability is what prompts him to join forces with player and [[TearJerker sacrifice both body and soul, turning back into flower, to stop the apocalypse he himself started.]]]]

** Additionally one of your party members, Fall-From-Grace, is both a Sensate and the "Madame" of an offshoot organization, the Brothel for Slaking Intellectual Lusts, which is less about satisfaction of the flesh than it is about satisfaction of the mind.

* This is the reason [[DrugsAreBad drug addiction is so devastating]]. The unfamiliar and often intense chemical reactions that drugs have on the nervous system can "overload" synapses, and through long term use, burn them out (basically the body no longer produces the same amount of neurotransmitters it used to because the drug took over). Over time the drug addict could no longer feel the same stimulation from ordinary non-chemical stuff than he used to before the addiction. They have to get more of the drug just to feel the same effects all over again, and eventually, they become dependent on the stuff - their nervous systems literally need to take more and more drug just to be able to feel, with many being driven to do absolutely anything to get it.

** Because Gremmy Thoumeaux's power allows him to materialise anything he imagines, he's never really felt what it's like to actually ''want'' anything before, it was always just a given. So when he's finally confronted by an enemy too strong to simply imagine away, he gets quite ...[[BloodKnight enthusiastic]] over feeling desire for the first time in his life.

* A non-alien example: in chapter 386 of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', [[spoiler: Kaname Tosen goes [[VillainousBreakdown off his rocker]] after his Resurrecion grants him eyesight. He is so overwhelmed by his new vision that he leaves himself open to [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome a sneak attack by his own former lieutenant Hisagi]]. Hisagi notes that Tosen would've "seen" that attack coming from a mile away if he had still been blind.]]

* In ''Film/KPax'', the main character, who claims to be a StarfishAlien who is inhabiting a human body to learn about Earth, says that the food available was worth the long trip. He says this while he eats an underripe banana -- peel and all!

--->'''Data:''' I ''hate'' this! It is ''revolting!''
--->'''Guinan:''' More?
--->'''Data:''' Please.