History Main / SenseFreak

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[Characters/AmphibiaTheCore The Core]], having spent over a thousand years (if not more) in a robotic shell, yearns for the ability to touch, smell, taste, and experience life again, which is why it possesses Marcy Wu.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4SockOpera Sock Opera]]", [[Characters/GravityFallsBillCipher Bill Cipher]] 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]].

*** Rimmer gets another (brief) moment of this at the end of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIITimeslides 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.

*** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E10ThePrisonerOfBenda The Prisoner of Benda]]", Bender [[FreakyFridayFlip switches bodies with Amy]], and as he swims to the Robo-Hungarian emperor's yacht, he complains, "Stupid air-needing lungs."

* Amethyst of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', being of a race composed of sapient gemstones with hard light bodies around their core, is rare in that she loves her physical body and the senses that come with it. She frequently indulges in activities she doesn't need just for the fun of it, such as gorging herself on food just to feel it digest and sleeping relentlessly.

** {{Parodied|Trope}} relentlessly in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E18AnthologyOfInterestII Anthology of Interest II]]", quoted above, when Bender is transformed into a human. After tasting food (and drinking beer and smoking -- and ''throwing up'') for the first time, it's just such an instant shock that he can't stop eating and ends up [[BodyHorror a horrifying humanoid blob that weighs 900 pounds and can barely move]] -- after only a week! Then he dies at a party in his honor. The drinking beer and smoking part is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d:

** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E10ThePrisonerOfBenda The Prisoner of Benda]]", Bender [[FreakyFridayFlip switches bodies with Amy]], and as he swims to the Robo-Hungarian emperor's yacht, he complains, "Stupid air-needing lungs."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4SockOpera 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 the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS6E7GiantSquidwardNoNoseKnows No Nose Knows]]", 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 on, he can't even stand his own smell.

* There is a theory among neurobiologists that individuals become this due to a serotonin deficiency. "Adrenaline Junkies" seek out dangerous activities in an effect to get their brains to produce pleasure hormones. What is thrilling to a neurotypical person just brings them up to normal.

** In ''Martian Manhunter'', Vol. 2, #24, it became canon that for {{Martians}}, Oreos (or in this case [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Chocos]]) are [[AlienCatnip addictive]]. FridgeLogic sets in when one considers ''why'' exactly it's processed cookies, rather than say, chocolate. However, studies show that rats actually do develop an addiction to Oreo cookies not too different from a cocaine addiction -- perhaps that also applies to Creator/{{DC|Comics}}'s Martians.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'': In [[Recap/StargateSG1S3E16Urgo "Urgo"]] SG-1 has chips implanted in their heads running a quirky AI who ''really'' likes experiencing life through their bodies. The first thing he did was overstimulate SG-1's taste buds. It caused Teal'c to drink an entire pot of scalding hot coffee, and the whole team to gorge themselves on desserts from the cafeteria.

* In ''Anime/SailorMoon'', [[VainSorceress Green Esmeraude]] strolls into a fancy shin-dig, causing heads to turn at her hot elegance -- until she discovered the food table, where she immediately matches [[BigEater Usagi]] dessert for dessert in stuffing her face. This caused her extreme embarrassment once she snaps out of it.

** 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.
* In ''Manga/WildWind'', once Olgrius [[BroughtDownToNormal loses his immortality]] sex becomes a lot... sexier. And more taxing.

* Somewhat weird example in ''Anime/ReCreators''. The fictional characters that get transported to the real world all comment on how tastes, smells, etc in the real world are much richer than in their respective fictional worlds, probably due to TheLawOfConservationOfDetail preventing mundane things like the taste of food from having the same level of detail as in the real world.
* ''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 surroundings. 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.

** In ''Martian Manhunter, Vol. 2, #24'', it became canon that for {{Martians}}, Oreos (or in this case [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Chocos]]) are [[AlienCatnip addictive]]. FridgeLogic sets in when one considers ''why'' exactly it's processed cookies, rather than say, chocolate. However, studies show that rats actually do develop an addiction to Oreo cookies not too different from a cocaine addiction -- perhaps that also applies to Creator/{{DC|Comics}}'s Martians.
* In an unfortunate twist, an arc in ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' has, as the villain, a Prohibition-era mobster who was fused with an {{Energy Being|s}} seeking to psychically uplift humanity ''while getting a blowjob''. The being was "blown away" by the physical pleasure, resulting in a fusion who had all the powers of the original being, 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.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': In one issue, Batman uses this trope to his advantage. 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/TheSandman1989'': 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).

* 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.
* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/103754/human-shining-armor-gets-twilight-sparkle-pregnant Human Shining Armor Gets Twilight Sparkle Pregnant]]'': 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.

* Due to having been a ghost for centuries, [[Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}} Beetlejuice]] in the fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23090182/chapters/55240171 Make the Best of Being Flesh and Bone]]'' is blown away by the various senses his [[BackFromTheDead newly-revived body]] experiences.
* 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.
-->''"Pearl, try this!" and "Pearl, try that!" was all she'd heard for years.''

* In ''Fanfic/TheLastPrayer'', Kurama feels some of the sensations Naruto does when the latter has sex. Since it's literally the only positive sensation Kurama can feel while sealed away, he insists Naruto have sex as often as possible, even using it as a condition to letting Naruto use its chakra.
* ''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 firsthand.
* ''Fanfic/BlessedWithAHerosHeart'': Having spent centuries as a Lich, once Wiz gets reincarnated as an [[WingedHumanoid Avariel]], she gets giddy upon regaining her sense of taste and need for sleep again.
* Downplayed in ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls''. Hedwig has always loved bacon, but after [[spoiler:gaining a human form]], she finds herself overwhelmed by what it's like when she has more taste buds for the experience.
* Slaanesh's gift to Taylor Hebert in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14280314/1/A-Ruinous-Gift A Ruinous Gift]]'' is the ability to enjoy any sensation. She quickly realizes that being motivated to keep exercising is easy since the pain and soreness is so pleasurable that she ends up masturbating after working out until she could barely move.

** Although largely off-camera, this trope accompanies an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion of MysteriousAnimalSenses in ''Anime/PomPoko'', 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.

* In ''Film/KPax'', the main character, who claims to be a {{Starfish Alien|s}} 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!

* This is actually one of the reasons why the Angels in ''Film/WingsOfDesire'' even consider giving up everything to become ordinary people -- and it is a big, ''big'' reason.
* In ''Film/BicentennialMan'', once Andrew has a central nervous system installed, he practically begs Portia to poke him in the eye, just so he could feel the joy of pain. He follows it up by slapping himself in the face and giving her [[FirstKiss a kiss]].
* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', the cursed pirates of the Black Pearl go on and on about what sensory experiences they've most missed during the curse, and therefore what they plan to glut on once they have their nerve endings back. Captain Barbossa, with a lecherous smile, tells Elizabeth that the first thing he plans to do is... eat a lot of apples. This seems like an UnusualEuphemism for raping his female captive, but it later turns out he was dead serious and continues to eat apples at every opportunity throughout the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' series.
* In the movie ''Film/CoolWorld'', Holli Would lectures Detective Harris about how humans "really" experience everything, especially sex. "When they do it, they reeaally do it!" When she finally becomes real, she practically acts like she's having orgasms from everything she touches.
* Creator/KimBasinger, again, in ''Film/MyStepmotherIsAnAlien'': alien takes human form, has this reaction to food and sex. Also, gets drunk on caffeine.
* In ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', Jake has a moment of this when he enters his avatar for the first time, causing a bit of chaos during the initial evaluation due to him being able to use his legs for the first time in years and almost literally jumping the gun on the tests.

* ''Film/TronLegacy'': Quorra has a look of absolute bliss on her face [[spoiler:when she sees a sunrise in the real world for the first time]].
* {{Inverted|Trope}} 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}}'' is an Andalite, an alien species which has developed VoluntaryShapeshifting technology. During the times when [[HughMann he has to pose as a human]], he immediately goes nuts over the sensation of eating. (Andalites are [[NoMouth mouthless]] [[OurCentaursAreDifferent 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 as a ShoutOut to the ComicBook/MartianManhunter. He also frequently references loving grease and salt.
** Also, Andalites don't have mouths and communicate with "Thought Speech" (telepathy). So when Ax becomes human... huuuuman, huu muh muh muh man, he loves loooooves to puh-puh-pluh- play with hissss words. This, unfortunately, tends to make him stand out.
** 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/color of jellybean 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. The Andalites are actually 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 ''Literature/YoungWizards'', 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 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 realizes, 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]].

* ''Literature/SwordOfTheGalaxy'' 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 "Literature/TheSixtyTwoCursesOfCaliphArenschadd", 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.

* Another nonhuman form example. At one point in Creator/CliffordSimak's ''City'', scientists are researching the innermost layers of Jupiter, and discover [[StrollingOnJupiter a pitch-black, wind-blasted "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 a euphoric wonderland of hedonism, and Earth is practically depopulated in an overnight exodus to Jovian slugdom.

* In the short story ''The Life Cycle of Software Objects'' by Creator/TedChiang, robot bodies are developed so that digital entities (an intelligent virtual pet) can explore the real world. They all become highly interested in having a much more detailed sense of touch when in the robot bodies, including their own favorite "feels" like toothbrush bristles or sidewalk pavement.
* In ''Literature/ILucifer'', 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.'''
* Angelics, according to pre-HeelFaceTurn Memnon in ''[[Literature/TheSalvationWar Armageddon]]''.
-->'''Memnon:''' You're all whores to your senses, you know that, don't you?
** Michael-Lan's club in ''Pantheocide'' seems to back up this impression.
* 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 it.
* 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]]]].
* ''Literature/MatthewSwift'': In ''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 ''Literature/TheHost2008'', [[HumansAreSpecial humans have the most (and most vivid) senses out of any species the Souls have ever taken as hosts]]. Wanderer is 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.

* ''Literature/MirrorProject'': When the robotic Lynn finally goes outside by herself, she revels in the beauty of colors and noise as perceived through her sensors and processors. She wonders if the dimness and fuzziness of the original Lynn's memories is because of her impoverished human senses, or because memory always pales in comparison to reality.

* ''Literature/DolphinTrilogy'': Humans can't smell underwater, so when John teaches Vinca and Syn, who have been [[RaisedByWolves raised by dolphins]], to walk on Crab Island, they're both fascinated and delighted by all the different scents.

* 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 {{Epileptic Tree|s}}).
** It was explained in one episode that the aliens started off with a very poor sense of taste, so they could only taste things that were either extremely spicy or extremely sweet, hence the tabasco. Their sense of taste eventually became stronger, but they still used tabasco out of habit.

** And there's trouble that brews in ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' from Data, his repaired [[PersonalityChip emotion chip]] (reclaimed from [[PsychoPrototype Lore]] in the series two-part episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E24S7E1Descent 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 Sense Freaking has to be from a direct external stimulus.

** And then there was the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E7BodyAndSoul Body and Soul]]", 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!
* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
** In a more subtle version, Kryten [[HumanityEnsues becomes human]] in the episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVDNA D.N.A.]]" and has 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.
** In the episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIIBodyswap Bodyswap]]", [[ProjectedMan Rimmer]] [[FreakyFridayFlip 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-fueled joyride,]] only being stopped by his own terrible piloting... though he still had at least one go at "borrowing" the Cat's body afterwards.
*** Not to mention (female) officer Brown's reaction at being ported into the distinctly unladylike Lister in the opening minutes of the same episode, despite the grave danger that prompted the swap...
*** Rimmer gets another (brief) moment of this at the end of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIITimeslides 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 [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIEmohawkPolymorphII Emohawk]], which has no emotions of its own and actually ''feeds'' by [[EmotionEater stealing others' moods and feelings]] (a rather particular type of sense, to be sure -- luckily none of them had their sense of humor stolen).
* ''Series/StargateSG1'': In [[Recap/StargateSG1S3E16Urgo "Urgo"]] SG-1 has chips implanted in their heads running a quirky AI who ''really'' likes experiencing life through their bodies. The first thing he did was overstimulate SG-1's taste buds. It caused Teal'c to drink an entire pot of scalding hot coffee, and the whole team to gorge themselves on desserts from the cafeteria.
-->''"I want to live! I want to explore the universe and I want to eat pie!"''
* The characters from ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' are like this in the first few episodes. Sally's reaction to her first sneeze, for example, seems almost orgasmic. Then she tries to figure out how to trigger more.
* The aliens from ''Series/FirstWave'', downloaded as they were into vat-grown human bodies as the initial part of their invasion, quickly figured out that sex in human form was somewhat more satisfying than in their original bodies, where sex was painful and thus only for procreation. So much so that their higher-ups had to ''ban'' them from having sex unless it was part of a mission on punishment of death. That still didn't stop some of them from indulging themselves.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' has been a vampire for centuries. When he is [[TurningBackHuman 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 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 favorite 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.
* In a rare human example, Davis from ''Series/CornerGas'' is revealed in one episode to have lost his sense of smell as a child. He gets it back during the episode and goes a little nuts with it.
* Despite being, you know, human, Special Agent Dale Cooper of ''Series/TwinPeaks'' just can't stop gushing whenever he comes across the eponymous town's coffee, donuts, or pie. Of course, [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} like most of the characters]], he's a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
** 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.
* ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'': When the vampire Mick is temporarily turned back into a human, he finds joy in the basic things we take for granted, like sleeping in a bed (as opposed to a freezer; no coffins here), eating, drinking coffee and orange juice. He even says that coffee seems to have gotten better since TheForties (when he was turned), or maybe it's the euphoria of being human again. He's also looking forward to having sex with his LoveInterest. [[spoiler:He ends up having to ask his best friend to re-turn him when Beth is kidnapped by another vampire.]]
* ''Series/GhostsUS'': When Hetty ends up possessing Jay's body, she can taste food for the first time in 130 years. She reacts by eating everything she sees.
* ''Series/{{Haven}}'': In season 2's "Fear and Loathing," the [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Troubled]] person of the week has the ability to steal other people's Troubles, leaving them unaffected. He steals [[FeelNoPain Nathan's]], and Nathan is psyched he's able to feel things again. And he's not sublte about it.
-->'''Nathan (driving, holding a rose to his mouth)''': Did you know the skin on your lips is the most sensitive of your entire body?
-->'''Audrey''': Okay, you're kind of starting to weird me out.

** In 3.5th Edition, the Shadar-kai were a race of fey who unwillingly tied themselves to the Plane of Shadow. To avoid fading away into nothingness, they constantly seek extreme sensations to stimulate them, though their actual ability to feel is degraded. Traditional "tools" for this purpose include the charming Gal-Ralan, spiked bracers of ColdIron, a metal that pains fey with its mere touch, which mount the spikes ''inside'' the bracers so as to drive a dozen spikes, six up, six down, all the way through each arm.

* ''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 fifty-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.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', a salarian angrily wonders if humans being "so deprived of stimulus" is the cause of our apparent fascination with touching things.

* Remember the Society of Sensation mentioned under ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}''? 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]].

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' features a dark take on Myth/NorseMythology, where Baldur's CompleteImmortality came with him [[SenseLossSadness 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/Psychonauts2'': 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.
-->''[after being attacked]'' Pain is a feeling!

* 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 colorful than whatever mysterious limbo they come from. The experience seems to overload their ability to focus quite often, though, and their tendency 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]]).
* This is 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 [[TransformationComic obsession with transformation]], half-alien multi-forming sentients and {{Gender Bend|er}}ing, and having both a ChivalrousPervert MadScientist, inquisitive semi-StrawFeminist, OppositeSexClone/twin (who once thought herself doomed to a very short life and, after that, permanently hit with the FirstLawOfGenderBending stick) ''and'' various mischievous 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 angel}}s 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!"
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Terezi is an odd case. After losing her sight, she gained the ability to [[TheNoseKnows taste and smell colors]] to compensate, and now she's driven wild by the taste of colors. Her own house is decorated with a delicious mishmash of garishly clashing hues, and when she enters the Sgrub game as Karkat's server player, she starts slapping paint all over his house as well. At least part of the reason why she likes Dave so much is because he types in red, her favorite color/flavor.
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' the insectoid Princess Voluptua frequently disguises herself as a human, and always seems to enjoy the local cuisine.
-->'''Voluptua:''' ''[eating a cheeseburger]'' Gaxnarp, this is actually pretty good! Mammal meat! Who knew?
* In ''[[FanWorks/NuzlockeComics Goddamn Critical Hits]]'', Chomp begins as a Trapinch. All Trapinch are blind—instead of seeing, he senses things through vibrations in the ground. When he evolves into a Vibrava he gains a pair of working eyes, which immediately serve to disorient him to the point where he uses his [[LimbSensationFascination also-newly-acquired wings]] to send himself off a cliff.
* In ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'', Kimiko goes for the standard [[LimbSensationFascination new-body barefoot run through the woods]] after [[{{Transhuman}} upgrading to a fully synthetic body]], raving about both her enhanced regular senses and the all-new BizarreAlienSenses she's had installed (43 of them, if [[http://dresdencodak.com/2015/08/03/dark-science-51-48-senses-and-counting/ the strip title]] is to be believed).
-->'''Kimiko:''' I can feel radar along my skin, cosmic rays glistening through the clouds. The hum of the trees creaking through the earth, the pheromone songs of the forest. The bioelectric voices of the river, tugging at the Earth's magnetic field. A million sounds, a million smells, a million sights. I'm awake. For the first time in my life, I'm awake -- and I'm ''whole''.

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* 3D Lee in ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', after a brief initial moment of badass, spends the rest of the special in enraptured ''awe'' of the amazing sensations that three-dimensional video existence enables, compared to existence as a series of still 2D photographs.
-->''"Have you ever felt the motion of water being poured into your three-dimensional organs? I have, and it is miraculous."''
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* While she was an {{Energy Being|s}} ''possessing'' a human, and not transforming into one, the Phoenix Force in ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' 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 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 on, he can't even stand his own smell.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' 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.

* ''Film/TheNakedWitch'': After rising from the dead, the witch seems fascinated by the texture of Kirska's diaphonous robe and stands by her bed pawing it for several minutes. She then steals it, and rips Kirska's negligee off her and takes that as well.

* "Urgo" from ''Series/StargateSG1''. The first thing he did was overstimulate SG-1's taste buds. It caused Teal'c to drink an entire pot of scalding hot coffee, and the whole team to gorge themselves on desserts from the cafeteria.

-->-- '''Bender''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

** 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.)

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* {{Parodied|Trope}} 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 {{lampshade|Hanging}}d:

** There's also the FreakyFridayFlip, where he switches bodies with Amy, and as he swims to the Robo-Hungarian emperor's yacht, he complains, "Stupid air-needing lungs."

* Due to having been a ghost for centuries, [[Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}} Beetlejuice]] in the fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23090182/chapters/55240171 Make the Best of Being Flesh and Bone]]'' is blown away by the various senses his [[HumanityEnsues now-living body]] experiences.

* Due to having been a ghost for centuries, [[Theatre/{{Beetlejuice{{ Beetlejuice]] in the fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23090182/chapters/55240171 Make the Best of Being Flesh and Bone]]'' is blown away by the various senses his [[HumanityEnsues now-living body]] experiences.

* Due to having been a ghost for centuries, [[Theatre/Beetlejuice Beetlejuice]] in the fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23090182/chapters/55240171 Make The Best of Being Flesh and Bone]]'' is blown away by the various senses his [[HumanityEnsues now-living body]] experiences.

* 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]].

* {{Inverted|Trope}} 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.

** [[OminousOwl The strix]] 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...

** Also, Andalites don't have mouths and communicate with "Thought Speech" (telepathy). So when Ax becomes human... huuuuman, huu muh muh muh man, he loves loooooves to puh-puh-pluh- play with hissss words. This, unfortunately, tends to [[UncannyValley make him stand out]].

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The boggarts of the plane of Lorwy' are "addicted to new sensations" and will do all sorts of strange and dangerous things just to discover what they feel like. There's a card called [[https://scryfall.com/card/mor/102/sensation-gorger Sensation Gorger]] where 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.

* ''Series/{{Haven}'': In season 2's "Fear and Loathing," the [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Troubled]] person of the week has the ability to steal other people's Troubles, leaving them unaffected. He steals [[FeelNoPain Nathan's]], and Nathan is psyched he's able to feel things again. And he's not sublte about it.

* 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.

* In the short story ''The Life Cycle of Software Objects'' by [[Creator/TedChiang]], robot bodies are developed so that digital entities (an intelligent virtual pet) can explore the real world. They all become highly interested in having a much more detailed sense of touch when in the robot bodies, including their own favorite "feels" like toothbrush bristles or sidewalk pavement.