I slept on a bed. Just woke up and got out of bed & ready to go. Can’t go.

A surprise! I was not sick at all. But for some reason one of the legs was numb while sleeping. “Without knowing” that, I have taken steps. There was no strength in legs that were on the ground.

Why is this ?

The body was alive. All the organs of the body are working properly. Whether a sensation is transmitted to the brain or not, there is no condition in me that makes me impossible to walk. A numb leg means that the contact of the ground is not transmitted to the brain. Why is such a reason not able to walk?

If the body’s control center is the brain, if it works properly, if the body is active, I must be able to walk either touch sensation is or not. Why walking becomes inactive if the brain does not “feel” a touch ?  If that is the case, it must be the sense of touch, not the active body, that is conducting the walking.

Why is it impossible to walk if the brain does not know the sense of touch?

So there must be a connection between a sense of touch and a walk.

There is Great Physics behind this.

Numbness in the leg is simply the inability to feel the touch of the foot on the ground.

It can now be concluded that the sense of touch is necessary for the movement of a body, since it does not hinder walking when there is touch, and it hinders walking when there is no touch.

What is the Scientific Analysis of this?

What is the relationship between not feeling touch and not being able to walk?

Here is Abhidharma!

“The human body is held upright not by a physical process but by thoughts or mental process. In an exploration of what is man, it is confirmed that man is only an existence of a mental process beyond the human body. Only a rapid presence of 6 sensations (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, Mind – one sensation at a time) is called human. There are instances where all 6 sensations are absent. If so, will the mental process stop? No! The gap of sensation is then filled with a thought called “Bhavanga thought”. But “Bawanga” thought has no power to keep a body straight – Abhidharma Marga – Great Venerable Rerukane Chandavimala .”

So he cannot walk.

If so, how does a diabetic man whose legs are numb walk ? His touch doesn’t come to brain sometimes forever. Answer ! He “knows” that his legs are numb so that “Knowing” means NOT an absence of sensation, it is a sense-full situation so he can walk.    

The numbness in the leg disappeared after a while. Can walk now. Look! Now the sense of touch came back to normal. I can walk at the same time.

Thank you!

Dr Dammika Wijearathna